The Louisville Cardinals improved to 4-4 as they held off the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, 20-19, on Friday night at BB&T Field in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The Cardinals improved their all-time record versus Wake Forest to 3-0 but more importantly kept their bowl hopes alive despite starting the season 0-3. Wake Forest fell to 3-6 with the loss.
The key play in the game came around the three-minute mark in the third quarter, when Chucky Williams intercepted Wake Forest's John Wolford in Demon Deacons territory. Williams took it to the Wake Forest 22-yard line, and despite not moving the ball, Louisville took its first lead of the game with a 39-yard field goal by John Wallace.