Louisville bowl game: Cardinals holiday plans and scenario updates.
The Louisville Cardinals come off an ACC championship with one remaining contest to be played due to their bowl-eligible status.
Ten regular season wins make Louisville eligible for some of the best bowl competitions in College Football.
Except for those who will serve as semifinals in this year’s CFP, they are all locks to any other New Year’s Six bowl outside Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl.
In effect, the final decision of where the Cardinals play rests on Florida state and playoff committee. However, if Florida State wins, then it will be automatically out for all of us. This means that if the Seminoles fail then the Cardinals will be playing another bowl game.
This is all you need to know about where the bowl stands for Louisville after the 2023 ACC championship game.
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Can Louisville play in the postseason?
Since week six, Louisville is bowl eligible which came as a result of a sixth victory by defeating Notre Dame. Despite losing Pitt next week, the Arizona State Cardinals could have made a dark horse run for a CFP spot by running the table and winning the ACC championship.
These expectations were dashed by a loss to Kentucky during rivalry week although Louisville had already qualified for the ACC Championship. However, the Cardinals should be on track for a New Year’s Day Six Bowl with 10 victories against the regular season.
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What team will Louisville face in their bowl game?
Louville’s will have a high chance of featuring in the Capital One Orange Bowl if florida state is chosen as a CPF team. When the Seminoles do not play in a bowl, the Cardinals would be in another place as they were not a CFP semi-finalist.
Capital One Orange Bowl
As an affiliate of ACC, the Orange bowl’s slot is given to the highest ranked team that belongs to ACC. An Orange bowl slot would be granted to the next highly ranked ACC team where the top ACC team is a CFP semi-finalist.
Florida State does not come behind any other ACC team; however, the CFP could take into consideration Louisville and consider it the second-best team in the conference and go for Orange bowl.
A fourth top seed could also be filled in by one of the top but not CFP Big Ten or SEC teams. Depending on their final ranking, Louisville would probably meet with either Georgia or Ohio State.
Gator Bowl
If an undefeated conference champion from Florida state is also excluded from the playoff by the committee that has been established, louisville will be out of the orange bowl for the ACC bowl tie-in game.
In such a scenario, it would be logical for the Cardinals to land in perhaps, the Gator Bowl which could pit them against any team in the SEC out of non–CFP/New Year’s Six Bowls. In most cases, it could be a fight against Tennessee as an opponent.
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