There weren’t many outside of the Louisville football locker room who thought the Cards had any chance of winning enough games to get bowl eligible, let alone get to eight wins (including the Music City Bowl) and finish second in the ACC Atlantic Division.
Luckily for us, the opinions of what the season may look like for Louisville by others had no effect on the season. Louisville was able to outplay the “rebuilding” expectation put on them, including picking up wins against a ranked ACC team on the road for the first time, and it earned Scott Satterfield the ACC Coach of the Year and talk about him being the next “big” coach in college football.