5 dominant Week 1 performances for Louisville football since 2000

These Week 1 performances have gone down as some of the best in Louisville history and have been the start of some of the best years Louisville football has ever seen.
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1. Lamar Jackson, QB - 2016

Stat Line: 17-23, 286 Passing Yards, 6 Passing Touchdowns, 11 Rushing Attempts, 119 Rushing Yards, 2 Rushing Touchdowns

Many Cardinals fans will recognize this year right off the bat. Jackson started his sophomore and Heisman-winning season with style, with a 70-14 drubbing of the Charlotte 49ers. Jackson was coming off an impressive end to the 2015 season, where he started to emerge as the star the Cardinal coaching staff envisioned when he stepped onto campus.

Looking at that stat line shows just how impressive Jackson was in a Louisville uniform. Now let it sink in that Jackson did not play in the second half of this game. Yes. All of those yards and touchdowns occurred by halftime.

This was obviously a massive sign of things to come for Jackson and the Cardinals. This stat line became the norm week after week as the Cardinals continued their winning ways. They played at the highest levels and in some of the most memorable games that season, from the 63-20 runaway win against the Florida State Seminoles to the heartbreaking loss down in Death Valley to the Clemson Tigers.

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