Oct. 18, 1986 – Away – Alumni Stadium – Chestnut Hill, Mass. – Attendance 28,105
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Boston College | 14 | 13 | 14 | 0 | 41 |
| Qtr | Time | Scoring Play |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 11:16 | Eric Vaughn 27-yard pass from Jay Gruden (Danny Cerione kick), 4-39, 00:44 |
| Louisville | Boston College | |
|---|---|---|
| FIRST DOWNS | 17 | 26 |
| Rushing | 6 | 14 |
| Passing | 9 | 9 |
| Penalty | 2 | 3 |
| NET YARDS RUSHING | 60 | 281 |
| Rushing Attempts | 34 | 56 |
| Average Per Rush | 1.8 | 5.0 |
| Rushing Touchdowns | 0 | 4 |
| NET YARDS PASSING | 197 | 167 |
| Completions-Attempts-Int | 15-37-2 | 14-22-0 |
| Average Per Attempt | 5.3 | 7.6 |
| Average Per Completion | 13.1 | 11.9 |
| Passing Touchdowns | 1 | 1 |
| TOTAL OFFENSE YARDS | 257 | 448 |
| Total offense plays | 71 | 78 |
| Average Gain Per Play | 3.6 | 5.7 |
| Fumbles: Number-Lost | 5-2 | 1-1 |
| Penalties: Number-Yards | 10-70 | 10-100 |
| PUNTS-YARDS | 8-289 | 6-218 |
| Average Yards Per Punt | 36.1 | 36.3 |
| Punt returns: Number-Yards-TD | 2-7-0 | 2-7-0 |
| Average Per Return | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| Kickoff returns: Number-Yds-TD | 4-116-0 | 2-42-0 |
| Average Per Return | 29.0 | 21.0 |
| Interceptions: Number-Yds-TD | 0-0-0 | 3-109-0 |
| Fumble Returns: Number-Yds-TD | 0-0-0 | 1-74-0 |
| Possession Time | 26:49 | |
| Third-Down Conversions | 7-16 | 7-15 |
| Fourth-Down Conversions | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| Sacks By: Number-Yards | 1-5 | 4-30 |
| PAT Kicks | 1-1 | 3-4 |
| 2Pts Conversions | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| Field Goals | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| RUSHING | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Gain | Loss | Net | TD | Lg | Avg | |
| John Adams | 9 | 32 | 3 | 29 | 0 | 6 | 3.2 |
| Deon Booker | 3 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 12 | 4.7 |
| Larry Stricklin | 3 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 4.3 |
| Craig Swabek | 4 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 3.0 |
| Rodney Knighton | 2 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2.5 |
| Ed Rubbert | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2.0 |
| Eric Tucker | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2.0 |
| Keith Stephens | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Jay Gruden | 8 | 21 | 38 | -17 | 0 | 10 | -2.1 |
| Totals | 34 | 101 | 41 | 60 | 0 | 12 | 1.8 |
| PASSING | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-A-I | Yds | TD | Long | Sack | |
| Jay Gruden | 7-24-1 | 118 | 1 | 38 | 4 |
| Ed Rubbert | 7-12-1 | 55 | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| James Howard | 1-1-0 | 24 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| Totals | 15-37-2 | 197 | 1 | 38 | 4 |
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAR | No. | Yards | YAC | TD | Long | |
| Eric Vaughn | 3 | 71 | 1 | 38 | ||
| Danny Thomas | 2 | 37 | 0 | 24 | ||
| Joey Hamilton | 3 | 28 | 0 | 12 | ||
| Calvin Dixson | 2 | 21 | 0 | 15 | ||
| John Adams | 1 | 16 | 0 | 16 | ||
| James Howard | 1 | 14 | 0 | 14 | ||
| Craig Swabek | 1 | 8 | 0 | 8 | ||
| Rodney Knighton | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | ||
| Keith Stephens | 1 | -3 | 0 | -3 | ||
| Totals | 15 | 197 | 1 | 38 | ||
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Yds | Avg | Long | In20 | TB | |
| Kirk Kennedy | 8 | 289 | 36.1 | 45 | ||
| Totals | 8 | 289 | 36.1 | 45 | ||
| RETURNS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Punt No | Yds | Lg | Kick No | Yds | Lg | Int No | Yds | Lg | |
| Keith Stephens | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 116 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 116 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FIELD GOALS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Qtr | Time | Dist | Result |
| ALL-PURPOSE | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rush | Rcv | KR | PR | IR | Total | |
| Keith Stephens | 0 | -3 | 116 | 7 | 0 | 120 |
| Eric Vaughn | 0 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 71 |
| John Adams | 29 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 |
| Danny Thomas | 0 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 |
| Joey Hamilton | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| Calvin Dixson | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| Craig Swabek | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Deon Booker | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| James Howard | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Larry Stricklin | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Rodney Knighton | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ed Rubbert | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Eric Tucker | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Jay Gruden | -17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -17 |
| FUMBLES |
|---|
| Louisville – Jay Gruden 2-0, Keith Stephens 2-1, Danny Thomas 1-1 Boston College – 1-1 |
| Louisville Defense | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | Solo | Ast | Total | Sacks-Yds | TFL-Yds | FF | FR-Yds | Int-Yds | BrUp | Blks | QBH |
| 44 | Matt Battaglia | 8 | 5 | 13 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 42 | Frank Pierre-Louis | 7 | 1 | 8 | 0.5-2.5 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Don Cosby | 6 | 2 | 8 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Calvert Cole | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 75 | Andrew Higgs | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0.5-2.5 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Paul Schaller | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | Gary Warren | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Antonio Davis | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 80 | Tod Smyrichinsky | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 82 | Mike Minogue | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 98 | Chris Thieneman | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Arthur Alexander | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | Phillip Green | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | Chris Sellars | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Anthony Wiggins | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Bobby Jefferson | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 52 | Neil Singleton | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robert Gibson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 15 | Jay Gruden | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | David Miller | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kevin Harvey | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Don Johnson | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 33 | Rick Shaw | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | James Young | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 61 | 32 | 93 | 1.0-5 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| OFFENSE | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos | # | Name |
| C | Jeff Smith (2) | |
| FB | John Adams | |
| LT | Bruce Armstrong | |
| RG | Larry Galcik | |
| QB | 15 | Jay Gruden |
| SE | James Howard | |
| LT | 56 | Bobby Jefferson |
| RT | Mike Mauzy | |
| RB | Larry Stricklin | |
| RT | 98 | Chris Thieneman |
| TE | Danny Thomas | |
| FL | Eric Vaughn | |
| LG | Mike Veto | |
| DEFENSE | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos | # | Name |
| FS | 26 | Don Cosby |
| SS | 40 | Antonio Davis |
| DE | 82 | Mike Minogue |
| DE | 80 | Tod Smyrichinsky |
| OTHER | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos | # | Name |
| SLB | 44 | Matt Battaglia |
| NG | 75 | Andrew Higgs |
| WLB | 42 | Frank Pierre-Louis |
| QC | 1 | Gary Warren |
| SC | 17 | Anthony Wiggins |
20-David Miller, 22-Arthur Alexander, 33-Rick Shaw, 35-Paul Schaller, 39-Calvert Cole, 41-James Young, 46-Chris Sellars, 50-Phillip Green, 52-Neil Singleton, Deon Booker, Danny Cerione, Calvin Dixson, Allen Douglas, Chad Fortune, Robert Gibson, Joey Hamilton, Kevin Harvey, Don Johnson, Kirk Kennedy, Rodney Knighton, Mike McKinney, Ed Rubbert, Keith Stephens, Craig Swabek, Eric Tucker, George Williams