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Greetings from Papa John's Cardinal Stadium, where the Scarlet Knights take on Louisville in the final game of the regular season. It's the final game of any kind for 17 Louisville seniors, who are being honored now on the field. It is not the final game for the Knights, who formally accepted an invitation today to the International Bowl, Jan. 5 in Toronto.
The Knights, regardless of the outcome of tonight's game, will take on the No. 3 team from the Mid America Conference, which will likely be either Ball State or Bowling Green.
There's also news today on the Stadium front: Gov. Jon Corzine told the Star Ledger today his administration won't contribute the funds Rutgers thought it would toward the stadium expansion plan, meaning the plan might be dead.
As far as football is concerned, the Knights are 3-point underdogs against the Cardinals, who at 5-6 might be the most underachieving team in the country.
Louisville has been bad at some point this season and absolutely terribly during the last few weeks, including a 55-17 thumping at the hands of South Florida last week.
My prediction: the Cardinals will wake up and Brian Brohm and Co. will have enough to get past the Knights. My best guess at the score, which I put in today's paper, is Cardinals 34, Knights 28.
The Knights, regardless of the outcome of tonight's game, will take on the No. 3 team from the Mid America Conference, which will likely be either Ball State or Bowling Green.
There's also news today on the Stadium front: Gov. Jon Corzine told the Star Ledger today his administration won't contribute the funds Rutgers thought it would toward the stadium expansion plan, meaning the plan might be dead.
As far as football is concerned, the Knights are 3-point underdogs against the Cardinals, who at 5-6 might be the most underachieving team in the country.
Louisville has been bad at some point this season and absolutely terribly during the last few weeks, including a 55-17 thumping at the hands of South Florida last week.
My prediction: the Cardinals will wake up and Brian Brohm and Co. will have enough to get past the Knights. My best guess at the score, which I put in today's paper, is Cardinals 34, Knights 28.
posted by Ben Doody at
7:26 PM
2 Comments:
Pretty decent predicting. Why did you pick against Rutgers?
Thanks, Charles. It looked for a while like I was going to be wrong, but the Cardinals proved me and most of the other beat writers right with their second half comeback.
I picked Louisville because I think the Cardinals, despite their struggles this year, simply have more talent than Rutgers. Not a lot more, but enough to get by, which they did on Thursday.
The incredible thing is that had Louisville not done the utterly unthinkable -- lose to Syracuse on Sept. 22 -- the Cards would be heading to Canada and the Scarlet Knights would likely be done for the year.
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