1 00:00:01,159 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Need to get your football fixed on all things Army, Navy, 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:09,480 and Air Force. This is Yards and Stripes Service Academy Football. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,039 Now here are your hosts, Bryce Atkinson and Steve Carney. 4 00:00:14,839 --> 00:00:18,039 Speaker 2: We have lift off on another episode of Yards and 5 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:20,960 Stripes your hope or Service Academy Football. But Steven, we 6 00:00:21,039 --> 00:00:24,920 have new threads, new uniforms to talk about, and boy 7 00:00:25,039 --> 00:00:28,600 are they sharp. We got a ton to do here 8 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,000 on Yards and Stripes as we are part of College 9 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:33,840 Gridarn Coast to Coast podcast network, available on Last Word 10 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,200 on Sports. He is Stephen Carney, I and Price Atkinson, 11 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,719 and we are excited that you are with us once 12 00:00:39,759 --> 00:00:42,520 again as we move ever so closer to the end 13 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,479 of this college football season. I don't want to start 14 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:46,520 crying when I say that, but I'm shedding a tear 15 00:00:46,679 --> 00:00:50,200 just even thinking about the end. But there's tons more 16 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:54,560 games excitement to come. Stephen, you know how we start 17 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,280 every episode. We're starting a little bit late tonight, but 18 00:00:57,439 --> 00:00:59,439 you got to give me a killer pizza report, whether 19 00:00:59,479 --> 00:01:01,560 you had it night or whether you had it since 20 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,680 we last recorded. Please tell me what the new menu 21 00:01:04,719 --> 00:01:07,159 item that you tried was and how damn good was it? 22 00:01:07,519 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 3: Oh, you're gonna be disappointed with the way things have 23 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,719 gone this week. I have not had my pizza. Oh 24 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,439 I am, I am, I am right now, UH in 25 00:01:21,599 --> 00:01:26,040 pizza withdrawal I'm having. I'm having the jones Is. I'm 26 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:28,640 dying for it, and I'm not gonna have I'm not 27 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,879 gonna have an opportunity to have the pizza until this 28 00:01:32,079 --> 00:01:36,120 Saturday for college football. But UH, I have made it. 29 00:01:36,159 --> 00:01:39,959 I've made it my mission that UH for this game 30 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:45,519 UH this week this weekend Saturday, We've got USF and 31 00:01:45,719 --> 00:01:49,879 UH UAB on the road UH in Birmingham. So I've 32 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:54,040 got both of my pre and postgame show hosts UH 33 00:01:54,239 --> 00:01:57,640 with me in studio, and they have never had killer pizza. 34 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,400 So I have made it my mission that they will 35 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,359 be having kilopizza for the first time with me on 36 00:02:04,359 --> 00:02:08,680 on Saturday in the studios at USF. So it'll be 37 00:02:08,759 --> 00:02:09,560 it'll be tasty. 38 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,199 Speaker 2: Then all right, we will get another report next week 39 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,960 since you were on hiatus this week, we got maybe 40 00:02:15,039 --> 00:02:17,560 double up next week since it's Thanksgiving week. You know 41 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,159 what Thanksgiving week is. We gotta eat until we're you know, 42 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:23,560 in a stupor. I don't care if it's turkey, pizza, 43 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:27,120 whatever it is, because there's good football, there's good basketball, 44 00:02:27,159 --> 00:02:29,479 there's good sports on when it comes Thanksgiving Week. To me, 45 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,319 Thanksgiving Week is one of the best sports weeks of 46 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,120 the entire my probably I would go out on a 47 00:02:37,159 --> 00:02:38,919 limb and I will tell you, as much as I 48 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,719 love March Madness, I'm a basketball guy through and through. 49 00:02:41,759 --> 00:02:44,479 I know that's sacrilegeo to say on a college football podcast. 50 00:02:45,439 --> 00:02:49,639 I love me some March Madness, but the best sports 51 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,120 week of the year, in my opinion, is Thanksgiving Week 52 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,639 because you get college football, you get college basketball, you've 53 00:02:55,639 --> 00:03:00,319 got NFL sprinkled in, You've got everything on Thanksgiving Week, 54 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,639 and it's just awesome, good games all across the absolutely. 55 00:03:04,719 --> 00:03:09,599 Speaker 3: I mean, you've got you know, usually two sometimes three 56 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:14,680 good NFL games on Thanksgiving Day. Of course college basketball. 57 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,159 You've got all of these tournaments going on. I know 58 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:23,240 that we'll be working in the USF. The USF men 59 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,800 and the USF women are playing in the Bahamas for Thanksgiving. 60 00:03:27,319 --> 00:03:30,520 So they're they're in the what is the Battle for 61 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,960 Nasau or the Battle of the Bahamas or the Battle 62 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,879 of Atlantis, I think is what they're calling it now. 63 00:03:36,919 --> 00:03:40,680 For the Atlantis Resort. Both the USF men and the 64 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,879 USF women are going to be down there for Thanksgiving, 65 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:49,000 so so we're all excited about that. Of course, some 66 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,599 great college football to and the regular season you're in. 67 00:03:52,879 --> 00:03:58,199 The playoff really comes into shape around Thanksgiving weekend, and 68 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,800 then of course you've got the NBA and the NHL 69 00:04:02,439 --> 00:04:06,439 and of course the NFL on that Sunday as well 70 00:04:06,479 --> 00:04:10,400 after Thanksgiving. So it's just, you know, it really is 71 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,319 from Thursday all the way through Sunday, it's four just 72 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,959 tremendous days of sports. 73 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:20,199 Speaker 2: Yeah, without a doubt. And it was a tremendous day 74 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,920 of sports last weekend as we had a couple of 75 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:28,800 games on the books, and boy was it a special 76 00:04:28,879 --> 00:04:31,480 Senior Day up in Annapolis. Let's get into this one, 77 00:04:31,519 --> 00:04:36,439 because Navy upsetting USF on Senior Day forty one to 78 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:39,959 thirty eight, Number twenty five South Florida came in freshly 79 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,319 minted in the top twenty five play college Football Playoff rankings. 80 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:48,439 And if you would have told me, Stephen that Byron Brown, 81 00:04:48,519 --> 00:04:50,920 who we talked about quite a bit last week on 82 00:04:50,959 --> 00:04:53,879 the show, was going to throw for three twenty seven 83 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:55,720 and two tutties and then he was going to rust 84 00:04:55,759 --> 00:04:58,519 seventeen times for one thirty six and two touchdowns. And 85 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,800 then let's throw in there that Blake co was going 86 00:05:00,879 --> 00:05:04,079 to start but not finish the game, and Braxton Woodson 87 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,480 would come in relief. All that you just told me. 88 00:05:07,959 --> 00:05:09,879 If I had not seen it down of that game, 89 00:05:09,959 --> 00:05:14,439 I'm thinking that USF was won in a runaway. It 90 00:05:14,519 --> 00:05:18,360 was anything but as Navy led wire to wire, they 91 00:05:18,439 --> 00:05:22,519 never trailed, and they built several double digit leads only 92 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,600 to see the Bulls come back and close the gap 93 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,519 time and time again from start to finish. But in 94 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,319 the end, it was Navy outlasting USF forty one to 95 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,319 thirty eight. As Navy moves to eight and two, six 96 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,360 and one in the American and now South Florida, who's 97 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,879 had a fantastic season in their own right, seven and 98 00:05:39,959 --> 00:05:44,079 three overall, four into Eli Heiden and Wright catching five 99 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,079 passes for one forty six to become Navy's all time 100 00:05:47,199 --> 00:05:50,560 leader in receiving yards, amongst many other things. But it 101 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,519 was Braxton Woodson to the rescue in the fourth quarter. 102 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:57,519 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. And if you had told me that if 103 00:05:57,600 --> 00:05:59,800 that South Florida was going to score twenty two points, 104 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:02,920 in fourth quarter and they were still going to lose. 105 00:06:02,959 --> 00:06:05,000 I probably would have told the told you that you 106 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:10,720 were crazy, because everything seemed to be slanted toward the 107 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,319 bulls and all of a sudden, you know, but everything 108 00:06:14,399 --> 00:06:18,199 early was slanted toward the midshipman. I mean, I just 109 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:22,079 remember watching the first the first drive for Navy. You know, 110 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,040 it's third and nine on the twenty four, and all 111 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:26,680 of a sudden, they just, you know, they hand the 112 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,800 ball off to Alex Tesca and it was like the 113 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,759 seas parted, the Red Sea parted, and Alex Teska is 114 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,399 all of a sudden in the end zone seventy six 115 00:06:36,519 --> 00:06:39,759 yards later. I mean, I was like, where was if 116 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:42,959 you know, us F going, where's the where's the tackling 117 00:06:43,879 --> 00:06:47,319 on this? And then you know, early on, you know, 118 00:06:47,439 --> 00:06:51,360 it was a very small select group of people that 119 00:06:51,439 --> 00:06:53,839 were getting to touch the football. I was looking. I 120 00:06:53,879 --> 00:06:57,879 looked at halftime and they had only five was four 121 00:06:57,959 --> 00:07:01,160 or five people that had touched the football in the 122 00:07:01,199 --> 00:07:04,120 first half. If you were Navy, it was Blake Corvath, 123 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:09,399 Alex Tesca, Eli Heidenreich, and Brandon Chapman. That was it. 124 00:07:09,439 --> 00:07:12,399 And they had only thrown one other pass to to 125 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:16,199 another to another player and it was incomplete and they 126 00:07:16,319 --> 00:07:19,079 got a penalty on that, so so so they down 127 00:07:19,079 --> 00:07:22,279 didn't count. So really it was four guys that got 128 00:07:22,399 --> 00:07:25,199 that touched the football, a fifth got thrown at once 129 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:31,360 and still South Florida had no idea what was going 130 00:07:31,439 --> 00:07:36,680 on there. They were very undisciplined was the word that 131 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:40,720 we used, uh on the South Florida broadcast. Uh, you 132 00:07:40,759 --> 00:07:46,160 know it was. It was just really not well played 133 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:48,480 by a team that was expected to be in the 134 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:53,360 college football playoffs. You know, in a lot of expectations 135 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:59,079 for South Florida died on Senior Day in Annapolis in 136 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:00,839 the Michael in the Michael Kelly Bowl. You know a 137 00:08:00,879 --> 00:08:03,199 lot of people thought, you know, this was going to 138 00:08:03,279 --> 00:08:09,079 be the anointing because after this game against Navy, South 139 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:15,199 Florida had two games remaining against Tulsa and against Rice, 140 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,959 and you figured they would have won both of those games, 141 00:08:19,319 --> 00:08:23,399 they would end up in the American Championship game against 142 00:08:23,879 --> 00:08:27,079 Tulane or a North Texas, North Texas, who they've already 143 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:29,759 beaten on the road. You know, you win that game 144 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,120 and you're in the college football playoff, and all of 145 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:37,080 that got thrown in the circular filey by Navy, and 146 00:08:37,399 --> 00:08:42,480 you know, a well disciplined team that just was able 147 00:08:42,519 --> 00:08:45,519 to you know, put the screws to him. I mean 148 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,240 it was twenty four to nine at halftime in South Florida. 149 00:08:49,399 --> 00:08:51,519 Just could not get up from getting punched in the 150 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:52,120 mouth early. 151 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,559 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just you know, the Star of Star, Game 152 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:58,080 of Stars, you know, the Stars of Stars for Navy. 153 00:08:58,279 --> 00:09:01,600 They came back out in They Shine Horror tesca hEidin Reich. 154 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:03,840 You know, it's kind of been that movie most of 155 00:09:03,879 --> 00:09:06,919 the year where those three guys have been have been 156 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,759 the guys. But Braxton Woodson made no mistake about it. 157 00:09:09,799 --> 00:09:11,720 He came in and made some big plays, you know 158 00:09:11,799 --> 00:09:14,759 in the you know, second half or the third quarter 159 00:09:14,799 --> 00:09:16,840 when he came in, you know, thirty two yard completion 160 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,360 to Hide and Wright because they were you know, usf 161 00:09:19,519 --> 00:09:22,639 was nine in the box just daring maybe in Woodson 162 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:24,279 to throw it, and he did and then you know, 163 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:26,279 I think it was the very next play, a twenty 164 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,919 yard option keeper for the score. But yep, you know, 165 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:33,080 he came in and really made He didn't manage the offense. 166 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,279 He made some big plays and that's uh, you know, 167 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:38,320 that's something that you know he needs to do. Especially 168 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,080 as a senior. You got to step up and make 169 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:42,120 some of those plays. But you know, I believe it 170 00:09:42,159 --> 00:09:42,639 was Horvath. 171 00:09:42,759 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 3: What was it? 172 00:09:43,159 --> 00:09:45,399 Speaker 2: Cramping is is really what it? 173 00:09:45,639 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 3: In both legs he had in both legs. Yeah, he 174 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,879 went down in the third quarter and he was cramping 175 00:09:50,919 --> 00:09:52,919 in his left leg. They took him off, They brought 176 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,480 in Woodson to finish out the series. They gave him 177 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,960 the hydration. I saw him on on the stationary by 178 00:10:00,279 --> 00:10:02,720 trying to work out the cramping in the left leg, 179 00:10:02,799 --> 00:10:05,159 and then all of a sudden, then in the very 180 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,440 next drive he would go down. At the first drive 181 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,360 of the fourth quarter, he would go down with cramping 182 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:11,080 in his right leg. 183 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean he's gonna have to get that 184 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,240 figured out, because you you know, cramping. Injuries are one thing, 185 00:10:18,279 --> 00:10:20,759 but having guys cramp, those are usually things most of 186 00:10:20,759 --> 00:10:22,960 the time that you can prevent, you know, by doing 187 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,600 the things you need to do. Certainly, midshipman are a 188 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,360 little bit, you know, a horse of a different color 189 00:10:27,399 --> 00:10:29,960 when it comes to student athletes with all the different commitments, 190 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,600 but you know they've got to have Blake Horvath on 191 00:10:32,639 --> 00:10:34,960 the field, especially if you're when you're going to Memphis 192 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,440 for this next game and Army Navy's coming up, he 193 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:39,480 has got to be on the football field because that 194 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,840 modence is completely has many different dimensions when he is 195 00:10:43,919 --> 00:10:44,480 under center. 196 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, you know, as well as Braxton played 197 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,960 in the game against USF. If if they have to 198 00:10:53,039 --> 00:10:56,679 rely on him against Memphis, I think that that's going 199 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,480 to be a very very tough ask. And then and 200 00:10:59,519 --> 00:11:01,879 as you mention, with Army Navy coming up, you know, 201 00:11:02,159 --> 00:11:06,080 a couple of weeks after that, you know, and at 202 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,360 that point, you know, you beat Memphis, uh in two 203 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,200 weeks and all of a sudden, you know, let the 204 00:11:12,279 --> 00:11:15,000 chips fall where they may for the American Conference title. 205 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,360 And then you know, you if you're playing in that, 206 00:11:17,519 --> 00:11:20,159 then you don't have that extra week to prepare for 207 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,159 Army for Army Navy, and that's going to be really 208 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:23,960 really difficult. 209 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Navy getting the victory on Senior Day, you 210 00:11:27,759 --> 00:11:31,120 and I we both had USF. But boy, uh, you 211 00:11:31,159 --> 00:11:34,600 know this everything just you know, lining up and you know, 212 00:11:34,639 --> 00:11:39,000 as you mentioned, you know, you know, only one turnover, 213 00:11:39,159 --> 00:11:42,039 but Navy doing the job basically they had to do. 214 00:11:42,159 --> 00:11:44,840 And stars stepping up and defense, you know, coming to 215 00:11:44,879 --> 00:11:49,600 play Byron Brown was still outstanding, but mayve outlasting the 216 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,320 Bulls forty one to thirty eight. All right, let's pivot 217 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,360 out or I should say up to the northeast, because 218 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,120 in the first ever meeting between these two teams it 219 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,799 was Yukon and Air Force and Yukon getting a twenty 220 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:05,279 eight to sixteen win as the Huskies win their third 221 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:08,879 straight and now they've won seven of eight, but twenty 222 00:12:08,919 --> 00:12:11,519 six to eight or twenty six to sixteen, Yukon eight 223 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:14,679 and three, Air Force three and seven officially now that 224 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:18,600 the Falcons will not go bowling as Yukon running back 225 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:23,159 Kim Edwards he rushed for one sixty five two touchdowns 226 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,600 there in East Hartford, and Yukon got on the board 227 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,039 very first possession of the game, going forty yards in 228 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:33,200 seven plays for Gano with a ten yard run to 229 00:12:33,279 --> 00:12:35,120 take a six to zero lead after they fumbled the 230 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,960 snap on the pat And you know, Air Force did 231 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:39,919 get on the board there later in the first quarter, 232 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:43,399 with Dylan Carson scoring to cap a ten plays seventy 233 00:12:43,399 --> 00:12:48,000 five yard drive to give the Falcons seven to six lead, 234 00:12:48,159 --> 00:12:51,960 but after that it was Yukon the rest of the way. 235 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's really and it didn't have to be 236 00:12:55,960 --> 00:13:00,159 Yukon the rest of the way because after that touchdown, know, 237 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:04,200 Yukon's quarterback Fagnano through his first interception of the season. 238 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:06,559 Remember we had talked about this at the beginning at 239 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:11,200 the end of last last week's brought show. You know, Uh, 240 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:17,720 this kid, Joe Fagnano, had not thrown an interception all year. Yeah, 241 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,159 he had like he had all of these all of 242 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:24,840 you know these this amazing uh season, you know, and 243 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,080 he had not thrown he had not thrown a pick. 244 00:13:27,159 --> 00:13:29,720 He throws a pick in the first quarter right after 245 00:13:29,879 --> 00:13:32,759 air Force had scored a touchdown and they so now 246 00:13:32,799 --> 00:13:36,960 you've got an opportunity, uh to go down and you know, 247 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,879 pad your lead because it's a one point lead. And unfortunately, uh, 248 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:44,120 you know, you're you know, it's a short field, so 249 00:13:44,279 --> 00:13:47,679 obviously you know it's gonna be four down territory. And 250 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:52,639 they just weren't able to get the the final uh 251 00:13:52,879 --> 00:13:55,399 yard that they needed because they turned the ball over 252 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,320 on fourth and two. They only got one yard out 253 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,759 of the two and then I had another long drive 254 00:14:02,159 --> 00:14:05,919 to start basically at the end of the first that 255 00:14:05,919 --> 00:14:09,399 that lasted almost the entire second quarter, and it was 256 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,120 an eleven eleven minute drive, almost a twelve minute drive, 257 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:19,159 nineteen plays and again they get you know, inside the 258 00:14:19,159 --> 00:14:21,559 red zone, they get down inside the five as a 259 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,440 matter of matter of fact, and they can't put the 260 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,440 ball in the end zone. And so it's still seven 261 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:32,080 to six at that point. You know, the Huskies are 262 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,600 able to get a field goal, you know, to take 263 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:38,639 the lead back at the end of the first half, 264 00:14:38,679 --> 00:14:40,240 and they would not look back from there. 265 00:14:41,559 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of like the Navy game. If you had 266 00:14:43,519 --> 00:14:47,120 told me that Air Force would play turnover free football, 267 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,480 I mean plus one in that category, that they had 268 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:52,039 the football for ten more minutes than Yukon and they 269 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:57,000 would rush for nearly three hundred and that they still lost, 270 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:01,279 I would be left scratching my head in you know 271 00:15:01,919 --> 00:15:04,639 what you alluded to right there? You know, some long drives. 272 00:15:04,679 --> 00:15:07,960 Possessions were at a premium, as you just I think 273 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,799 the teams each had one possession there in the third 274 00:15:10,879 --> 00:15:14,759 quarter alone, So you know, when possessions are at a premium, 275 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:16,159 you can't do a lot. 276 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:16,279 Speaker 4: No. 277 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, Air Force only had three penalties for sixteen yards. 278 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,960 They played probably a pretty darn clean game, but you know, 279 00:15:23,039 --> 00:15:27,240 two drives that'd end on downs and you know you're 280 00:15:27,279 --> 00:15:29,639 only four to you know ten on third down anyway, 281 00:15:29,679 --> 00:15:33,120 but you don't get both the fourth down conversions that 282 00:15:33,159 --> 00:15:35,559 you're attempting, and you know, it's just kind of the 283 00:15:35,559 --> 00:15:38,600 way the game shakes out sometimes, and so you know, 284 00:15:38,679 --> 00:15:40,600 hate to see it for Air Force, you know, them 285 00:15:40,639 --> 00:15:43,240 not find a way to kind of backdoor their way 286 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:48,279 into a bowl game in the postseason again. But you know, 287 00:15:48,399 --> 00:15:50,600 it's still these Air Force cadets going to have a 288 00:15:50,639 --> 00:15:53,039 chance to come home and play on Senior Day this 289 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:55,279 coming weekend. We'll talk about that here in a second. 290 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:59,320 But you know, Troy Calhoun's team, it's been another difficult 291 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,320 season after a magical run, what for about four or 292 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,279 five years in a row, winning you know, ten plus games. 293 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:07,960 You know they're gonna have to figure it out, you know, 294 00:16:08,039 --> 00:16:11,679 but you know, Liam Sarka another solid day. Just hate 295 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:14,840 seeing you know, Air Force going down is uh, you know, 296 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,240 really kind of a it's weird to have a non 297 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,600 conference game, you know, like this, especially when you've never 298 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,399 played each other this late in the season. Yeah, it's 299 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:26,720 just it's just kind of odd. Timing on the schedule, 300 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,080 especially when you already have the Army game that comes 301 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:32,240 in November. To have a second non conference game there 302 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:34,039 in November, it's just kind of strange. 303 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,039 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you think about it. They have, you know, 304 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,960 they've got three non conference games when uh, you know, 305 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:44,799 other teams and other conferences, you know, are are deep 306 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:46,960 into their conference play. I mean, they have the Navy 307 00:16:47,039 --> 00:16:51,200 game right at the beginning of October and then you 308 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,120 know the Army game, you know, at the beginning of November. 309 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:58,120 So it said have a third non conference game, and 310 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,759 especially to have a non conference game of that caliber. 311 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:06,640 You know, obviously Yukon is a very good team this year. 312 00:17:06,759 --> 00:17:08,839 You know, they're gonna be in a bowl for a reason. 313 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:13,079 And uh, you know, so you give Jim Morra the 314 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:16,920 credit there, and now you know it's it's gonna be 315 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:20,279 even tougher. Now, uh, when we when we get into 316 00:17:20,559 --> 00:17:23,599 you know, talking about next week. I mean, now you've 317 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:27,799 got New Mexico looking for a shot at the at 318 00:17:27,799 --> 00:17:30,000 the Mountain West title game. They you know, they are 319 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,160 right there in the middle of things and we'll we'll 320 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,720 get to that here coming up. And you know, for 321 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,640 for the Falcons, it's gonna be really tough, you know, 322 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:41,960 sledding the rest of the way with New Mexico and 323 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:45,599 then of course the ram Falcon Trophy game, which will 324 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,440 wrap up their season. I know that the Rams are 325 00:17:48,759 --> 00:17:51,480 not nearly the team that they've been in years past, 326 00:17:51,559 --> 00:17:54,319 but that's still going to be a very, very hotly 327 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:55,160 contested game. 328 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,319 Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. Let's let's get to our 329 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:04,359 game balls this week, Steven. Obviously Navy springing the upset, 330 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:06,920 air Force losing. You know, a lot of big time 331 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,519 performances in that Navy game, a lot of different ways 332 00:18:09,519 --> 00:18:11,839 you can go. Who's going to get your game ball? 333 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 3: Friends, Yeah, my game ball's got to go to Braxton Woodson. 334 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,720 You know, like I said that, if you had told 335 00:18:17,759 --> 00:18:21,200 me that Blake Corvath would have not finished the game, 336 00:18:21,279 --> 00:18:23,680 that would have been out for a large chunk of 337 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,279 the second half. I would have thought that that would 338 00:18:27,279 --> 00:18:30,440 have been the point. And especially with USF scoring twenty 339 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,839 two points in the fourth quarter, I certainly would have 340 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:38,000 thought that that the Bulls would have come back to 341 00:18:38,039 --> 00:18:41,720 beat the midshipman. But it seemed like in that fourth quarter, 342 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:46,920 every time that USF needed to stop Braxton Woodson made 343 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,200 sure that he didn't give it to them, and so 344 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,880 you know, I know that you may say, you may 345 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,160 say that's what a game manager does, and that's always 346 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,519 a bad word when when you're talking about a quarterback, 347 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,240 usually as game manager. But he did a fantastic job 348 00:19:02,599 --> 00:19:05,559 of not just managing the game, but making sure to 349 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:09,400 put the final stamp on that game and get them 350 00:19:09,519 --> 00:19:13,319 in an opportunity to still be alive for a conference title. 351 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,039 So yeah, I'll go with Braxton Woodson. 352 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna go give it to Eli Heidinrich 353 00:19:18,559 --> 00:19:23,039 because becoming the Navy's all time leading receiver, especially at 354 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:26,200 a you know, an academy which is, you know, typically 355 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,759 an option oriented offense, you know you're doing big things 356 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,359 when you when you break a passing record and are 357 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,720 they passing records like you see at in Oklahoma or 358 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,960 a Houston or something like that. No, but still when 359 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,680 you break a career record, all time receiving or all 360 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,599 time record for career, it's a big deal. Heinrich hauled 361 00:19:46,599 --> 00:19:49,359 in with one hundred and forty six yards on five passes, 362 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:53,960 now has one thousand, seven hundred and ninety four career 363 00:19:54,039 --> 00:19:58,519 receiving yards, moving ahead of Rob Thompson's one thousand, seven 364 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:02,440 and eighty one he compiled from nineteen sixty five to 365 00:20:02,599 --> 00:20:06,160 nineteen sixty seven. So Hide and Wright getting my game ball, 366 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:10,079 you know, in this game. And he's just had so 367 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,759 many big moments, and I think he's probably going to 368 00:20:12,799 --> 00:20:14,960 still have some more big ones because there's a lot 369 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,240 more for Navy to play for as we move through 370 00:20:17,279 --> 00:20:20,720 the season. All right, Steven, tell all our listeners about 371 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,759 what they can find at College Gridarn Coast to Coast 372 00:20:22,759 --> 00:20:24,839 Podcast Network. We have something for everybody. 373 00:20:25,079 --> 00:20:29,400 Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, and this week is no exception. Starting off 374 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,559 checking out this week in the AC. Don't look now, 375 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:37,559 but SMU has found themselves pretty much in the driver's 376 00:20:37,559 --> 00:20:41,599 seat for the ACC Conference Championship. It's going to be 377 00:20:41,599 --> 00:20:44,079 a tough road to hoe. I mean, you still have 378 00:20:44,279 --> 00:20:48,400 Georgia Tech, Virginia and Pitt still up there with them. 379 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:52,839 But how about how the Mustangs have really taken to 380 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,240 the ACC and also the stumbles that have gone on 381 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,960 in Louisville since them beating Miami a couple of weeks ago, 382 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,359 the playoff push in the Big Ten that is all 383 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,960 through Big Ten paradigm, and of course the shifting landscape 384 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,720 out West, Get Off My Pylon with Matt Semik has 385 00:21:09,799 --> 00:21:15,279 that and the coaching carousel in the Sunshine State with 386 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:20,599 Florida with the possibility of a new coach maybe at 387 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,920 Florida State if Mike norvel Is let go. And then 388 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,880 of course what is going on with Alex Golish at USF. 389 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,680 Could he be going to Arkansas? Could he be going 390 00:21:33,039 --> 00:21:36,559 to Oklahoma State? Could he be going to UCLA? Those 391 00:21:36,559 --> 00:21:40,119 are all names that we have heard, and Jason Powers 392 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:43,920 gets into that on Florida Football Insiders. Then of course 393 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,680 you've got Pigskin and Burnt Ends with Tim Ham and 394 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:52,880 also the Big twelve sec breakdown Tyler Jones and Tamas Bridges. 395 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:54,799 Those are also this week. 396 00:21:55,599 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 2: All right, we got a lot more to do here. 397 00:21:57,279 --> 00:21:59,880 We got two games for preview, we got new uniforms, 398 00:22:00,079 --> 00:22:02,720 Army Navy uniforms. Those are always an exciting time. 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Navy 434 00:23:58,759 --> 00:24:01,920 is off this week, getting ready for the showdown on 435 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,759 the road at Memphis next week during Thanksgiving. But let's 436 00:24:05,799 --> 00:24:08,160 talk about our two games we got on the dock 437 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:12,799 at steven because first up on Saturday twelve noon, Tulsa 438 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,599 riding into Army to take on the Black Knights Senior 439 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,240 Day at Mikey Stadium. Tulsa three and seven zero to 440 00:24:19,279 --> 00:24:21,960 six in the American while Army is five and four 441 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:23,720 three and three in the American. This is going to 442 00:24:23,799 --> 00:24:28,279 be a CBS Sports Noon Sports Network kickoff at noon. 443 00:24:28,319 --> 00:24:30,799 Excuse me, Army given ten and a half points over 444 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,599 Under a forty five and a half. As I mentioned, 445 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,279 it is Senior Day as the Black Knights will recognize 446 00:24:36,319 --> 00:24:41,880 twenty three players before kickoff, and it's a big one 447 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,000 obviously Senior Day, but a chance for the mid or 448 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:49,160 the Black Knights to get Bowl eligible, making Bowl appearances 449 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,920 in back to back seasons. A win would also mark 450 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,759 head coach Jeff Munkins ninth winning or ninth season winning 451 00:24:56,799 --> 00:25:00,720 six plus games at Army, So a lot on the line, 452 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:05,119 especially with that Bowl berth is Army's ten in one 453 00:25:05,319 --> 00:25:11,079 on Senior Day in the Jeff Mounkin Era at Mikey Stadium, Tulsa, 454 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,359 oh and six Right now, I mean we'll pick games 455 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,519 here just a little bit, but I think the big 456 00:25:16,559 --> 00:25:20,200 thing right now it's just concentrating on what's in front 457 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,200 of you and getting eligible for that postseason. 458 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:29,079 Speaker 3: Steven, Yeah, and you you know that Jeff Monkin hash 459 00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:33,559 has probably instilled in his guys to focus on this 460 00:25:33,599 --> 00:25:36,119 week and not worry about the two games that you 461 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:41,119 still have to come especially because, uh, if you don't 462 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,759 win this week, you're gonna really have a hard time winning, 463 00:25:45,319 --> 00:25:50,400 uh against Utsa at the Alamodome where they play so well. 464 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,640 But really, you know, if your army, you know the 465 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,359 the what I what I have seen out of Tulsa 466 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,880 this year. Uh, you should be able to look at 467 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,160 this group and go, yeah, I don't think we've got 468 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:10,519 that much to be overly concerned about as long as 469 00:26:10,519 --> 00:26:13,160 we do our jobs. Because you know, they've got a 470 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,319 freshman quarterback, Baylor Hayes has put up a bunch of yards. 471 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,279 I mean, he's got almost eighteen hundred yards passing in 472 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:24,279 ten touchdowns, but his QBR is really one of the 473 00:26:24,759 --> 00:26:29,359 it's in the bottom quarter of Division one FBS quarterbacks 474 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:33,359 right now, So he makes a lot of mistakes because 475 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,079 he is a very young quarterback. They've got a pretty 476 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:41,720 good running back, you know, Dominic Richardson had a big 477 00:26:41,799 --> 00:26:45,960 day last week against Oregon State. He ran for one 478 00:26:46,039 --> 00:26:49,920 hundred and sixty six yards and a touchdown that broke 479 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,519 the Golden Hurricanes five game losing streak at that point 480 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,920 thirty one to fourteen. But they have been really really 481 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,960 they're not They're not a team that can that that 482 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,200 that can win without the other team making mistakes. Let's 483 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,240 put it that way. Like Day one at Oklahoma State 484 00:27:11,279 --> 00:27:14,720 earlier this year nineteen twelve, and the Cowboys made some 485 00:27:14,839 --> 00:27:18,240 serious mistakes in that game, letting the Golden Hurricane get 486 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,680 back into this game. You know, they they were able 487 00:27:23,079 --> 00:27:31,039 to last week against Oregon State take advantage of, you know, 488 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,480 the certain certain problems that you that you may have had. 489 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,039 You know, Oregon State's not not a good team either, 490 00:27:37,519 --> 00:27:41,559 and having you know, having to come to Tulsa was 491 00:27:41,599 --> 00:27:46,640 definitely you know a disappointment for them. But you know, 492 00:27:46,799 --> 00:27:51,440 like I said, for Army, you know, playing discipline football 493 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,759 and being able to do your job should be able 494 00:27:54,799 --> 00:27:58,359 to take care of Tulsa pretty formidably this week. 495 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think what's interesting I was mentioned Tulsa being 496 00:28:01,319 --> 00:28:03,559 zero to seven, but it's kind of the Hodgepodge and 497 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:08,039 non conference games that they've won, you know, beating Abilene Christian, 498 00:28:08,559 --> 00:28:12,960 winning at Oklahoma State, and then beating Oregon State. It's 499 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,079 really kind of an eclectic mix, if you will, in 500 00:28:16,079 --> 00:28:19,720 my opinion of non conference games that Tulsa is played. 501 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,400 You know, but still looking for that first conference win 502 00:28:24,519 --> 00:28:27,039 as they're coming off the thirty one to fourteenth victory 503 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:31,599 at home over Oregon State. Yea last week. We will 504 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,039 pick games here in just a little bit, so stay tuned, 505 00:28:34,079 --> 00:28:38,200 but Saturday, twelve noon on the CBS Sports Network Tulsa 506 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,359 and Army as Armies giving ten and a half points 507 00:28:40,359 --> 00:28:43,559 in this one, all right. Also Senior Day out in 508 00:28:43,599 --> 00:28:46,480 Colorado Springs. New Mexico is seven and three four and 509 00:28:46,519 --> 00:28:50,000 two in the mount West traveling to air Force three 510 00:28:50,039 --> 00:28:52,039 and seven two and four in the league. This is 511 00:28:52,039 --> 00:28:54,920 a seven o'clock Eastern Standard time kickoff on the CBS 512 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,000 Sports Network and air Force is a three and a 513 00:28:57,039 --> 00:29:01,319 half point home underdog. Run your fifty six and a 514 00:29:01,359 --> 00:29:04,519 half mentioned twenty three seniors going to be honored at 515 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,200 Army thirty two are going to be making their final 516 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,400 appearance in Falcon Stadium this weekend. As this class is 517 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,720 a twenty seven and twenty one record, a nineteen and 518 00:29:13,799 --> 00:29:17,200 fourteen mark in Mountain West games, and they've gone to 519 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,440 two Bowl games, winning both. So quite the senior class 520 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,279 as they are heading out the door. Air Force leading 521 00:29:24,319 --> 00:29:28,640 the series against New Mexico twenty six and fifteen, including 522 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,200 an advantage of twenty one to thirteen at home in 523 00:29:31,359 --> 00:29:36,400 conference games, so big chance to knock off another quality 524 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,400 opponent for air Force Bowl game obviously is out the window, 525 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,480 but you still want to go out strong. You still 526 00:29:42,519 --> 00:29:44,359 want to win that last one at home, protect your 527 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,319 home field, get that win for those thirty two seniors 528 00:29:47,359 --> 00:29:50,240 who've done some big things and during their time in 529 00:29:50,279 --> 00:29:50,880 the Springs. 530 00:29:51,279 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 3: Absolutely, as I mentioned, the Lobos find themselves. You know, 531 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,000 they're Bowl eligible, They're still in the thick of things 532 00:29:59,359 --> 00:30:03,359 for the Mountain West Conference championship. You know, they're right 533 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,359 up there with with Boise State and San Diego State 534 00:30:06,359 --> 00:30:10,359 and the likes. You know, the one thing that they 535 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,279 do well is stop the run. So you know, I 536 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,039 know that you know Air Force they want to run 537 00:30:17,079 --> 00:30:19,759 the football. It's gonna be pretty tough. They're almost They 538 00:30:19,799 --> 00:30:24,000 are a top twenty defense in Division one FBS. In 539 00:30:24,279 --> 00:30:27,480 run defense is New Mexico allowing just one hundred and 540 00:30:27,559 --> 00:30:31,599 five zero point eight yards per game. That puts them eighteenth. 541 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,839 They're not very good at stopping the stopping the pass. 542 00:30:35,319 --> 00:30:38,359 But you know, if you're air Force, you're not worried 543 00:30:38,359 --> 00:30:41,480 about the pass. You're worried about trying to establish the 544 00:30:41,599 --> 00:30:45,319 run defense or the run offense. And they're you're gonna 545 00:30:45,319 --> 00:30:47,880 go up against a team that really does that well. 546 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,400 The one thing that New Mexico does not do well 547 00:30:51,839 --> 00:30:55,000 is keep their hands on the football. They are minus 548 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:59,480 nine this year in turnover marchin That is one hundred 549 00:30:59,519 --> 00:31:03,839 and twenty d third in Division one FBS. Now now 550 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,039 correct me if I'm wrong. It's only one hundred and 551 00:31:07,079 --> 00:31:11,519 thirty six teams in FBS, I believe this year. So 552 00:31:11,599 --> 00:31:17,519 that's that idea is really really really bad. So you 553 00:31:17,599 --> 00:31:20,680 can you can definitely get the ball on the ground 554 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,279 if you are air Force going up against New Mexico's offense. 555 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,079 That being said, you know you've got to be able 556 00:31:28,119 --> 00:31:32,880 to extend drives and air Force has done that. Running 557 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,160 the football, I think that's gonna be really difficult. 558 00:31:36,839 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 2: Yeah. The Lobos five way time for second in the 559 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,839 Mountainless at four and two, still trying to keep pace there. 560 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,359 Atop the league. They have won four straight, the longest 561 00:31:46,359 --> 00:31:50,240 active streak in the in the Mountain West. But mentioned 562 00:31:50,279 --> 00:31:52,359 running the football, they are seven to oh this season 563 00:31:52,359 --> 00:31:54,200 when they run for at least one hundred and when 564 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,359 they don't when they're under one hundred, zero to three. 565 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:02,559 Uh so another big thing to look out for. And 566 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,440 also seven and oh this season when they don't throw 567 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,039 two or more interceptions. I think most teams would win 568 00:32:08,759 --> 00:32:10,759 when they three when they throw two or more picks. 569 00:32:10,799 --> 00:32:14,480 They're also zero to three, but mentioned averaging thirty points 570 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:20,359 a game three hundred and eighty five yards total. You know, 571 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:24,440 Bankston McKinney, You've got a bunch of guys that being 572 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,839 able to run the football by committee, and they also 573 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,559 are pretty good on defense. A couple fcs all Americans 574 00:32:30,559 --> 00:32:35,319 that joined the team this season, so this is a 575 00:32:35,559 --> 00:32:38,839 much improved New Mexico team is usually more one of 576 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,119 the more pushover teams in the Mount West. Not this season. 577 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,839 Speaker 3: Steven No, You're absolutely right, and you know, I would 578 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,839 definitely keep an eye on if you're Liam Sarka and 579 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,920 you are, you know, going to try and run the football, 580 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,799 the guy that you're gonna look for in the middle 581 00:32:57,119 --> 00:32:59,519 is the guy wearing number one. You have ever seen 582 00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:02,200 a defensive tackle wearing number one? I s we haven't, 583 00:33:02,359 --> 00:33:07,640 but Kishawn James Newby Senior has six and a half sacks, 584 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,519 so obviously able to get pressure in the middle of 585 00:33:11,599 --> 00:33:15,160 an offensive line. So I would think that you know, 586 00:33:15,359 --> 00:33:18,440 on the with the option and you know, being trying 587 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:22,119 to read the defense, you want to know where number 588 00:33:22,119 --> 00:33:24,920 one is at all times because he's going to be 589 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,799 pushing hard in the middle of that offensive line. 590 00:33:28,079 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, once again, New Mexico and Air Force 591 00:33:31,839 --> 00:33:35,720 seven pm, Eastern CENTERD Time, kickoff five pm there in 592 00:33:36,519 --> 00:33:39,440 Colorado Springs on the CBS Sports Network. Air Force a 593 00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:42,880 three and a half point underdog at home fifty six 594 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,119 and a half over under on Senior Day there. All right, 595 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,160 we're gonna come back. We got our Travis Manning Foundation 596 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,160 on a roll segment. We got a few news notes 597 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,079 to pass along, picks to make, and uniforms to talk 598 00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:55,799 to a boy? Or are they awesome? Steven? We will 599 00:33:55,799 --> 00:33:57,440 get into it when we come back here on Yards 600 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,759 and Stripes. You're a Home Force Service Academy Football. 601 00:34:00,799 --> 00:34:03,599 Speaker 4: In two thousand and seven, Marine First Lieutenant Travis Mannion 602 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,720 was killed in Iraq after saving his wooted teammates. Travis's 603 00:34:06,799 --> 00:34:09,199 legacy lives on through the words he spoke before his 604 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:12,960 final deployment. If not me, then who words that today 605 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,119 fuel the spirit of Travis Manion Foundation and through TMF 606 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,800 these words can live in you too. Show the world 607 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,159 what you're made of, because character is invisible until it's not. 608 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:25,280 Find out how you can strengthen the character of your community. 609 00:34:25,519 --> 00:34:29,440 Alongside empowered veterans families of the fallen and inspired civilians 610 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:30,719 at Travismanion dot org. 611 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:36,760 Speaker 2: All right, Tom for Travis Manion Foundation file segment, Rianna 612 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,119 remember a fallen hero one that he has given the 613 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:44,199 ultimate satisfiess we know freedom visit free, the words of 614 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,280 travisom Spell himself spoke before deploying on that final time. 615 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,119 If not me, then who? And we stand and salute 616 00:34:52,519 --> 00:34:54,880 so many of our men and women that are serving, 617 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:59,519 that have served here at home and abroad, but also 618 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:04,079 heroes that have given that ultimate sacrifice, because, like I said, 619 00:35:04,079 --> 00:35:06,480 as we know, freedom isn't free. Say that every single week. 620 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,559 But the Travis Manning Foundation doing just doing incredible work 621 00:35:09,559 --> 00:35:11,480 in communities across the country. And if you want to 622 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,280 get involved, you can find out way. He's at Travismannion 623 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:19,199 dot org online. But this week on our TMF Funerals salement, 624 00:35:19,199 --> 00:35:22,159 we're going to honor remember Chief Warrant Officer Brian D. 625 00:35:22,519 --> 00:35:27,119 Hazel Grove from the US Army. Chief Warrant Officer Brian 626 00:35:27,159 --> 00:35:30,480 hazel Grove gave the ultimate sacrifice on January the twenty third, 627 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:35,079 two thousand and four, when ISH fifty eight Kiowa Warrior 628 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:39,519 helicopter craft near Mosul in northern Iraq during during a 629 00:35:39,559 --> 00:35:44,559 combat mission serving during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was just 630 00:35:45,119 --> 00:35:48,880 twenty nine years old and three months into his deployment 631 00:35:49,079 --> 00:35:52,960 when he passed away. A native of Edinburgh, Indiana, hazel 632 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,800 Grove was an Army pilot assigned to the third Battalion, 633 00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:02,639 seventeenth Cavalry Regiment of tenth Mountain Division at Fort Drum, 634 00:36:02,679 --> 00:36:06,599 New York. He attended Austin p State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, 635 00:36:06,639 --> 00:36:10,559 and then Emory Riddle for aviation studies after warrant officer school. 636 00:36:11,079 --> 00:36:13,320 Prior to that, he graduated from Edinburgh High School in 637 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,159 Indiana and joined the Army in nineteen ninety four, becoming 638 00:36:16,199 --> 00:36:19,800 a helicopter pilot. He worked in military intelligence and served 639 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,960 two tours of duty in South Korea. Outside of the military, 640 00:36:23,039 --> 00:36:26,159 he valued education, loved to play golf and ride his Harley, 641 00:36:26,599 --> 00:36:29,719 and also devoted so much time to his family and friends. 642 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,480 His half brother Brad Leman said quote, this guy was amazing. 643 00:36:33,559 --> 00:36:36,360 He thrived in the military and was making it a career. 644 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,280 Brian hazel Grove was remembered as a bright, very personal, 645 00:36:42,639 --> 00:36:45,519 likable young man. He had a great sense of humor, 646 00:36:45,599 --> 00:36:49,079 and lived life without regrets. At the time of his death, 647 00:36:49,119 --> 00:36:54,000 he was survived by his wife, Kimmy, and his four children, Taylor, Zachary, Brandon, 648 00:36:54,119 --> 00:36:56,719 and Caitlin. So we take the time to remember heroes 649 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,320 like Chief Warrant Officer Brian D. Hazel Grove, the United 650 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,920 States Army, and so many others that have given that 651 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,360 ultimate sacrifice. 652 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,840 Speaker 5: Travis Mallon foundations nine to eleven Heroes run five kra 653 00:37:07,079 --> 00:37:10,039 series units communities across the country and around the world 654 00:37:10,079 --> 00:37:13,039 to honor the sacrifices of September eleventh and the war since. 655 00:37:13,159 --> 00:37:16,320 Join your community this September and register to run, Walk 656 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,039 or rock by visiting nine to eleven heroesrun dot org. 657 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:26,400 Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards 658 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,239 and Stripes Service Academy Football. 659 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,719 Speaker 2: All right, final segment here on Yards and Stripes as 660 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,440 we get you ready for this weekend Thanksgiving holiday just 661 00:37:36,519 --> 00:37:39,400 around the corner. Stephen Hope everybody, if you're hitting the 662 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,760 road this weekend, has safe travels wherever it is you 663 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:47,159 are headed to to ring in the holidays season. But 664 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,119 Stephen a couple news and notes real quick, because I 665 00:37:51,159 --> 00:37:53,199 want to talk uniforms. And then we'll make some picks. 666 00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,360 But kickoff time for the Army at uts game at 667 00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:01,119 UTSA game on Thanksgiving weekend, Saturday, November twenty nine, that 668 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,559 is going to be a three thirty kickoff there on 669 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:08,239 ESPN plus. Air Force senior punter Luke Frere one of 670 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:12,480 ten semi finalists for the Ray Guy Award. What I 671 00:38:12,519 --> 00:38:17,000 think is interesting is that Freer He's only punted nineteen 672 00:38:17,079 --> 00:38:20,719 times this season, Stephen. I mean, a dude, that's only 673 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:25,320 funny nineteen times, you know, one of ten finalists for 674 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,480 or semi finalists for the Ray Guy Award. I think 675 00:38:27,559 --> 00:38:32,320 that's pretty awesome. But he's averaging over forty five yards 676 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:36,840 a kick this season in those nineteen punts. So props 677 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:40,559 to mister Luke Frere for being a Ray Guy. UH 678 00:38:40,679 --> 00:38:43,960 semi finalists all right. Navy senior quarterback Blake Corbath, he's 679 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,480 been raking in a lot of honors. He is one 680 00:38:46,519 --> 00:38:50,519 of twenty quarterbacks named as a debut O'Brien Awards semi finalist, 681 00:38:50,559 --> 00:38:54,199 also a Walter Camp Player of the Year semi finalist, 682 00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:57,599 and finally, Navy senior noseguard Landon Robinson, a semi finalist 683 00:38:57,679 --> 00:39:01,039 for the Ben Eric award so wards season starting to 684 00:39:01,079 --> 00:39:04,599 creep back up again as we get closer to the postseason. 685 00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:08,599 All right, Steven, let's talk uniforms. One of our favorite 686 00:39:08,599 --> 00:39:12,639 topics army baby game. These babies are usually debuted in 687 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:17,320 a social media extraordinary video debut, and that's what the 688 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:21,280 academies put out this week as they gave us the 689 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:25,400 peak underneath the thread to let us see what they 690 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,239 look like. And damn are they awesome, both of them 691 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:33,119 honoring two hundred fiftieth anniversaries of their respective branches of 692 00:39:33,159 --> 00:39:37,480 the military. Let's talk about Army first, because they will 693 00:39:37,519 --> 00:39:40,280 be honoring the twound fifty fiftieth birthday of the Army 694 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:44,880 coming up this summer. I think they look sharp. I 695 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,760 think both of them look sharp. The uniform featuring a 696 00:39:48,159 --> 00:39:51,760 marble based color on the jersey and pants and a 697 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,920 nod to the marble headstones at Arlington National Cemetery. 698 00:39:55,239 --> 00:40:00,039 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And then of course the type facing, the 699 00:40:00,079 --> 00:40:04,199 font of the numbers, and and what they're using for 700 00:40:04,199 --> 00:40:07,159 for Army on the you know, for saying United States 701 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,800 Army on the on the uniform, you know, based on 702 00:40:11,079 --> 00:40:16,239 the United States Constitution, which you know, obviously very very 703 00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,320 big when it comes to the service academies as they 704 00:40:19,639 --> 00:40:23,920 look to support, protect, and defend, excuse me, preserve, protect, 705 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:28,760 and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. 706 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,280 And you know, I I have said the last couple 707 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,119 of years that I thought that Army had the better uniforms, 708 00:40:35,199 --> 00:40:39,840 you know, And and these these uniforms are really really nice. 709 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,039 I mean it's the first all white look uh for 710 00:40:43,039 --> 00:40:46,000 for the Black Knights since twenty twenty one, remember the 711 00:40:46,039 --> 00:40:50,880 Snow game, because they when they when they were wearing 712 00:40:51,159 --> 00:40:54,480 white in the in the white snow uh you know. 713 00:40:54,679 --> 00:40:58,280 So I think, you know, they're really sharp looking and 714 00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:02,440 and for fans of the Nights, you should be really 715 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,159 really happy they are. They're really really sharp. 716 00:41:05,559 --> 00:41:08,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. That they reminded me of the year with the 717 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:14,039 was it twenty eighteen? Was that nineteen with the white 718 00:41:14,079 --> 00:41:19,159 and the snow Navy the midshipman. These are gonna be 719 00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,599 Navy blue, honoring the two or fiftieth anniversary of the 720 00:41:22,679 --> 00:41:26,000 Navy that they just celebrated the USS Constitution serving as 721 00:41:26,079 --> 00:41:31,239 inspiration from their especially specialty uniforms, the Navy blue tops. 722 00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:34,159 I think they just look totally sharp. 723 00:41:34,559 --> 00:41:34,800 Speaker 3: Yeah. 724 00:41:35,079 --> 00:41:38,719 Speaker 2: The one difference, you know, both of them are special 725 00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,679 in their own right. The one thing I typically like 726 00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:45,280 about Navy's uniforms is you have more colors that you 727 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,599 can go to with the Navy and the Marine Corps, 728 00:41:48,599 --> 00:41:51,159 so you typically have some different color schemes where you 729 00:41:51,199 --> 00:41:53,639 can really mix and match from one year to the next. 730 00:41:53,679 --> 00:41:56,360 I mean, shoot, they had the nasty inspired uniforms at 731 00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,880 one year. Armies are typically more of the black, the white, 732 00:42:00,079 --> 00:42:04,280 the camo. They don't they're not quite as exotic, you know, 733 00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,159 they're typically a little bit I don't want to say plainer, 734 00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,360 That's not the word I'm looking for, but Navy typically 735 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,400 can go with a little bit more of It's not 736 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:18,280 even flamboyant. They just have they have a variety, a variety, 737 00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,159 that's yes it They have a rot a lot of 738 00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,320 variety that they can go to. And so when they 739 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,360 mix them up so much from year to year, I 740 00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:25,480 just think that's really cool. 741 00:42:26,519 --> 00:42:30,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, but you really for for a two hundred and 742 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,239 fiftieth birthday, you know, you you kind of have to 743 00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,719 go with you know what, you know, as they say, 744 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:42,280 you dance with who brung you? And so I you know, 745 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:49,880 I love the dark blue jersey, the typeface uh, you know, 746 00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:53,639 obviously is something that you know, those of us that 747 00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:58,199 served in the Navy are very familiar with. I think, 748 00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:00,679 I think I still have a couple of those that 749 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,280 still say maybe sitting around here, uh somewhere. And and 750 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:09,079 the the uniform numerals are just so so sharp and like, 751 00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:12,239 you know, looking you know, exactly like you would see 752 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,800 on one of the on one of the fighter wings, 753 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,719 on one of the the the air squadron wings. So 754 00:43:20,519 --> 00:43:24,679 I love the obviously the Constitution. They've got the rope 755 00:43:25,119 --> 00:43:29,960 design both on the shoulders and on the where the 756 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,079 striping would be on the helmet. Uh, you know, it 757 00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,679 just looks so so sharp and I and I love 758 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:41,159 the the winged eagle, uh you know, obviously a nod 759 00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:45,599 to the USS Constitution as well an eagle and six stars. 760 00:43:46,679 --> 00:43:51,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. The helmets are usually the what always what always 761 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,440 blows me away too. I mean, we talk about the threads, 762 00:43:54,639 --> 00:43:57,719 the actual uniforms, but the helmets usually are typically the 763 00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:59,760 chart topper in my opinion. 764 00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:02,199 Speaker 3: Tell me about it. My wife is still looking for 765 00:44:02,199 --> 00:44:07,239 one of those NASA helmets. So yeah, memo, Distrass, if 766 00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:08,800 you got one laying around up. 767 00:44:08,679 --> 00:44:13,039 Speaker 2: There, I think, what's ironic is the navy helmets, you know, 768 00:44:13,119 --> 00:44:19,400 the ship's hull of old ironside sheathing copper nineteen twenty 769 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,159 five pennies campaign the letter helped fund its restoration. I 770 00:44:23,159 --> 00:44:26,280 think it's ironic is the penny was just discontinued so 771 00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:30,840 that the penny gonna be front and center on the helmet, 772 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:33,519 and so to speak with for the navymanshipman, all right, 773 00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:37,519 uniforms are awesome. We can't wait it just when you 774 00:44:37,559 --> 00:44:39,800 see them in the social media videos, it's cool, But 775 00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:41,920 when you see them actually all out on the field, 776 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,920 that's what really gets me. Ex absolutely all right, Steven, 777 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,760 let's make some picks. Last week, you and I both 778 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,639 took USF. We both took yukon. This week we have 779 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:55,920 two games. Let's start with Army welcoming Tulsa winless Tulsa 780 00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:00,679 in the American I don't think Tulsa's getting their first 781 00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,880 conference win. I guess I'll fire first in this one. 782 00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:05,559 I'll let you fire first in the next one. I've 783 00:45:05,559 --> 00:45:09,159 got Army winning big by three touchdowns to the tune 784 00:45:09,159 --> 00:45:12,800 of thirty four to thirteen. They've been very good on 785 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,400 Senior Day ten and one under Jeffmunkin, I think they're 786 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,360 going to be eleven and one. I have no problems. 787 00:45:17,639 --> 00:45:20,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you. I don't have the score 788 00:45:21,039 --> 00:45:25,000 quite so lo lopsided. I have them winning by two touchdowns. 789 00:45:25,079 --> 00:45:29,880 I have Army twenty four and Tulsa ten in this game. 790 00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,880 But yeah, I agree with you. I think it's Senior 791 00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:36,679 Day at Mikey Stadium against a winless team. I think 792 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:40,360 everything stacks against the Golden Hurricane, and so I think 793 00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:44,639 the Black Knights get themselves bull eligible here and don't 794 00:45:44,639 --> 00:45:45,920 have to worry about UTSA. 795 00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,159 Speaker 2: All right, last game New Mexico at air Force and 796 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,199 New Mexico trying to keep pacing them Mount West air 797 00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:57,960 Force three and seven, honoring thirty two seniors. They're also 798 00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,440 on Senior Day in Colorado Springs. Can air Force pull 799 00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,119 off one more at home for those seniors? 800 00:46:03,159 --> 00:46:06,239 Speaker 3: Steven, Yeah, I would. I would love to say yes, 801 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:10,559 but unfortunately I have to say no. I have New 802 00:46:10,599 --> 00:46:14,119 Mexico winning this game. I just think that, you know 803 00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,239 the way that they have been able to, you know, 804 00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:21,039 use it as a you know, it's like a cast 805 00:46:21,039 --> 00:46:23,840 of thousands that the Lobos are able to have been 806 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:27,559 able to use this year on offense. I don't think 807 00:46:27,639 --> 00:46:30,960 air Force is going to have the ability to get 808 00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:36,320 the ball on the turf enough to stop New Mexico's offense. 809 00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,400 So I have the Lobos winning this game. Thirty one seventeen. 810 00:46:40,559 --> 00:46:44,920 Speaker 2: We're pretty close. We're very close. Actually, we don't go 811 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,719 over these in advance. I too think New Mexico is 812 00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:51,880 just going to be too much for air Force. I've 813 00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:55,079 got New Mexico thirty one to twenty, so just a 814 00:46:55,119 --> 00:46:58,280 difference of a field goal. So yeah, smart minds think 815 00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,519 alike Steven yep. 816 00:47:00,639 --> 00:47:04,760 Speaker 3: And so unfortunately, you know, for one, for one academy, 817 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,920 it'll be a happy uh senior day this week, and 818 00:47:08,119 --> 00:47:09,039 for one it will. 819 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:12,320 Speaker 2: Not before we get out the door. Anything else is 820 00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,559 catching your eye in the college football world this weekend? 821 00:47:15,599 --> 00:47:17,719 And what's typically a lot of times, at least in 822 00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:22,079 the SEC A tune up, tune up Saturday for rivalry weekend, 823 00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,000 not a whole lot to me on the docket that 824 00:47:26,079 --> 00:47:28,719 catches my fancy. Yeah, I think everybody's looking at it 825 00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:29,280 to next week. 826 00:47:29,639 --> 00:47:33,199 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean really, Oregon and USC is kind of 827 00:47:33,199 --> 00:47:35,599 a big one in the in the Big Ten, and 828 00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:39,480 obviously we talked about uh Pitt last week. You know, 829 00:47:39,639 --> 00:47:44,679 they've got they've got the the the grinder that they 830 00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:46,880 were run through. I mean, they got destroyed by Notre 831 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,679 Dame last week. This week they have George Tech, and 832 00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:53,519 next week they have SMU. So this is the second 833 00:47:53,559 --> 00:47:56,400 game of three for Pitt that's going to be really, 834 00:47:56,559 --> 00:48:00,519 really difficult. But yeah, for me, outside of you know, 835 00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:04,320 USC and Oregon, that's probably the one game that I'm 836 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:05,320 certainly looking at. 837 00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:09,760 Speaker 2: Well, let's we'll keep it filed away because we got 838 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,039 a lot coming next week with Thanksgiving me lots of 839 00:48:13,079 --> 00:48:16,440 big games, a lot on the line. But certainly best 840 00:48:16,519 --> 00:48:19,239 of luck to Army and Air Force on Senior Day 841 00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:21,920 this weekend, we'll get out of here. Hope everybody has 842 00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,480 safe travels out there. We will come to you during 843 00:48:24,559 --> 00:48:28,440 Thanksgiving week next week because the show must go on 844 00:48:28,559 --> 00:48:30,719 and we will continue on here on Yards and Stripes. 845 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,159 So Steven, have a great week, have a great weekend, 846 00:48:33,159 --> 00:48:34,440 and we will talk to you next week. 847 00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:39,679 Speaker 1: Join us again next time for Yards and Strikes Service 848 00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:43,440 Academy Football. To get more on all things Service Academy Football, 849 00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,559 like Yards and Stripes on Facebook and follow them on 850 00:48:46,599 --> 00:48:49,719 Twitter at Yards and Stripes and make sure that you're 851 00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:53,840 subscribing to the College Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast feed 852 00:48:54,159 --> 00:49:04,440 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, and wherever you get your podcasts.