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WKU's stout defense prepping for Cardinals' confident run game

Even with Louisville running some of the same personnel that played last year against Western Kentucky, there’s nothing at all to take away from whatever happened in 2018.

WKU lost by three points to a Louisville team that produced one of the worst seasons in Cardinals’ program history. Louisville went 2-10, gave up 50 points or more in five straight games and fired coach Bobby Petrino before the season ended.

New coach Scott Satterfield resurrected the Cardinals to a respectable debut against Notre Dame and most recently a 42-0 shutout win over Eastern Kentucky. Regardless if quarterbacks Malik Cunningham or Juwuan “Puma” Pass or running back Hassan Hall are lining up against WKU again, White isn’t taking anything from that 20-17 loss in Louisville last year as any teaching point for Saturday’s game at Nissan Stadium in Nashville (3 p.