Dec. 31, 2004 – Neutral – Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium – Memphis, Tenn. – Attendance 58,355
Liberty Bowl
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville | 14 | 7 | 14 | 9 | 44 |
| Boise State | 10 | 21 | 3 | 6 | 40 |
| Qtr | Time | Scoring Play |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 09:09 | Gary Barnidge 6-yard pass from Stefan LeFors (Art Carmody kick), 5-48, 01:40 |
| 1st | 00:46 | Harry Douglas 65-yard rush (Art Carmody kick), 1-65, 00:13 |
| 2nd | 13:12 | Broderick Clark 30-yard pass from Brian Brohm (Art Carmody kick), 5-54, 01:33 |
| 3rd | 06:06 | J.R. Russell 14-yard pass from Stefan LeFors (Art Carmody kick), 8-81, 02:59 |
| 3rd | 02:17 | Stefan LeFors 1-yard rush (Art Carmody kick), 7-45, 03:12 |
| 4th | 06:48 | Eric Shelton 1-yard rush (Stefan LeFors pass failed), 10-78, 04:03 |
| 4th | 01:10 | Art Carmody 19-yard field goal, 9-51, 03:50 |
| Louisville | Boise State | |
|---|---|---|
| FIRST DOWNS | 29 | 15 |
| Rushing | 17 | 3 |
| Passing | 11 | 12 |
| Penalty | 1 | 0 |
| NET YARDS RUSHING | 329 | 88 |
| Rushing Attempts | 50 | 38 |
| Average Per Rush | 6.6 | 2.3 |
| Rushing Touchdowns | 3 | 3 |
| Yards Gained Rushing | 331 | 114 |
| Yards Lost Rushing | 2 | 26 |
| NET YARDS PASSING | 235 | 196 |
| Completions-Attempts-Int | 21-31-2 | 15-31-1 |
| Average Per Attempt | 7.6 | 6.3 |
| Average Per Completion | 11.2 | 13.1 |
| Passing Touchdowns | 3 | 1 |
| TOTAL OFFENSE YARDS | 564 | 284 |
| Total offense plays | 81 | 69 |
| Average Gain Per Play | 7.0 | 4.1 |
| Fumbles: Number-Lost | 2-2 | 1-0 |
| Penalties: Number-Yards | 5-34 | 6-55 |
| PUNTS-YARDS | 2-48 | 6-238 |
| Average Yards Per Punt | 24.0 | 39.7 |
| Net Yards Per Punt | 17.0 | 33.7 |
| Inside 20 | 0 | 1 |
| 50+ Yards | 0 | 1 |
| Touchbacks | 0 | 0 |
| Fair catch | 0 | 1 |
| KICKOFF-YARDS | 8-463 | 8-469 |
| Average Yards Per Kickoff | 57.9 | 58.6 |
| Net Yards Per Kickoff | 34.6 | 41.2 |
| Kickoff Touchbacks | 0 | 0 |
| Punt returns: Number-Yards-TD | 4-36-0 | 1-14-0 |
| Average Per Return | 9.0 | 14.0 |
| Kickoff returns: Number-Yds-TD | 6-139-0 | 8-186-0 |
| Average Per Return | 23.2 | 23.3 |
| Interceptions: Number-Yds-TD | 1-0-0 | 2-112-1 |
| Fumble Returns: Number-Yds-TD | 0-0-0 | 0-0-0 |
| Miscellaneous Yards | 0 | 0 |
| Possession Time | 33:35 | 26:25 |
| 1st Quarter | 10:43 | 04:17 |
| 2nd Quarter | 06:32 | 08:28 |
| 3rd Quarter | 08:27 | 06:33 |
| 4th Quarter | 07:53 | 07:07 |
| Third-Down Conversions | 8-14 | 5-17 |
| Fourth-Down Conversions | 0-1 | 2-4 |
| Red-Zone Scores-Chances | 5-6 | 5-6 |
| Touchdowns | 4 | 4 |
| Field goals | 1 | 1 |
| Sacks By: Number-Yards | 2-20 | 0-0 |
| PAT Kicks | 5-5 | 4-4 |
| 2Pts Conversions | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| Field Goals | 1-1 | 2-2 |
| Points off Turnover | 0 | 17 |
| RUSHING | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Gain | Loss | Net | TD | Lg | Avg | |
| Michael Bush | 12 | 97 | 1 | 96 | 0 | 25 | 8.0 |
| Eric Shelton | 18 | 76 | 0 | 76 | 1 | 9 | 4.2 |
| Stefan LeFors | 12 | 77 | 1 | 76 | 1 | 14 | 6.3 |
| Harry Douglas | 1 | 65 | 0 | 65 | 1 | 65 | 65.0 |
| Kolby Smith | 4 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 2.0 |
| Lionel Gates | 3 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 2.7 |
| Totals | 50 | 331 | 2 | 329 | 3 | 65 | 6.6 |
| PASSING | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-A-I | Yds | TD | Long | Sack | |
| Stefan LeFors | 18-26-1 | 193 | 2 | 28 | 0 |
| Brian Brohm | 3-5-1 | 42 | 1 | 30 | 0 |
| Totals | 21-31-2 | 235 | 3 | 30 | 0 |
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAR | No. | Yards | YAC | TD | Long | |
| J.R. Russell | 6 | 59 | 1 | 18 | ||
| Adam McCauley | 4 | 58 | 0 | 27 | ||
| Broderick Clark | 2 | 45 | 1 | 30 | ||
| Montrell Jones | 5 | 33 | 0 | 9 | ||
| Kolby Smith | 2 | 30 | 0 | 28 | ||
| Gary Barnidge | 1 | 6 | 1 | 6 | ||
| Joshua Tinch | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Totals | 21 | 235 | 3 | 30 | ||
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Yds | Avg | Long | In20 | TB | |
| Brent Moody | 1 | 39 | 39.0 | 39 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 1 | 39 | 39.0 | 39 | 0 | 0 |
| RETURNS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Punt No | Yds | Lg | Kick No | Yds | Lg | Int No | Yds | Lg | |
| Harry Douglas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 119 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Montrell Jones | 4 | 36 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Broderick Clark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kerry Rhodes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 4 | 36 | 18 | 6 | 139 | 49 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FIELD GOALS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Qtr | Time | Dist | Result |
| 4th | 01:10 | 19 | Good |
| KICKOFFS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Yards | Avg | TB | OB | |
| Todd Flannery | 8 | 463 | 57.9 | 0 | 2 |
| Totals | 8 | 463 | 57.9 | 0 | 2 |
| ALL-PURPOSE | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rush | Rcv | KR | PR | IR | Total | |
| Harry Douglas | 65 | 0 | 119 | 0 | 0 | 184 |
| Michael Bush | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 96 |
| Eric Shelton | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 |
| Stefan LeFors | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 |
| Montrell Jones | 0 | 33 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 69 |
| Broderick Clark | 0 | 45 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 65 |
| J.R. Russell | 0 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 |
| Adam McCauley | 0 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 |
| Kolby Smith | 8 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 |
| Lionel Gates | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Gary Barnidge | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Joshua Tinch | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| FUMBLES |
|---|
| Louisville – Harry Douglas 1-1, Stefan LeFors 1-1 Boise State – 1-0 |
| Louisville Defense | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | Solo | Ast | Total | Sacks-Yds | TFL-Yds | FF | FR-Yds | Int-Yds | BrUp | Blks | QBH |
| 97 | Brandon Johnson | 3 | 7 | 10 | 0.0-0 | 1.5-3 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 54 | Robert McCune | 1 | 9 | 10 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | Kerry Rhodes | 1 | 7 | 8 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 48 | Bobby Leffew | 5 | 2 | 7 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Brent Johnson | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1.0-12 | 2.0-14 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Marcus Jones | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | Matt Sanders | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Antoine Harris | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | J.T. Haskins | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | Abe Brown | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | Amobi Okoye | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.5-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 92 | Montavious Stanley | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1.0-4 | 0.5-4 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 58 | Elvis Dumervil | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1.0-4 | 0.5-4 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | William Gay | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 | Harry Douglas | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Antoine Sharp | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | Chad Rimpsey | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Reggie Bradshaw | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Lionel Gates | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Brandon Sharp | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Preston Smith | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Todd Flannery | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 36 | 46 | 82 | 3.0-20 | 5.0-26 | 1 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| OFFENSE | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos | # | Name |
| WR | 86 | Montrell Jones |
| QB | 17 | Stefan LeFors |
| TE | 45 | Adam McCauley |
| C | 70 | Will Rabatin |
| WR | 3 | J.R. Russell |
| RB | 32 | Eric Shelton |
| FB | 33 | Kolby Smith |
| DEFENSE | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos | # | Name |
| DE | 58 | Elvis Dumervil |
| SS | 31 | J.T. Haskins |
| DE | 56 | Marcus Jones |
| DT | 48 | Bobby Leffew |
| MLB | 54 | Robert McCune |
| FS | 1 | Kerry Rhodes |
| DT | 92 | Montavious Stanley |
| OTHER | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos | # | Name |
| SLB | 43 | Abe Brown |
| ST | 74 | Jeremy Darveau |
| RCB | 21 | William Gay |
| LCB | 25 | Antoine Harris |
| WLB | 97 | Brandon Johnson |
| WT | 78 | Travis Leffew |
| SG | 76 | Kurt Quarterman |
| WG | 59 | Jason Spitz |
2-Tiger Jones, 4-Broderick Clark, 5-Antoine Sharp, 6-Preston Smith, 9-Joshua Tinch, 10-Domonique Dunbar, 12-Brian Brohm, 13-Jon Russell, 15-Brent Moody, 18-Art Carmody, 19-Michael Bush, 23-Lionel Gates, 26-Reggie Bradshaw, 30-Brent Johnson, 34-Ray Childs, 35-Brandon Sharp, 36-Todd Flannery, 46-Terrance Butler, 47-Deriontae Taylor, 50-Chad Rimpsey, 51-Matt Webb, 55-Matt Sanders, 82-Gary Barnidge, 85-Harry Douglas, 88-Brandon Cox, 91-Amobi Okoye