Nov. 20, 2004 – Away – Robertson Stadium – Houston, Texas – Attendance 20,176
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville | 21 | 7 | 7 | 30 | 65 |
| Houston | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 27 |
| Qtr | Time | Scoring Play |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 11:22 | Adam McCauley 31-yard pass from Stefan LeFors (Art Carmody kick), 8-72, 03:38 |
| 1st | 08:43 | Lionel Gates 3-yard rush (Art Carmody kick), 6-38, 00:59 |
| 1st | 05:31 | Adam McCauley 2-yard pass from Stefan LeFors (Art Carmody kick), 4-84, 01:32 |
| 2nd | 10:20 | Joshua Tinch 74-yard pass from Brian Brohm (Art Carmody kick), 3-80, 01:45 |
| 3rd | 05:12 | Eric Shelton 8-yard rush (Art Carmody kick), 6-71, 02:10 |
| 4th | 11:50 | Eric Shelton 1-yard rush (Art Carmody kick), 8-80, 02:22 |
| 4th | 11:36 | Safety |
| 4th | 08:53 | Gary Barnidge 9-yard pass from Stefan LeFors (Art Carmody kick), 6-60, 02:43 |
| 4th | 07:37 | Eric Shelton 1-yard rush (Art Carmody kick), 4-34, 01:05 |
| 4th | 01:47 | Deriontae Taylor 6-yard rush (Art Carmody kick), 5-65, 03:16 |
| Louisville | Houston | |
|---|---|---|
| FIRST DOWNS | 26 | 26 |
| Rushing | 11 | 6 |
| Passing | 15 | 18 |
| Penalty | 0 | 2 |
| NET YARDS RUSHING | 242 | 71 |
| Rushing Attempts | 42 | 35 |
| Average Per Rush | 5.8 | 2.0 |
| Rushing Touchdowns | 5 | 1 |
| Yards Gained Rushing | 252 | 117 |
| Yards Lost Rushing | 10 | 46 |
| NET YARDS PASSING | 424 | 375 |
| Completions-Attempts-Int | 22-27-1 | 29-44-1 |
| Average Per Attempt | 15.7 | 8.5 |
| Average Per Completion | 19.3 | 12.9 |
| Passing Touchdowns | 4 | 2 |
| TOTAL OFFENSE YARDS | 666 | 446 |
| Total offense plays | 69 | 79 |
| Average Gain Per Play | 9.7 | 5.6 |
| Fumbles: Number-Lost | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| Penalties: Number-Yards | 5-60 | 8-58 |
| PUNTS-YARDS | 2-80 | 3-130 |
| Average Yards Per Punt | 40.0 | 43.3 |
| Net Yards Per Punt | 20.0 | 36.3 |
| Inside 20 | 0 | 1 |
| 50+ Yards | 0 | 0 |
| Touchbacks | 1 | 0 |
| Fair catch | 0 | 0 |
| KICKOFF-YARDS | 10-600 | 6-307 |
| Average Yards Per Kickoff | 60.0 | 51.2 |
| Net Yards Per Kickoff | 40.3 | 39.0 |
| Kickoff Touchbacks | 2 | 2 |
| Punt returns: Number-Yards-TD | 2-21-0 | 1-20-0 |
| Average Per Return | 10.5 | 20.0 |
| Kickoff returns: Number-Yds-TD | 2-33-0 | 8-157-0 |
| Average Per Return | 16.5 | 19.6 |
| Interceptions: Number-Yds-TD | 1-0-0 | 1-0-0 |
| Fumble Returns: Number-Yds-TD | 0-0-0 | 0-0-0 |
| Miscellaneous Yards | 0 | 0 |
| Possession Time | 28:04 | 31:56 |
| 1st Quarter | 07:14 | 07:46 |
| 2nd Quarter | 05:59 | 09:01 |
| 3rd Quarter | 05:25 | 09:35 |
| 4th Quarter | 09:26 | 05:34 |
| Third-Down Conversions | 6-10 | 5-13 |
| Fourth-Down Conversions | 1-2 | 1-4 |
| Red-Zone Scores-Chances | 7-7 | 4-4 |
| Touchdowns | 7 | 2 |
| Field goals | 0 | 2 |
| Sacks By: Number-Yards | 4-26 | 1-7 |
| PAT Kicks | 9-9 | 3-3 |
| 2Pts Conversions | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| Field Goals | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| Points off Turnover | 7 | 7 |
| RUSHING | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Gain | Loss | Net | TD | Lg | Avg | |
| Eric Shelton | 16 | 88 | 1 | 87 | 3 | 23 | 5.4 |
| Kolby Smith | 2 | 54 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 50 | 27.0 |
| Michael Bush | 9 | 47 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 7 | 5.2 |
| Lionel Gates | 6 | 18 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 8 | 3.0 |
| Stefan LeFors | 4 | 19 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 14 | 4.5 |
| Brian Brohm | 2 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 16 | 4.0 |
| Deriontae Taylor | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 6.0 |
| Reggie Bradshaw | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2.0 |
| Totals | 42 | 252 | 10 | 242 | 5 | 50 | 5.8 |
| PASSING | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-A-I | Yds | TD | Long | Sack | |
| Stefan LeFors | 18-22-1 | 317 | 3 | 57 | 0 |
| Brian Brohm | 4-5-0 | 107 | 1 | 74 | 1 |
| Totals | 22-27-1 | 424 | 4 | 74 | 1 |
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAR | No. | Yards | YAC | TD | Long | |
| Joshua Tinch | 5 | 148 | 1 | 74 | ||
| J.R. Russell | 7 | 99 | 0 | 26 | ||
| Montrell Jones | 4 | 93 | 0 | 57 | ||
| Adam McCauley | 2 | 33 | 2 | 31 | ||
| Tiger Jones | 1 | 29 | 0 | 29 | ||
| Eric Shelton | 1 | 11 | 0 | 11 | ||
| Gary Barnidge | 1 | 9 | 1 | 9 | ||
| Michael Bush | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Totals | 22 | 424 | 4 | 74 | ||
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Yds | Avg | Long | In20 | TB | |
| Brent Moody | 2 | 80 | 40.0 | 40 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | 2 | 80 | 40.0 | 40 | 0 | 1 |
| RETURNS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Punt No | Yds | Lg | Kick No | Yds | Lg | Int No | Yds | Lg | |
| Montrell Jones | 2 | 21 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lionel Gates | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Harry Douglas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brent Johnson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 2 | 21 | 19 | 2 | 33 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FIELD GOALS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Qtr | Time | Dist | Result |
| KICKOFFS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Yards | Avg | TB | OB | |
| Rob Zarrilli | 10 | 600 | 60.0 | 2 | 1 |
| Totals | 10 | 600 | 60.0 | 2 | 1 |
| ALL-PURPOSE | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rush | Rcv | KR | PR | IR | Total | |
| Joshua Tinch | 0 | 148 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148 |
| Montrell Jones | 0 | 93 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 114 |
| J.R. Russell | 0 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 99 |
| Eric Shelton | 87 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 98 |
| Kolby Smith | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 |
| Michael Bush | 47 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 |
| Lionel Gates | 18 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| Adam McCauley | 0 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
| Tiger Jones | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| Stefan LeFors | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Harry Douglas | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Gary Barnidge | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Brian Brohm | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Deriontae Taylor | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Reggie Bradshaw | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| FUMBLES |
|---|
| Louisville – Brian Brohm 1-0 |
| Louisville Defense | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | Solo | Ast | Total | Sacks-Yds | TFL-Yds | FF | FR-Yds | Int-Yds | BrUp | Blks | QBH |
| 54 | Robert McCune | 6 | 7 | 13 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | Kerry Rhodes | 6 | 5 | 11 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 97 | Brandon Johnson | 3 | 7 | 10 | 0.0-0 | 1.5-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Marcus Jones | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2.0-13 | 2.5-14 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Antoine Harris | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | Abe Brown | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1.0-7 | 1.0-7 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 92 | Montavious Stanley | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1.0-3 | 1.5-4 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 58 | Elvis Dumervil | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Antoine Sharp | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Brent Johnson | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | Matt Sanders | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | J.T. Haskins | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 48 | Bobby Leffew | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1.0-3 | 0.5-3 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | Amobi Okoye | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | Josh Williams | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | Terrance Butler | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Jon Russell | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Preston Smith | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Domonique Dunbar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Gavin Smart | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | Brandon Cox | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 | Harry Douglas | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | William Gay | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Tiger Jones | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | Chad Rimpsey | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Kolby Smith | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Rob Zarrilli | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 38 | 58 | 96 | 5.0-26 | 8.0-30 | 0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| OFFENSE | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos | # | Name |
| TE | 82 | Gary Barnidge |
| WB | 97 | Brandon Johnson |
| WR | 86 | Montrell Jones |
| QB | 17 | Stefan LeFors |
| TE | 45 | Adam McCauley |
| C | 70 | Will Rabatin |
| WR | 3 | J.R. Russell |
| RB | 32 | Eric Shelton |
| DEFENSE | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos | # | Name |
| DE | 58 | Elvis Dumervil |
| SS | 31 | J.T. Haskins |
| DE | 56 | Marcus Jones |
| DT | 48 | Bobby Leffew |
| FS | 1 | Kerry Rhodes |
| DT | 92 | Montavious Stanley |
| OTHER | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos | # | Name |
| SLB | 43 | Abe Brown |
| ST | 74 | Jeremy Darveau |
| RCB | 21 | William Gay |
| LCB | 25 | Antoine Harris |
| WT | 78 | Travis Leffew |
| MB | 54 | Robert McCune |
| SG | 76 | Kurt Quarterman |
| WG | 59 | Jason Spitz |
2-Tiger Jones, 5-Antoine Sharp, 6-Preston Smith, 9-Joshua Tinch, 10-Domonique Dunbar, 11-Malik Jackson, 12-Brian Brohm, 13-Jon Russell, 15-Brent Moody, 18-Art Carmody, 19-Michael Bush, 23-Lionel Gates, 26-Reggie Bradshaw, 27-Gavin Smart, 30-Brent Johnson, 33-Kolby Smith, 34-Ray Childs, 38-Rob Zarrilli, 46-Terrance Butler, 47-Deriontae Taylor, 50-Chad Rimpsey, 51-Matt Webb, 55-Matt Sanders, 85-Harry Douglas, 88-Brandon Cox, 91-Amobi Okoye, 99-Josh Williams