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UofL Football Picked To Finish 5th

The Atlantic Coast Conference announced Tuesday that the Louisville football program has been picked to finish fifth in the 2024 conference race, according to a preseason poll of 170 media members across the league.

Florida State was chosen as the favorite to win the ACC title this season, garnering 2,708 points and being chosen as the favorite on 81 of the ballots. Clemson, Miami and NC State round out the top five, with the Cardinals securing 1,984 points in the poll.

AHB Rumors & Grad Transfer Rules

The college football spring transfer window's closing date of April 30 applies only to underclassmen.

Grad transfers will be given an extra day — through Wednesday, May 1 — to enter their name into the transfer portal, multiple sources clarified to 247Sports.

Graduate transfer rules have shifted considerably over the past week. Previously, grad transfers were not subject to the NCAA's transfer windows. They were allowed to enter the transfer portal at any time.

"Due to the timing of the adoption of Proposal No. 2024-5, postgraduate student-athletes in football, women's ice hockey, rife, skiing, women's swimming and diving and indoor track and field have until May 1, 2024 to provide written notice of transfer in order to be entered into the transfer portal before the start of the 2024-25 academic year."

That's pretty clear. I think the reports of him coming back were BS. The rules are pretty clear at this point, Grad Transfers had until May 1st to get in the portal. There's no more open season rule for Grad Transfers. So whoever was spreading the AHB returning rumor was just creating something out of thin air, because someone in the know would've known that the deadline has passed. He'll be at SC this year and that should end this.

That's my interpretation of things, but someone may know something else or have a different rule? I could be wrong.

FOOTBALL GAME WEEK: Predicting Louisville's first depth chart

We should get our first look at the depth chart tomorrow. Before we get it, here is my first crack at predicting what the starters will look like:

OFFENSE:

LT
Monroe Mills

LG
Michael Gonzalez

C
Pete Nygra

RG
Renato Brown

RT
Jonathan Mendoza
OR
Rasheed Miller

QB
Tyler Shough
Pierce Clarkson
OR
Harrison Bailey

RB
Don Chaney
OR
Maurice Turner
Isaac Brown

TE
Mark Redman
OR
Jamari Johnson

WR
Jacorey Brooks

WR
Cataurus Hicks

WR
Chris Bell

DEFENSE

DE
Ashton Gillotte
Ramon Puryear

DT
Dez Tell

DT
Jared Dawson

DE
Myles Jernigan
OR
Adonijah Green

LB
Stanquan Clark

LB
TJ Quinn

LB
Ben Perry
OR
Antonio Watts

CB
Quincy Riley

CB
Corey Thornton

S
MJ Griffin
OR
Tamarion McDonald

S
Devin Neal
OR
Tamarion McDonald

P
Brady Hodges

K
Brock Travelstead

PR
Quincy Riley
Cataurus Hicks
Jimmy Calloway
Jadon Thompson

KR
Maurice Turner
Isaac Brown
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FSU vs GT

Looks like Big 10 football out there. Smash mouth and check downs. Nobody is taking a shot. Is it lack of faith in the QBs? Overestimating the secondaries? Whatever it is, I don’t think we’re gonna learn much from this one other than GT has a good OL and they will lean on that. Need to rotate the DL in and out and hope they are tired out from their run of games to start the season. Only one other tough game against Cuse before us though.
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ESPN/ABC new $EC TV Deal

I'm not liking this new TV deal and how it's going to really kick the ACC to the back of the line.

Look at Weeks 1-3 on ABC:
Noon- SEC/ACC, SEC/Big12, SEC/SEC
330- SEC/ACC, SEC/SEC, SEC/SEC
Prime- SEC/ND, SEC/ACC, SEC/SEC

On ESPN main:
Noon- SEC/ACC, B12/G5, ACC/G5
330- SEC/G5, NONE, SEC/G5
Prime- SEC/G5, TBD, SEC/G5
LATE- B12/G5, SEC/B12, G5/ACC


It really seems like they're trying to hurt out league. The SEC is going to be on every single ABC window the first 3 weeks. The only ACC games they have on ESPN or ABC that has an ACC team without a SEC team is Florida Sate vs. a G5 team and Stanford playing in a late game. Talk about bias. I know the $EC is a better league, but there's no reason that we should be getting the shaft on so many of these top viewing windows.

I'm really at the point where we need to just blow up the ACC and Big 12 leagues that exist now and get the 16 best teams from both leagues to form a strong football league. The best 16 teams in the Big 12 and ACC would be a better league top to bottom than the Big Ten, they just have the better top teams but we'd have much better games top to bottom.

FOOTBALL Brohm Press Conference

A few takeaways:

— Ahmari Huggins-Bruce isn’t on the roster ‘yet’ but Brohm emphasized the ‘yet’ part, to me.

— Jadon Thompson was the first receiver mentioned after Brooks and Bell. Also mentioned Hicks and Meeks.

— Isaac Brown continues to draw rave reviews from his head coach. While unproven, certainly sounds like they like the group as a whole.

— Brohm said Lacy WILL be back.

— Brohm feels like the defensive line has tremendous depth, says quite a few guys will play.

— There was another time to ‘crank it up’ mention, seems as if that’s the buzz phrase for Jeff this year.

— On TE: mentioned Redman and Johnson first, but said all five will see the field. (Kurisky, Skinner, Cummings)
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