Speaker 1: Need to get your football fixed on all things Army,
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because we've been having some fun this season and we're
gonna have some fun tonight, because boy, what a fun
weekend of football. We had Steven, Navy and Army, what
big wins they had maybe the biggest win that navyes
had in years.
Speaker 3: We will talk about it.
Speaker 2: Air Force was off a lot happening off the field
with the Air Force Falcons. We're coming to you Thursday night.
Is this has just been a kind of a wild week,
and Army is on the field right now beating Temple
like a drum up in Philadelphia. So we will skip
over that one because we got to go back to
last week, Stephen, Army. We knew that was, you know,
big favorite over Rice. But Memphis coming into the Naval
Academy the twelfth or excuse me, the twenty third ranked Tigers.
Before we get to Navy, let's talk about Army. Because
Army gets a big win over Rice. We both thought
it was happening right now. The Black Knights, they have
won seven straight going back to last season. But more importantly,
they are three to zero last week and they are
two to zero in the American Athletic Conference their first
season in the AAC.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's exactly what we thought was going to
happen when when we talked last week about the Black
Knights and the Rice Owls, we thought that EJ. Warner
they would they would look to try and throw the football.
Rice tried to throw the football. Warner had over twenty
yards passing. He had a couple of touchdowns through the air.
But we also thought that if the if the Black
Knights could end up controlling the time of possession and
significant and have a significant chance at the time of possession,
that Army would have a very good chance of beating
this Rice team significantly.
Speaker 5: And what happened.
Speaker 4: They the Army had almost forty minutes of the sixty
on offense, so almost a two to one, very almost
almost exactly a two to one. When it came to
time of possession. Rice turned the ball over a couple
of times. Army did not turn the ball over at all.
And you look at the amount of yardage on either side,
they had almost as Army had almost as many yards
rushing as Rice had total yards. And you know, Army
didn't have a bad day throw in the football either.
Bryce and Daily ended up with five touchdowns in the
game total, two through the air and three on the ground.
So it really became the bryceon Daily Show. And I
know that when I was watching that game, as I
was getting ready for a Tampa Bay Rays baseball game,
I was like, all.
Speaker 5: Right, well this is where Daily decides.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm going to start putting my foot down as
maybe the best quarterback in the conference. And you know,
you look at some of these other guys that we
had thought we're going to be the best quarterback in
the conference, and some of them have have. I've had
a rough starts. I know Byron Brown down here in
Tampa at the University of South Florida. You know, he
had a rough go of things last week against Miami.
Of course, they had their game against Alabama, did the Bulls,
and so he has not really gotten off to the
start that I know that they wanted to see him
from him, and we'll see if if they're able to
continue to do so. But Bryson Daily was very impressive
against Rice.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent running for three or excuse me, yeah,
running for three, passing for two more. I mean, you know,
he counts for almost three hundred yards a total offense.
You know, he was the leading rusher at twenty three
carries one five over six yards of carry and then
he completed six and nine passes for one hundred and seven.
Not something you see every single day, you know from
army throwing the football. You know, typically you're throwing at
nine times if your army year behind. But they called
his number and boy, he he got it done. But
especially that third, that second quarter, Stephen, because that's really
where what turned the tide. It was seven to oh
for Army after the first quarter. But you know, it
was kind of wild, you know, that second quarter. They
score at the very beginning of the second quarter, and
then they put two touchdowns in in the blink of
a nine in the last two minutes of the first half,
and that turned a fourteen to oh lead. That was
you know, it was a football game to an extent,
into a twenty eight.
Speaker 3: To nothing lead. It was over from there.
Speaker 2: And obviously they tackle on the safety there, you know,
early in the third quarter to make it thirty to nothing.
Speaker 3: Game set match.
Speaker 2: Army now three and oh, two and oh in the
American and right now, I mean, we'll talk about it
here in a minute as we get to the Naval Academy,
but Army sitting atop the era of the American athletic
in their very first season two and oh. The only
other team that's two and oh is a Naval Academy.
But pretty darn impressive. I know they haven't played any
of the big heavyweights that I know that they the
Black Knights escape, you know, some of the big dogs
in the league this year. But you know, give them
the credit right now. They've looked awfully impressive in the
early going. There's no question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I look at look at UH. All you have
to do is look at the drive summaries. UH if
you go on to ESPN dot com, starting with when
they when they scored their touchdown late in the in
the first quarter to to go up seven nothing or
or I'm sorry, in the at the beginning of the
second quarter, UH, to go up But you look at
it was UH from that touchdown to go up fourteen
to NOL Then Rice business a field goal, they take
advantage of the short field, go down and get six yep.
And the next play from from Rice offensively interception, they
take it down another short field, they take it down,
they put it in the end zone. Again, that's what
you want to see from Navy or from Army. You
want to see from Navy two, but from Army that's
what you wanted to see. You wanted to see them
take advantage of the situation. They were able to get
turnovers and short fields and put it and not and
not use the kicker. Go put the ball, put the
ball in the damn end zone. And that's exactly what
they did.
Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely seven straight wins going back to last season.
Army on a roll right now again they get the
thirty seven to fourteen win over Rice on Saturday last weekend.
All right, Steven, moving forward our other game over the weekend. Again,
we told you the Air Force was off. So the
Navy Midshipman hosting number twenty three Memphis in the what
was it the number twenty three in the coaches poll?
I believe right coming to Annapolis, say beaten the Naval
Academy five straight times. But if you want, if offense
is your thing, Stephen, Saturday was for you at Navior
Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Is Navy builds a big, big lead,
Memphis roars back literally no pun intended. The Tigers roar
back at the end, and it takes a late game
interception to preserve a wild victory. But nonetheless, Navy fifty
six to forty four get the monkey off their back,
or at least the tiger off their back. That Memphis
had that number, Navy three and zero overall, two and
zero in the American.
Speaker 3: To stay a top tie to top the league.
Speaker 2: Army and Navy the only two to two and oh team,
they're only only two teams with wins in the American
at this point. I mean, this was a thriller. And
you talk about Bryson Daily what he did with you
and I were kind of shit chatting before we started recording.
It looks like Blake Horvath and Bryson Daily, they're just
gonna go back and forth to so who can one
up each other? Because you talk about an impressive performance
by Bryson Daily, it certainly was that. But then Blake
Horrivath a few hours later he rushes for over two
hundred yards and throws for j just shy at two hundred,
accounting for six touchdowns. I mean, unbelievable efforts by both quarterbacks.
But Blake Horvath, he was certainly the story with this
Navy millennial wing tee offense getting it done.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this was anything you can do. I can do better.
Speaker 4: Between bryceon Daily and Blake Corvath, I'm gonna I'm gonna
throw a number out there, and this number absolutely blew
my mind. Twelve twenty five. No, that's not the time
that chow starts in an Apple does not start it
till twenty five. That's the number of yards combined from
both teams in this game. One thousand, two hundred and
twenty five yards, six hundred and fifty nine from Memphis,
five hundred and sixty six from Navy.
Speaker 5: I mean, this was wild.
Speaker 4: This This was the anti Service Academy game. I mean,
you expect to see, you know, some low scoring games.
You will expect to see, you know, guy, you know
teams grinding things out. No, there's no grinding out things
in this game. This was absolutely unreal. I'm looking at this,
I was, I'm looking at how many how many drives
what they had in this game? And in that just
in the second half, and it I know they had
they they had quite a few.
Speaker 5: Uh In the.
Speaker 4: First half there were it looks like nine total. Uh
that includes the kneel down to end the half. So
each side had one, two, three, four, There was eleven
excuse me not nine, So each each side had five
times with the with the football.
Speaker 5: In the first half.
Speaker 4: Then in the second half, I mean, the the kickers
weren't used. There was I'm Riley Reichman was like was
he was like, go get a nap in, go go
have go have some food.
Speaker 5: You know, just stay ready.
Speaker 4: I mean I think he touched the ball twice all game,
he three times.
Speaker 2: He could have put his dress whites on and go,
you know, stood in the you know, with the brigade
for all week.
Speaker 5: You know really, yeah, it was. It was absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 4: And then you know, we talked about, you know, the
day that Daily had Blake Horvac's ninety yard touchdown run
was was one of the craziest things I've ever seen.
Like it was he like he could have Like the
hole he walked through, I.
Speaker 5: Mean you could have.
Speaker 4: You could have put a Knimis class aircraft carrier through
that hole.
Speaker 2: Steven fifty three first downs combined fifty three unreal. I
mean if you were to tell me, though, if you
were look, we can cherry pick statutes all we won.
But if you were going to tell me that Seth
Henigan was going to throw for three hundred and seventy
one yards and that nant This was going to control
the clock for have the ball for just shy a
thirty six minutes, and that they would convert as many
fourth downs as Navy converted on third down, I would
have told you that nint This wins by forty. Yeah,
that does not tell the story at all.
Speaker 4: Well, Seth Hendingen threws for three hundred and seventy The
Tigers had two one hundred yard rushers in the game too.
They ran for two hundred and seventy were yards. They
ran the ball almost forty times in the game. They
ran the they ran the ball as much as Navy
ran the ball.
Speaker 5: Unbelievable.
Speaker 3: It's it's just hard to put.
Speaker 2: It's hard to put into words that Navy only had
six third downs attempted in the entire football game.
Speaker 3: That's incredible.
Speaker 2: Just I mean, clearly, the time of possession and then
the yards per play tells you all you need to
know about, you know, the offensive efficiency for for Navy.
But boy, I mean Memphis moving the ball too. But
this game was clearly not in doubt steven until the
end because you know Navy, Navy's trying to run the
clock out. Memphis has got all three timeouts, they call them,
get a stop, they march the football and come down
and score. Same thing happens, and their marching they're marching
inside and they had plenty of time. All they needed
to do is put one in the end zone and
then Rayon Lane from from the Naval Academy. He comes
up with the interception inside the ten yard line. He
returns it all the the entire other way, pick six.
For the game's final score. This was not a twelve
point difference. This was a basically about a one to
two three point difference, and it looks a lot more lopsided,
not that twelve points is lopsided, but it doesn't look
as close as this game really was because it took
that Rayon Lane late game interception just to hang on
for dear life for the Naval Academy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, this was forty nine to thirty in
the fourth quarter, there's a and eight minutes to go,
eight and a half minutes to go, it's forty nine
to thirty, and all of a sudden, Memphis goes down,
scores this touch scores the touchdown. Then they called all
their timeouts, got Navy to go three and out, and
then they put it on the longest drive of on
either side thirteen plays. That's a that's a that's a
service Academy type drive, thirteen plays in almost and it
still only took only about four minutes to get down
score the touchdown, got the on side kick and was
driving again to try and take the lead, and all
of a sudden, here comes Ray on lane and and
you know, making everybody, including yours, truly celebrate.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know we were talking about this off before we
started taping the show that I was sitting in the
press box at Tropic Cana Field after the Rays game
against Toronto and was watching the game on my iPad,
And when the when the pick six happened, and I'm.
Speaker 5: Doing laps through the press box.
Speaker 4: I'm so happy because I knew that I was going
to be able to text our friend TJ. Reeves a
picture of the USS Theodore Roosevelt and anchors away so
and which I which I promptly did.
Speaker 2: Well, let me just throw this in there, I mean,
because we're obviously talking a lot about offense, and you
know Blake Corvath naming the Maxwell Award Player of the Week,
Davey O'Brien, mean you named a lot of the quarterback
awar centric awards of the week.
Speaker 3: He got it.
Speaker 2: Let's let let's go defensively for just a second, because
you know, it did take a late game interception to
preserve the win. But let me just run off a
couple of defensive statistics here, Jackson Campbell third on the
team with ten tackles, Kyle Jacob second on the team
with twelve tackles.
Speaker 3: How about that.
Speaker 2: Guy we've talked a lot about this year, Colin Ramos,
who pretty gamed. He was named a Lot Impact Trophy
Player of the Week. And let me tell you what
he did twenty tackles on the day. He had one sack,
two tackles for a loss, and a pass broken up.
I'm telling you right now, Colin Ramos is putting together
All American quality caliber statistics right now. If he is
not in the mix or conversation, I know there's some
fantastic linebackers across the country. If Colin Ramos is not
in the conversation, for it worse an honorable mention All
American at this point. Clearly we got a whole lot
more to go. But at this point, he is playing
All American caliber linebacker right now with them at Chipman.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he most certainly is.
Speaker 4: And and you know, anytime the all went past the
line of scrimmage, number forty four was standing there well
waiting to make a play on him. And that that's
just you know, a credit to the hard work that
he has put in, you know, his entire career in Annapolis,
and especially over the last summer and getting ready for
this season because you knew it was going to be important.
Speaker 3: Dare I say it?
Speaker 2: Steven fifty six to forty four Navy wins, they're now
in a tie obviously early in the season, two and
zero in the league them an Army.
Speaker 3: Dare I say it?
Speaker 2: Could we see these teams play back to back weeks
Army Navy, and then could we be seeing a conference
championship game? That would be unbelievable. Of course, the conference
championship would would come what before Army Navy?
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, it would be It would be the conference
championship first that would decide.
Speaker 5: And especially you know, could could you.
Speaker 4: Imagine them both being undefeated at the point where they
meet for the conference championship and we're talking about maybe
a possibility that what that the winner of that game
goes into the College Football Playoff, the expanded College Football
Playoff this year because obviously the highest you know, the
the Group of six or Group I guess it's now
Group of six, but uh, you know, those teams are
now going to get an opportunity to compete in the
college football Playoff.
Speaker 5: And I would think that.
Speaker 4: If they're if a American Athletic conference team finishes as
a undefeated team, they're going to be They're gonna be
the one team that's considered and you know, ahead of
the Mountain West, ahead of the Atlantic Sun, ahead of
Conference US A. Uh, you know, And that's no, that's
no slate on Liberty. It's no slight on Boise State.
It's no slight on you know, Troy or whoever, or
James Madison, whoever else in the in the Atlantic Sun.
Speaker 5: They're they're going to be. They're gonna be the team
that's going to be considered.
Speaker 2: Let me just say this right now. I'll go ahead
and put it on.
Speaker 3: The record for you right now. You heard it here.
Speaker 2: First, Army and Navy will not neither one both of
them will not finish the conference season without a loss.
Just I'm going out on a limb. I'm sticking to it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 4: And the only thing that that does, if they were
able to somehow, even if one of them gets through undefeated,
all it does is shove all of the you know,
experts predictions right back up where the sun don't shine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, absolutely, Let's get to game ball, Steven, I mean,
is there really any other way to go? I mean,
we could do different things. I'm prepared to if we
need to. But which way you think in game ball
this week?
Speaker 5: No, there's only one person that deserves a game ball.
Speaker 4: Well, all right, there's more than one person that deserves
a game ball. There's only one person's getting my game ball.
His name is Blake. That that performance that he put
together one upping Bryson daily. Sorry Bryson, Uh, you know
we love your play. But mister Forrvath got it this week,
got it done this week against a much tougher opponent,
And so I will I will give mine to uh
all number ten down.
Speaker 2: There, yeah, career high in rushing to eleven, career high
in passing.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, hold on.
Speaker 2: He even caught a pass for the first time in
his career for thirteen yards, and the six combined touchdowns
were the most by Navy players. It's Malcolm Perry had
six in the win against East Carolina in twenty nineteen
to the four hundred and sixteen yards of total offense
with just twelve yards off the school record that Will
Worth set in twenty sixteen against USF. So video game,
like almost numbers from Blake Horvath, I'm going game ball.
I may go with Rayon Lane because you know, obviously
preserving he doesn't come up with that interception there at
the end. I don't know if we're having a conversation
right now about Blake Corbas numbers meaning what they did.
But the senior safety from Jessup, Maryland comes up with
that safety to preserve the win. And not only does
he get the safety, but he goes eighty six yards
the other way to put a cap in a stamp
on that big win as a celebration. I'm sure went
late into the night into Annapolis. So I'll give it
to Rayon Lane the third he gets back game ball.
Speaker 4: By the way, do you think do you think Memphis
got sick of seeing the back of number eleven and
number eighteen? Because I can only imagine that the Tigers,
the Tigers defenders hated seeing the number eleven coming their way,
and yeah, and I'm sure that the Memphis offense hated
seeing the number eighteen running the other way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just unbelievable, Like I just did not see
that one coming. I didn't see it coming in either way.
But like I always say, you know, it usually is
going to take three. You know, once we turn the
page and get in October, you start finding out who
a team is really is. And I think we found
out a lot about Naval Academy. I think we're finding
out a lot more about Army too. I think Army
is while they have not played you know, high level competition.
You could say that about the Naval Academy too, up
until they played Memphis this past weekend. But they're handling
the business they need to handle in there. They've been
doing it convincibly, so starting to you know, I think
we're starting to really see true color shine. But we
will come back and talk about a lot more. Because
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Speaker 2: All right, continuing on here on Yards and Stripes your
hope for service. It's Gottamy Football on Price Atcketson. He
is Stephen Carney, and we have got some games to
talk about. One game already underway. Army given a beat
down to Temple right now as we're recording on Thursday night.
Sorry we couldn't get this done a little bit earlier
in the week. Hope everybody's staying safe wherevery eu are,
especially if you're anywhere near Hurricane Helen. That's come up
past Florida, past Stephen and now headed our way in
the upstate of South Carolina. But we march on, and
we march on with you our Service Academy fan Steven
and will skip over Army because obviously Army is getting
it done. They're out on the road at Temple, Temple
one and three zero to one right now, Army getting
ready to go to three and no in the American Athletics.
So we'll move on down to the Naval Academy because
they're hitting the road for the first time this season.
Steve going to Birmingham. They're going to be on the
road in an AAC matchup against UAB. The game against
the Blazer is going to be a Saturday twelve nude kickoff.
Speaker 3: On ESPN two.
Speaker 2: Right now, Navy is at a three and a half
point favorite over under his fifty seven and a half
the last I've seen in this one Steven And maybe
obviously we just talked about him clicking on every cylinder possible,
while UAB can't say quite the same for them as
they are one and two this season, but this will
be their first conference game this season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and going to a team in UAB that is
one of those teams that is, you know, lived by
the pass, die by the pass. You know they are
they are the you know, fun and gun type of
offense and led by a senior quarterback, a guy that
I've gotten to see the last two or three years
in Jacob Zeno.
Speaker 5: That he you look at him.
Speaker 4: Last year, he threw for over three thousand yards, He
had twenty touchdowns. He had you know, really good you know,
he completed almost seventy five percent of his passes. He's
off to another really good start so far this year.
Completion percentage is over seventy percent. He does have three
interceptions and only five touchdowns, which is kind of surprising.
I expected his his numbers to be a little more
lopsided in a good way. For how much that that
Trent Delfer is gonna certainly want to throw this football.
Their running game has not been very strong this year.
You know, they're leading rushers so far this year. Larry
Baby Junior only has one hundred and eighty seven yards
on the ground. So this is a team that is
going to throw the football. And so this is where
the secondary is really going to come in big for
for the midshipman if they if they want to leave,
what's going to be a pretty tough place to play,
you know, Birmingham, right, you know, right in the middle
of a heart of football central, and so you know,
Alabama is a wild state when it comes to the
sport they love. And it doesn't matter like whether you're
a Cribson Tide fan or a Tiger fan. You know,
the guys that play at UAB wanted to go to
those two schools and will certainly play with the chip
on their shoulder against anybody who thinks that that they're
only there because they're not good enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent, I agree with all that, and
I think one of the big things for Navy this
week obviously you're going on the road for your first
you know, true road game. I mean, they've been at
home for everything to start the season. They haven't left Annapolis,
so this is going to be the first time they
hit the road. And I know there are a lot
of teams that like to get on the road because
you leave a lot of the distractions from behind, especially
at an academy where you can really get away from
a lot of the other things and use zero in
on what you got to do. But to me, that's
exactly what Navy's got to do this weekend, Steven is
They've got to zero in because with that trip to
Colorado Springs the following weekend, the first leg of the
Commander in Chief Trophy. I think that this is just
a game where you've got to keep your eye on
the prize and your opponent in front of you. Can't
be thinking about the week ahead, and that you know,
play in the academy, go into Air Force and play
in that first c IC leg. You've gotten to handle
your business. You're clicking right now, keep it going, because
I don't want to say you can have yourself beat twice.
That probably is a little bit maybe wishful thinking, at
least if you're an Air Force fan, just because air
Force right now averaging what ten points a game.
Speaker 3: They're a naming on offense.
Speaker 2: But I think this is all about maybe focusing on
what they need to do going out, getting ahead, and
putting this one to bed early if possible, as you
get ready to go to the Springs the following weekend.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, I think that.
Speaker 4: Making sure that you know that you're not setting yourself
up for failure. And that's and that's what Brian Newberry
has had I'm sure has had to emphasize to all
of his.
Speaker 5: Players all week.
Speaker 4: You know, it's not like these guys aren't aware that, Okay,
we've got air Force and coming up a week from Saturday,
but we got to get to a week from Saturday,
and we've got something in between that matchup that we
need to make sure that we give all of the
attention and the respect due to it because they've got
to win this this game. You know, if they want
to stay in lockstep with Army in the division, in
the in the conference, you know, they gotta win this game.
Speaker 5: That's that's, that's all there is to it.
Speaker 2: Navy and UAV Saturday at twelve noon on ESPN two.
Navy right now still a three and a half point
favorite over under fifty seven and a half. This one's
going to be at Protective Stadium at Birmingham. All right,
let's move out west, Stephen, the Air Force Academy going
on the road. They're going to be taken on Wyoming.
This is gonna be Wyoming's first Mount West Conference game
of the season. They are desperately looked to get into
the wind column as the Cowboys are zero to four
this season. We certainly know the Air Force is dying
to get back in the win column. After the opening
win against Merrimack. They haven't tasted victory since then as
they have struggled not only to move the football, to
find the end zone, to light up the scoreboard in
any capacity. Steve, this is going to be an eight
o'clock kickoff Saturday night, Eastern Standard Time on the CBS
Sports Network and lo and behold. Air Force is a
field goal favorite right now over under at thirty four
and a half. So certainly the oddsmakers don't see a
lot of points being scored in this one.
Speaker 3: I don't either.
Speaker 2: Well, boy, you had the off week if you're Troy Calhoun,
to try and get something going to switch things up
and right now, you would love nothing more than to
do that and get your first conference win, especially as
we just mentioned Navy coming to town the following weekend.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I mean, Wyoming is zero to four and they've lost.
They lost at home to Idaho, which is an FCS school. So,
uh you And that being said, if Troy Calhouning company,
if they players take the Cowboys lightly, they're going to
be in for a fight on their hands.
Speaker 5: There's no doubt about that. Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, this team is certainly wanting to make a statement.
They want to come out at home in front of
their fans and put one down on the Falcons. That's
that's that they see it. They they see this as okay,
you know, if we win this week, the first four
games don't matter for you know, none of you know,
none of them were conference games. So whereas air Force
has already played a conference game having played uh San
Jose State and lost, you know, Wyoming can say, all right,
well if we if we win this game, we're ahead
of them in the standings. It doesn't matter what the
what the first four games said. So that they they
know that they're going to be motivated and air Force
needs to understand that they cannot take the Cowboys lately.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you got to go out there and get dead
to carry your business because it don't.
Speaker 5: And it's thank god, Laramie's going to be warm. You know.
Speaker 4: Could you imagine doing this game, you know, November twenty
sixth instead of instead of September twenty sixth, It would
be a much different type of atmosphere in Laramie.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Air Force in Wyoming an eight o'clock kickoff Eastern Standard
time this Saturday on the CBS Sports Network. And I
don't mean to plow through that, Stephen, because a lot
of the news regarding the Air Force Academy happen in
a wild week in.
Speaker 3: College football off the field.
Speaker 2: This conference re alignment never seems to cease, It never
seems to stop. But on Troy Calhoun's birthday today, the
wheels stop spinning and Air Force, I'll let.
Speaker 3: You take it away.
Speaker 2: But basically, briefly, after a lot of movement, Air Force
and UNLB have signed a memorandum of understanding that they
are going to stick with them out less.
Speaker 3: They are not leaving.
Speaker 2: They are going to help keep the conference intact and
as a result, they will be getting a much bigger
piece of the than the other remaining schools.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this all comes on the heel, of course, of
the four Mountain West teams that had announced that they
were leaving the conference in twenty twenty six to join
the new PAC twelve, which is now going to be
the PAC six. Meaning so you had the first four
that left were Fresno State, Boise State, Colorado State, and
San Diego State.
Speaker 5: Then the announcement came out this week that.
Speaker 4: Utah State had also decided that they were going to
leave to join the PAC twelve. And then the questions
came out, Okay, what about the rest of the conference
and who, you know, who is the PAC twelve looking
to target here? Obviously Air Force was a big target
in the mind of the PAC twelve, as was UNLV.
I would assume that if the UNLV left, they would
try and bring little sister along with them in Nevada,
you know, to try and come along with them. But
they've decided with a little bit of scratch coming across
uh of course, air Force and UNLV making making the
deal saying you know, we're going to stay in the
Mountain West. Right now, the Mountain West still needs at
least one more team to come aboard in order to
maintain its group of six UH standards.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, the the name that's out there that I
have seen right now is Texas State is the team
that they are they're looking at h AT trying to
bring in. It would not surprise me if they go
go and possibly look at a couple of other teams
that are out there in Division one FBS trying to
get the Mountain West back up to maybe ten. If
you bring in Texas State and then you look at
maybe uh, New Mexico State and UTEP, that would give
you ten teams.
Speaker 5: And so.
Speaker 4: I think you and I both agree ten is probably
the right number. Uh. You know, it gives you the
nine conference UH games that you want to have every year,
allows you to have some flexibility with your schedule.
Speaker 5: You're not looking to go to twelve.
Speaker 4: Obviously there's no more divisions, so UH you can you
can get away with ten. And if you bring in
Texas State and then go after like maybe a UTEP,
which is in Conference USA, I believe, and UH and
New Mexico State. You know, those are both really good
schools for travel wise. You know, it's not going to
cause you a whole lot of of headache with travel.
It's not like you're going after Troy uh to to
to use. And I'm not saying that anybody is looking
at Troy out of out of the the Atlanta, out
of the sun Belt, but you're you're able. You know,
that would be a headache travel wise for the for
the Mountain West school Yeah, and it would be a
headache for Troy trying to get to the Mountain West schools.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So but this going but going and getting el pat
you know, UTEP, New Mexico State and even a Texas state.
I think that that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The big thing is they need to add two because
it was six full time members and one partial member
in Hawaii. The mount West still has to get two
more full time football playing schools to meet the insane
minimum requirement. But that big thing is they have until
twenty twenty eight to do so. I mean, the way
this stuff moves so quickly, I don't think they're going
to need, you know, much more than four months, you know,
versus four years. But they've got plenty of times Stevens,
so it'll be interesting to see what happens. Of course,
the PAC twelve is still sitting it at seven teams
right now too, so they just need to add one,
uh does the PAC twelve, but mountainless. So it's going
to be interesting to see this jockeying the way it's
going to play out, because we saw the jockey go
go down with the American and some teams possibly you know,
I don't want to say toying with leaving, but there was.
Speaker 3: Just all kinds of things flying.
Speaker 5: I'll say it.
Speaker 4: I I know that USF was being courted by the
PAC twelve. I know that Memphis and Tulane were two
other teams uh that were that were certainly being looked
at by by the PAC twelve conference to maybecome aboard.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: Really, I I look at I look at it this way.
You know, why why are you going to go to
a conference? And and I would say this to any
of the teams looking to go to the PAC twelve,
It's like, why are you going for a maybe? Yeah,
you know, you don't know what's going on with uh
with the PAC twelve. You know, they don't have they
don't have a television deal anymore. You don't have a
television network anymore, you know, that's all. Those are all
maybees and and you're basically going on we on a hope.
You know, whereas the American the Mountain West have their
television deals and lace, I think I think that you're
going to see teams. I think that gives the Mountain
West a leg up on the PAC twelve. Yeah, if
THEA I know, the PAC twelve has you know, has
has some some schools of size.
Speaker 5: Uh in it.
Speaker 4: You know, having Oregon State, having Washington State obviously is
going to help. And then and then of course, uh,
all of this is contingent on the grant of rights
uh issues that are going on staying status quo. And
that of course all leads to the Florida State and Clemson. Uh,
the all the the lawsuits going on between Florida State
and Clemson and the and the a c C. And
if a judge says that grant of rights is is
tortious interference, We're going to see the Wild West in
college football again.
Speaker 2: There's still a lot that's gonna happen. I think we
can all agree that they're there more movement coming. What
that movement is we will find out. But there is
a whole lot more to play out because there are
a lot of different wildcards in this scenario, and you
just mentioned several of them. But it will continue to
spend because the conference realignment carousel always keeps spinning.
Speaker 3: Steven, let's step out of here.
Speaker 2: We got our picks to make, we got our Travis
Manion Foundation Honor Roll segment. We got more to do
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Speaker 2: Well, I can't say the same from my front yard
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hoping the winds just don't take over some trees on
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
and Stripes Service Academy Football.
Speaker 2: All right, wrapping up Yards and Stripes your home for
service Academy Football, Army, Navy and Air Force. He is
Stephen Carney, and I have Price Atkinson. Stephen is not
looking out the window this time peaking to see what
Hurricane Aleen is doing out his window. I am peeking
out mine because it's getting a lot closer to me
as it is getting away from him. So we move
on here as we get ready for two games this weekend, because,
as we told you a little bit earlier, Army right
now up big on Temple as they were looking to
close it out and go three to zero in the
American Athletic But Steven, the two games we just broke down.
Speaker 3: We got to make some picks here, my man.
Speaker 2: We've got Navy and UAB on the road Saturday twelve noon,
kickoff again on ESPN two. I think Navy's gonna go
down there and care business. I'll give you my prediction,
because you always go first. I think I'm gonna go
in a fairly close one here. I think Navy's gonna
get let's say, a thirty one twenty seven victory less
than a touchdown. I think it's gonna be tight, but
Navy prevails.
Speaker 3: In the end.
Speaker 4: What say you, Yeah, I'm about the same spot with you.
I'm at thirty five twenty eight Navy. I think that
Blake Corvat has another huge day both on the ground
and in the air. I think that really for Navy
to be able to put together a successful trip to Birmingham,
you've got to be able.
Speaker 5: To maintain possession.
Speaker 4: I think this is one of those games where you know,
if Navy doesn't have at least a double digit.
Speaker 5: Play drive, I mean, you think about it.
Speaker 4: I think the I think the longest drive they had
last week against Memphis, I think with seven or eight plays.
I think they're going to need to have multiple double
digit play drives this week against Trent delpher in company.
You've got to wear down that Blazer defense somehow, and
I think that's the way you're going to have to
do it.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: Steven and I both like the Naval Academy going on
the road and getting the win in Birmingham. Right other
game that we got Steve air Force at Wyoming exercise
in conference futility. Offensively, here is air Force. They're looking
for their first conference win oh to one in the
Mountain West, and certainly this is Wyoming's first conference game
of the season. Again at eight o'clock kickoff Eastern Standard
Time on the CBS Sports Network. With the Falcons or
a three point favorite, I'll fire first again on this one,
I think that air Force is going to find a
way against a team that's just not very good. I
don't think Wyoming is very good at all. They're oh
to four. They've struggled against pretty much everybody they played.
I mean, like you said, they even losing a close
game at home to FCS Idaho Vandals. But I think
air Force, having had the week off, give Troy Calhoun
a little bit of time. I think he's gonna be
able to dial up a recipe that's gonna be able
to find the end zone. They've averaged what ten, just
barely over ten points a game. I think they're going
to score twenty. I think it's gonna be air Force
to the tune of say, twenty to thirteen.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I looked at it.
Speaker 4: Wyoming has yet to score more than seventeen points in
a game this season. They are not going to do
so this week either. I think this is going to
be a little closer. I don't think that that air
Force gets to twenty. I think this is seventeen fourteen.
I think that the Falcons are able to escape, and
so I'll go with them just being able to escape.
Laramie on a nice balmy night in Wyoming, if you can.
If you consider mid sixties balmy and in Wyoming, I
think they do, so it'll be it'll be perfect football weather.
But I think they're going to see a lot of defense.
I think the punters are going to get a work
out in, and I think it's gonna come down to,
you know, who can make a big special teams play
in order to set their offense up for a short field.
So yeah, I'll give me, give me seventeen fourteen Falcons.
Speaker 2: We both like the Falcons, and we both like a
sweep for the academies this weekend because that would be fun,
because we enjoy when we get a clean sweep and
all three win on any given weekend in the fall. Steven,
that's gonna wrap it up, my man. I hope you
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