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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The eye-popping statistics No. 10 Louisville put up in its first two games of the season doesnt mean there arent areas the Cardinals can and need to improve on.And theyll need to play better as the competition will step up this week.Gaining big yardage and putting up a lot of points will be much harder for the Cardinals (2-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) in Saturdays nationally televised showdown against No. 2 Florida State (2-0, 0-0). Louisville knows that and is working to correct the flaws masked by those gaudy numbers against Charlotte and Syracuse.Despite gaining a school-record 845 yards and scoring at least 60 points for the second straight game, Louisville left last Fridays 62-28 throttling of Syracuse with room for improvement. The Cardinals dropped passes, lost two of six fumbles and allowed some big plays along with 426 yards.Coach Bobby Petrino blamed some of the drops on a lack of concentration and others on the receivers ongoing process of developing timing with dual-threat sophomore quarterback Lamar Jackson. The coach also lamented some defensive lapses but noted how the unit made key plays when needed to against the Orange.The Cardinals may not have to be perfect against the Seminoles, but Petrino said theres little room for errors.We do have to limit our turnovers, we have to take care of the football and we have to not hurt ourselves, Petrino said Monday. I think thats the biggest thing, to not hurt ourselves.Fortunately for Louisville, mistakes have been minimal while winning its first two games by a 132-42 margin. High scoring has always been one of Petrinos priorities, so lighting up the scoreboard hasnt been a shock.We want to wear you out as much as we can and were having fun doing it, said wide receiver Jamari Staples, who leads Louisville with 219 yards but is still looking for his first touchdown. Its not arrogance, its just something we like doing.The Cardinals want to keep rolling in one of the programs biggest games that could help establish an early favorite in the ACCs Atlantic Division. Both the Cardinals and Florida State still have to face No. 5 Clemson -- the preseason favorite to repeat as conference champions -- with Louisville visiting the Tigers on Oct. 1.Offensively, the Cardinals believe theyre just getting started.Thats saying something considering Louisvilles offense averages a nation-leading 754 yards per game and ranks third in yards per play at 9.9. Jackson has already rushed and passed for 1,025 yards and 13 touchdowns -- including his much-celebrated hurdle over a Syracuse defender en route to a TD.Dangerous as Jackson has been with his arm, quick feet and athleticism, Petrino has been pleased with the QBs decision-making and inclusion of multiple targets.Lamar is smart with the ball, said Florida State defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi, adding that Jackson is faster than Mississippi quarterback Chad Kelly. When there are times he has to make a play he is going to carry it. Chasing him down is more like a running back. Last year he was more in the pocket.As Louisville looks to Jackson to gain an edge against the Seminoles, the trick will be holding it after losing halftime leads versus Florida State the past two years. The Seminoles recently showed their knack for comebacks as they rallied from a 28-6 hole to beat Ole Miss 45-34 on Labor Day.If they can get on top of Florida State, the Cardinals dont plan to let them up again.We always start off good in the first half and then kind of slip up in the second half and dont do what we normally do, senior linebacker Keith Kelsey said. Were not going to let that happen this year.----AP Writer Joe Reedy in Tallahassee, Florida, contributed to this report.----Online: AP College Football website: www.collegefootball.ap.org----Follow Gary B. Graves on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/GaryBGraves Cheap Custom Jerseys China . -- Claudio Bieler hadnt scored since early September, and not from the run of play since mid-July. Fake Custom Jerseys Online . "I wrote 36 on my sheet at the beginning of the game," the Cincinnati coach said, referring the yard line the ball would need to be snapped from. http://www.jerseyscustom.us/ . 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Peter Ueberroth and his team delivered on their promise of bare-bones games, and 32 years later the surplus keeps paying dividends for Southern California sports through the well-funded LA84 Foundation.Now Los Angeles wants to do it again. And the playbook looks strikingly familiar.The citys plan to host the 2024 Olympics is audacious not -- like most Olympic bids -- because of the grandeur and spectacle it promises. Rather its because it promises to do something most Olympic cities have failed to do in the modern era -- deliver a decent Olympics while sticking to a reasonable budget.If Los Angeles gets the nod, organizers promise this would be an Olympics done on budget and with little building necessary. It would cost just $5.3 billion, a fraction of the $20 billion Tokyo organizers want to spend on the 2020 Games.Of course, its all promises and glitzy presentations now. And the latest plan unveiled last week to put on an Olympics without huge cost overruns is as much a strategy for beating Paris out for the 2024 Olympics as it is for putting on the actual games themselves.But LA has done it before, and done it well, turning a profit in 1984 when it was said that couldnt be done. And there are some smart people behind it, including the citys mayor and Casey Wasserman, an entertainment and sports industry figure who is active in all the right circles in Southern California.More important, it might be coming at just the right time, when the International Olympic Committee is looking to reign in some of the excesses of the games. On the same day Los Angeles unveiled the latest version of its plan last week, an IOC vice president warned Tokyo organizers that a $20 billion plan for the 2020 Olympics was unacceptable.If LA is chosen to host the 2024 Games, the IOC does not have to worry about changing or evolving budgets, shifting competition venues or uncertainty about the delivery of the games, said Wasserman, the LA 2024 chairman.To prove the point, LA24 submitted its budget to the accounting firm KPMG for evaluation. The accountants declared the plan reasonable with the important caveat that any changes to the budget after this date are outside thee scope of this project.ddddddddddddSecurity is also outside the scope of the project. It will be hugely expensive, though organizers believe the federal government will pick up the tab as it did for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.Promises are easier broken than kept, but Los Angeles has some things going for it. The biggest is that the LA metropolitan area already has almost all the sports facilities to host an Olympics, though Paris also plans to use mostly existing facilities.Still, what better place to center the Olympics than the LA Coliseum, a beautiful and historic stadium built for the 1932 Games and used again in 1984.Soccer would be in the iconic Rose Bowl, and basketball at Staples Center, home of the Lakers and Clippers.Swimming would be one of the few things needed to be built, and it would be a temporary open air facility on the USC campus that would be torn down after the games were over.Best of all, perhaps, is that theres already an athletes village. The plan is to use student housing at UCLA to house the worlds best athletes, and if dorm rooms dont sound that great they will certainly be an upgrade on the accommodations in Rio.Not to worry, there are also plenty of Beverly Hills mansions and ritzy hotels to house even the pickiest member of the U.S. basketball team.Why any city would want an Olympics in an era of bloated competitions and suspect athletes might be the one question LA residents should be asking. The people of Boston, you might remember, rose in rebellion last year and quashed that citys bid for the games.Its basically between Paris and Los Angeles (Budapest is not thought to be a winnable bid, and Rome recently dropped out) when IOC members meet next year to decide the site of the 2024 Games. Paris is thought to be the front-runner but with politics involved -- the presidency of Donald Trump is a wild card -- and the usual intrigue and shenanigans that go with a bid, its anyones guess what city will win.But LA has a plan, and its similar to one that worked before.Right now, a third Olympics in Los Angeles doesnt sound so bad at all.----Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg(at)ap.org or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg ' ' '