Louisville Football: Game-by-Game Predictions for the Cards in 2018
By Jacob Lane
We are less than 10 days away from the start of the 2018 regular season for the Louisville football program, how does the season shake out? We take our best stab at it.
Bobby Petrino and the Louisville football team have a daunting schedule ahead of them for the 2018-19 season. With matchups scheduled against the top two teams in the preseason AP poll, Alabama and Clemson, as well as as #19 Florida State, along with several other top 50 programs including North Carolina State, Georgia Tech and Boston College.
There’s a reason many outlets and members of the national media, have been hard on Louisville this summer, and while losing Lamar Jackson, arguably the best player in program history, along with several other key players is a tough pill to swallow, so is the schedule the faces the Cards.
Behind a new look offense, led by redshirt sophomore Jawon “Puma” Pass, and a defense desperately trying to get better after a disastrous 2017-18 campaign, the Cards will need to overachieve big time in order to get back to the place many believed they could be a few years back.
The 2018 schedule features home games against Indiana State, Western Kentucky, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, North Carolina State and Kentucky. With road games against Virginia, Boston College, Clemson and Syracuse. The Cards will have one neutral site game against Alabama in Orlando.
Many believe the Cards ceiling this year is 7-5, but if you look hard enough you’re likely to find several writers predicting the Cards to go 6-6 or even 5-7. Me personally, I don’t see it. Maybe it’s a set of Cardinal colored glasses, or maybe too much faith in Bobby. But I see a team full of speed, athleticism, and a hunger to prove everyone wrong.
I sat down with my fellow Big Red Louie site expert, Presley Meyer, and collectively we looked at the UofL schedule and made our individual picks. Do the Cards end up with a better record than last year?
Let’s get started.