Tickets For Louisville Cardinals Lexington Events in Kentucky

The Louisville Cardinals play football in the Football Bowl Subdivision recognized by the NCAA. The Cardinals football team played its first season in 1912. Till 1963 they competed independently after which they briefly joined the Missouri Valley Conference. In the following years they sifted through three more conferences. In 2013 they joined the American Athletic Conference for one season. In 2014 they announced their inclusion in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The team has featured in nineteen post season bowl games and have won nine of them. They are currently coached by Bobby Petrino, who is in his sixth year with the team. Get Louisville Cardinals Lexington tickets and watch the team play against their rivals, the Kentucky Wildcats.

The Louisville Cardinals have had a couple of terrific seasons in the past. They finished the 2012 season with only two losses and went on to win the Allstate Sugar Bowl. They further improved in the 2013 season with only a single loss in the season and won the Russell Athletic Bowl. They have won eight conference titles; three in the Conference USA and three in the Big East, while two have come in the MSV. Get Louisville Cardinals Lexington tickets and watch the team play live.

Cardinals and Wildcats Rivalry

The Cardinals and the Wildcats have a strong rivalry that dates back to 1912, when the two teams first met. The Kentucky Wildcats inflicted a humiliating defeat, by holding the Cardinals to naught and putting forty one on the score board. In the next five meetings, the Wildcats held the Cardinals scoreless. The teams did not play a game from 1924 till the next seventy years. The series was revived in 1994 and both teams have met annually since then. In the twenty six encounters the score stands in favor of the Wildcats with fourteen wins and thirteen losses. However in the revival era (post 1994), as the Cardinals are quick to point out, they lead the series with thirteen wins and eight losses.

Last Encounter

In their last encounter the Cardinals bested the Wildcats in a toe to toe battle, which showed a score line of forty four to forty towards the conclusion of the game.  This allowed the Cardinals to extend their winning streak to four games.