ON-AIR FROM 3-6 PM TODAY: ESPN LOUISVILLE 1570-1600.We'll post on here from time to time until I leave midway through the 4th quarter to go down to the field.
We're already here. Got here around 12:30 PM to set up for our broadcast and hang out and check out the lights here at Dolphin Stadium. It's a nice place, but it does need a makeover. It's getting one soon, and the pictures I've seen look real nice.
OFFICIAL PREDICTION: Louisville 27, Wake Forest 21
So let the gameday blog begin:
12:51 PM - Set up and ready to go. We're broadcasting from one of the press boxes. Nice place... but undoubtedly the smallest of any pro football press box I've been in.
1:30 PM - Cece Winans is going to sing the national anthem. She's practicing right now, and it's BEAUTIFUL. This is a great rendition. Viewers and fans will get a good version tonight!
2:17 PM - An unbelievable storm going through right now. It's insane. Stadium personnel tell us that the field is designed to be able to "completely drain and be dry" within 30 minutes of the end of the rain. I'm not so sure right now. The field, which looked great early, is a pond at the moment. The picture you see is what it looks like. It's from my phone though. Sorry about the quality.
4:45 PM - Craig Swabek, color man for the U of L Radio Network joins us and tells us he's got NOTHING on whether Brohm or Bush or Petrino are leaving 'The Ville'. Truth is, I honestly believe him, which may mean he is a good secret-keeper.
5:10 PM - Rich Bozich, sports columnist for the C-J, comes by and tells us that he thinks media members will be surrounding the Louisville buses coming into the stadium to ask Petrino about Alabama.
6:15 PM - Off the air now. And damned if we find out AFTER THE FACT that they gave us our own damn radio booth. We broadcasted from an ordinary press row first time around. Wish we would've seen a seating chart before we went on the air. But we couldn't find one.
7:03 PM - Starting to fill up now. We've got a great seat for the game. Rain is gone, and the field held up very well. Jody Demling of the C-J is messing with us from one booth over, and damned if Kent Taylor from WAVE-TV is sitting right next to us in the next booth. Bobby Petrino loves Kent Taylor kinda like Rick Pitino loves me.
7:08 - Louisville players enter the field for the first time. And fans are pumped. So far the stadium is about 1/3 of the way full, and it's VERY PRO-LOUISVILLE!
7:10 - Art Carmody, our favorite player, is kicking. Here's his pregame stats:
- 25-yarder, right hash: good
- 25-yarder, left hash: good
- 28-yarder, right hash: good
- 28-yarder, middle: good
- 35-yarder, middle: good
- 40- yarder, left hash: good
- 40-yarder, left hash: off the upright
- 44-yarder, right hash: good
- 44-yarder, right hash: good
- 48-yarder, left hash: wide left
- 48-yarder, left hash: good
- 50-yarder, left hash: good
- 32-yarder, middle: good
- 32-yarder, middle: good
8:03 PM - Both bands have taken the field and they are finishing up. I'm guessing the marching bands may not get a halftime shot, since Taylor Hicks and Gladys Knight (we can do better than Gladys Knight, can't we? She's been nothing since the end of the Psychic Friends Network.) got the halftime honors. A cheerleading group is out right now, and we should be ready for Ali, Palmer, and Wade and the coin toss before too long.
8:25 PM - The entrance of "The Greatest" was exceptional. Unbelievable. Enjoy the game everyone!
8:47 PM - Well, we're just over eight minutes in. Brock Bolen has fumbled the ball. Wake Forest will take over on their own 39-yard line. Wake Forest will be close to penetrating Louisville territory for the first time potentially.
9:00 PM - Louisville goes three-and-out deep in their own territory, and the punter Corey Goettsche botches his punt in fear of a quickly-coming Deacon defender. Wake with a score opportunity now with the ball on the Louisville 28.
9:07 PM - Wake Forest hits the scoreboard first with a 44-yard FG. They lead 3-0 with 14:17 left in the first half.
WAKE FOREST 3, LOUISVILLE 0
9:19 PM - Noticing a lot of overloads to one side of the field for Louisville's offense. Interesting.
9:20 PM - HUGE fourth-down conversion on a pass from Brohm-to-Barnidge for the Cards to get deep into Wake territory. Carmody FG follows.
LOUISVILLE 3, WAKE FOREST 3
9:31 PM - 6:31 left to go in the first half. I'm going to make a PREDICTION SURE TO GO WRONG. I predict that the next time Louisville has to punt out of deep in their own territory, they are going to fake the punt. Just a gut feeling.
9:35 PM - Trick play. Brohm with a wide receiver screen pass (backward) to Pat Carter, then Urrutia back across the field to Anthony Allen waiting in the end zone. TOUCHDOWN LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE 10, WAKE FOREST 3
HALFTIME: Taylor Hicks and Gladys Knight do a pretty good performance. I went down to hang out with my 'wntourage' for the halftime show. They are all having a pretty good time. No doubt about that. The performance was okay. The lights and other things were more fun.
10:28 PM - Wake scores on a wide-open 30-yard pass play to tie things up. I'm starting to like my prediction a little.
LOUISVILLE 10, WAKE FOREST 10
10:39 PM - Wake's first big break on the game, which to me looked like Urrutia was down on the completion from Brohm. Second turnover for the Cards.
10:52 PM - I've got to be honest... Louisville and their fans are eerily quiet. I haven't had a good feeling about them since the first half. Wake looking good at times, but then having to punt, almost inexplicably.
10:57 PM - Fumble by Wake. This one looks like a fumble to me, but this booth has been wrong on every review thus far... seriously. But we are right this time as the ref "confirms the call on the field." HUGE CALL for Louisville as their defense has been "bailed out" on a couple occasions.
11:02 PM - Carmody misses a 35-yard FG attempt. Wake seems like they are getting a lot of pressure on every special teams play. Then Kenneth Moore breaks it open with a sick move that breaks the ankles of William Gay. Wake now driving. I'm telling you, it just doesn't feel right tonight for the Cards... at least not yet.
11:11 PM - Three plays into the fourth quarter, Swank adds three for the Demon Deacons to retake the lead. 14:46 left in the game.
WAKE FOREST 13, LOUISVILLE 10
11:19 PM - Louisville goes right down the field there and looks like the team that got them here for, arguably, the first time tonight. Hell of a golline run for Anthony Allen, who proves with this rush that he can gain two yards pretty much any time you need it... as long as he doesn't fumble.
LOUISVILLE 17, WAKE FOREST 13
11:26 PM - Great three-and-out for the Louisville defense. This drive right here for Louisville will make or break the game.
11:35 PM - Louisville driving for the game-winner basically. I'm heading downstairs to watch the rest of the game on the sidelines. Talk to you tomorrow from 11-1 live here in Miami.
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