Oct. 19, 1996 – Home – Cardinal Stadium – Louisville, Ky. – Attendance 36,467
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 27 |
| Northern Illinois | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Qtr | Time | Scoring Play |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 10:29 | Donnell Gordon 2-yard rush (David Akers kick), 5-65, 01:51 |
| 2nd | 05:24 | David Akers 21-yard field goal, 14-60, 05:45 |
| 2nd | 01:18 | David Akers 49-yard field goal, 6-8, 03:02 |
| 3rd | 05:37 | Robert Bates 18-yard pass from Chris Redman (David Akers kick), 7-53, 02:48 |
| 4th | 09:11 | Tendai Charasika 1-yard rush (David Akers kick), 10-57, 04:38 |
| Louisville | Northern Illinois | |
|---|---|---|
| FIRST DOWNS | 27 | 11 |
| Rushing | 20 | 4 |
| Passing | 7 | 6 |
| Penalty | 0 | 1 |
| NET YARDS RUSHING | 344 | 19 |
| Rushing Attempts | 66 | 30 |
| Average Per Rush | 5.2 | 0.6 |
| Rushing Touchdowns | 2 | 0 |
| Yards Gained Rushing | 364 | 79 |
| Yards Lost Rushing | 20 | 60 |
| NET YARDS PASSING | 180 | 117 |
| Completions-Attempts-Int | 16-27-0 | 10-25-1 |
| Average Per Attempt | 6.7 | 4.7 |
| Average Per Completion | 11.3 | 11.7 |
| Passing Touchdowns | 1 | 0 |
| TOTAL OFFENSE YARDS | 524 | 136 |
| Total offense plays | 93 | 55 |
| Average Gain Per Play | 5.6 | 2.5 |
| Fumbles: Number-Lost | 7-3 | 3-0 |
| Penalties: Number-Yards | 5-52 | 7-45 |
| PUNTS-YARDS | 1-30 | 10-340 |
| Average Yards Per Punt | 30.0 | 34.0 |
| Punt returns: Number-Yards-TD | 1-8-0 | 0-0-0 |
| Average Per Return | 8.0 | |
| Kickoff returns: Number-Yds-TD | 2-20-0 | 3-54-0 |
| Average Per Return | 10.0 | 18.0 |
| Interceptions: Number-Yds-TD | 1-20-0 | 0-0-0 |
| Fumble Returns: Number-Yds-TD | 0-0-0 | 3-0-0 |
| Possession Time | 39:46 | |
| Third-Down Conversions | 8-16 | 2-14 |
| Fourth-Down Conversions | 1-5 | 0-0 |
| Sacks By: Number-Yards | 6-47 | 1-14 |
| PAT Kicks | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2Pts Conversions | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| Field Goals | 2-2 | 1-1 |
| RUSHING | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Gain | Loss | Net | TD | Lg | Avg | |
| Donnell Gordon | 17 | 114 | 1 | 113 | 1 | 37 | 6.6 |
| Otis Floyd | 24 | 102 | 2 | 100 | 0 | 17 | 4.2 |
| Tendai Charasika | 16 | 73 | 0 | 73 | 1 | 16 | 4.6 |
| Jason Wyatt | 1 | 26 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 26 | 26.0 |
| Jason Payne | 5 | 25 | 3 | 22 | 0 | 9 | 4.4 |
| Chris Redman | 3 | 24 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 16 | 3.3 |
| Totals | 66 | 364 | 20 | 344 | 2 | 37 | 5.2 |
| PASSING | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-A-I | Yds | TD | Long | Sack | |
| Chris Redman | 13-22-0 | 138 | 1 | 23 | 1 |
| Jason Payne | 3-5-0 | 42 | 0 | 34 | 0 |
| Totals | 16-27-0 | 180 | 1 | 34 | 1 |
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAR | No. | Yards | YAC | TD | Long | |
| Robert Bates | 4 | 74 | 1 | 34 | ||
| Yeasive Ware | 4 | 42 | 0 | 19 | ||
| Ibn Green | 2 | 26 | 0 | 23 | ||
| Donnell Gordon | 3 | 15 | 0 | 11 | ||
| Gary Croley | 1 | 15 | 0 | 15 | ||
| Jeff Sholly | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Otis Floyd | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Totals | 16 | 180 | 1 | 34 | ||
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Yds | Avg | Long | In20 | TB | |
| Jeremy Borseth | 1 | 30 | 30.0 | 30 | ||
| Totals | 1 | 30 | 30.0 | 30 | ||
| RETURNS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Punt No | Yds | Lg | Kick No | Yds | Lg | Int No | Yds | Lg | |
| Tendai Charasika | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Terry Rice-Locket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Rico Clark | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 1 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| FIELD GOALS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Qtr | Time | Dist | Result |
| 2nd | 05:24 | 21 | Good |
| 2nd | 01:18 | 49 | Good |
| ALL-PURPOSE | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rush | Rcv | KR | PR | IR | Total | |
| Donnell Gordon | 113 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128 |
| Otis Floyd | 100 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 104 |
| Tendai Charasika | 73 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 93 |
| Robert Bates | 0 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 74 |
| Yeasive Ware | 0 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
| Ibn Green | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Jason Wyatt | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Jason Payne | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Terry Rice-Locket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 20 |
| Gary Croley | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Chris Redman | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rico Clark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Jeff Sholly | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| FUMBLES |
|---|
| Louisville – Robert Bates 1-1, Tendai Charasika 1-0, Gary Croley 1-1, Jason Payne 1-0, Chris Redman 2-1 Northern Illinois – 3-0 |
| Louisville Defense | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | Solo | Ast | Total | Sacks-Yds | TFL-Yds | FF | FR-Yds | Int-Yds | BrUp | Blks | QBH |
| 52 | Tyrus McCloud | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1.0-3 | 2.0-2 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Leland Taylor | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1.0-15 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | Rico Clark | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Courtney Dinkins | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 92 | Matt Conway | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1.0-2 | 1.0-2 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Tony Esters | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1.0-1 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Deran Wiley | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Sam Madison | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 95 | Rondel Marsh | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Terry Rice-Locket | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1.0-20 | 1.0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 1-20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | Reggie White | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 96 | Derrick Kennedy | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-4 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Don Bibb | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 90 | Kendrick Gholston | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 | Rich Renner | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 32 | 8 | 40 | 5.0-41 | 6.0-10 | 0 | 0-0 | 1-20 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| OFFENSE | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos | # | Name |
| TE | Gary Croley | |
| RB | Donnell Gordon | |
| FB | Ibn Green | |
| C | Graig Hoffman | |
| QB | Chris Redman | |
| WR | Charles Sheffield | |
| WR | Yeasive Ware | |
| DEFENSE | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos | # | Name |
| SS | 1 | Rico Clark |
| DT | 92 | Matt Conway |
| FS | 19 | Courtney Dinkins |
| DE | 90 | Kendrick Gholston |
| CB | 13 | Sam Madison |
| MLB | 52 | Tyrus McCloud |
| DE | Carl Powell | |
| DT | 56 | Leland Taylor |
| CB | 3 | Deran Wiley |
| OTHER | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos | # | Name |
| ST | Matt Johnson (2) | |
| SLB | 21 | Tony Esters |
| WT | Steve Misetic | |
| SG | Rick Nord | |
| WLB | 35 | Terry Rice-Locket |
| WG | Jon Suski | |
27-Don Bibb, 41-Reggie White, 49-Rich Renner, 95-Rondel Marsh, 96-Derrick Kennedy, David Akers, Robert Bates, Mike Bogan, Jeremy Borseth, Tendai Charasika, Otis Floyd, Jason Payne, Jeff Sholly, Jason Wyatt