Louisville Football Postgame Notes vs. NC State
October 03, 2026 | Football
NC State 31, Louisville 28
October 3, 2026
Raleigh, N.C. | Carter-Finley Stadium
TEAM NOTES
October 3, 2026
Raleigh, N.C. | Carter-Finley Stadium
TEAM NOTES
- Louisville falls to 2-3 overall and 1-2 in the ACC, its first 2-3 start since 2022 and first 1-2 conference start since 2021. The Cards have three losses in their first five games for the first time under Head Coach Jeff Brohm.
- Louisville falls to 9-5 vs. NC State, including 4-3 at Carter-Finley Stadium. NC State snaps Louisville's two-game winning streak in the series.
- All three of Louisville's losses this season have come by 3 points, and seven of its last eight losses have come by 3 points or fewer.
- Louisville has at least three losses by 3 points or fewer for the second straight season. The only other seasons with three such losses were 1971, 2021, and 2025.
- Louisville falls to 3-7 under Brohm in games decided by 3 points or fewer.
- Louisville rushes for 231 yards and averages 9.2 yards per carry, the third highest average under Brohm, but falls to 16-2 under Brohm when rushing for at least 200 yards.
- Louisville averages 8.8 yards per play, its fifth highest average under Brohm.
- NC State runs 84 plays and holds the ball for 37:20, the second highest totals by a Louisville opponent under Brohm in both categories.
- NC State passes for 373 yards, the second highest total by a Louisville opponent under Brohm and 1 yard shy of Washington's 374 in the 2024 Sun Bowl.
- NC State scores 18 points off three Louisville lost fumbles. Louisville falls to 11-14 under Brohm when it does not win the turnover battle, compared with 19-1 when it does.
- Louisville falls to 4-12 under Brohm when allowing at least 30 points.
- Louisville falls to 0-5 under Brohm and loses its sixth straight game dating to 2022 when allowing at least three field goals. The Cards last won such a game at Duke in 2021.
- Louisville extends its program-record scoring streak to 332 games, dating to 2000.
- Brohm drops to 30-15 at Louisville and 96-59 overall.
- RB Isaac Brown led all rushers with 125 yards on 9 carries, including a 70-yard TD run that tied the game 28-28 with 12:27 left, and added 82 kickoff return yards for a game-high 207 all-purpose yards.
- Brown jumped six spots into ninth on Louisville's career rushing list with 2,379 yards, passing Tom Lucia, Bilal Powell, Victor Anderson, Javian Hawkins, Deon Booker, and Brandon Radcliff. Michael Bush is next at 2,508.
- Brown logged the 12th 100-yard rushing game of his career, moving into a tie with Javian Hawkins and Howard Stevens for third most in program history.
- Brown and Tre Richardson gave Louisville a 100-yard rusher and a 100-yard receiver in the same game for the 69th time in program history and the first time since Brown and Chris Bell did it at Miami in 2025.
- WR Tre Richardson led all receivers with 8 receptions for 117 yards on 10 targets, including a 38-yard TD catch in the third quarter.
- Richardson logged his first 100-yard receiving game as a Cardinal, Louisville's second 100-yard receiving game this season.
- Richardson pushed his team-leading season totals to 28 receptions and 445 receiving yards.
- QB Lincoln Kienholz was 21-of-30 passing for 254 yards, 2 touchdowns, and no interceptions, adding 24 rushing yards.
- Kienholz threw a TD pass in his fifth straight game to open his Louisville career and logged his fourth multiple-TD passing game of the season.
- Kienholz pushed his season totals to 1,394 passing yards, 9 TD passes, and 15 total touchdowns, with only 1 interception in 139 attempts.
- Kienholz's streak of passing and rushing for a TD in every game ended at four.
- RB Keyjuan Brown had 88 yards on 8 carries, including a 49-yarder, and a 1-yard TD run with 20 seconds left in the third quarter, adding a 13-yard reception for 101 all-purpose yards.
- Brown moved past Hassan Hall, Tony Stallings, and George Stripling into 35th on Louisville's career rushing list with 1,379 yards.
- Brown's TD was the 13th of his career and his third of the season.
- WR Lawayne McCoy had 2 receptions for 41 yards, including a 33-yard TD catch in the second quarter for his team-leading fourth TD reception of the season.
- WR Jackson Voth made the first 2 receptions of his Louisville career for 14 yards.
- DB Kaleb Beasley intercepted a pass in the end zone on third-and-3 from the Louisville 8 early in the fourth quarter, setting up Isaac Brown's tying TD run two plays later. He added 9 tackles, including 7 solo stops, and a pass breakup.
- Beasley leads the team with 3 interceptions this season.
- LB T.J. Capers led all players with a career-high 12 tackles, including 6 solo stops, and added a quarterback hurry.
- Capers took over the team lead with 38 tackles this season.
- DL Clev Lubin had a 9-yard sack among his 8 tackles.
- Lubin's sack and TFL were the 12th and 17th of his Louisville career, and he leads the team with 3.5 sacks and 3.5 TFLs this season.
- LB Benjamin Perry had a 3-yard sack on third down that forced NC State to settle for a 29-yard field goal, adding a pass breakup, a quarterback hurry, and 6 tackles.
- Perry has a sack in back-to-back games, giving him 4 for his Louisville career.
- DB Brycen Scott had 7 tackles, including 6 solo stops, and 2 pass breakups.
- DL Jerod Smith II had a tackle for loss and his first quarterback hurry as a Cardinal among 4 tackles.
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