Sept. 26, 1987 – Home – Cardinal Stadium – Louisville, Ky. – Attendance 29,231
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville | 3 | 7 | 17 | 7 | 34 |
| Murray State | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Qtr | Time | Scoring Play |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 12:10 | Ron Bell 35-yard field goal, 4-4, 00:50 |
| 2nd | 00:56 | Rodney Knighton 1-yard pass from Jay Gruden (Ron Bell kick), 6-49, 02:27 |
| 3rd | 10:40 | Rodney Knighton 2-yard rush (Ron Bell kick), 9-67, 04:20 |
| 3rd | 10:26 | Anthony Cummings 21-yard pass from Jay Gruden (Ron Bell kick), 1-21, 00:06 |
| 3rd | 00:49 | Ron Bell 37-yard field goal, 5-56, 02:23 |
| 4th | 14:26 | Anthony Cummings 14-yard pass from Jay Gruden (Ron Bell kick), 4-33, 01:15 |
| Louisville | Murray State | |
|---|---|---|
| FIRST DOWNS | 16 | 13 |
| Rushing | 5 | 6 |
| Passing | 11 | 7 |
| Penalty | 0 | 0 |
| NET YARDS RUSHING | 89 | 84 |
| Rushing Attempts | 35 | 42 |
| Average Per Rush | 2.5 | 2.0 |
| Rushing Touchdowns | 1 | 0 |
| Yards Gained Rushing | 133 | 142 |
| Yards Lost Rushing | 44 | 58 |
| NET YARDS PASSING | 219 | 211 |
| Completions-Attempts-Int | 21-34-4 | 14-26-1 |
| Average Per Attempt | 6.4 | 8.1 |
| Average Per Completion | 10.4 | 15.1 |
| Passing Touchdowns | 3 | 1 |
| TOTAL OFFENSE YARDS | 308 | 295 |
| Total offense plays | 69 | 68 |
| Average Gain Per Play | 4.5 | 4.3 |
| Fumbles: Number-Lost | 2-0 | 6-4 |
| Penalties: Number-Yards | 8-58 | 7-78 |
| PUNTS-YARDS | 7-269 | 9-304 |
| Average Yards Per Punt | 38.4 | 33.8 |
| Punt returns: Number-Yards-TD | 4-56-0 | 4-2-0 |
| Average Per Return | 14.0 | 0.5 |
| Kickoff returns: Number-Yds-TD | 2-56-0 | 7-133-0 |
| Average Per Return | 28.0 | 19.0 |
| Interceptions: Number-Yds-TD | 1-0-0 | 4-57-0 |
| Fumble Returns: Number-Yds-TD | 0-0-0 | 0-0-0 |
| Possession Time | 30:33 | |
| Third-Down Conversions | 5-16 | 4-16 |
| Fourth-Down Conversions | 0-0 | 0-2 |
| Sacks By: Number-Yards | 3-30 | 3-28 |
| PAT Kicks | 4-4 | 1-1 |
| 2Pts Conversions | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| Field Goals | 2-2 | 1-2 |
| RUSHING | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Gain | Loss | Net | TD | Lg | Avg | |
| Keith Stephens | 2 | 49 | 11 | 38 | 0 | 49 | 19.0 |
| Latrell Ware | 9 | 21 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 7 | 2.2 |
| Tim Maxwell | 2 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 7.0 |
| Craig Swabek | 6 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 1.5 |
| Rodney Knighton | 6 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1.2 |
| Jay Gruden | 4 | 26 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 1.3 |
| Pete Bynm | 4 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1.3 |
| Anthony Cummings | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 | -2 | -2.0 |
| Eric Lawton | 1 | 0 | 7 | -7 | 0 | -7 | -7.0 |
| Totals | 35 | 133 | 44 | 89 | 1 | 49 | 2.5 |
| PASSING | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-A-I | Yds | TD | Long | Sack | |
| Jay Gruden | 21-32-3 | 219 | 3 | 22 | 2 |
| Eric Lawton | 0-2-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | 21-34-4 | 219 | 3 | 22 | 3 |
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAR | No. | Yards | YAC | TD | Long | |
| Anthony Cummings | 2 | 35 | 2 | 21 | ||
| Rodney Knighton | 4 | 34 | 1 | 20 | ||
| Chad Fortune | 2 | 33 | 0 | 22 | ||
| George Williams | 4 | 32 | 0 | 21 | ||
| Pete Bynm | 3 | 32 | 0 | 18 | ||
| Joey Hamilton | 2 | 26 | 0 | 19 | ||
| Latrell Ware | 3 | 19 | 0 | 17 | ||
| Craig Swabek | 1 | 8 | 0 | 8 | ||
| Totals | 21 | 219 | 3 | 22 | ||
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Yds | Avg | Long | In20 | TB | |
| Kirk Kennedy | 7 | 269 | 38.4 | 62 | ||
| Totals | 7 | 269 | 38.4 | 62 | ||
| RETURNS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Punt No | Yds | Lg | Kick No | Yds | Lg | Int No | Yds | Lg | |
| Keith Stephens | 4 | 56 | 40 | 2 | 56 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Walter Wise | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 4 | 56 | 40 | 2 | 56 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FIELD GOALS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Qtr | Time | Dist | Result |
| 1st | 12:10 | 35 | Good |
| 3rd | 00:49 | 37 | Good |
| ALL-PURPOSE | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rush | Rcv | KR | PR | IR | Total | |
| Keith Stephens | 38 | 0 | 56 | 56 | 0 | 150 |
| Rodney Knighton | 7 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 |
| Latrell Ware | 20 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| Pete Bynm | 5 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 |
| Anthony Cummings | -2 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
| Chad Fortune | 0 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
| George Williams | 0 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 |
| Joey Hamilton | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Craig Swabek | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Tim Maxwell | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Jay Gruden | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Eric Lawton | -7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -7 |
| FUMBLES |
|---|
| Louisville – Pete Bynm 1-0, Keith Stephens 1-0 Murray State – 6-4 |
| Louisville Defense | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | Solo | Ast | Total | Sacks-Yds | TFL-Yds | FF | FR-Yds | Int-Yds | BrUp | Blks | QBH |
| 46 | Chris Sellars | 10 | 1 | 11 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | Ed Reynolds | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Troy Mike | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 47 | Pat Fitzgerald | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | Ted Washington | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | Phillip Green | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Bob Bare | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-7 | 0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | David Miller | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-3 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | Kevin Harvey | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1.0-5 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 48 | Mark Sander | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 98 | Chris Thieneman | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2.0-25 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 69 | Colburn Clark | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Joey Smith | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Tyrone Thomas | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 54 | Reggie Johnson | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Arthur Alexander | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 94 | Robert Gibson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 72 | Jim Nauert | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Lonnie Oldham | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Clayton Patton | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | Gary Warren | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 96 | Mike Flores | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Terry Lantz | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 97 | Bernard Ziggler | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Walter Wise | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 61 | 15 | 76 | 3.0-30 | 2.0-10 | 0 | 4-0 | 1-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1-Gary Warren, 2-Walter Wise, 5-Clayton Patton, 12-Terry Lantz, 20-David Miller, 22-Arthur Alexander, 26-Troy Mike, 27-Bob Bare, 28-Lonnie Oldham, 35-Tyrone Thomas, 37-Joey Smith, 43-Ed Reynolds, 46-Chris Sellars, 47-Pat Fitzgerald, 48-Mark Sander, 50-Phillip Green, 54-Reggie Johnson, 69-Colburn Clark, 72-Jim Nauert, 91-Kevin Harvey, 94-Robert Gibson, 96-Mike Flores, 97-Bernard Ziggler, 98-Chris Thieneman, 99-Ted Washington, Ron Bell, Eric Broomfield, Pete Bynm, Anthony Cummings, Chad Fortune, Jay Gruden, Joey Hamilton, Kirk Kennedy, Rodney Knighton, Eric Lawton, Kyle Long, Tim Maxwell, Ken McKay, Keith Stephens, Craig Swabek, John Tuyo, Latrell Ware, George Williams