Louisville Cardinals at Rutgers Scarlet Knights Odds: Betting Line-Louisville -11 (total 52); Kick-off-7:45 pm ET; Television-ESPN; Rutgers Stadium, Piscataway,NJ; Betting lines provided by Sportsbook.com.
The Louisville Cardinals (5-6) football team, with slim hopes of becoming bowl eligible, travels to Piscataway, NJ Thursday to play the red hot Rutgers Scarlet Knights (6-5) at Rutgers Stadium in both teams BIG EAST Conference regular season finale. The Scarlet Knights are already bowl eligible and are projected to be invited to the Papa John's Bowl, however; Louisville could jump over Rutgers in the bowl pecking order with a win.
Online oddsmakers at Sportsbook.com list the Scarlet Knights as 11-chalk ATS and -430 money line favorites with a 52 total. Louisville backers are getting +335 moneyline juice.
With a victory vs. Louisville, Rutgers would close the regular season with six straight wins. The six consecutive victories to close out the regular season would be the fifth-longest streak in Rutgers school history.
The Cardinals enter the game at 5-6 overall and 1-5 in BIG EAST play after the teams 35-21 home loss to West Virginia on Nov. 22.
Rutgers enters the regular-season finale at 6-5 overall and 4-2 in BIG EAST play after a 30-3 non-conference win over Army last Saturday. After opening the season at 1-5, the Scarlet Knights have won five straight, including wins over UConn, Pitt and South Florida, to reach bowl eligibility.
Thursday's match-up marks the eighth meeting all-time between the Cardinals and Scarlet Knights. Rutgers owns a 5-2 series advantage after the Cardinals defeated the Scarlet Knights, 41-38, last season at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium. The Cardinals have won two of the three meetings since Louisville joined the BIG EAST in 2005.
