The 2025 season is just around the corner, and the Louisville football program is buzzing with excitement. The Cardinals have a legitimate shot at the College Football Playoffs, and Jeff Brohm and this explosive offense are trending to be one of the best in the nation.
The Cardinals have a lot of potential, but with a gruesome schedule, can they get it done? Is this the year Brohm and his Cardinals are finally able to get over the hump and punch their ticket to their first-ever College Football Playoffs?
The path is there. They are trending as one of the biggest sleeper picks in the nation, and now they have to shock the ACC and the country and prove all the doubters wrong. So, will the Cardinals rise to the occasion, or will they have an all-time collapse?
Let's take a deep dive, as we lay out the best and worst-case scenarios, along with our predictions for Louisville football's 2025 season.
Floor, ceiling, and prediction for Louisville football in 2025
Worst-case scenario: Final record 7-5, ACC record 3-5
This is hard even to imagine, but that is why this is the worst-case scenario. The Cardinals should be much better than a 7-5 team in 2025, but with their schedule and some of the trap games and brutal back to backs, Louisville's worst case scenario would be to lose their three big games against Miami, Clemson and SMU, and then stumble two out of three to Pitt, Boston College, and Virginia Tech.
Many experts have predicted Louisville to go 8-4 in 2025, and with the Cardinals' win total at 8.5, a seven-win season isn't too far out of the picture. Now, going 7-5 and 3-5 in the ACC would be a massive letdown of a year and a failure of a season for the Cardinals. The Cardinals have been projected to finish No. 5 and No. 8 in the ACC by some experts, and so, with this being the worst-case scenario, it will be a bit more dramatic.
The Cardinals have Miami, SMU, Pitt, and Virginia Tech all on the road this season, and many fans have those four games circled with their eyebrows raised. Plus, the Tigers on the schedule just make this schedule one of the most challenging schedules in the ACC.
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