Florida State hopes to make it consecutive wins on Saturday as the Seminoles play host to reigning Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson and the Louisville Cardinals. As most are well aware, Louisville embarrassed FSU last season by a score of 63-20 at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium.
With another early kickoff scheduled, it won’t be long before the Cardinals and Seminoles get underway. We wanted to make sure you’re caught up on all there is to read from The Daily Nole about the match-up:
Fisher: Lamar Jackson ‘Like Vick Was Back in the Day’
FSU Football: A First Look at Louisville
Jimbo Fisher, Bobby Petrino Preview FSU-Louisville
Preview: FSU Seeking Revenge Against Louisville
Louisville at FSU: Good Times, Bad Times
FSU-Louisville: Five Things to Watch
Q&A With the Courier-Journal’s Jake Lourim on FSU-Louisville
Staff Predictions for FSU-Louisville
Staff Keys to the Game: Louisville at FSU
Now that you’ve got your pregame reading out the way, here are some quick, but relevant facts and streaks pertaining to the contest:
- Last season’s 63-20 win for Louisville marked the most points ever scored by an FSU opponent and the largest margin of victory for an FSU foe during head coach Jimbo Fisher’s tenure.
- Louisville looks to become the third team to beat FSU in consecutive seasons in the Fisher era. Others are Oklahoma in 2010 and 2011 and Clemson in 2015 and 2016.
- FSU hasn’t lost three straight home games since 1975 and has not started 0-3 at home since 1974 — both times were prior to Bobby Bowden’s tenure.
- Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson will become the fourth reigning Heisman Trophy winner ever to face FSU. Others include Florida’s Tim Tebow in 2008, BYU’s Ty Detmer in 1991 and Oklahoma’s Billy Sims in 1979.
- FSU has lost three ACC home games just once since joining the conference in 1992. That year was 2006.
- Florida State hasn’t started 2-4 through six games since 2009 — the final season under Bowden.
- Saturday’s contest will be the first meeting between FSU and Louisville with neither team ranked since 1986. There have been seven meetings since.
- Louisville is 1-9 all-time against Florida State in Tallahassee. The only win came in the first meeting between the schools in 1952.
- In 17 meetings between Florida State and Louisville, only two have been decided by single-digits. It happened most recently when the Cardinals shocked the Seminoles in overtime in 2002, 26-20.
- FSU has not lost four games in a season since 2011. It lost at least four games every year from 2005-11.
Mike Ferguson is the editor of The Daily Nole. Follow Mike on Twitter @MikeWFerguson
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