The news that Louisville and Alabama will open the 2018 season in the Citrus Bowl brings back an assortment of memories from the last time they met. That would have been the Fiesta Bowl in 1991 at Tempe, Arizona, inspiring us to get that first big-screen TV.
Easily the biggest game in UofL football history at the time, Alabama was a prohibitive favorite, a traditional SEC power expected to easily roll over Louisville, which was an independent at the time. The fact that UofL Coach Howard Schnellenberger had almost a month to prepare for Alabama was lost on the sports media, along with Louisville’s 9-1-1 record that season.