Sept. 26, 2015 – Home – Papa John's Cardinal Stadium – Louisville, Ky. – Attendance 50,121
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville | 21 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 45 |
| Samford | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Qtr | Time | Scoring Play |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 13:23 | Lamar Jackson 14-yard rush (John Wallace kick), 2-17, 00:40 |
| 1st | 09:13 | Lamar Jackson 13-yard rush (John Wallace kick), 7-80, 03:24 |
| 1st | 04:54 | Brandon Radcliff 2-yard rush (John Wallace kick), 4-75, 01:05 |
| 2nd | 06:15 | John Wallace 50-yard field goal, 8-38, 04:02 |
| 2nd | 00:31 | Micky Crum 3-yard pass from Reggie Bonnafon (John Wallace kick), 10-69, 04:17 |
| 3rd | 10:11 | James Quick 36-yard pass from Lamar Jackson (John Wallace kick), 2-31, 00:44 |
| 4th | 12:56 | L.J. Scott 2-yard rush (John Wallace kick), 13-80, 05:14 |
| Louisville | Samford | |
|---|---|---|
| FIRST DOWNS | 25 | 12 |
| Rushing | 12 | 5 |
| Passing | 13 | 5 |
| Penalty | 0 | 2 |
| NET YARDS RUSHING | 288 | 71 |
| Rushing Attempts | 46 | 27 |
| Average Per Rush | 6.3 | 2.6 |
| Rushing Touchdowns | 4 | 0 |
| Yards Gained Rushing | 320 | 101 |
| Yards Lost Rushing | 32 | 30 |
| NET YARDS PASSING | 274 | 130 |
| Completions-Attempts-Int | 18-28-2 | 17-30-3 |
| Average Per Attempt | 9.8 | 4.3 |
| Average Per Completion | 15.2 | 7.6 |
| Passing Touchdowns | 2 | 0 |
| TOTAL OFFENSE YARDS | 562 | 201 |
| Total offense plays | 74 | 57 |
| Average Gain Per Play | 7.6 | 3.5 |
| Fumbles: Number-Lost | 1-0 | 2-1 |
| Penalties: Number-Yards | 9-89 | 3-15 |
| PUNTS-YARDS | 2-100 | 6-276 |
| Average Yards Per Punt | 50.0 | 46.0 |
| Net Yards Per Punt | 50.5 | 35.2 |
| Inside 20 | 1 | 1 |
| 50+ Yards | 1 | 1 |
| Touchbacks | 0 | 1 |
| Fair catch | 1 | 0 |
| KICKOFF-YARDS | 8-522 | 2-113 |
| Average Yards Per Kickoff | 65.2 | 56.5 |
| Net Yards Per Kickoff | 41.2 | 38.0 |
| Kickoff Touchbacks | 5 | 1 |
| Punt returns: Number-Yards-TD | 4-45-0 | 1--1-0 |
| Average Per Return | 11.3 | -1.0 |
| Kickoff returns: Number-Yds-TD | 1-12-0 | 3-67-0 |
| Average Per Return | 12.0 | 22.3 |
| Interceptions: Number-Yds-TD | 3-5-0 | 2-23-0 |
| Fumble Returns: Number-Yds-TD | 1-20-0 | 0-0-0 |
| Miscellaneous Yards | 0 | 0 |
| Possession Time | 33:58 | 26:02 |
| 1st Quarter | 08:00 | 07:00 |
| 2nd Quarter | 08:30 | 06:30 |
| 3rd Quarter | 08:58 | 06:02 |
| 4th Quarter | 08:30 | 06:30 |
| Third-Down Conversions | 7-14 | 3-11 |
| Fourth-Down Conversions | 1-3 | 0-1 |
| Red-Zone Scores-Chances | 6-7 | 1-1 |
| Touchdowns | 5 | 0 |
| Field goals | 1 | 1 |
| Sacks By: Number-Yards | 3-16 | 2-22 |
| PAT Kicks | 6-6 | 0-0 |
| 2Pts Conversions | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| Field Goals | 1-1 | 1-1 |
| Points off Turnover | 21 | 3 |
| RUSHING | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Gain | Loss | Net | TD | Lg | Avg | |
| Lamar Jackson | 18 | 192 | 8 | 184 | 2 | 73 | 10.2 |
| Brandon Radcliff | 6 | 36 | 0 | 36 | 1 | 26 | 6.0 |
| Reggie Bonnafon | 6 | 41 | 15 | 26 | 0 | 16 | 4.3 |
| Corvin Lamb | 6 | 23 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 9 | 3.2 |
| Traveon Samuel | 1 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 12.0 |
| Jeremy Smith | 3 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2.3 |
| L.J. Scott | 6 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0.7 |
| Totals | 46 | 320 | 32 | 288 | 4 | 73 | 6.3 |
| PASSING | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-A-I | Yds | TD | Long | Sack | |
| Lamar Jackson | 15-22-1 | 212 | 1 | 36 | 1 |
| Reggie Bonnafon | 3-6-1 | 62 | 1 | 40 | 1 |
| Totals | 18-28-2 | 274 | 2 | 40 | 2 |
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAR | No. | Yards | YAC | TD | Long | |
| James Quick | 3 | 69 | 1 | 36 | ||
| Ja'Quay Savage | 2 | 43 | 0 | 34 | ||
| Jaylen Smith | 2 | 43 | 0 | 40 | ||
| Devante Peete | 2 | 26 | 0 | 21 | ||
| Cole Hikutini | 2 | 25 | 0 | 15 | ||
| Keith Towbridge | 1 | 19 | 0 | 19 | ||
| Traveon Samuel | 1 | 17 | 0 | 17 | ||
| Brandon Radcliff | 1 | 13 | 0 | 13 | ||
| Reggie Bonnafon | 1 | 13 | 0 | 13 | ||
| Charles Standberry | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 | ||
| Micky Crum | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Javonte Bagley | 1 | -3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Totals | 18 | 274 | 2 | 40 | ||
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Yds | Avg | Long | In20 | TB | |
| Joshua Appleby | 2 | 100 | 50.0 | 52 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 2 | 100 | 50.0 | 52 | 1 | 0 |
| RETURNS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Punt No | Yds | Lg | Kick No | Yds | Lg | Int No | Yds | Lg | |
| Jaire Alexander | 4 | 45 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Malin Jones | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chucky Williams | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Trumaine Washington | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 4 | 45 | 21 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| FIELD GOALS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Qtr | Time | Dist | Result |
| 2nd | 06:15 | 50 | Good |
| KICKOFFS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Yards | Avg | TB | OB | |
| John Wallace | 7 | 457 | 65.3 | 4 | 0 |
| Jon Brown | 1 | 65 | 65.0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 8 | 522 | 65.3 | 5 | 0 |
| ALL-PURPOSE | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rush | Rcv | KR | PR | IR | Total | |
| Lamar Jackson | 184 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 184 |
| James Quick | 0 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 |
| Jaire Alexander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 5 | 50 |
| Brandon Radcliff | 36 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 |
| Ja'Quay Savage | 0 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 |
| Jaylen Smith | 0 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 |
| Reggie Bonnafon | 26 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| Traveon Samuel | 12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| Devante Peete | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Cole Hikutini | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Corvin Lamb | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| Keith Towbridge | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| Malin Jones | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Jeremy Smith | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Charles Standberry | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| L.J. Scott | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Micky Crum | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Javonte Bagley | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 |
| FUMBLES |
|---|
| Louisville – Lamar Jackson 1-0 Samford – 2-1 |
| Louisville Defense | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | Solo | Ast | Total | Sacks-Yds | TFL-Yds | FF | FR-Yds | Int-Yds | BrUp | Blks | QBH |
| 13 | James Burgess | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | Keith Kelsey | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 1-20 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 98 | Sheldon Rankins | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2.0-14 | 2.0-14 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Josh Harvey-Clemons | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Jermaine Reve | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | De'Eric Culver | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | Lamar Atkins | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 97 | DeAngelo Brown | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1.0-2 | 1.0-2 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | Zykiesis Cannon | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 92 | Devonte Fields | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-2 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | Trumaine Washington | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 1 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dee Smith (2) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 42 | Isaac Stewart | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Keith Brown (2) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 22 | Chucky Williams | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | Trevon Young | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Jaire Alexander | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 1-5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Cole Hikutini | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 57 | Finesse Middleton | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 95 | Kyle Shortridge | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Drew Bailey | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | James Hearns | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 49 | Colin Holba | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Shaq Wiggins | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 25 | 40 | 65 | 3.0-16 | 5.0-19 | 1 | 1-20 | 3-5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| OFFENSE | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos | # | Name |
| LT | 74 | Geron Christian |
| TE | 83 | Micky Crum |
| QB | 8 | Lamar Jackson |
| RT | 76 | Kelby Johnson |
| C | 62 | T.C. Klusman |
| RG | 75 | Skylar Lacy |
| LG | 72 | Lukayus McNeil |
| WR | 19 | Ja'Quay Savage |
| WR | 87 | Jaylen Smith |
| RB | 34 | Jeremy Smith |
| TE | 89 | Keith Towbridge |
| DEFENSE | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos | # | Name |
| NT | 97 | DeAngelo Brown |
| ILB | 13 | James Burgess |
| OLB | 92 | Devonte Fields |
| SAF | 25 | Josh Harvey-Clemons |
| ILB | 55 | Keith Kelsey |
| DE | 98 | Sheldon Rankins |
| SAF | 27 | Jermaine Reve |
| CB | 15 | Trumaine Washington |
| CB | 6 | Shaq Wiggins |
| SAF | 22 | Chucky Williams |
| OLB | 91 | Trevon Young |
3-Pat Thomas, 4-Corvin Lamb, 7-Reggie Bonnafon, 9-Traveon Samuel, 10-Jaire Alexander, 14-Drew Bailey, 17-James Quick, 18-Cole Hikutini, 23-Brandon Radcliff, 24-Zykiesis Cannon, 26-De'Eric Culver, 31-Darius Skinner, 32-Stacy Thomas, 33-Malin Jones, 39-Griffin Uhl, 40-Joshua Appleby, 42-Isaac Stewart, 44-Pio Vatuvei, 45-John Wallace, 46-Lamar Atkins, 47-Jon Brown, 49-Colin Holba, 50-Khalil Hunter, 52-Nick Dawson-Brents, 56-Kiola Mahoni, 57-Finesse Middleton, 61-Tobijah Hughley, 73-Pedro Sibiea, 78-Aaron Epps, 79-Kenny Thomas, 80-Charles Standberry, 81-Emonee Spence, 82-Dontez Byrd, 84-Gio Pascascio, 86-Devante Peete, 88-Javonte Bagley, 95-Kyle Shortridge, 99-James Hearns, Keith Brown (2), L.J. Scott, Dee Smith (2)