Don’t like the spread and sometimes the bookies are crazy. I’m just looking for solid play both on O & D tonight.
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CARDS vs Duke Game Chat
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Louiville/Duke facts I've stolen as to why Duke could be more trouble, and how we attack them!
1. Duke is 3-1 at home against the spread. (Pitt beat them)
2. Louisville is 1-2 straight up on the road. (win against FSU)
3. Duke RB Durant has 1,095 rushing yards & 9 TDs, 5.0 YPC, averaging 100+ all-purpose yards per game
4. Louisville gives up 133 rushing yards per game.
Here's why we could beat them down!
1. Duke gives up 500 yards per game, worst in power 5
2. Malik is the most versatile QB in the ACC, 13 passing and 16 rushing TDs
3. Louisville is 2-2 against the spread on the road
How we win?
1. Get STOPS. I mean every game we need that, but they like to eat clock and we get tired. Get off the field
2. Score early. The same recipe as Cuse and FSU. We can't get into a long game, win the game in the 1st quarter
3. Malik just needs to go crazy. This is a swiss cheese defense.
4. Dont get into a shootout. Let's have some good long drives.
I see this game going 2 ways.
1. Blowout like the Cuse game or Wake last year.
2. The Georgia Tech game last year. Virginia this year.
Notice when we let teams stay in the game, we just cannot close. We're not in good enough shape. Scott's tenure has usually been about scoring early and finishing the game, or it will be a long night.
1. Duke is 3-1 at home against the spread. (Pitt beat them)
2. Louisville is 1-2 straight up on the road. (win against FSU)
3. Duke RB Durant has 1,095 rushing yards & 9 TDs, 5.0 YPC, averaging 100+ all-purpose yards per game
4. Louisville gives up 133 rushing yards per game.
Here's why we could beat them down!
1. Duke gives up 500 yards per game, worst in power 5
2. Malik is the most versatile QB in the ACC, 13 passing and 16 rushing TDs
3. Louisville is 2-2 against the spread on the road
How we win?
1. Get STOPS. I mean every game we need that, but they like to eat clock and we get tired. Get off the field
2. Score early. The same recipe as Cuse and FSU. We can't get into a long game, win the game in the 1st quarter
3. Malik just needs to go crazy. This is a swiss cheese defense.
4. Dont get into a shootout. Let's have some good long drives.
I see this game going 2 ways.
1. Blowout like the Cuse game or Wake last year.
2. The Georgia Tech game last year. Virginia this year.
Notice when we let teams stay in the game, we just cannot close. We're not in good enough shape. Scott's tenure has usually been about scoring early and finishing the game, or it will be a long night.
Let's face reality here. Duke is by far the worse team in the conference. For Louisville to be considered in any way a post season team they should blow the Blue Devils out. There shouldn't be any problems scoring on Duke unless the Cards turn the ball over multiple times.
Duke has virtually no passing game, and as we have seen this season against the Cards, that leads to blowout losses.
This is like UK playing Vandy, like Purdue playing Rutgers, like Iowa State playing Kansas. Louisville fans should in no way sweat this game other than those who believe in curses and jinxes.
Cards 42
Duke. 16
Duke has virtually no passing game, and as we have seen this season against the Cards, that leads to blowout losses.
This is like UK playing Vandy, like Purdue playing Rutgers, like Iowa State playing Kansas. Louisville fans should in no way sweat this game other than those who believe in curses and jinxes.
Cards 42
Duke. 16
Drop by Harrell, false start, bad throw by Malik, blocked punt. Missed opportunities and shooting ourselves in the foot. Should be 14-3
Team doesn't look focused early on. Expecting to win attitude without the focus is a recipe for disaster. Stuff like blocked punts are the results.
Should be interesting how the team reacts.
Should be interesting how the team reacts.
Duke's defense looks like a HS defense. Malik could run for 300 yards in this game if Satterfield let him.
Bad news after that play no chance that Malik comes back next year. That just got him into fourth round at worse.
We should have seen that fake punt but that will probably be the last time they will be able to use that this game. If they don’t capitalize on it that could be a real morale buster for Duke.
Each team scores a TD and that's it. 42 - 16.
I was wrong about Duke's passing game. Didn't know their injured guy was back. He's pretty good. I would have given Duke another TD had I known he was playing.
Doubt Malik plays the 4th quarter .
I wish we would have played Duke and Syracuse when we played Wake and Virginia. Things might look a whole lot different on November 18th.
Everyone of us are cheering for a few more TDs. From Cards of course. There’s no way, Real.
This is one really weird game. Now Duke brings in the true freshman and he looks like a all conference QB.
I wonder now if Malik will play another series in the 4th quarter? Cards biggest weakness is pass defense. If a team has a good passer they can look like Tom Brady slinging the ball around against the Cards.
I wonder now if Malik will play another series in the 4th quarter? Cards biggest weakness is pass defense. If a team has a good passer they can look like Tom Brady slinging the ball around against the Cards.
Remember wayback when Duke sued us to get out of a return game because they said they weren’t competitive enough?
Just what the doctor ordered. We handled our business. We get 2 extra days of rest. And let’s go pull the upset next Saturday!
Are you picking them to win on next weeks Pic Um contest? I am. Hands down. They are too cocky and smugly confident over on their rivals board. Gotta smack with a Mikal 2 by 4 board right between the eyes. They won't even see it coming until its too late.
I just don’t know.
Kickoff time, weather, etc will be some big factors. The thing is, I was hoping they’d be riding high and overlooking us but after their Tennessee loss they’re definitely going to be focused. We’ll see their A game, and that worries me.
They are more talented. That’s just something we can’t deny. But we can have a really good day. But Stoops always has them on their A game against up and they’re fired up. They’re always focused, even when we had the clear advantage, they always just use this game as fire.
Let’s hope for decent weather and an Early kickoff where they’re off their game and not out of bed.
The last couple of years probably feel like a lifetime for Louisville fans, but it's just 2 years. Recency does matter, but it isn't the entire story.
Stoops has a losing record against Louisville. He's been blown out once and beaten by multiple TDs a few other times. He'll move to break even if they get the win this year.
Stoops has a losing record against Louisville. He's been blown out once and beaten by multiple TDs a few other times. He'll move to break even if they get the win this year.
But he kind of took over at a huge talent gap, like Satt in 2019. Remember, when Stoops arrived they were flat out garbage like us in 2018 and we had a roster top to bottom with NFL draft picks. I mean there were several years we should've just blown them out of the water early, but his guys had the edge.
That's when I knew Bobby 2.0 was different, he always had that edge in a game like sUcKs. Stoops, hate him or hate him (see what I did lol), he can get those guys up for this game.
But but but but.
I like big butts and I cannot lie!
The games count when UK sucks. The games count when Louisville sucks. All the games count. He has a losing record against Louisville. UK lost by multiple scores in 3 of the 4 losses, and in 2017 got hammered. He squeezed a 3 pt win for one of his wins. His guys haven't "had the edge" if they did, they'd have more wins than they do losses during his magical 3-4 run in the series.
Yeah, he might move to even this year. 4-4. And if they win again next year (gasps) that will be 5-4 and yes we can then say his guys have the edge. Could happen.
That wasn't my point. I didn't say it didn't count. I look at expectations. Because if you have more talent and are expected to win, then it's different. The first 4-5 years he was at sUcKs, we were clearly better, and even those last few when you factor in Lamar, we shouldn't have even been close. I'm just saying they always come out strong against us no matter what. He's handled business as a favorite and played tough as an underdog. The only year they didn't play us well under him was 2017 with Lamar.
If you look at a simple 3-4 number, fine, but numbers should tell an entire story. Those 4 losses don't factor in luck, weather, injuries, how hard his team played, or if the other team was just better. Imagine if Reggie doesn't get hurt in 2014 and we don't go to Bolin, it looks a lot different. Or if Bobby was too stubborn to make the switch to Lamar in the 2015 game? I mean imagine if Lamar doesn't fumble in 2016 and we go to 6 then 7 straight? Or how about sUcKs doesn't drop that INT in 2014 and they close out the game? But the trend show, his guys play their hardest against us and we always get their focus.
Stoops in the series:
As underdogs against the spread: 3-2
As favorites in the series: 2-0
My point isn't about will we win or lose, my point is that Stoops teams play us tough and it doesn't matter.
Dabo Swinney is only 2 games above .500 against South Carolina at 7-5 and do you think going into their 2017 game when he was 4-5 SC and fans were thinking that he was still under .500 against SC or did they realized that SC that was on fire under Spurrier was gone and that Clemson was now a national power? Times change, but the trend matters more.
You are incorporating Fantasy Land into the discussion referencing things that could have happened that didn't, and diminishing things that actually did happen by saying those things didn't have to happen. When you bring if this, if that into it, like you are doing over and over here you are living in a hypothetical state, an alternative reality. Some people need mushrooms or something like that to go there but doubt you're doing that on your Friday morning so props to you on pulling off the alternate reality sober.
I don't see you mention one of the Stoops "wins" in the series when he got a gift match against a lame duck interim HC, ya know, something that did happen. Maybe if Bobby didn't mail it in that game would have been different? Whoops almost got me, I threw out the if card. Strike this paragraph from the record.
You think they don't play hard against their other high profile opponents? You think they want to beat Louisville more than Georgia? TN? LSU? FLA? They wanna win all those games.
I think everyone knows UK tries to win when they play Louisville, but thanks for the reminder.