Louisville football: Where the ACC went right and wrong with All-Conference Teams
By Jacob Lane
The 2019 All-ACC teams have been announced. We react to each Louisville football who made the list and a few who didn’t.
Louisville football is entering football purgatory; The odd part of the season where every somewhat successful college football team gets a chance to rest and recuperate after the regular season while awaiting their fate to come in the form of a postseason bowl game.
Though any New Year Six games and any big-name opponent on the heels of a great season is out of the picture, Louisville still has a shot at getting an attractive match-up with its eye on an eight-win season after an improbable run in conference play.
Sure, some dominoes had to fall their way, but Louisville football also had a ton of key players with breakthrough seasons, without whom Scott Satterfield’s squad may have been on the outside looking in, preparing for what is to come in 2020.
That wasn’t the case, however. And though Louisville was thin at a lot of positions, the Cardinals had a number of key players step up in major ways. We saw record-breaking seasons from multiple individuals, while others could see the fruits of their labors rewarded with an early exit while eyeing the NFL and beyond. That’s what made the release of the 2019 All-ACC Teams so intriguing.
It’s been a quiet few years for Louisville since having 12 players make the All-ACC teams back in 2016, having just four players listed in 2017, and zero in 2018. This year was going to be different though, as mentioned.
And it was. Today when the ACC released the 2019 All-ACC football teams plenty of Cards were honored, on all three teams. With that in mind, let’s take a look at some of the All-ACC performers for the Cards, and break down where the league got it right and who may have been more deserving than the awards they received.