Louisville football coach Howard Schnellenberger, left, and Kentucky football coach Bill Curry at a news conference on June 25, 1993, announcing that the two schools had finally agreed to play each other. After a seven-decade absence, the two schools played Sept. 3, 1994, in Commonwealth Stadium. Kentucky won, 20-14. Talks between UK and U of L had broken down in 1991 when Kentucky insisted that because of its eight- game Southeastern Conference schedule, plus a longstanding home-and-home agreement with Indiana, it could not financially enter into another home-and-home series, especially with a school whose stadium seated only 38,000. Louisville’s drive to build a new 50,000-seat stadium altered UK’s thinking, and a deal was struck in 1993. At the news conference, Schnellenberger and U of L Athletics Director Bill Olsen said that it was “50-50” whether U of L’s new stadium would be completed by 1995. As it turned out, Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium would not open until 1998. Photo by Charles Bertram | Staff