Louisville’s decision to fire Bobby Petrino over the weekend theoretically makes the Cardinals more of a wild card down the stretch, but nothing changes the fact that they simply are not very good. So the oddsmakers have been rather unmoved, and NC State is a 15-point road favorite.
This is terrifying. Someone hold me.
If NC State can get up by a couple scores early, Louisville will probably do what it’s often done when falling behind this season: quit. But last Thursday was also a bitter reminder of what can happen when you let an inferior team keep some hope alive late into a game. Let’s not do that again, okay, fellas? I’d still like to win 10 games this year.
Louisville safeties coach Lorenzo Ward is the team’s interim head coach for the rest of 2018. There’s no chance that Ward gets that interim tag removed, so maybe the players won’t be extra motivated to play for him. I’ve probably made too much of all this. Probably.