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This is Yards and Stripes Service Academy Football. Now Here are your hosts,
Price Atkinson, Steve Carney and Mike Love All. Welcome into Yards and
Stripes your home for Service Academy Football episode number eight. And it doesn't happen
every Saturday that it produces a clean suite for all three teams. But just
what happened on Saturday on the CBS Sports Network triple header with Army, Navy
and Air Force all victorious. Welcome in, listeners. I'm Price Atkinson,
joined by my man Steve Carney, as we are part of the College Gridiron
Coast to Coast podcast network, coming to you every single week with a new
episode during the college football season. Steve, Army, Navy, and Air
Force. All three teams giving up just a total of three points ninety four
to three. Our three teams outscoring the opponents, including two shutout win ends
on Saturday. It was kind of that all the stars seemed to align for
Service Academy Football on Saturday. Steve, Yeah, and we mentioned it last
week. Price, We thought that there was going to be uh one sided
affairs for both Army and Navy going up against one FCS clubs. We thought
that Sam Houston, State and Air Force was going to be a low scoring
affair, so you can thank us for that one. But yeah, this
is this is exactly what the doctor ordered U for both Army and Navy getting
their first wins on the season, and now Air Forces two and oh and
so here we are. We're in We're in really good shape for Service Academy
fans. This is exactly where you want these three teams going into what is
going to be probably the first big weekend of the season for all three of
these clubs. I think that you're gonna have You've got big weekends for all
three teams, and they're all going to start early, which is why we're
on early here this weekend, Yards and Stripes. That is exactly right.
We're going to recap the three games from this past weekend, touch on those.
We've got game balls to give out. We're going to hit on all
three upcoming games, which are technically weeknight games, a Thursday game and a
pair of Friday games. So our three teams are going to be done and
back relaxing on the couch watching on Saturday this week, we got to the
Travismanian Foundation on a roll segment to do as we honor a fallen hero,
one that's given the ultimate sacrifice. And then certainly we got some picks at
the very end to make of our three games this coming weekend, Stephen,
So let's get to our games from last weekend. As we mentioned, it
was a clean sweep and Army they get their home opener against Delaware State and
they ride exactly kind of what we thought. We thought it would be a
lot too a little, and that's just what it was. It's Jeff Munkin's
team gets a fifty seven and nothing win over the visiting Hornets, riding a
thirty six nothing halftime lead to the shutout, Army's largest margin of victory and
a shutout since beating Columbius sixty to nothing in October of nineteen fifty six,
the first shutout for the Black Nights. It's posting a fifteen oh win over
Navy in twenty twenty, now Army sixteen and two versus FCF's opponents in the
Jeff Munkin era, and Steve, this is exactly what Army needed after the
opening weekend loss where they struggled with mistakes execution, they didn't find the end
zone. All of that was really a thing of the past Saturday, except
for that one turnover, the only one they had in the game to start
the second half. I don't know how much we gleaned from this, but
it's exactly what Jeff Munkin needed and wanted to see from his team on Saturday.
Yeah, obviously the superglue didn't work for Iwan Marshall because he fumbled again.
That's now three fumbles in two games for the running back and I think
that's something that that coach Munkin is certainly going to have to address year moving
forward. But other than that, I mean, we mentioned it last week
that this needed to be the week that Army was able to go, Okay,
we're setting the bar for what we think we can do this year,
and this is where Army football should look like, and this is what it
should look like and the place where we need to be. And now every
other game moving forward for Army, they're gonna end up being looking at this
game and going how much did we look like the team that beat up on
Delaware State? And that's gonna start here on Friday but and they don't have
another game on their schedule until you maybe get to Holy Cross in November,
where they can say, Okay, this is where we can get probably get
closest to this, you mask, maybe around Halloween as well. But you
look at their next one, two, three, four, five games are
all going to be very, very difficult, and I really do think that
they're gonna they're gonna have a hard time measuring up to what they did here
this week against Delaware State. But it gives them a really nice target to
shoot for. And if we know anything about the military, they all know
about what it's like to have to shoot for a target. And so I
certainly think that starting here this week against Texas San Antonio, they're gonna have
a really nice target to look at and go how close can we get to
how we looked against Delaware State? Against these roadrunners. Yeah, and it
started with Bryson Day at quarterback did something that was rare, maybe a first
at least going back, the first Army quarterback since nineteen fifty six to throw
for three touchdowns. Yes, I said it, Army, a quarterback from
the Black Knights and the Hudson throwing for three touchdowns, and not only that,
rushing for another two efficient was the name of the game or the Army
offense, especially Bryson Daily on Saturday, as he was eight of eleven throwing
the football for one ninety three, three touchdowns, no picks, and then
he ran nine times for sixty five yards and two touchdowns seven point two yards
to carry his Army out gained Dell State five twenty five to two nineteen.
And then, of course, probably the key to that Army offense Isaiah Austin
one hundred and thirty five yards receiving three catches, two of which were touchdowns.
I mean he is I mean he is a difference maker. I mean
he is a guy that can rise above take that game to another level.
He is that one player on that offense is a game breaking difference maker,
and he was exactly that, especially that touchdown he caught and took it to
the house just before halftime on Saturday. I thought it was also interesting that
was that was that was kind of a Randy Moss like performance from from Austin.
You I think most people remember the Thanksgiving Day game, uh that the
Minnesota Vikings had in Randy Moss's rookie year in the NFL where he had three
catches for one hundred and forty yards and three touchdowns. Like that's that's exactly
what I thought of when when I saw what he was doing. He had
a fifty nine yards score, he had a seventy yard score. Uh.
They were in really really impressive shape, and I really did think I was
I was thinking, this is Randy Moss all over again. Now, granted
the level of competition for Army was a little lower, but but I was
like, you know, that's that's a that's another great comparison to make.
And if you're Isaiah Austin, you got to feel real good. Uh hearing
somebody say, you know, kind of looked like Randy Moss. There a
man among boys, that's for sure, is what he looked like with that
touchdown catch and then just running, you know, away from everybody and taking
it to the house. And I thought also something that was interesting. We'll
touch on defense here in a second, but Tyson Riley, who's been one
of the main you know b backs, you know, fullbacks for this Army
team over the years. We know that Drew Thatcher's kind of come in and
brought the whole running backs, that entire core of the slotbacks and the fullbacks
together into one room. Tyson Riley lining up and playing more h back and
tight end than he did, uh you know the previous couple season he lined
up his first snap as a freshman at Army wasn't tight end. But you
know, he doesn't even carry the football. On Saturday, he catches two
passes for for thirty eight yards, including uh, you know, the touchdown
there. And I thought it was just interesting way to utilize Tyson Riley and
get another playmaker or at least another person. You know, I'm playmaker on
that offensive the ball because he scored, you know, on a thirteen yard
or excuse me, he had that sixteen yard touchdown pass after Austin's touchdown.
So that's what made the thirty six nothing halftime margin. But interesting to see
some changes defensively. You can't ask for anything more outside of maybe Kyle Lewis,
who who maybe should be getting all the pats on the Backstea because you
know, he preserved he preserved the shutout for the Black Nights, that strip
sack and fumble recovery just before halftime with Dell State third and goal inside the
Army twenty that that allowed them to keep that goose egg on the scoreboard and
it stayed there the rest of the way. So big shout out to Kyle
Lewis for keeping that shutout on the board for Army Steam. Yeah. Absolutely,
And you look at Army's defense, they had ten TFLs. I don't
think I've seen a team have that many TFLs in a long long time,
especially a Service Academy team. To have ten tackles for loss was just in
crowd. I mean you look at it. The Hornets had two. Uh,
So you could tell the difference in the in the quality of defense.
And you're right, Kyle Lewis being able to keep the shutout intact and keep
del State from putting even a single point up on the on the scoreboard,
because at that point you're thinking, all right, can can they hold them
to three and keep them out of the end zone? And then you get
the strip sack and then it's like, okay, now, now can we
can we can we preserve the shutout And they were able to do so,
and team Captain Leo Lowen leading the way four of the Army defense with nine
stop, seven solo tackles. So just exactly what the doctor order for Jeff
Munkin's team, getting that fifty seven to nothing win over visiting at Delaware States
Army now improving to one and one overall and Delaware State dropping two and two.
All right, let's move to Annapolis where a similar thing. Midshipman home
opener for the Mids after a couple of weeks off for one week off since
getting back from Dublin, also their first meeting with their opponent, hosting the
Wagon or Seahawks, and just like an Army, the Mids post a big
shutout twenty four to nothing, the first season opener or first home opener win
for the Mids since twenty nineteen, in a game that was delayed, I
don't know by about fifteen twenty minutes due to other and then the start of
the third quarter was again delayed by weather that was you know, making its
way you know through the you know, the mid Atlantic in the Southeast on
Saturday. But you know, if you're if you're a Navy fan, a
lot like Army, this is exactly what you wanted to see, especially from
Brian Newberry's team, who played pretty much mistake free football with limiting turnovers,
didn't have a single one in the game, and Thai Lavatai two hundred and
twenty six yards of total offense out gaining the Seahawks four uh eight to two
twenty seven. Maybe his best ever passing day Steve with eight to thirteen for
one hundred and sixty one yards in a touchdown. All in all, is
exactly what the Mids needed to get that taste of confidence. Yeah. I
don't know about you, Price, but when I think of Thay Lavatai,
I don't think of a guy that puts the ball in the air. And
the fact of the matter is that he threw thirteen passes in this game.
And if I had said before this game, if I had said in last
week's episode that Thay Lavatai was going to throw the ball more than a dozen
times, you and I are thinking that Wagner is winning in this game,
uh if he's having to throw the football. But I thought, you know,
and we joked before the show started that you know, this was the
run and gun offense, not just for Army but for Navy as well,
showing a passing wrinkle from lavata This was easily his best his best passing game.
His touchdown comes as Kamari Williams decides to play bowling ball to get into
the end zone. But I thought that he would. He made smart decisions,
He was able to get the ball down the field, He was able
to stretch things, uh, stretch the offense, and I really do think
that this was a really really impressive showing from Lavata. I know that he
had to he had to take a couple of plays off because he had the
issue with his knee brace. Of course, he's coming back from a from
a rather serious knee injury, so he still has the brace and he had
the brace come loose. Uh, And so Blake Horvath, I know,
had to take a couple of snaps in his place while they had to fix
his brace. But I certainly think that, you know, when you look
at what Lavati was able to do, this is a really really great sign.
And of course you had the other bowling ball in Dabbo Fofauna getting into
the end zone. I love when they get fafauna involved. They need to
do it more often. And the fact that they were able to get to
a point where they were inside the five and they could just hand the ball
off to the to the big man and say take it to the house for
us, and he was able to do so. Yeah, maybe doing the
job on both lines of scrimmage, you know, running for two forty five
on forty four carries, that's you know, just over five and a half
yards of carry. But playing the mistake, you know, the mistake free
football is what you really needed to do. And that's what they did.
And you know, Brian Newberry is head coach, his first his first official
win, is his first win, is the head coach of the Naval Academy.
Uh, you know, so the opponent, notwithstanding you do, you're
gonna have to throw the football at times. We know that Army and Air
Force and Navy for that matter, they can all win, you know without
throwing a forward pass if they have to, and everything comes down the right
way. But you're gonna have to, especially when you play, you know
in the American Athletic when you play you know in the Mountain West, you're
going to have to be able to have some sort of threat to throw the
ball against the teams like a Memphis coming up of the Navy this Thursday night,
like you know what, East Carolina, the SMUs of the world,
like Army is gonna have to face with Syracuse coming up and just you know
a few weeks. You have to have some at least, I don't care
if it's a minor threat. You've got to have some ability to to throw
the football instead of having ten guys line up the box and say, Daria
baby Ideria. Labati is not a thrower. We know that's not the strength
of his game. But at least for one Saturday, you have to have
liked what you've seen, especially moving forward and get ready for this game on
Thursday. Yeah. Absolutely, And much like how Kyle Lewis had the strip
sack fumble to preserve the shutout for Army, you've got to give the same
sort of shut out to Shout out to Raywon Lane with the interception in the
end zone that kept Wagner off the scoreboard as well. So they had one
opportunity to put the ball to get some points and it ends up in an
interception in the end zone. So shout out to Raywon Lane and a Bravo
Zulu for him for what he did in that game as well. All right,
congratulations to Navy twenty four nothing win over Wagner. As they get their
first win and Brian Newberry's first as head coach, defeating the Seahawks twenty for
nothing all right at NRG Stadium Steve in Houston on Saturday night, the nightcap.
We knew that this was going to be a low scoring game. I
did not expect it to resemble maybe an Army Navy game as low scoring as
it was. But Air Force they stay undefeated two and oh they knock off
Sam Houston State thirteen to three. It was an absolute grinder, a slugfest
there in Houston as the Falcons who led the nation in total defense a year
ago and Saturday's performance is not gonna hurt. With a shot for the Falcons
to finish a top the FBS again as they allowed just eighty total yards and
only six first downs by the Bearcats. It took a while. It was
like novocaine, but it did take a while, but it finally started working
and they got into the end zone with Owen Burke on a five yard up
the middle dive with five fourteen left, the Captain eleven place sixty five yard
or sixty yard drive that basically iced the game for the game's final margin thirteen
to three. Yeah, I believe somebody had the under there in that game.
And like I said, if you listen to last week's show, I
said, take the under, thank me later, and thankfully somebody some some
people listened and are very very happy, uh today and listening to this week's
episode. Uh, and what happened there? Yeah, I really I agree
with you. This was uh the proverbial meat grinder. And watching these two
teams, especially in the first half, go back and forth in the kicking
game and to see who could pin their opponent further back and make it more
more difficult. I was looking at the drive summary at the end of the
game, and you know, apart from the one fumble at the beginning of
the second half for air Force, you know, the Bearcats spent most of
their day inside their own thirty, so they didn't have a whole lot of
success, and it took that turnover that led to sam Houston State's only points
their first three points as a matter of fact as an FBS team. But
other than that, you could tell that, you know, even though there
was not going to be a whole lot of scoring, that Air Force was
easily the better of the two teams, and their defense. You mentioned just
eighty yards of offense allowed. I was wowed by how well that they played.
And there's a reason why they're going to be one of the top two
or three defenses in all of college football for another season. They were number
one last year. I think they've got a great shot of being number one
again this year in total defense. I really do like what Troy cal has
for weapons defensively to be able to keep opponents off the scoreboard. And it's
my long time mentor, Steve Doomick used to tell me, you can't win
if you score zero, or you can't lose if you give up, and
the other ways around holds true. You can't lose if you give up zero.
So they're in good shape. Yeah, and that's saying something too.
That's not a fluke that's not a flukey thing, because when you play in
the Mountain West, all right, let's let's be real. I mean,
clearly, we know that there's no teams that are really going to be fighting
for a college football playoff berth that are you know, Power five teams.
But still it's a league that puts up traditionally a lot of high numbers on
offense, a lot of big numbers offensively, So what air Force did last
year, I mean, that's it's legit, you know they are. They
have a darned good defense, and clearly they have another good one this season.
I think we're going to see more of a test in terms of a
more comp fleet team that they've seen so far this year in their Mountain West
Conference opener in Utah State this this Friday night. But still nonetheless, uh,
you know, through two games doing the job where they have just you
know, they have they have clamped down and put the brakes on anything the
opposing offensive has wanted to do. And sam Houston State, which has struggled
to throw the football, they're pretty much a lot of ways a one dimensional
team. Air Force just flat did the job, especially with a you know,
a strong you know linebacking corps you know, on Saturday, and that's
what you want to see, you know. But as you mentioned that the
only points at sam Houston State, Look, this was going to be a
shutout as well. I think if if if Zach Larrier, who made his
only mistake of the game where he puts the ball on the ground, sam
Houston State recovers and basically, uh in Air Force territory and all they have
to do is line up and kick a field goal when they can't move it.
Those were the only points of the game that were basically spotted to the
Bearcats by Air Force. Steve Yeah, And they had one series where they
had more than thirty yards, and it was that that series there because they
started outside of their own forty and we're able to get into field goal territory
and make the kick. Other than that, you look at it, they
was like three and out, three and outs like seven yards, four yards,
Okay, they got four. They had four plays for twelve yards.
I mean they did. The defense did an incredible job to make sure that
the Bearcats a started deep in their own territory and b were unable to sustain
anything and put their own defense, which tended to be get tired, and
you started to see it at the end of the game the Bearcat defense was
finally worn out and Air Force was able to go down the field and score
a touchdown and put the game out of reach. Because if you were if
you were watching the game on CBS Sports Network, they were saying that,
you know, if the Bearcats want a chance, they needed to hold air
Force to a field goal when they were up six three, and all of
a sudden, niergoes owen Burke for five yards into the end zone, and
all of a sudden, it's now thirteen three, and you had a feeling
that that was the beginning of the end, the Deathnell had told for the
Bearcats at that point. All right, Air Force two and oh on the
season, now thirteen to three winner over Sam Houston State. As they are
receiving votes still once again in the Coach's poll this week, all right,
Steve, let's give out some game balls. Which way you want to go
with yours this week? Friend? Well, I'm gonna I'm usually a fan
of big uglies, but I'm going with the beautiful game this week and Isaiah
Alston, who was just absolutely tremendous. You know, I mentioned the Randy
Moss type of game that he had. There's no way that I can't give
it. I know Bryson Daily had a great game, and you may you
may end up thinking of giving yours to Bryson Daily. I don't know yet,
but I'm going with Isaiah Austin just an. I think this is the
coming out party for the Army wide out I think that this is now what
we've seen, and now teams are going to have to uh game plan uh
for him much in a much more significant style. Three catches, one hundred
and thirty five yards and two scores. Slap the sticker, so to speak,
on Isaiah Austin's helmet. I'll give it to him, all right,
I'm gonna give my game ball to you know, I hate going you know,
big numbers here, but the one team that did not post the shutout
this weekend, the Air Force Academy. Their defense. I'm gonna give a
game ball to that defense because you know, they six tackles for a loss
in the game, not nearly the ten that Army had in the win over
and there went over Dell State, but Alec Mackley the way with eleven stops
and then Bo bo Richter, you know, two sacks, four tackles,
both solo. The Air Force has only given up ten points all season,
less than you know, a point a quarter. You know, in eight
quarters they've given up just ten points just over I should say point a point
a quarter, uh, you know, but being somewhat tested, so to
speak on Saturday between our three teams, you know, Sam Houston State and
making the move Casey Keeler's team from FCS up to FBS. They still have
not found the end zone this season. Who knows when Sam Houston State at
this point, I guess we really don't care here on this podcast that so
we won't see them again. But the Air Force defense doing the job yet
again, just giving up six first downs in eighty total yards. Just absolutely
dominant. That's my game ball. It's going to the Air Force defense this
week. All right, Steve, we got a bunch more to do,
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Academy Football All Right. Continuing on here on Yards and Stripes Episode four as
we work our way through the college football season, and Week three is all
three teams in action, but in action on the week during the week.
This week is Navy a Thursday night game, and then Air Force and Army
on Friday night this week, so they will be kicking back on Saturday checking
out the rest of the college football landscape. But let's get into our games
this week, as Navy going to be opening the season, or at least
the American Athletic Conference portion of its season on the road and the Liberty Bowl
on Thursday night at seventh thirty pm kickoff the ESPN Thursday Night Game of the
week. As Navy is six and two and AAC openers, including one and
one on the road. Bow team's going to be opening up the conference slate
this week as Navy is getting fourteen and a half over under forty seven and
a half. This being the ninth all time meeting between the Naval Academy and
Memphis, and the Tigers lead the series five to three, including four straight
against the Mids. Last year, they handled the Naval Academy thirteen thirty seven
to thirteen in Annapolis, and ironically, this is going to be the third
straight season that the Navy at Memphis game has been a Thursday night affair.
The Tigers handed Navy one of its two losses in twenty nineteen thirty five to
twenty three, and then won the twenty twenty one meeting thirty five to seventeen,
so familiar territory as Navy is going to be playing in the Liberty Bowl
on a Thursday night and their AAC opener against the Memphis Tiger. Steve Yeah,
and really this is going to be a test of Navy's backfield. I
look at what Seth Hennigan, the Memphis quarterback, has been able to do
in his first two games. He went for three hundred and thirty yards against
Bethune Cookman, who is an FCS team, and then going to Arkansas State
for two hundred and thirty nine yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions. He
has completed over seventy three percent of his passes on the season, and seventy
five percent against Bethune Cookman seventy two percent against Arkansas State. And really,
this, like I said, this is going to be a test for Navy's
defensive backfield. You know that the Tigers are gonna want to throw the football.
They have done a very good job this year of scoring a boatload of
points. If my math is correct, They've scored ninety three points in their
first two games combined, and a lot of that has been through the air,
as as Hennigan has four touchdowns through the air so far this year.
I really do think that there's gonna be a impetus on getting this pressure on
Memphis's quarterback. You're gonna have to find a way to exploit the Memphis offensive
line. They're big, they're ugly. You have to be quick, and
you have to be powerful to try and put some pressure on him and not
let him sit back there and go through his progressions. If he gets a
chance to look at his second and or third options, Navy is gonna be
in big trouble. And I think it's it's part of the reason why this
game is going to be very high scoring, and unfortunately, I have a
feeling that's gonna be lopsided. I don't think that Navy has the weapons that
it needs to try and keep this game close. Yeah, I'm with you
on that. Plus history and at least in them last few years, not
really on Navy's side here. Since joining the American Athletics Steve in two thousand
and seventeen, the Mids are just three and seven in games that are not
played on Saturday, including oh and three in Thursday night games, So history
not exactly on their side. You know, playing on a Thursday night,
playing during the week, and playing on the road in the Liberty Bowl against
Memphis, you know, and they've obviously lost four straight against the Tigers.
As it is, with five Navy players that are going to be going back
to the volunteer state for this one again, the ESPN Thursday Night game seven
thirty kickoff from the Liberty Bowl in the American Athletic Conference opener for both teams
on Thursday night. All right, on Friday night, Steve Army, let's
check them out first, as they're going to be hitting the road and playing
in the Alamo Dome a seven o'clock kickoff Eastern Standard time on ESPN against your
University of Texas San Antonio UTSA one and one on the season, just like
Army, the Black Nights getting nine points over under. Last I saw was
forty five points in this one. Of course, Army getting their first taste
of victory last week. This is going to be a little bit tougher as
they're going to be hitting the road, playing in the Alamodome where UTSA played
on and beat Texas State on Saturday night with almost fifty thousand in the building
inside that loud that you know the Alamodome, which can get really loud when
it's packed. And if you know anything about Roadrunner football the last couple of
years, you know the name Frank Harris. Yep, he's back again,
seventh year of college football. Is the starting quarterback for the Roadrunners. He's
a guy that's got some weapons, but he can do a lot of damage
himself. Steve, I was gonna say, I think I remember playing against
Frank Harris when I was in college. And by the way, I graduated
from the University of South Florida fifteen years ago, so after my time in
the Navy. So I just it's unbelievable that he's getting another year of eligibility.
It's and it's also amazing that he's thrown three picks so far this year.
I know that the Roadrunners love to throw the football, and they've shown
that they love to throw the football again uh this year, and they're averaging
uh three hundred and ninety four yards of offense uh in a game this year
and most of that coming through the air. I think that this the I
know that Army is is almost a two full scores underdog. You look at
it that they've almost got uh, you know, they're nine point underdogs.
I think this game is going to be close than people think. I really
do like the way that we've saw Bryson daily this week against Delaware State.
As I mentioned in the first segment, now you have a target to shoot
for, and now that they've seen what they can do, I think that
they're going to be able to go. Okay that I think that the coaching
staff and more importantly, I think the players are smart enough that they can
make adjustments in game and not have to wait for halftime. I think that
they're gonna they're gonna find out what works and what doesn't work early on.
They're gonna be able to make the adjustment within a series or two, uh,
and be able like if something doesn't work in the first quarter, I
think by the second quarter they've got something working and being able to exploit the
Roadrunner defense, which is not as good. I think I think Army's defense
is better than than the Roadrunners defense, and I think that they're going to
be able to keep this game a lot closer than most people think. Yeah,
and some of these recent matchups have been close, including last year when
the Army Black nights fall in overtime forty one to thirty eight. The series
going Armies way, they have two wins to one loss. Of course,
as I just mentioned, that loss was last season. But those two wins
for Army coming on the road in San Antonio in two thousand, nineteen and
two thousand and twenty, so they've got a history of going on the road
Steve and getting it done down there in San Antonio. But this is gonna
be again. Frank Harris started college started playing his UTSA career in two thousand
and seventeen. Think about that, the fall of two thousand and seventeen,
still playing college football. He was born. I did check HELFO clearly he
does born in March of nineteen ninety nine and is still under center. As
the six foot red shirt senior from shirts Texas As. He will be under
center. The Conference USA Most Valuable Player First Team All League last year once
again is Army and the Texas University of Texas San Antonio Roadrunners doing battle seven
o'clock Friday night from the Alamo Dome on ESPN Last game of the week.
Air Force also a Friday night tilt, this one against Utah State going to
be the Mountain West Conference opener. There hadn't been a single conference game played
in the mount West Conference yet this year, well, this will be the
first one of the season, as UTAs State and air Force is going to
do battle at eight o'clock Eastern Standard Time on Friday, CBS Sports Network,
air Force giving nine and a half over under forty four and a half or
one in one, Utah State coming to Colorado Springs. The last eight meetings,
six of which had been decided by ten points or less. Air Forces
thirteen and eleven and Mountain West openers going back to nineteen ninety nine, including
seven five at home. This is gonna be the second time in three seasons
that air Force is opening mount West Conference play against Utah State. And you
know, Steve, this is going to be a game not just because it
is the opener for the Mountain West Conference for both teams, but this is
a game that air Force really is going to want to win. After the
last couple of seasons. Yeah, you look at it. The Falcons have
lost i believe, each of the last two seasons to the Aggies of Utah
State, once in Colorado Springs and once in Logan, uh So they they
have, they have revenge on their minds, and really you look at it,
the Utah State games each of the last two years have kept the Falcons
out of the Mountain West UH Conference championship. For all intents and purposes,
I really do think they are going to want to especially the upperclassmen. You
know, the upperclassmen have not beaten Utah State as a team, and so
they they are so certainly in a desire uh. They they want this,
They want to win this game. They want to make sure that they get
their conference UH play off on the right foot. And while this this game
is certainly not going to be UH the same sort of slog that we saw
in Houston, I do think that we're in for another low scoring affair.
I really do think that this is going to be another grind and I think
that the Falcons are good with that. I think they want to put the
Aggies through the grinder and and grind out a tough, hard fought victory.
And I think that in order to do so, h in order to win,
they're going to have to do so. I think that if Utah State
can throw gets to throw the football and gets time and gets protection from their
quarterback there, and I think the Falcons are in trouble. Yeah, I
think that this is actually gonna be a higher scoring game. I think that
you know history and not that you know history has got any bearing on you
know, one season to the next, but it traditionally has been a a
fairly high scoring affair. And last year it was you know, a total
of what sixty one points, thirty four to twenty seven with Utah State,
you know, beating air Force and logan, my gut says that this is
a higher scoring affair than what we think because not not because of the seventy
eight points that Utah State hung last week on Idaho State, or you know
the fact that they went and played Iowa close in their season opener. You
know, Utah State is just typically one of those very explosive offensive teams sometimes
struggles defensively to get off the team on the field on third down, and
I think that's a lot of what can happen. But that defense, boy,
they sure turned some points or turnovers into points last week. I think
they were turned two interceptions. Again, take the opponent into consideration, Idaho
State, but still, yeah, you got to go out and do it.
But This is going to be a big game for both teams because you
want to start conference play the right way, especially when your Air Force opening
conference play at home. You always wanted to defend that home turf against a
team that's had your number lately. But again, Utah State and Air Force
a eight o'clock Eastern Standard time six pm local kickoff from the Falcon Stadium there
in Colorado Springs on the CBS Sports Network on Friday night. All Right,
we got some picks to do, Steve when we come back. We got
our Travismanion Foundation Honorall segment. Especially I don't want to say it's got more
meaning this week, but certainly nine to eleven we all stopped in pause,
you know earlier this week with you know, tributes that poured in from coast
to coast going back to two thousand and one, but so many of our
fallen heroes who have given the ultimate sacrifice over the years and opera in support
of Operation Enduring Freedom. Yeah. Absolutely, I was able to to give
my thoughts on September eleventh and and talk about where I was and what happened
with because I was I was active duty for September eleventh, two thousand and
one. So I was able, I was able to give my own uh
recounting of that day, and and I just the one thing that I'll leave
it at this the one thing I will remember about September eleventh. I want
to remember how it started because it was just such a beautiful day. I
know that it was a devastating day, but I look at how we came
together and were able to grow collectively and hopefully that that's the sort of thing
that we never forget. It's amazing to me to think that, you know,
there are so many people that I know that were not born on September
eleventh, two thousand and one. I mean, your children weren't uh so
uh you know your your your kids are all younger uh than that, and
they don't remember what what what America was like prior to September eleventh. And
it's, uh yeah, it's up to it's up to those of us that
do remember to keep that memory alive and keep those people's memories alive. Yeah.
Yeah, I thought last night at my son's uh boy scout meeting,
I thought his scout master made a kind of a interesting observation as he was
closing up things last night and talking about September eleventh, is you know,
telling all the kids because they were all none of them were born clearly that
this you know, they go by memories or videos and things they've seen and
read a memory that people have had from nine to eleven. But his message
to them was, you know, to go back and look at some of
the videos and read some of the stuff from September twelve because at a time
where we're just you know, seemingly like divided and torn apart, people coming
at us from all angles, you know, around the world nowadays, you
know, that American spirit that we had the day after nine to eleven was
tough, and the days after were very tough. But that the way that
American spirit came alive and we all came together the day after nine to eleven
was something he wanted all the Scouts to go back and take a look at
and read and watch because that's needed kind of now more than ever, Steve.
But I will digress from there, all right, when we come back
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So check them out. Travismanion dot org. All right, Steve got
some news and notes just real quick to pass along before we pick a few
games here. Armies September twenty third game against a Syracuse is going to air
on the ACC Network, a twelve noon kickoff between Army and Syracuse, the
first meeting between the two New York programs. It's nineteen ninety six. Is
that'll be at Military Appreciation Day at Syracuse? Were you really? Yeah?
That was that? I believe that was at the Carrier Down. I believe
they played in Syracuse. I was there for that game. I was there.
Wow, what one of many at a powerhouse of a program in Syracuse
back then. But I'm sure that that time, you're just looking for any
kind of college football you get your hands on, especially live. Oh absolutely,
and and and watching. I was curious to see how Donovan McNabb handled
the triple option offense at that time, and uh, you know I was.
I was very impressed with how uh coach p coach Paul PASQUALONEIU, who
you know obviously went on to UH further six UH success at Syracuse and then
at the University of Connecticut. I really thought that they handled the Black Knights
well, and I'll be curious to see how this one goes out. Paul
Pasqualonis a name I hadn't heard in a long time. That's a guy that
knew his football and was one of the more underrated coaches, I think in
college football over the years. But I did his army in Syracuse. They'll
meet on September twenty three on the ACC Network. All Right, air Force
a couple honors pouring in this week, certainly after the thirteen three win over
sam Houston State. Air Force senior linebacker Alec mackneamed the Conference Defensive Player of
the Week. Led the team in tackles with eleven, six of which were
solo stops, had a tackle for a loss. Four of his eleven stops
fource third downs, with the Bearcat's failing to convert on third each time,
leading that defense that just gave up. As we mentioned a little bit ago,
eighty total yards, the fourth lowest total ever by an Air Force opponent
in program history. Air Force junior kicker Matthew Deport also honored by the Mountain
West Conference as he was named the Special Teams Player of the Week, tying
a career high with two field goals in the win over Sam Houston State,
hitting a pair of field goals from plus forty. So Matthew Deport getting honored
by the Mountain West as well. And then Steve Stay in the PAC twelve,
You had an interesting observation with we talked about last week Air Force.
Could they or excuse me, Army, could they be on the move to
a conference? My Air Force have a new home moving forward. Yeah,
you look at what's happened with the PAC twelve. Of course, ten of
the twelve teams that are currently in the conference will be playing elsewhere next year.
The two remaining teams, Oregon State and Washington State, just filed an
injunction in court and Washington that basically has ground all of the goings on in
the PAC twelve to a halt. There was supposed to be a Board of
directors meeting and Oregon State Washington State filed an injunction to stop it because they
didn't want the ten teams that are leaving to have any sort of say on
the future of the conference because they could just dissolve the conference and take all
of the assets with them on their way. We've got four teams going to
the Big Ten, four more going to the Big twelve, and two to
the ACC and these two teams, the Beavers of Oregon State and the Cougars
of Washington State, are being left behind, and they want to say that
if if the future off the PAC twelve is to go on, they want
to be the ones that are in charge of rebuilding it. And my thought
process when that happened was, well, it sounds like these two teams are
going to start inviting Mountain West teams and teams from the Whack maybe to join
them in a new look Pack twelve conference. And my question do you,
Prices, does Air Force A want to be of the part of play the
part in a new Pack twelve conference and and be you know, I'm curious
to as to your thoughts of what a new PAC twelve could look like.
It's interesting because the the PAC twelve basically being left well not basically, but
is basically well it is Oregon State in Washington State. And I was I
won't say excited, but I was pleased to see a court ruling that basically,
you know, allow them to you know, for lack of a better
term, take control of the league. Because when everybody else you know,
departs the premises, you know, and you're the only two left standing,
well, I mean, you're the ones that should be calling the shots,
not somebody else, you know, not somebody from you know, an office
building on the other side of the country. And you know, I like
the fact that they're going to be able to at least kind of determine,
you know, moving forward, what the PAC twelve you know, to a
greater extent will look like. I guess when it comes down to it is,
if you're if you're those two schools, do you try and absorb most
of the mount West and just rename it the PAC twelve and leave the mountain
basically almost flip flop and leave the Mountain West in ruins, you know,
so to speak. Where you've got, you know, just a handful of
teams left, or are you just going to go pluck you know, Air
Force and a couple of other teams from the mount West and then try and
look around and see what else you can augment them with like, you know,
pick your school, you know, you know, Gonzaga maybe in basketball.
I don't think you would be able to do that. But you know,
do you go look at you know, some of those type of schools
that are you know, you know, a good bit lower. Are you
going to maybe try and you know, entice some teams that are upper one
double A, you know FCS opponent, you know schools to try and make
the move up. It's going to be interesting to see what the PAC twelve
looks like. But I think the PAC twelve will you know, cease to
continue. It's just a matter of how many teams are going to be in.
Is it gonna be the PAC six? Is it ultimately going to get
back to twelve teams or more? But if it were me, I would
go try and maybe absorb maybe half of the top level of the Mountain West
Conference and move forward that way. Yeah, I really look at im because
you look at the Mountain West, there are already twelve teams in the Mountain
West. You know, do you do you too, do you absorb?
Do you do you merge with the Mountain West and start calling it the Pack
fourteen? You know, could you could you go that route or do you
change it or do you make it the PAC twelve, the new Mountain West
you know, go that route and just go with fourteen teams moving forward.
I think that whatever teams are part of what will end up being a new
look PAC, PAC twelve or PAC fourteen, whatever you want to call it,
it's going to be a big plus for those teams. I think this
is there. Is the PAC twelve ever gonna be what the PAC twelve has
been in the past. No, absolutely not Without UCLA, without USC,
without Oregon, without CAL, without Stanford, you don't have a PAC twelve
that is like it was. But I think that by taking the Mountain weston
and I mean, if you get if you if you get Boise State and
Air Force and Utah State and you know, San Jose State, and I
really do think that you you've got to and even Wyoming, you know,
Wyoming looks good this year. I think that you could have a very You
could have a conference that rivals like the Atlantic sun uh in in strength,
and you know, it's not going to be the Big ten or it's not
gonna be the Big twelve, and it's certainly not going to be the SEC
but I think that that pack that Pacific Conference because I don't know, I
don't want to call it the Pac twelve. There's gonna be fourteen teams and
I don't know what they what they would call it, but I think it's
better than the American right now. To be honest, I think that that
that uh, that conference with those Mountain West teams would be a much better
conference than the American if they have if they add Oregon State in Washington State,
I do agree with you. I think it would be much better than
the American because I think the American moving forward after this year is going to
be more like you know, the Sun Belt Slash Conference USA. You know,
it's it's not going to be that, you know, like Mike Rresco
had positioned them to be the power sixth or sixth you know conference they are.
You know, to me, that's all gone. You know that that's
laughable now that with you know, losing you know, the Cincinnatis of the
world. Look, they're lucky to still have Memphis around. And you know,
I'm surprised Memphis at this point wasn't plucked, you know, to go
somewhere. But I guess, you know, in a perfect world, I
would see you know, those two schools, Washington State and Oklahoma or Oregon
State merging with the current Mountain West Conference schools and then calling themselves the PAC
twelve. What you know, the legal ease of all that will be difficult,
you know to try, and you know, with naming and you know,
rights and all that kind of stuff. I'm glad I'm not a lawyer
when it comes to that, but to me, that would be the easiest,
most logical move forward. Yeah. For for lawyers, there's it's the
two greatest words in the English language, billable hours. Because, uh,
with the with the Mountain West television deal, the PAC twelve television deal,
Uh, possible possibilities, I really do think. And then you know,
God forbid the streaming moves on. I certainly think it could be very very
interesting. Yeah, I agree with you. It'll be something to watch moving
forward, no doubt about it. All Right, Steve, let's get to
some picks this week. Let's talk about our three game and let's start on
Thursday night. Navy at meant the seven to thirty on ESPN, the Thursday
night game of the week again, maybe getting fourteen and a half over under
forty seven and a half, and this one, I guess I'll fire first.
I like Memphis. I like Memphis with the solid victory. I like
him maybe to the tune of thirty three to ten. I think they're just
too big and strong for Navy and you know, maybe having to kind of
go back up in wait class, so to speak, this week, playing
one of the perennial I won't say contenders, but I think gonna be positioned
Meanphis to be maybe kind of one of those teams to beat in the American
moving forward. But I like the Tigers thirty three to ten at home set
this Thursday night. Yeah, I agree with you completely on that. I
certainly think that Memphis's passing game, I think is going to be too much
for the Navy defensive backfield. And I just see Sam Hennigan having another field
day with Navy, and does he does he throw for four hundred yards?
Probably not, but I certainly could see him throwing for three hundred and fifty
or three hundred and seventy yards and four touchdowns in this game. So yeah,
I would say this is going to be a pretty easy victory for Memphis
when all is said and done. All right, Friday night, let's move
to Friday His Army and University of Texas, San Antonio in the Alamo Dome,
seven o'clock on ESPN. Army getting nine points in this game. Steve,
what do you think anyway that the Army defense can slow down the right
arm of Frank Harris, the seventh year starting quarterback for the Roadrunners. I
think it's gonna be tough. I think they can, though, you know,
you look at what the Roadrunners have done this year, and they've done
something that with Frank Harris that you don't expect. They've made mistakes, They've
turned the ball over, and I think that Army take advantage of those.
If they make mistakes, I think that they're going to be able to turn
it into points. So yeah, I would take I don't know if Army
is gonna win this game, but I would definitely take the Black Nights to
cover. So, you know, I really do think that they can cover
this game, and I would think that this is going to be a much
closer game than some people think. Yeah, I also think UTSA is just
gonna be a little too much, too much explosiveness on offense. I don't
think it's gonna be super high scoring, but I I like the Roadrunners,
you know, to the tune of something like twenty eight to seventeen in this
one, all right, last game of the week Friday night again, eight
o'clock kick off Eastern Standard time, six pm Local there from Colorado Springs on
the CBS Sports Network, Utah State at air Force in the Mountain West Conference
opener. Steve teams have played some shootouts before, a little bit lower scoring
last year. You think that you mentioned a little bit ago that you think
this could be a little bit lower scoring, not the shootout, not the
Mountainless shootout that you know. Maybe this series is featured before, but it's
been a fairly close game over the last eight years. Is it going to
be close again on Friday Night? I do think it's going to be close
again. And I do think it's going to be lower scoring because air Force
has that's become their philosophy to you know, to put it mildly, I
think that they want this to be a much lower scoring affair. I think
that they're perfectly fine with just throwing, having the ball stay in the middle
of the field, stay within the forties, I would say, and being
able to try and pin UTAs date back and make them go sixty seventy yards
just to get into field goal range. I really do think that they're okay
with bending and not breaking on defense, especially when they start uh deep in
their opponent's territory, when the defense starts deep in their opponent's territory. And
I do think that this is going to be a much lower scoring affair than
it has been in years past. So this is not going to be thirty
thirty one twenty four. This is not going to be uh thirty eight thirty.
I think this is going to be uh twenty four fourteen. I think
that this could this could end up being a one score game. I think
that you know, with a late with a late score, I think air
Force can get it to beyond one score. But I really do think that
this is twenty four fourteen or twenty one fourteen. I think this is a
much lower scoring affair than most people think it's going to be. See I
disagree. I think this is going to be a little bit more high scoring.
I like, you know, you mentioned some of those you know scores.
I think I'm gonna go like something to the two of thirty eight to
twenty three. I think this is no doubt about it going to be the
first time we really see Zach Larry or tested. You know, especially when
you play conference opponents. You know, you're you're talking about teams that know
each other, you know a lot better than teams you may have you know,
never played, you know, in the non conference, or seldom play
in the non conference. And you know, air Forces to first two opponents
were teams that you know, we're not familiar with them, or the triple
option. But Utah State certainly knows what's coming. I just think that this
is going to be, you know, a typical Friday night if offense you
like it, I think it's gonna be. I'll just say, I think,
you know, air Force by two touchdowns somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty
eight twenty three, thirty eight twenty one type of game. But we will
see interesting though, that all three games are going to be before we even
get to Saturday morning. Our weekend will be in the book, so to
speak, before you know, Saturday in college game Day kicks off on Saturday
morning. But Steve appreciate it once again, man, great work. Appreciate
all the hard work you do get in the podcast produced up every single week
on the College GRIDIR and Coast to Coast Podcast Network that you can listen to
on Apple's podcast Spotify, wherever it is you get your podcast. Steve tell
everybody once again what they can hear on College GRIDIR, Coast to Coast Podcast
Network. Yeah, it keeps growing right now. We've got we've got six
podcasts per week on college football. We're getting a seventh up and running as
well, so it's going to be multiple. You're gonna have multiple shows on
days of the week. We go Monday through Friday, so there's a new
episode pretty much every day of the week as you get ready for your college
football Saturday. Along with us on Yards and Stripes, you've got the Florida
Football Insiders, Jason Powers, We've got to Get Off My Pylon with Matt
Zemmick, the Big twelve Breakdown with Tyler Jones and Thomas Bridges, Big Ten
Paradigm with the Voice of College Football, Mark Rogers, and a couple of
others that are just getting started. One very heavy acc So obviously you're gonna
be talking a lot about callin Stanford and SMU next year, but the real
ACC for this year and Eyes on the Irish with our Notre Dame guy Nick
Shepkowski, which gets started this week as well. All Right, once again,
thanks my man Steve Carney for all his hard work, Thanks to our
friends at ticket Smarter and the Travis Mannion Foundation, and thanks to you for
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