Louisville Football Postgame Notes vs. Virginia
November 14, 2020 | Football
Virginia 31, Louisville 17
November 14, 2020
Scott Stadium | Charlottesville, Va.
TEAM NOTES
November 14, 2020
Scott Stadium | Charlottesville, Va.
TEAM NOTES
- Louisville drops to 5-4 all-time against Virginia and just 1-4 against the Cavaliers in Charlottesville.
- Despite the loss, the Cardinals racked up 478 total yards to just 368 for Virginia.
- Louisville has outgained the opposition in four of its six losses this season.
- Louisville averaged 8.0 yards per play offensively on Saturday.
- UofL has averaged 8.0 yards per play or better in each of the last three games.
- The Cardinals rushed for a season-high 317 yards in the loss.
- It was the most rushing yards for the Cardinals since running for 370 in the win over Syracuse last season.
- Virginia entered the day allowing just 126.8 yards per game on the ground, fourth-best in the ACC.
- It marks the most rushing yards allowed by Virginia since the final game of the 2017 season against Navy.
- The Louisville defense entered the day with just four turnovers forced through seven games, but forced a pair in the opening half on Saturday.
- QB Malik Cunningham finished the day with 161 passing yards and a career-best 197 rushing yards and two scores on the ground.
- Cunningham's 197 rushing yards are the most by a quarterback in the ACC this season and the third-most by a quarterback in Louisville history.
- It was the third career 100-yard rushing game for Cunningham and his first during the 2020 season.
- Cunningham surpassed his previous high of 129 rushing yards done against Western Kentucky in 2018.
- Cunningham is the seventh Louisville quarterback with at least two career games with multiple rushing touchdowns.
- RB Jalen Mitchell tallied 76 yards on seven carries in the loss.
- Mitchell entered the day with just four career rushes for 13 yards.
- RB Maurice Burkley had 44 yards on the ground on a career-best 12 rushing attempts.
- WR Dez Fitzpatrick led the Cardinals with five receptions and 71 receiving yards.
- Fitzpatrick jumped teammate Tutu Atwell into ninth place on Louisville's all-time receiving chart with 2,270 career receiving yards.
- LB Yasir Abdullah finished with a career-high 10 tackles to lead the Cardinals on Saturday.
- Abdullah also added a pair of tackles for loss.
- DB Marlon Character had his hands in two turnovers and matched his season-high with seven stops.
- Character tallied his first career forced fumble in the first quarter and then recorded his first career interception on the next drive in the second quarter.
- DL Dayna Kinnaird was credited with his first sack of the season in the loss.
- RB Maurice Burkley and WR Jordan Watkins made their first collegiate starts on Saturday.
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