Who the hell saw a shutout?

[SpotHogCard]

CJB did a great job managing Plummer.

I don't want to hear shit about Duke missing lineman or any other excuse they tried to make for them.

We lined up and straight whooped that ass. PERIOD

 

[CARDSAgainstHumanity]

CJB did a great job managing Plummer.

I don't want to hear shit about Duke missing lineman or any other excuse they tried to make for them.

We lined up and straight whooped that ass. PERIOD

With Jordan, Plummer under control, and a gang-tackling defense we are pretty tough!

 

[Mayoman]

Kudos to all the O & D lineman...they were outstanding in kicking Dukes line on both sides of the ball, upside down and sideways.

It was a totally dominant performance by them. Made QB Riley look pretty ordinary and slow like a turtle.

 

[KozmasAgain]

Yeah, I got tired hearing about the injured lineman for Duke they did it the whole game but in the fourth quarter they did mention we were missing a starting lineman also ONCE. I thought it was pretty impressive that our defense never let Duke get into the red zone the whole game.

 

[TheRealVille]

Certainly not the Game Day crew at ESPN. Only Desmond Howard picked the Cards but only because he thought Leonard wasn't playing.

The other three totally disrespected Louisville, talking about Duke's defense. Their belief Duke would be without their QB didn't seem to matter. They were shocked at the 6.5 spread.

And they all saw the Cards dominant ND just a few weeks ago and that didn't matter. The fact Louisville was coming off their bye week while Duke played at FSU last week didn't matter either.

Virtually every metric suggested Louisville should win, yet 3/4 of the ESPN crew picked Duke.

A Duke team whose best win is still over a now 4 and 4 Clemson team.

 

[UofLouisville]

Tired of hearing the announcers providing excuses for teams that we play AND beat. One of the morons mentioned at the beginning of the game that Thrash has had a couple of good outings. WTF? Where do they find these people?

 

[SpotHogCard]

Yeah, I got tired hearing about the injured lineman for Duke they did it the whole game but in the fourth quarter they did mention we were missing a starting lineman also ONCE. I thought it was pretty impressive that our defense never let Duke get into the red zone the whole game.

They're just mad because we ate Duke's lunch, and banged their sister while they washed the dishes.

 

[2330859]

As Mayoman noted, our OL and our DL were dominant. Most everyone has acknowledged that Gillotte is All-American, but I am not sure anyone other than our own coaching staff, our opponents and our roster recognize just how dominating the Lole is when healthy.

One of the assistant coaches told me that no one can block either Gillotte or Lole one on one, and you cannot double team both at the same time.

 

[Thecycle27]

This is a much different team at home. The lines play at a completely different level for longer periods of time.

Brohm and crew did a super job adding to OLine. Give Satt-Brown credit for the Dline those guys developed.

 

[Ipartiedwithhopgood]

I bet the under at 45.5. But I was thinking a final of 27-13 or something in that range.

That talking head bias is about the support for the long-time members of the ACC. They don't want to respect some city college.

With the program making strides the Cards are more of a threat now to the good ol' boy club. Poor guys.

 

[CardX]

Man, I was not feeling great about this game. Duke passed the eye test, looked tough, well coached. The line then jumped -4 to -6 and I thought Riley must be out, the bookies know. Then GameDay basically willed him to play and even overwhelmingly picked Duke to win. Ugh. Cards then went out and dominated. Impressive.

 

[OldhamCard335]

Man, I was not feeling great about this game. Duke passed the eye test, looked tough, well coached. The line then jumped -4 to -6 and I thought Riley must be out, the bookies know. Then GameDay basically willed him to play and even overwhelmingly picked Duke to win. Ugh. Cards then went out and dominated. Impressive.

I did feel good about this game with or without Riley Leonard. The line moving like it did was a surprise to me. It felt like there must be some word of something out there.

Riley, Elko and the rest of the Duke players looked beaten early on. I do want to find the Elko postgame presser if anyone has a link to it.

 

[2330859]

I disagree; the respect and affection shown to UL during and after the ND game showed objectivity. Part of the less than excited response from media can be understood when one sees that UL played IU, GT, BC and NCST before they demonstrated their ability to compete with their respective conference powerhouses. IU for example is not a great team, but so far they played both OSU & PSU closer than anyone else.

I have no problem with TV commentators pointing out the fact that Duke was missing their 2 best OL-men, as they pointed out that we were without Jordan and Brown at Pitt. One of the analysts made the statement, “this UL football team is the real deal”. It is time to earn respect, rather than expecting it to come by itself.

Losing to Pitt just 2 weeks ago took a lot of respect away; but dominating Duke on both sides of the football (regardless of their injuries) will not go unnoticed. UL will rise this week as the best ACC team not named FSU.

 

[the artist FKA zipp]

Still can’t understand the obsession about what talking heads say. We criticize them, and then we get PO’d by what they say.

“The food was bad, and there were such small portions…”

Our body of work this year has been uneven if you’re being honest. Considering the competition, my optimism is that two of the last three games have been our best.

 

[RealStateBird]

CJB did a great job managing Plummer.

I don't want to hear shit about Duke missing lineman or any other excuse they tried to make for them.

We lined up and straight whooped that ass. PERIOD

I absolutely hate most ESPN announcers but I really dislike the guy who called the game Saturday. Kept making excuses all game for Duke. They went on and on about that personal foul on the Duke lineman. They even got the dial a ref on the phone for a comment.

 

[TheRealVille]

Still can’t understand the obsession about what talking heads say. We criticize them, and then we get PO’d by what they say.

“The food was bad, and there were such small portions…”

Our body of work this year has been uneven if you’re being honest. Considering the competition, my optimism is that two of the last three games have been our best.

Well for one thing, its not an obsession to point out obvious agendas when we see them. If I felt those GameDay pundits really believed what they said, I would just laugh at the ignorance.

But it was an obvious pro Duke presentation with GameDay and the ESPN broadcast of the game. What it really boils down to is those people wanted Duke to win.

 

[TheRealVille]

I disagree; the respect and affection shown to UL during and after the ND game showed objectivity. Part of the less than excited response from media can be understood when one sees that UL played IU, GT, BC and NCST before they demonstrated their ability to compete with their respective conference powerhouses. IU for example is not a great team, but so far they played both OSU & PSU closer than anyone else.

I have no problem with TV commentators pointing out the fact that Duke was missing their 2 best OL-men, as they pointed out that we were without Jordan and Brown at Pitt. One of the analysts made the statement, “this UL football team is the real deal”. It is time to earn respect, rather than expecting it to come by itself.

Losing to Pitt just 2 weeks ago took a lot of respect away; but dominating Duke on both sides of the football (regardless of their injuries) will not go unnoticed. UL will rise this week as the best ACC team not named FSU.

This notion will be tested with this upcoming game against Virginia Tech. Will the talking heads play up VT's three blowout home wins over Pitt, Wake and Syracuse when considering the game against the Cards?

Or will they play up the Cards 9 game home winning streak with two wins over ranked teams? Louisville will surely be a double digit favorite this Saturday and if I'm right about the disrespect shown at the Cards, someone on GameDay will have VT as their "Superdog".

 

[SpotHogCard]

This notion will be tested with this upcoming game against Virginia Tech. Will the talking heads play up VT's three blowout home wins over Pitt, Wake and Syracuse when considering the game against the Cards?

Or will they play up the Cards 9 game home winning streak with two wins over ranked teams? Louisville will surely be a double digit favorite this Saturday and if I'm right about the disrespect shown at the Cards, someone on GameDay will have VT as their "Superdog".

We are favored by 12 at the moment.

 

[RealStateBird]

This notion will be tested with this upcoming game against Virginia Tech. Will the talking heads play up VT's three blowout home wins over Pitt, Wake and Syracuse when considering the game against the Cards?

Or will they play up the Cards 9 game home winning streak with two wins over ranked teams? Louisville will surely be a double digit favorite this Saturday and if I'm right about the disrespect shown at the Cards, someone on GameDay will have VT as their "Superdog".

They will root for VT mark it down

 

[Thecycle27]

Does it really matter what people say good or bad? It maybe lazy or easy for them to predict losses but the odds are all these teams are going to lay an egg at some point.

College talking heads are bias. It has always been that way.

 

[UKCoachesGraveyard]

Our body of work this year has been uneven if you’re being honest. Considering the competition, my optimism is that two of the last three games have been our best.

I agree, but if you break it down a bit more, our work AWAY FROM HOME has been uneven. At home we have played consistently well. Let's hope that continues!

 

[Mayoman]

I have no problem with TV commentators pointing out the fact that Duke was missing their 2 best OL-men, as they pointed out that we were without Jordan and Brown at Pitt. One of the analysts made the statement, “this UL football team is the real deal”. It is time to earn respect, rather than expecting it to come by itself.

Losing to Pitt just 2 weeks ago took a lot of respect away; but dominating Duke on both sides of the football (regardless of their injuries) will not go unnoticed. UL will rise this week as the best ACC team not named FSU.

I agree with that as long as Duke wins at least 3 of 4 of their last games.

Otherwise it won't matter to anyone except the Dukie pukies of the media...they are or were the medias feel good story of the ACC this year....they have to win to stay ranked in the T25 IMO....and that is what the Card fans need to pull for for our SoS to move or remain higher.

 

[SpotHogCard]

I agree with that as long as Duke wins at least 3 of 4 of their last games.

Otherwise it won't matter to anyone except the Dukie pukies of the media...they are or were the medias feel good story of the ACC this year....they have to win to stay ranked in the T25 IMO....and that is what the Card fans need to pull for for our SoS to move or remain higher.

That Georgia Tech win looks better and better all the time for the very reasons you stated above.

 

[Ipartiedwithhopgood]

Parity. Some of the fast-starting programs will drift back to the pack, and some programs that stalled early have improved. I believe this is why fans that turn their nose up for winning w/o style points should maybe re-consider that narrative. It's not easy to win games.

 

[beantowncard]

We are favored by 12 at the moment.

Too much

 

[KozmasAgain]

I would rather be the underdog or have a close prediction I think we play better.

 

[SpotHogCard]

Too much

I think 3 - 7 points is good.

 

[TheRealVille]

VT lost to Purdue, Rutgers and Marshall. Their ACC wins were at home against Pitt, WF and Syracuse.

There's a reason they are 12 point underdogs. Louisville has dominated at home and have beaten two ranked teams as well as two ACC opponents on the road.

Louisville should be favored by 2 touchdowns easily.

 

[the artist FKA zipp]

I'd take those points and maybe win on both sides of the bet...

 

[KozmasAgain]

You can’t take any team in the conference lightly Pitt showed us that. All the teams in the conference have enough talent to pull an upset. Some teams just have more talent to better all year.

 

[Ipartiedwithhopgood]

I'm apprehensive on betting UofL games. Last couple of weeks I bet the over/under lines and got lucky to win both. Took the over vs PITT, just had a feeling that game would be wild. Took the under vs Duke because I thought weather was going to be a factor, but it wasn't. So I got lucky there too.

VT is on the improve, if UofL was getting above avg QB play I would dive in and bet them to cover the 12. Then again, if UofL was getting strong QB play the line would probably be 17ish.

I still might bet the Cards anyway. But Plummer has really settled into more of a game manager most games, and with the lack of explosive plays down the field I may just avoid this one. Need to see the over/under and take a closer look at the VT O.

 

[TheRealVille]

You can’t take any team in the conference lightly Pitt showed us that. All the teams in the conference have enough talent to pull an upset. Some teams just have more talent to better all year.

Definitely true but I don't see any indication this Cards team will take VT lightly. The Cards have been dominant at home, and they control their own destiny. They will be Jacked for this game.

Brohm may not pursue the same offensive strategy he employed against Duke as VT's defense is not as strong as the Blue Devils. The Hokies offense however will be tougher than Duke's was.

I don't bet on Louisville games much because I don't want to be twice as upset if the Cards lose. If I were to, I would indeed go with the Cards - 12. At the same time, I could see a 7-to-10-point win as well because VT has improved with their new QB. Remember BC and their young QB? They're now 5 and 3.

If the weather is dry and not too cold, I foresee the Cards having another strong game. I'm looking forward to seeing the defense as they're starting to look like last season's dominant unit. With the way Jordan is running and the OL is playing, if Plummer can continue to manage the game and not turn the ball over, Louisville is on its way to the ACC championship game.