CFB23: Week 2

The Louisville Cardinals on Thursday improved to 2-0 on the college-football season by beating the visiting Murray State Racers, 56-0, in a game at L&N Stadium. 

I had no idea that Louisville’s home field is now called "L&N Stadium." That's short for "L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium," and it's the same place off I-65 that previously had been called "Cardinal Stadium" and "Papa John's Cardinal Stadium." "The stadium site of the former South Louisville Rail Yard is also the original site of the credit union, founded in 1954 to serve L&N Railroad workers ...," says Wikipedia.

That page lists a number of traditions associated with the stadium--my favorite of which being, "Prior to the game, the Cardinals exit the Howard Schnellenberger Complex and each member touches the Johnny Unitas Statue before running onto the field."

Murray State is now 1-1.

So now we turn to Saturday's action, highlighted by the undefeated Western Kentucky Hilltoppers' hosting of the Houston Christian Huskies at 6 p.m. Central in Bowling Green's Houchens Industries–L. T. Smith Stadium. Here are some of tomorrow's other CFB23 games that interest me:

• Vanderbilt Commodores at Wake Forest Demon Deacons at Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C., at 10 a.m.
• Ball State Cardinals at Georgia Bulldogs (No. 1 in the AP poll) at Sanford Stadium in Athens at 11 a.m.
• Nebraska Cornhuskers at Colorado Buffaloes at Folsom Field in Boulder at 11 a.m.
• Notre Dame Fighting Irish at North Carolina State Wolfpack at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh at 11 a.m.
• Purdue Boilermakers at Virginia Tech Hokies at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg at 11 a.m.
• Eastern Kentucky Colonels at Kentucky Wildcats at Kroger Field in Lexington at 2 p.m. 
• Portland State Vikings at Wyoming Cowboys at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie at 3 p.m.
• North Texas Mean Green at Florida International Panthers at Riccardo Silva Stadium in Miami at 4:30 p.m.
• Morgan State Bears at Akron Zips at InfoCision Stadium-Summa Field in Akron at 5 p.m.
• Texas Longhorns at Alabama Crimson Tide in the Allstate Crossbar Classic at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa at 6 p.m.
• UCLA Bruins at San Diego State Aztecs at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego, California, at 6:30 p.m.
• Nicholls Colonels at Texas Christian Horned Frogs at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth at 7 p.m.