Maybe the most inconsistent team in college football last year, the Louisville Cardinals take on the Ole Miss Rebels week one of the season for a neutral site matchup in Nashville, Tennessee. The 2025 Cardinals showed all the signs of being great and making a push for the CFP. In a rocky, up-and-down conference like the ACC, Louisville was a dark horse for conference winners. Starting off 4-0, including a win versus the future G5 CFP winner James Madison, the Cardinals fell to then-ranked No. 24 Virginia Cavaliers. Despite last week's home loss in OT to Virginia, the Cardinals headed to Miami to take on the No. 2 team in the nation at the time. With a win versus the second-best team in the nation, it seemed the Cardinals were destined to win out with no real challenge in front of them. Until two weeks after the Miami win, they went across the other side of the country and lost in overtime to the unranked California Golden Bears.…