Oct. 24, 1987 – Home – Cardinal Stadium – Louisville, Ky. – Attendance 18,743
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville | 3 | 21 | 0 | 7 | 31 |
| Akron | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 10 |
| Qtr | Time | Scoring Play |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 07:32 | Ron Bell 31-yard field goal, 10-61, 04:04 |
| 2nd | 10:45 | Craig Swabek 2-yard rush (Ron Bell kick), 3-14, 01:10 |
| 2nd | 05:51 | Deon Booker 1-yard rush (Ron Bell kick), 5-30, 01:41 |
| 2nd | 00:24 | Joey Hamilton 13-yard pass from Jay Gruden (Ron Bell kick), 5-84, 00:43 |
| 4th | 14:19 | Deon Booker 10-yard rush (Ron Bell kick), 9-66, 04:10 |
| Louisville | Akron | |
|---|---|---|
| FIRST DOWNS | 31 | 16 |
| Rushing | 13 | 5 |
| Passing | 16 | 11 |
| Penalty | 2 | 0 |
| NET YARDS RUSHING | 176 | 62 |
| Rushing Attempts | 44 | 26 |
| Average Per Rush | 4.0 | 2.4 |
| Rushing Touchdowns | 3 | 0 |
| Yards Gained Rushing | 206 | 88 |
| Yards Lost Rushing | 30 | 26 |
| NET YARDS PASSING | 367 | 295 |
| Completions-Attempts-Int | 26-44-4 | 17-43-1 |
| Average Per Attempt | 8.3 | 6.9 |
| Average Per Completion | 14.1 | 17.4 |
| Passing Touchdowns | 1 | 1 |
| TOTAL OFFENSE YARDS | 543 | 357 |
| Total offense plays | 88 | 69 |
| Average Gain Per Play | 6.2 | 5.2 |
| Fumbles: Number-Lost | 3-0 | 0-0 |
| Penalties: Number-Yards | 8-81 | 4-40 |
| PUNTS-YARDS | 5-176 | 8-397 |
| Average Yards Per Punt | 35.2 | 49.6 |
| Punt returns: Number-Yards-TD | 7-145-0 | 2-3-0 |
| Average Per Return | 20.7 | 1.5 |
| Kickoff returns: Number-Yds-TD | 2-58-0 | 5-109-0 |
| Average Per Return | 29.0 | 21.8 |
| Interceptions: Number-Yds-TD | 1-5-0 | 4-28-0 |
| Fumble Returns: Number-Yds-TD | 0-0-0 | 0-0-0 |
| Possession Time | 37:19 | |
| Third-Down Conversions | 7-14 | 2-14 |
| Fourth-Down Conversions | 0-0 | 0-2 |
| Sacks By: Number-Yards | 2-19 | 3-18 |
| PAT Kicks | 4-4 | 1-1 |
| 2Pts Conversions | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| Field Goals | 1-1 | 1-2 |
| RUSHING | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Gain | Loss | Net | TD | Lg | Avg | |
| Deon Booker | 18 | 95 | 3 | 92 | 2 | 20 | 5.1 |
| Pete Bynm | 9 | 54 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 15 | 6.0 |
| Craig Swabek | 4 | 18 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 9 | 4.5 |
| Latrell Ware | 3 | 19 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 13 | 5.3 |
| Rodney Knighton | 3 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 3.0 |
| Jay Gruden | 7 | 11 | 24 | -13 | 0 | 8 | -1.9 |
| Totals | 44 | 206 | 30 | 176 | 3 | 20 | 4.0 |
| PASSING | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-A-I | Yds | TD | Long | Sack | |
| Jay Gruden | 24-41-3 | 357 | 1 | 47 | 3 |
| Eric Lawton | 2-3-1 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Totals | 26-44-4 | 367 | 1 | 47 | 3 |
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAR | No. | Yards | YAC | TD | Long | |
| Joey Hamilton | 5 | 152 | 1 | 47 | ||
| George Williams | 3 | 44 | 0 | 19 | ||
| Chad Fortune | 4 | 37 | 0 | 12 | ||
| Anthony Cummings | 2 | 36 | 0 | 29 | ||
| John Tuyo | 2 | 32 | 0 | 19 | ||
| Craig Swabek | 5 | 25 | 0 | 10 | ||
| Deon Booker | 1 | 21 | 0 | 21 | ||
| Pete Bynm | 1 | 7 | 0 | 7 | ||
| Ken McKay | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | ||
| Latrell Ware | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | ||
| Rodney Knighton | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Totals | 26 | 367 | 1 | 47 | ||
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Yds | Avg | Long | In20 | TB | |
| Kirk Kennedy | 5 | 176 | 35.2 | 39 | ||
| Totals | 5 | 176 | 35.2 | 39 | ||
| RETURNS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Punt No | Yds | Lg | Kick No | Yds | Lg | Int No | Yds | Lg | |
| Joey Hamilton | 6 | 109 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Deon Booker | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 58 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Craig Swabek | 1 | 36 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robert Gibson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Totals | 7 | 145 | 61 | 2 | 58 | 33 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| FIELD GOALS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Qtr | Time | Dist | Result |
| 1st | 07:32 | 31 | Good |
| ALL-PURPOSE | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rush | Rcv | KR | PR | IR | Total | |
| Joey Hamilton | 0 | 152 | 0 | 109 | 0 | 261 |
| Deon Booker | 92 | 21 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 171 |
| Craig Swabek | 18 | 25 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 79 |
| Pete Bynm | 54 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 61 |
| George Williams | 0 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Chad Fortune | 0 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 |
| Anthony Cummings | 0 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| John Tuyo | 0 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 |
| Latrell Ware | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| Rodney Knighton | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Ken McKay | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Robert Gibson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Jay Gruden | -13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -13 |
| FUMBLES |
|---|
| Louisville – Jay Gruden 2-0, Joey Hamilton 1-0 |
| Louisville Defense | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | Solo | Ast | Total | Sacks-Yds | TFL-Yds | FF | FR-Yds | Int-Yds | BrUp | Blks | QBH |
| 46 | Chris Sellars | 7 | 1 | 8 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 47 | Pat Fitzgerald | 6 | 2 | 8 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 48 | Mark Sander | 6 | 0 | 6 | 1.0-11 | 2.0-16 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Terry Lantz | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Arthur Alexander | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | Kevin Harvey | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Joey Smith | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 52 | Neil Singleton | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | Gary Warren | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | Ted Washington | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 54 | Reggie Johnson | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | Ed Reynolds | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | Phillip Green | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 69 | Colburn Clark | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-2 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 81 | Chad Fortune | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | John Gainey | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 93 | Dan Gangwer | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.0-8 | 1.0-8 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 94 | Robert Gibson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Bob Bare | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 95 | Ron Madrick | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | David Miller | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Walter Wise | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Jay Gruden | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 50 | 16 | 66 | 2.0-19 | 4.0-26 | 0 | 1-0 | 1-5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
1-Gary Warren, 2-Walter Wise, 12-Terry Lantz, 15-Jay Gruden, 20-David Miller, 22-Arthur Alexander, 25-John Gainey, 27-Bob Bare, 37-Joey Smith, 43-Ed Reynolds, 46-Chris Sellars, 47-Pat Fitzgerald, 48-Mark Sander, 50-Phillip Green, 52-Neil Singleton, 54-Reggie Johnson, 69-Colburn Clark, 81-Chad Fortune, 91-Kevin Harvey, 93-Dan Gangwer, 94-Robert Gibson, 95-Ron Madrick, 99-Ted Washington, Ron Bell, Deon Booker, Eric Broomfield, Pete Bynm, Anthony Cummings, Joey Hamilton, Kirk Kennedy, Rodney Knighton, Eric Lawton, Ken McKay, Craig Swabek, John Tuyo, Latrell Ware, George Williams