Louisville Opens the 2024 at Home Versus Austin Peay

LOUISVILLE – Another exciting year of University of Louisville Football kicks off as the Cardinals begins their 2024 campaign against Austin Peay on Aug 31 at Noon from L&N Stadium.

The Cardinals and Governor's are meeting for the first time in school history. Louisville is 36-7 all-time against FCS opponents and are currently riding a xxx-game winning streak.

Louisville looks to stop its three-game slide after they closed the first year under Jeff Brohm with three-straight losses.

Louisville Football Notes

Louisville returns 11 players (not including specialists) who started at least five of the team's 14 games last season (four on the offensive side of the ball and seven on defense). The four offensive players are wide receiver Chris Bell (10 starts) offensive linemen Michael Gonzalez (14 starts) and Renato Brown (six starts), Austin Collins (seven starts). The defensive players are linemen Ashton Gillotte (14 starts), Dez Tell (14), Ramon Puryear (five starts), linebackers T.J. Quinn and Ben Perry, and defensive backs Quincy Riley (14 starts) and Devin Neal (13 starts). The Cardinals also welcome bacLouisville is 119-46 (72.1) at L&N Cardinal Stadium since the start of the 1998 season.
Head coach Jeff Brohm is 6-1 all-time at L&N Stadium as head coach of the Cardinals. His team was dominate at home in 2023, scoring an average of 37.7 points per game, which ranked 27th in the country.
Louisville won its first six games last season before falling 38-31 in the regular season finale against Kentucky.
The Cardinals return six players who earned 2023 All-ACC honors — one on offense and five on defense.
Gillotte is the lone first team returnee after he finished eighth nationally in sacks with 11 and recorded 14.5 tackles for loss. Michael Gonzalez was a third team honoree after starting all 14 games at the left guard position.
Dez Tell, T.J. Quinn, Quincy Riley and Devin Neal all earned honorable mention honors in 2023.
The Cardinals open the 2024 season at home for the first time since the COVID season in 2020 when they began the season with a 35-21 victory over Western Kentucky.
Before the shortened 2020 season, the last time the Cardinals opened a full regular season at home was in 2019 when Notre Dame opened the Scott Satterfield era with a 35-17 win over the Cards.
Louisville is 12-5 in games where it opens the season on its home field.
Head coach Jeff Brohm has hit the transfer portal hard in the last two seasons, securing 52 new additions to the team. Last season, Brohm added 25 players from the portal to a team that finished at 10-4 overall. This year, Brohm has 27 additions from the portal. Louisville also signed 14 high school players this season, which means 41 of the 85 scholarship players are first year additions.
Two of Louisville's top defensive players in defensive lineman Ashton Gillotte and cornerback Quincy Riley. A first team preseason All-American, Gillotte earned first team all-conference accolades last year and was a second team All-American. Gillotte finished eighth nationally in sacks with 11 and recorded 14.5 tackles for loss. Riley was second on the team with three interceptions and has six picks in his two seasons with the Cardinals. In his collegiate career, Riley owns 13 interceptions between Louisville and Middle Tennessee.
The Cardinals will have a new quarterback for the third-straight season in Tyler Shough. The transfer from Texas Tech has played 30 career games in stops with the Red Raiders and at Oregon. He's thrown for 4,625 yards and 36 touchdowns, while completing 63.2 percent of his throws. The native of Chandler, Ariz., passed for a career high 1,559 yards and 13 touchdowns during the 2020 season at Oregon.

Fans unable to attend L&N Dtadium can catch the action on the ACC Network HERE. Live Stats are available HERE.

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Players Mentioned

Chris Bell

Renato Brown

Austin Collins

Ashton Gillotte

Michael Gonzalez

Devin Neal

Ramon Puryear

Quincy Riley

Tyler Shough

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