Wild brouhaha breaks out during bowl game's final moments after late hit

Before the Louisville Cardinals celebrated with a ton of beans, a chaotic country broke retired successful the Bush’s Boca Raton Bowl.

The Cardinals led Toledo, 27-22, and wanted to tally retired the timepiece to sphere the victory.

Issac Brown took a handoff toward the close sideline for six yards earlier getting tackled by K'Von Sherman.

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Toledo Rockets moving backmost Chip Trayanum (1) rushes for a touchdown against the Louisville Cardinals during the 4th fourth of the Boca Raton Bowl astatine Flagler CU Stadium.  (Mandatory Credit: Jeff Romance/Imagn Images)

Sherman, though, took the deed a spot excessively far, driving Brown into the turf good beyond the sideline and adjacent his ain bench.

Numerous Cardinals players took offense, and a ample brouhaha commenced, arsenic astatine slightest 1 subordinate with crutches tried to debar the fray and different who appeared to hobble portion nursing a anterior injury.

Lots of pushing and shoving commenced successful the midst of a dogpile connected the Louisville sideline.

Ultimately, determination were nary ejections, but 4 full unsportsmanlike behaviour penalties were called.

Louisville Cardinals moving backmost Keyjuan Brown (22) is tackled by Toledo Rockets antiaircraft tackle Martez Poynter (8) during the 4th fourth of the Boca Raton Bowl astatine Flagler CU Stadium.  (Jeff Romance/Imagn Images)

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Louisville was capable to get the archetypal down it needed to unafraid the victory. It was the team’s 2nd consecutive vessel triumph aft taking location the Sun Bowl against Washington past year.

Miller Moss closed his assemblage vocation by throwing for 153 yards and 2 touchdowns, portion Brown ran for a brace of scores, including a 53-yarder successful the last minutes.

Once the particulate settled, histrion and comedian Keegan-Michael Key was connected the tract stirring the bowl, getting it acceptable for the Louisville players. Louisville antiaircraft lineman Clev Lubin walked implicit and asked if the baked beans were theirs, and upon receiving confirmation, helium dove in.

Toledo’s past touchdown came with astir 2 and a fractional minutes near successful the game, and Louisville slammed the doorway connected the fourth-quarter comeback arsenic they ran retired the timepiece to triumph the game. 

Winning players from the Louisville Cardinals bask the fruits of their labour arsenic they devour Bush’s Baked Beans from the simmering stovetop trophy astatine the Bush’s Boca Raton Bowl of Beans successful Boca Raton, Florida. The crippled was played connected Dec. 23, 2025. (James McEntee/AP Content Services)

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"Proud of our team," Louisville caput manager Jeff Brohm said. "We finished strong. We didn’t play perfect, but we played hard, we played tough, we played to the end."

Fox News Digital's Ryan Canfield and The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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