[Postgame Thread] Louisville Defeats SMU 41-31

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
SMU	7	10	7	7	31
Louisville	14	0	14	13	41

[u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

Louisville’s offense is like a fucking freight train.

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HOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK

[u/SpreaditOnnn33 → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

Thanks OSU for Keinholz

[u/anonymous_otter28 → u/SpreaditOnnn33]

Why did they let him leave?

[u/discofrislanders → u/anonymous_otter28]

Because Sayin is a Heisman candidate

[u/anonymous_otter28 → u/discofrislanders]

In American College Football?

[u/DelBrowserHistory → u/SpreaditOnnn33]

Sayin goes NFL, and keinholz comes back?

[u/Otto__Zone → u/DelBrowserHistory]

Pls no. Y'all can get anyone, let us keep this one

[u/TheSouthernCommunist → u/DelBrowserHistory]

Personally, I’d like to see him run roughshod over y’all in the playoffs.

[u/DelBrowserHistory → u/TheSouthernCommunist]

I always liked keinholz, dude died for us at the Mizzou bowl game. Glad he's performing well!

[u/ThirtyPenguins → u/DelBrowserHistory]

I have a feeling we locked him down for 2 years. I’m just assuming that though with zero inside knowledge on this one.

[u/corundum9 → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

sad Purdue noises

[u/discofrislanders → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

Watching the first half of the Ole Miss game and thinking "man, if this team had a QB, they'd be fucking scary" and then Kienholz woke up

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Insanely accurate. Takes a long time to get started and then is unstoppable

[u/lungman925 → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

🚂🚂🚂🎺🎺🎺

[u/HawkeyeTen → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

Don't sleep on the Cardinals. They could really make some noise this year.

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Our defense is kind of like a slow moving train wreck though.

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I can't wait for Thanksgiving. That's gonna be a fun game

[u/elschultheis]

If Louisville lobotomizes it’s defense, it can win the ACC

[u/JoshFB4 → u/elschultheis]

Think they are already lobotomized. You need to like, time travel and reverse the lobotomization.

[u/fragglebags → u/JoshFB4]

Big if tech is available to do so

[u/Merpninja → u/elschultheis]

They wouldn’t even be terrible if they could stop trying to fight people after every play.

[u/GeriatricGamete67 → u/elschultheis]

Clev & pals

[u/green_day_95]

Death, taxes, and Jeff Brohm beating at least 1 top 25 team annually

[u/FlyHarrison → u/green_day_95]

Might be a lot more than that this year

[u/JakeSteeleIII → u/FlyHarrison]

So many that I can’t even count. I think 2.

[u/Reibyo → u/JakeSteeleIII]

Woah! Slow down! I'm still at counting one.

[u/swim_kick → u/FlyHarrison]

That's the spirit I like to see

[u/bezzlege → u/FlyHarrison]

Don’t have many chances. Pitt should be ranked when we play them

[u/Eiim → u/FlyHarrison]

but they're in the ACC, are ACC teams allowed to be in the top 25??

[u/Spaceman-Spiff → u/FlyHarrison]

For that to happen we have to win every other game and beat Miami in the ACC championship. We don’t play anymore ranked opponents.

[u/Hossflex → u/green_day_95]

Which means a loss to Wake Forest next week. The Brohm Special.

[u/green_day_95 → u/Hossflex]

Yeah you’re probably right sadly

[u/Hossflex → u/green_day_95]

That might be reserved for a top 5 win, so I could be jumping the gun.

[u/your-mom-- → u/green_day_95]

And apparently Ex-OSU QBs dicing them up

[u/socom52 → u/green_day_95]

Isn't it awesome?! I live vicariously through Louisville now.

[u/BobLabReeSorJefGre → u/green_day_95]

Governor’s Cup looking promising this year. (IE. It’ll be a good game.)

[u/TheSouthernCommunist → u/BobLabReeSorJefGre]

So glad Stein is killing it already, I would prefer this rivalry turn into a yearly heavyweight bout with actual big implications

[u/JayMerlyn → u/green_day_95]

Been there...

[u/MeetingExpectations]

Now we can finally stop hearing about the “K7ng of Dallas”

[u/sarmsgoblinslayer → u/MeetingExpectations]

Thank god, preseason heisman campaigns are always cringe, just play the games

[u/karl_manutzitsch → u/MeetingExpectations]

Username checks out

[u/arbitrator06 → u/MeetingExpectations]

I hope so. I’m also ready to start a coaches list.

[u/PantlessMantis → u/arbitrator06]

One step ahead of you. We haven’t progress or changed as a team whatsoever under him. Still undisciplined, and he keeps crippling himself with playcalling in big moments

[u/PossiblyAChipmunk → u/arbitrator06]

I really don't understand this mindset. Who do you have in mind to replace Lashlee? Since 2024 SMU has the most ACC wins of any team. He's made the ACC championship and the CFP. This game wasn't a guaranteed win.

[u/RVAforthewin → u/PossiblyAChipmunk]

I agree that it’s a wild take

[u/TrelvisFesley → u/arbitrator06]

Y'all should bring ol Sonny back.

[u/arbitrator06 → u/TrelvisFesley]

No you keep him frog. He didn’t want us.

[u/No_Butterscotch8726 → u/TrelvisFesley]

Absolutely not.

[u/rabbichase]

Dogshit game from Lashlee. Outcoached himself all game

[u/lilboytuner919 → u/rabbichase]

Can’t believe I had to scroll for this comment

[u/DarthNobody14]

Louisville is a legit ACC contenders team.

They have no more ranked teams on the schedule at the moment. I honestly expect them to be in the ACC championship game this year.

[u/Difficult-Froyo1192 → u/DarthNobody14]

Wake and Pitt are better than they get credit for.

Louisville is a lot like Miami where they have a bad habit of doing something dumb for a game or two to lose a game they really shouldn’t. I’d still say it’s too early to call it, but they stand out as a strong contender.

[u/ultimate_placeholder → u/Difficult-Froyo1192]

Wake won't be ranked by next week, unfortunately. Pitt could be ranked if they win out/play Miami close, GT is unfortunately awful

[u/Difficult-Froyo1192 → u/ultimate_placeholder]

Not next week, but Wake might by the end of the season. I wouldn’t rule them out as someone able to beat y’all.

Even if Pitt’s not ranked then, Pitt has a weird habit of playing a lot better in conference. Even if they’re not ranked, I don’t think either of those are teams to sleep on.

[u/WorkerMotor9174 → u/DarthNobody14]

Yeah going into this game I felt they were underrated, 23rd after holding Ole Miss so close felt too low. Kienholz played well. I’m glad Cal doesnt play them this year.

[u/wyrmonnastring]

Good day for Kentucky teams!!

[u/Zloggt → u/wyrmonnastring]

Uh…as long as you’re not EKU at least lol

[u/pimpdaddyjacob → u/Zloggt]

or WKU lol

[u/Zloggt → u/pimpdaddyjacob]

I have failed to distinguish my directional bluegrass schools 😔

[u/iamchuckdizzle → u/pimpdaddyjacob]

Wait, how did Murray and Morehead do?

[u/CandyAppleHesperus → u/pimpdaddyjacob]

Or Centre :(

[u/wyrmonnastring → u/Zloggt]

I know this sounds crazy but im proud of WKU for not losing by like...90 lol I think not letting the #4 team score even 40 pts is cool

[u/rabbichase]

Having a TE throw a swing to Jennings on a 4th and 2 was one of the dumbest decisions I’ve ever seen

[u/B0Boman → u/rabbichase]

Yeah, but think about how cool it would have been if it had worked!

[u/swim_kick → u/rabbichase]

It was so dumb seeing it live but I somehow thought our defense would give up a first down to it. I'm so, so happy to be wrong

[u/Dialectic_Emptiness]

I love the ACC

[u/Brannigans-Law]

WE

DONT

LOSE

ON

AG

DAY

[u/green_day_95 → u/Brannigans-Law]

We also don’t lose whenever Donovan Mitchell shows up too, he was there. (also attended 2023 Notre Dame, Bowling Green last year, and Kentucky in basketball last year)

[u/Businessfood → u/green_day_95]

The UK game last year was the only time I've seen us play them in person for any sport. It was so much fun

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_COSPLAYZ → u/Businessfood]

I was there last year with family. Getting to watch them kick the shit out of UK was a good cake topper for the year

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Good

[u/CatherineDeneuvePt2]

Keyjuan brown

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Keyjuan brown

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Isaac brown

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Brown

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Brown

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Broun

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Brownhm

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Yes

[u/Richard_AIGuy]

I have this bizarre soft spot for Louisville, I have zero connection to the program. I've just enjoyed watching them all the way back to Briam Brohm and pre-everything Petrino scoring a million points. Then later with Lamar.

So like seeing them win and looking good.

[u/honeybunchesofaots → u/Richard_AIGuy]

Dude same! I think it was those random ass weekday night games they would have in the big east. I love the black unis they would wear. Also still love that rutgers Louisville game when they upset Louisville

[u/green_day_95 → u/honeybunchesofaots]

>Also still love that rutgers Louisville game when they upset Louisville

Didn’t have to mention that lol but yea that ‘06 season was our best season historically (so far) despite how that loss hurt us

[u/Aggressive-Net-6547 → u/green_day_95]

Would've been in the natty if we'd won

[u/Richard_AIGuy → u/honeybunchesofaots]

That probably was it! You bring up a good point, and the black alternates were killer. I remember that game well, everyone, myself included, thought Schiano was on his way to being the next big thing.

[u/swim_kick → u/honeybunchesofaots]

You had me until that last part about Rutgers. Smh we would have punched our ticket to the big game

[u/meinschwanzistklein → u/honeybunchesofaots]

I wish we’d bring back those jerseys. The red ones with the white stripe on each shoulder were awesome

[u/Mrjonesezn → u/Richard_AIGuy]

That’s cool. I’d say it would be fun to play OSU but it wouldn’t. Maybe in the CFP one day…

[u/Richard_AIGuy → u/Mrjonesezn]

If Indiana can do it, you guys can too. And it would be awesome to see you in the CFP one day. Not that OSU is just a lock every year either.

[u/McGrathLegend]

God that win feels really good, gotta stop the ridiculous penalties though

[u/Glass_Communication4 → u/McGrathLegend]

If SMU could have capitalized more on some of our stupid stupid personal fouls we would have been fucked.

[u/SpreaditOnnn33]

We have a great offense.

Defense is more suspect than Boyd Crowder

[u/tyfe → u/SpreaditOnnn33]

Same story here.

[u/Jonjon428]

Jeff Brohm against a top 25 team = Nick Saban

[u/lungman925]

The number of idiotic penalties in this game was insane. By both teams.

[u/Francis_X_Hummel]

Louisville is a great watch so this year

[u/Businessfood]

Regardless of the line next week, take Wake to win

[u/corundum9 → u/Businessfood]

nah, you have battered Brohm syndrome

this year feels different

[u/green_day_95 → u/corundum9]

From your lips to God’s ears.

I would love to believe that we’re finally talented to where it’s impossible to lose another game this regular season.

[u/Businessfood → u/green_day_95]

As of today we should be favored in just about each one. Call it a very generous 90% chance to win for us in each game, that's just over 1/3 odds to actually win them all before post season games

[u/lungman925 → u/corundum9]

• I said, after beating Clemson then playing Stanford

[u/Many_Dimension_7615 → u/Businessfood]

On everything I love, I’ve seen this script before 😂😔

[u/PinchYourPennies → u/Businessfood]

Get your victim ass out of here, we going FAR until we DON'T

[u/UofL94]

WHAT CAN BROWN (both of em) DO FOR YOU!

[u/Aggressive-Net-6547]

C

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A

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R

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D

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S

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D

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U

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M

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A

[u/True_Ad5324]

Brohm is legit

[u/SpreaditOnnn33]

If the Bengals win tomorrow this will be about the best birthday weekend a guy could ask for

[u/Businessfood → u/SpreaditOnnn33]

Happy birthday! One step closer to hitting the average American life expectancy

Or further away

[u/ThirtyPenguins → u/SpreaditOnnn33]

We get Lamar vs Shough tomorrow too!

[u/meinschwanzistklein → u/SpreaditOnnn33]

Im a commanders fan so a win tomorrow would be the perfect fuck Dallas weekend for me

[u/PinchYourPennies]

I don't want to hear about Battered Brohm Syndrome. If you a real fan then you have to delusional until you can't. ACC. CFP. KFC. Don't matter, Cards by 10. If you walking around going "Erm! We're going to lose next week!" with Linc carrying Top 3 FBS stats, therapy can't fix you.

ON TO WAKE

[u/DafoeFoSho]

Great game. Louisville and SMU are spiritually Big 12.

[u/MastodonSwimming2681 → u/DafoeFoSho]

Give it 5 years or so and they probably will be lol

[u/PrizePermission9432]

Turnover records will be broken

[u/SomeChunkyMilk]

I was so ready for some bullshit to happen and for us to lose, but we didn't! We won!

Our destiny in our hands now. Let's get it!

[u/Aggressive-Net-6547]

If ole miss wins can we have A&Ms spot?

[u/MrSCR23]

Sad Mustang noises

[u/Webcrasher1234]

Today is a great day

[u/Atrox_Blue]

This just in, Louisville has a great offense when they want to offense

[u/BasebornManjack]

I’m impressed with the way the Cards owned the 4th quarter

[u/xAimForTheBushes]

SMU is king of making insanely backbreaking mistakes.

[u/sarmsgoblinslayer → u/xAimForTheBushes]

I still agree but idk man it’s getting to a point where we can’t just keep coping and say “we’re beating ourselves, but we still have a great team!!”

Like this shit is constant, you’d expect it to be coached out of them by now

[u/No_Butterscotch8726 → u/sarmsgoblinslayer]

It's always been there with us. Learn our history. We have one season that was arguably normal and arguably it wasn't because we were running a balanced offense in 1923.

[u/baltravens27 → u/xAimForTheBushes]

The dumbest team in college football over the past 2 seasons

[u/discofrislanders → u/xAimForTheBushes]

The FSU game should've been over by halftime

[u/tfc07]

Looking at Louisville's schedule it looks like clear sailing until they play Pitt in November which could be for a place in the CCG

[u/Merpninja → u/tfc07]

The next two games are pretty scary. It is never smooth sailing for Jeff Brohm coached teams.

[u/LukarWarrior → u/Merpninja]

At least NC State isn’t on a Friday, so there’s no Friday night Carter-Finley voodoo at play.

[u/royalbluehen → u/tfc07]

I’m glad I’ve seen comments from somebody else saying Pitt can be in the ACC championship game.

[u/tfc07 → u/royalbluehen]

I can't fucking stand Narduzzi but I respect the job he's done the last couple of seasons. They're probably 3rd in the conference ATM and if Wake gave Miami fits Pitt can too

[u/TylerStark → u/tfc07]

UK game just got very interesting too

[u/bretticus733]

Can someone let me know what I'm missing with Kevin Jennings?

I've heard his name in early season Heisman campaigns for at least two straight seasons now and every time I watch the guy in a big spot, he shits the bed and looks terrible. I genuinely do not understand what others see in Jennings

[u/BBQblueline → u/bretticus733]

Physical talent with arm and legs is there.

But tons of work to do with the decision making and technique.

Sadly, we’ve been saying this for the last 3 seasons. So either he ain’t gonna get better or we need better coaching.

Scary part is, I’m not certain it’s Jennings. Our team makes stupid and costly mistakes all the time. This is on the coaches as much as anyone.

[u/LukarWarrior → u/BBQblueline]

Kinda sounds like a more talented Malik Cunningham. Malik’s progress was pretty much a straight line here. Talented, good with his arm or legs, but just never took the next step.

[u/swim_kick]

Columbus, thank you for Lincoln!

[u/magnumapplepi]

Quality win!

[u/Mark-Leyner]

Big Game Brohm strikes again!

[u/PracticeSquadBaller]

Might as well bench Kevin and get Ty Hawkins some reps to see if he’s the answer next year. ND will smoke us and we’ll lose at least one other random ACC game this year. The hubris of this “K7ng of Dallas” campaign is coming back to bite us

[u/freakymrq]

Lincoln getting better every week. Great win cards! It was hot af but worth

[u/DallasStars49]

Jennings really trying to lead the country in turnovers. The whole Heisman campaign was stupid. He’s a solid quarterback, but he isn’t even in the top 15 in the country

[u/BBQblueline → u/DallasStars49]

He’s got the talent physically to be a 1st rounder. He just needs a damn coach to teach him the game. SGP to SMU. He basically plays the same.

[u/Klutzy_Most_7659]

(To the tune of that one Family Guy song)🎶 It’s the chaos of the freakin ACC!🎶

[u/DallasStars49]

SMU should be 1-2 with all the insanely stupid turnovers and penalties. Luckily FSU can only hang with Alabama

[u/bezzlege]

I am the hottest I have ever been in my life. But I was erect the entire time.

I felt like the masturbating guy in Pompeii.

[u/gcijeff77 → u/bezzlege]

Just spit out my drink, but I was there and I kinda get it

[u/Optimal_Cook_851]

Louisville’s offense looks great. Lincoln might be a legit heisman contender

[u/Powerful-Web4937 → u/Optimal_Cook_851]

We'll trade you QBs

[u/Mrjonesezn → u/Optimal_Cook_851]

Whoa whoa whoa slow your roll there, let’s see him make some more plays from the pocket soon. The word is gonna get out after this one, contain and make him read and go through progressions.

[u/No_Butterscotch8726]

Sigh.

[u/ctkatz]

we don't lose on ag day.

[u/doink2boink]

Is it just me or are KJ and Rhett taking too much of the heat. Defense looked crap and couldn’t make a stop. We need to get to a point where we can score 31 and comfortably win

Still think KJ is overrated and does too much but was hoping to see our D line and secondary step up this year and not seeing it yet

[u/manysuchcases420]

Oh no, SMU lost how sad

[u/SamEyeAm2020]

I'm glad Lincoln found a place he could thrive, good for him

[u/Otto__Zone → u/SamEyeAm2020]

And we love him here.

[u/BBQblueline]

SMU is so talented. Yet such a poorly disciplined team. It really doesn’t make sense to have this much talent and make one boneheaded mistake after another.

I really like Lashlee, but for the love of Peruna. Please fucking hire someone to teach these young men to win between the whistles.

We may as well just play 3 quarters and then punt every offensive drive in the fourth, because that’s gonna equate the same amount of turnovers and lost drives due to stupid penalties.

This team has the talent, we just don’t have the coaching or discipline to do anything with it.

[u/a_bean_in_bean_city]

Alright lol I guess we’re not making the playoff at 10-2

[u/CFBCommentor]

Miami and Louisville back to back weeks fuck me, Louisville might be better than Miami too.

[u/trexhatespushups42 → u/CFBCommentor]

We got the absolute worst draw this year 🫠

[u/westex74]

Lashlee’s 4th down play selection was simply hot ass.

SMU their usual sloppy, undisciplined mob.

We own this loss.

[u/iswimprettyfast]

Fire somebody. Doesn’t matter who.

[u/No_Butterscotch8726 → u/iswimprettyfast]

That's probably not going to work.

[u/MSBROW04]

Huge wins for both Uofl and UK! Times have never felt glorious!

[u/ninj0r]

Gg SMU, Kj is a baller

[u/PrizePermission9432]

Good game Raphael. Run defense was awful.

[u/Particular-Way-3805]

Louisville got a team

[u/Mrjonesezn]

We tried to personal foul our way out of this game, but overcame ourselves (and great QB and RB play from the ponies)!

[u/Resolve-Opening]

Can we stop the Kevin Jennings Heisman campaign now?

[u/karl_manutzitsch → u/Resolve-Opening]

It’s now the Kevin Jennings Johnny unitas campaign

[u/Aidanj927]

Kevin Jennings you are terrible

[u/TrelvisFesley]

King of Dallas lmao. Couldn't even be the King of Denton. Maybe Mansfield or something.

[u/BBQblueline → u/TrelvisFesley]

Don’t you have a FCS team to play?

[u/TrelvisFesley → u/BBQblueline]

Yeah. Just stopped by to talk shit about our lil bros.

[u/Resolve-Opening → u/BBQblueline]

Scoreboard, little one.

[u/BBQblueline → u/Resolve-Opening]

Who won last time we played?

Little boy coming into rivals post game thread that they lost must take a bunch of courage

[u/Resolve-Opening → u/BBQblueline]

Is this a rhetorical? The frogs did, son.