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Panthers Fall To No. 8 Cardinals, 48-24
11/25/2006 12:00:00 AM | Football
Nov. 25, 2006
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -Brian Brohm threw four touchdown passes against host Pitt as No. 8 Louisville beat the Panthers 48-24 on Saturday to take another step toward a Big East title.
If Louisville (10-1, 5-1 in Big East) defeats Connecticut next Saturday and No. 15 Rutgers loses at No. 7 West Virginia, the Cardinals will represent the Big East in a BCS bowl. Rutgers (10-1, 5-1) gets the bid if it wins, since the Scarlet Knights dealt Louisville its only loss, 28-25, on Nov. 9.
The Cardinals played like a team ready to move on to a major bowl, outscoring Pitt 34-3 during one stretch after briefly falling behind 14-7 in the first quarter.
Brohm threw scoring passes of 42 yards to Mario Urrutia, 9 to Gary Barnidge, 1 to Scott Kuhn and 75 to Harry Douglas. Brohm finished 21-for-29 for 337 yards. Urrutia caught seven passes for 144 yards.
Pitt (6-6, 2-5) lost its fifth in a row after winning six of its first seven.
The Panthers surrendered 139 points in their final three losses: 48 to Louisville, 45 to West Virginia and 46 to Connecticut.
Pitt tried something different to shake itself out of its second-half slump, wearing all gold uniforms. The Panthers normally wear blue or white jerseys atop gold pants. There is no record of Pitt wearing such a color scheme before.
