The Louisville Cardinals went to Memorial Stadium in Week 10 and pulled off an upset against the 11th-ranked Clemson Tigers 33-21. The Cardinals were able to step up behind running back Isaac Brown’s career-high 151 yards on the ground and hold off the Tigers.
The Cardinals (6-3, 4-2 ACC) are third in the conference and still have a shot at making the ACC Championship Game if they continue to play at this level. The Tigers (6-2, 5-1) are likely going to fall out of the CFP picture with this loss and this is going to be tough for them to recover.
Let’s take a deeper dive into the box score and discuss how this game wound up.
Louisville vs. Clemson box score
Louisville vs. Clemson box score
Louisville box score
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Clemson box score
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Louisville vs. Clemson Game Summary
The Louisville Cardinals had a solid game with 33 points and ran the ball incredibly well with 7.8 yards per rushing attempt. However, they only had possession for 22:08 in the game.
Isaac Brown has been able to run the ball specifically well and made the offense step up to win this game.
The Clemson Tigers were able to move the ball extremely well with 31 total first downs and went 11-of-23 on third downs and 5-of-6 on fourth downs. However, the 21 points on 450 total yards were not enough to get going as Cade Klubnik passed the ball for 4.1 yards per attempt.
Clemson had possession for almost 38 minutes and outside of Phil Mafah’s fourth quarter, the offense did not do great.
Below is the scoring breakdown throughout the game.
- 4:39 1Q: Brock Travelstead 21 Yard Field Goal | 3-0 Louisville
- 0:16 1Q: Cade Klubnik 12 Yard Passing TD to Antonio Williams | 7-3 Clemson
- 5:42 2Q: Tyler Shough 4 Yard Rushing TD | 10-7 Louisville
- 0:43 2Q: Keyjuan Brown 1 Yard Rushing TD | 17-7 Louisville
- 11:45 3Q: Brock Travelstead 42 Yard Field Goal | 20-7 Louisville
- 6:47 3Q: Brock Travelstead 40 Yard Field Goal| 23-7 Louisville
- 3:53 3Q: Brock Travelstead 49 Yard Field Goal | 26-7 Louisville
- 6:00 4Q: Phil Mafah 3 Yard Rushing TD | 26-14 Louisville
- 5:50 4Q: Isaac Brown 45 Yard Rushing TD | 33-14 Louisville
- 2:07 4Q: Phil Mafah 1 Yard Rushing TD | 33-21 Louisville
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