Tonight on ESPN at 8:00 p.m., Teddy Bridgewater, the top quarterback prospect in college football this season, will look to help the Louisville Cardinals (6-0) stay unbeaten when they take on the scrappy University of Central Florida Knights (4-1). Live stream the game for free here; Cardinals fans can hear the radio broadcast on WHAS 840 AM, while UCF fans can follow along on WYGM 740-AM.
Louisville coach Charlie Strong is wary of UCF. The Knights don't have much pedigree to speak of, but this season they boast an upset victory over Penn State, and battled Jadeveon Clowney's South Carolina Gamecocks tooth and nail before losing 28-25. The South Carolina defeat represents the only blemish on their record.
"Our work's cut out for us," Strong said Monday. "We're going to have to play very well and that's what we want to do, improve each and every week." He sounded a similar tune before Louisville took on Rutgers; Bridgewater had arguably his worst game of the season and Louisville found itself in a dogfight for the win.
Some felt Bridgewater tried to do too much with primetime spotlight on him. If so, that could be a problem as the Cardinals are playing once again under the lights. Strong dismissed that theory, however.
"I don't think Teddy gets rattled with that," the coach said. "He didn't make some throws, but I guess every time he goes out we expect him to be perfect and he's not going to be perfect. People do have bad games. We have raised the standard and he plays up to what we want him to play at. ... We won the football game."
Despite the tough outing, Bridgewater's season stats still sparkle. In 2013 he's completing 71 percent of his passes, has thrown for 1,872 yards, 18 touchdowns and just three interceptions.
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