The Louisville Cardinals football team represents the University of Louisville in the sport of American football. The Cardinals compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Louisville claims nine conference championships and one division co-championship. The program has been to 25 bowl games; their overall bowl record is 12–12–1. During the BCS era (1998–2013), the Cardinals appeared in two BCS bowl games. The team attended a bowl each season from 1998 to 2006, and had a streak of eight seasons with bowl appearances (2010–2017). The Louisville Cardinals football team plays its home games at Cardinal Stadium. Prior to that the team played its games at Old Cardinal Stadium.