We were totally shocked to see that Louisville was only able to defeat Middle Tennessee by a measly seven points, 28-21. C’mon, this is No. 8 Louisville taking on lil’ ol’ Middle Tennessee! The Cards should be dropping 50 on these guys without even breaking a sweat.
Wait, what? Say that again? 28-21 wasn’t the final score, it was the first quarter score?!?!
Well, in that case; holy crap, did you see the first quarter of last night’s Louisville/Middle Tennessee game! It was amazing! Brian Brohm threw for 223 yards and two touchdowns on eight completions in the opening frame en route to a career-high 401 yards and five TDs to outlast MTSU in a shootout that ended up with a final of 58-42. The whole game was great, but the first quarter was indeed a sight to behold.
The two schools combined for 504 total yards (MTSU: 212, UL: 292) and a whopping 49 points in case you’re too hung-over from last night’s NFL opening night party to do the addition. It also helps that neither team decided to play a lick of defense until after the third touchdown of 70 or more yards was scored in the first 2:23. Even then, it still took a while to `slow’ things down as a total of five touchdowns were scored in the first five minutes of the game.
The final statistics of the game are equally incredible: 1,284 total yards from scrimmage and an eyeball popping 13 touchdowns.
I think these guys kept their heads up and on offense we said, ‘Keep scoring.’ That’s going to be our motto all year,” said Brian Brohm.
It’s a good thing too, because with Hawaii playing in the middle of the freakin’ night most weeks we’re thrilled to have our very own mainland Colt Brennan.
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[SportingNews.com]: Brohm throws for 5 TDs as No. 8 Louisville holds off Middle Tenn.