The numbers I’m about to offer are rarely an adequate barometer.
Plus, in an age of analytics, these additions and subtractions are first grade simplistic.
Yet, given where the University of Louisville football program had fallen, and the aspirations there are for it in the aftermath, these seem a pretty fair measure of the progress so far.
The Cardinals are +26 against the defending national champions. From 16-77 a season ago to 10-45 yesterday.
Baseline: Louisville is still five touchdowns short of parity with the BCS contenders.
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During intermission it was surely easy for Cardinal fans to ask What if?