The Louisville football team’s quarterback situation is only getting more complicated.

We wrote two weeks ago — after Jawon Pass struggled in the rain against Indiana State and suffered a toe injury and before Malik Cunningham delivered his second straight comeback win — about how many different outcomes there were for the quarterback competition.

Those outcomes depended on whether Pass emerged healthy from a week of practice, whether he beat out Cunningham for the job and how the starting quarterback did the following week.

We now know that the quarterback venture followed Case 3: Healthy Pass struggles again, enter Cunningham. That’s what happened against Western Kentucky on Sept. 15.

But then Cunningham took over as the starter at Virginia on Saturday. He struggled, too. Pass came on in relief. He had issues with turnovers.

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Now a new list of options has opened up, and coach Bobby Petrino must make a decision on a starter for Week 5, which is far later than any quarterback competition should drag on.

Petrino said after Saturday’s game that he would grade the film of Pass and Cunningham to make his decision. Here’s what he would see: With Cunningham in the first half, Petrino called 15 pass plays, which gained 2.53 yards per play. With Pass in the second half, Petrino called 22 pass plays, which gained 4.77 yards per play.

Some of that discrepancy comes from the last drive, in which Louisville gained 64 yards on 10 passing plays, long after the outcome was decided. Cunningham struggled to move the ball because he ran an offense that was conservative with the play calls. Pass distributed the ball better, but two turnovers were cause for concern.

In the first half, Louisville’s offense didn’t muster much. Ten of Cunningham’s 11 throws were short passes, mostly comeback routes and flair routes. He passed four times to running backs out of the backfield, and two went into the books as carries because they didn’t go forward. One deep post pass wasn’t close to wide receiver Dez Fitzpatrick against good coverage.

Cunningham scrambled on four of 15 pass plays for 4 total yards. He managed just 26 rushing yards on 10 carries. Virginia’s defense stacked the box and bombarded Louisville with blitzes because the Cardinals had no downfield passing game in the first half.

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The offense was a bit more liberal under Pass, with three crossing routes getting receivers into the second level, though one was intercepted. Tutu Atwell cut across the middle, passing Fitzpatrick. But Fitzpatrick’s defender had stayed on the far side, where Atwell was heading, so Pass ended up throwing into triple coverage.

Pass finished 10-for-19. He missed three throws and had two deflected. Two were dropped.

Petrino said Monday he’d meet with the players and then decide who will start Saturday. It’s an important decision. At some point, Petrino is going to have to choose a starter and go with it.

This week would be a good time. The Cardinals play a winnable game against Florida State on Saturday. FSU is 2-2 and hasn’t started rolling under new coach Willie Taggart. If Louisville bounces back and beats the Seminoles, the concerns about these issues quiet down for a while. If the Cards sputter again, they might not win an ACC game for a while.

So here we are again, with uncertainty at quarterback heading into Saturday. Last time, Petrino started with Cunningham and benched him at halftime. The week before, Petrino went for Pass and benched him after one quarter.

If decisions are graded on results, Petrino chose wrong twice in a row.

This week, he’d better be right.

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