As Michigan natives, defensive backs John Fuqua and Courtney Dinkins were familiar with a couple rivalries: Michigan-Michigan State and Michigan-Ohio State.

So it was only natural for Fuqua to think that the biggest game of Louisville’s 1995 football season would be against the Spartans in Week 3.

“They (teammates) would all start laughing like, no. The biggest game of the year is Kentucky,” Fuqua told The Courier Journal in January. “It was good and bad because if you won, it kind of set the tone for the season. And then if you lost, it was just like, oh, we have to go double time just to pick up from that because the fans were mad that that game was lost.”

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