MORGANTOWN - Louisville is the kind of opponent Bill Stewart said he fears most, a team with its back against the wall and that can gamble with the high-risk, high-reward plays.

"Our opponent has everything to gain and nothing to lose," Stewart said during his weekly press conference Tuesday. "They're a dangerous outfit.

I don't know who we are going to see at quarterback, and I don't know who we are going to see at running back."

Louisville used its third starting quarterback of the season, Will Stein, a red-shirt freshman walk-on, in defeating Arkansas State last Saturday. Stein completed 20 of 39 passes in the victory, but he could return to the sidelines in favor of Adam Froman.

That is, if Froman is able to return from an elbow injury. Justin Burke, another of the Cardinals' starters at quarterback, has been limited because of shoulder issues.

"It's hard to prepare for three people," Stewart said. "But if they are trying to prepare three people, they have a hard task. You can't give them equal practice time because they don't play equally in the game."

The playing status of Louisville running back Vic Anderson is still to be determined. He missed the Cardinals' game against Arkansas State. Louisville coach Steve Kragthorpe said Anderson's playing time will be determined later this week.

"It depends on how he goes in the week of practice and how he feels about taking contact," Kragthorpe said.

Louisville enters the noon contest Saturday in Morgantown with just three wins in its eight games thus far, and the Cardinals are winless in three Big East Conference games. The Mountaineers enter the contest coming off their first conference loss at the hands of South Florida and are 6-2 overall and 2-1 in the Big East.

"I looked each and every guy in the eye (Sunday) and told them the truth and what's expected," Stewart said. "It's OK to fall and stumble.

The sin is to lay there and wallow and let them tell you that's where you're supposed to be.

"Nobody is going to tell Bill Stewart we're right where we should be."

That's why Stewart is less worried about what's going on down the road and more concerned about the problems in his back yard."We have to work on what we do best," he said. "I want to correct us and adjust to them.

It was a very tough football game in Tampa. Hopefully, we learned from it (because) this is the time you find out how tough a football team you have."