Stanford scores an epic comeback win vs. No. 19 Louisville

An absolutely incredible collapse by Louisville.

It’s safe to say we won’t be seeing a top-25 Louisville Cardinals team come to Kroger Field in the regular-season finale.

The 19th-ranked Cards entered Saturday as 20-point favorites over the lowly 2-7 Stanford Cardinal, arguably the worst team from a Power Four conference.

After getting off to a slow start and falling behind 10-0, Louisville asserted itself and went on a 28-3 run to go ahead 28-13 in the third quarter.

After exchanging touchdowns, the Cards held a 35-21 lead entering the game’s final seven minutes and looked well on their way to victory.

Not on this day.

The Cardinal would march 75 yards and score a touchdown to get to within seven.

After forcing a quick punt, Stanford got the ball and marched 76 more yards for the game-tying touchdown to knot it at 35-all with 45 seconds left.

Louisville managed to get to the Stanford 45-yard line with 1st and 10 in the final 20 seconds. After three straight incompletions, the Cards opted to go for it on 4th and 10 with 10 seconds left, but Tyler Shough’s pass fell incomplete.

Stanford got the ball back near midfield, and Ashton Daniels hit Emmett Mosley for a first down that was aided by an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on the Cards’ Tayon Holloway, advancing the ball to the Louisville 39-yard line.

Stanford sent out the field goal unit with one second left and managed to draw an offside, putting the ball in much more manageable range at the 34.

From there, Emmet Kenney drilled a 52-yard field goal to get Stanford one of the most improbable wins you’ll see in the entire 2024 college football season.

The win ends a six-game losing streak for Stanford, a 12-game home losing skid to FBS teams, and a 16-game streak vs. top-25 teams, something Louisville won’t be again this year after today.

Just, wow.