The 2020 Louisville Cardinals football team represented the
University of Louisville
The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public research university in Louisville, Kentucky. It is part of the Kentucky state university system. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of ...
during the
2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. This was the team's second season under head coach
Scott Satterfield
Fredric Scott Satterfield (born December 21, 1972) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Cincinnati.
Satterfield previously served as the head football coach at the Universi ...
. The Cardinals played their home games at
Cardinal Stadium
Cardinal Stadium, formerly known as Papa John's Cardinal Stadium, is a football stadium located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the southern end of the campus of the University of Louisville. Debuting in 1998, it serves as the home o ...
, formerly known as Papa John's Cardinal Stadium, in
Louisville, Kentucky
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, as a member of the
Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference located in the eastern United States. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC's fifteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Associa ...
(ACC).
After compiling a 4–7 regular season record (3–7 in ACC play), Satterfield advised in mid-December that "we aren’t in line for a bowl" after Louisville's director of athletics conferred with ACC officials.
Schedule
Louisville had games scheduled against
Kentucky
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, and
Murray State
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, which were all canceled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
This will be the first season since 1993 that the Cardinals do not play Kentucky.
The ACC released their schedule on July 29, with specific dates selected on August 6.
Rankings
Game summaries
Western Kentucky
Miami
at No. 21 Panthers
at Georgia Tech
at Notre Dame
Florida State
Virginia Tech
at Virginia
Syracuse
at Boston College
Wake Forest
Players drafted into the NFL
References
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Louisville
Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border.
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Louisville Cardinals football seasons
Louisville Cardinals football
The Louisville Cardinals football team represents the University of Louisville in the sport of American football. The Cardinals compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and compete in ...