Speaker 1: Need to get your football fixed on all things Army, Navy,
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Speaker 2: We have lift off on another episode of Yards and
Stripes your hope or Service Academy Football. But Steven, we
have new threads, new uniforms to talk about, and boy
are they sharp. We got a ton to do here
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and we are excited that you are with us once
again as we move ever so closer to the end
of this college football season. I don't want to start
crying when I say that, but I'm shedding a tear
just even thinking about the end. But there's tons more
games excitement to come. Stephen, you know how we start
every episode. We're starting a little bit late tonight, but
you got to give me a killer pizza report, whether
you had it night or whether you had it since
we last recorded. Please tell me what the new menu
item that you tried was and how damn good was it?
Speaker 3: Oh, you're gonna be disappointed with the way things have
gone this week. I have not had my pizza. Oh
I am, I am, I am right now, UH in
pizza withdrawal I'm having. I'm having the jones Is. I'm
dying for it, and I'm not gonna have I'm not
gonna have an opportunity to have the pizza until this
Saturday for college football. But UH, I have made it.
I've made it my mission that UH for this game
UH this week this weekend Saturday, We've got USF and
UH UAB on the road UH in Birmingham. So I've
got both of my pre and postgame show hosts UH
with me in studio, and they have never had killer pizza.
So I have made it my mission that they will
be having kilopizza for the first time with me on
on Saturday in the studios at USF. So it'll be
it'll be tasty.
Speaker 2: Then all right, we will get another report next week
since you were on hiatus this week, we got maybe
double up next week since it's Thanksgiving week. You know
what Thanksgiving week is. We gotta eat until we're you know,
in a stupor. I don't care if it's turkey, pizza,
whatever it is, because there's good football, there's good basketball,
there's good sports on when it comes Thanksgiving Week. To me,
Thanksgiving Week is one of the best sports weeks of
the entire my probably I would go out on a
limb and I will tell you, as much as I
love March Madness, I'm a basketball guy through and through.
I know that's sacrilegeo to say on a college football podcast.
I love me some March Madness, but the best sports
week of the year, in my opinion, is Thanksgiving Week
because you get college football, you get college basketball, you've
got NFL sprinkled in, You've got everything on Thanksgiving Week,
and it's just awesome, good games all across the absolutely.
Speaker 3: I mean, you've got you know, usually two sometimes three
good NFL games on Thanksgiving Day. Of course college basketball.
You've got all of these tournaments going on. I know
that we'll be working in the USF. The USF men
and the USF women are playing in the Bahamas for Thanksgiving.
So they're they're in the what is the Battle for
Nasau or the Battle of the Bahamas or the Battle
of Atlantis, I think is what they're calling it now.
For the Atlantis Resort. Both the USF men and the
USF women are going to be down there for Thanksgiving,
so so we're all excited about that. Of course, some
great college football to and the regular season you're in.
The playoff really comes into shape around Thanksgiving weekend, and
then of course you've got the NBA and the NHL
and of course the NFL on that Sunday as well
after Thanksgiving. So it's just, you know, it really is
from Thursday all the way through Sunday, it's four just
tremendous days of sports.
Speaker 2: Yeah, without a doubt. And it was a tremendous day
of sports last weekend as we had a couple of
games on the books, and boy was it a special
Senior Day up in Annapolis. Let's get into this one,
because Navy upsetting USF on Senior Day forty one to
thirty eight, Number twenty five South Florida came in freshly
minted in the top twenty five play college Football Playoff rankings.
And if you would have told me, Stephen that Byron Brown,
who we talked about quite a bit last week on
the show, was going to throw for three twenty seven
and two tutties and then he was going to rust
seventeen times for one thirty six and two touchdowns. And
then let's throw in there that Blake co was going
to start but not finish the game, and Braxton Woodson
would come in relief. All that you just told me.
If I had not seen it down of that game,
I'm thinking that USF was won in a runaway. It
was anything but as Navy led wire to wire, they
never trailed, and they built several double digit leads only
to see the Bulls come back and close the gap
time and time again from start to finish. But in
the end, it was Navy outlasting USF forty one to
thirty eight. As Navy moves to eight and two, six
and one in the American and now South Florida, who's
had a fantastic season in their own right, seven and
three overall, four into Eli Heiden and Wright catching five
passes for one forty six to become Navy's all time
leader in receiving yards, amongst many other things. But it
was Braxton Woodson to the rescue in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. And if you had told me that if
that South Florida was going to score twenty two points,
in fourth quarter and they were still going to lose.
I probably would have told the told you that you
were crazy, because everything seemed to be slanted toward the
bulls and all of a sudden, you know, but everything
early was slanted toward the midshipman. I mean, I just
remember watching the first the first drive for Navy. You know,
it's third and nine on the twenty four, and all
of a sudden, they just, you know, they hand the
ball off to Alex Tesca and it was like the
seas parted, the Red Sea parted, and Alex Teska is
all of a sudden in the end zone seventy six
yards later. I mean, I was like, where was if
you know, us F going, where's the where's the tackling
on this? And then you know, early on, you know,
it was a very small select group of people that
were getting to touch the football. I was looking. I
looked at halftime and they had only five was four
or five people that had touched the football in the
first half. If you were Navy, it was Blake Corvath,
Alex Tesca, Eli Heidenreich, and Brandon Chapman. That was it.
And they had only thrown one other pass to to
another to another player and it was incomplete and they
got a penalty on that, so so so they down
didn't count. So really it was four guys that got
that touched the football, a fifth got thrown at once
and still South Florida had no idea what was going
on there. They were very undisciplined was the word that
we used, uh on the South Florida broadcast. Uh, you
know it was. It was just really not well played
by a team that was expected to be in the
college football playoffs. You know, in a lot of expectations
for South Florida died on Senior Day in Annapolis in
the Michael in the Michael Kelly Bowl. You know a
lot of people thought, you know, this was going to
be the anointing because after this game against Navy, South
Florida had two games remaining against Tulsa and against Rice,
and you figured they would have won both of those games,
they would end up in the American Championship game against
Tulane or a North Texas, North Texas, who they've already
beaten on the road. You know, you win that game
and you're in the college football playoff, and all of
that got thrown in the circular filey by Navy, and
you know, a well disciplined team that just was able
to you know, put the screws to him. I mean
it was twenty four to nine at halftime in South Florida.
Just could not get up from getting punched in the
mouth early.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just you know, the Star of Star, Game
of Stars, you know, the Stars of Stars for Navy.
They came back out in They Shine Horror tesca hEidin Reich.
You know, it's kind of been that movie most of
the year where those three guys have been have been
the guys. But Braxton Woodson made no mistake about it.
He came in and made some big plays, you know
in the you know, second half or the third quarter
when he came in, you know, thirty two yard completion
to Hide and Wright because they were you know, usf
was nine in the box just daring maybe in Woodson
to throw it, and he did and then you know,
I think it was the very next play, a twenty
yard option keeper for the score. But yep, you know,
he came in and really made He didn't manage the offense.
He made some big plays and that's uh, you know,
that's something that you know he needs to do. Especially
as a senior. You got to step up and make
some of those plays. But you know, I believe it
was Horvath.
Speaker 3: What was it?
Speaker 2: Cramping is is really what it?
Speaker 3: In both legs he had in both legs. Yeah, he
went down in the third quarter and he was cramping
in his left leg. They took him off, They brought
in Woodson to finish out the series. They gave him
the hydration. I saw him on on the stationary by
trying to work out the cramping in the left leg,
and then all of a sudden, then in the very
next drive he would go down. At the first drive
of the fourth quarter, he would go down with cramping
in his right leg.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean he's gonna have to get that
figured out, because you you know, cramping. Injuries are one thing,
but having guys cramp, those are usually things most of
the time that you can prevent, you know, by doing
the things you need to do. Certainly, midshipman are a
little bit, you know, a horse of a different color
when it comes to student athletes with all the different commitments,
but you know they've got to have Blake Horvath on
the field, especially if you're when you're going to Memphis
for this next game and Army Navy's coming up, he
has got to be on the football field because that
modence is completely has many different dimensions when he is
under center.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, you know, as well as Braxton played
in the game against USF. If if they have to
rely on him against Memphis, I think that that's going
to be a very very tough ask. And then and
as you mention, with Army Navy coming up, you know,
a couple of weeks after that, you know, and at
that point, you know, you beat Memphis, uh in two
weeks and all of a sudden, you know, let the
chips fall where they may for the American Conference title.
And then you know, you if you're playing in that,
then you don't have that extra week to prepare for
Army for Army Navy, and that's going to be really
really difficult.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Navy getting the victory on Senior Day, you
and I we both had USF. But boy, uh, you
know this everything just you know, lining up and you know,
as you mentioned, you know, you know, only one turnover,
but Navy doing the job basically they had to do.
And stars stepping up and defense, you know, coming to
play Byron Brown was still outstanding, but mayve outlasting the
Bulls forty one to thirty eight. All right, let's pivot
out or I should say up to the northeast, because
in the first ever meeting between these two teams it
was Yukon and Air Force and Yukon getting a twenty
eight to sixteen win as the Huskies win their third
straight and now they've won seven of eight, but twenty
six to eight or twenty six to sixteen, Yukon eight
and three, Air Force three and seven officially now that
the Falcons will not go bowling as Yukon running back
Kim Edwards he rushed for one sixty five two touchdowns
there in East Hartford, and Yukon got on the board
very first possession of the game, going forty yards in
seven plays for Gano with a ten yard run to
take a six to zero lead after they fumbled the
snap on the pat And you know, Air Force did
get on the board there later in the first quarter,
with Dylan Carson scoring to cap a ten plays seventy
five yard drive to give the Falcons seven to six lead,
but after that it was Yukon the rest of the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's really and it didn't have to be
Yukon the rest of the way because after that touchdown, know,
Yukon's quarterback Fagnano through his first interception of the season.
Remember we had talked about this at the beginning at
the end of last last week's brought show. You know, Uh,
this kid, Joe Fagnano, had not thrown an interception all year. Yeah,
he had like he had all of these all of
you know these this amazing uh season, you know, and
he had not thrown he had not thrown a pick.
He throws a pick in the first quarter right after
air Force had scored a touchdown and they so now
you've got an opportunity, uh to go down and you know,
pad your lead because it's a one point lead. And unfortunately, uh,
you know, you're you know, it's a short field, so
obviously you know it's gonna be four down territory. And
they just weren't able to get the the final uh
yard that they needed because they turned the ball over
on fourth and two. They only got one yard out
of the two and then I had another long drive
to start basically at the end of the first that
that lasted almost the entire second quarter, and it was
an eleven eleven minute drive, almost a twelve minute drive,
nineteen plays and again they get you know, inside the
red zone, they get down inside the five as a
matter of matter of fact, and they can't put the
ball in the end zone. And so it's still seven
to six at that point. You know, the Huskies are
able to get a field goal, you know, to take
the lead back at the end of the first half,
and they would not look back from there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of like the Navy game. If you had
told me that Air Force would play turnover free football,
I mean plus one in that category, that they had
the football for ten more minutes than Yukon and they
would rush for nearly three hundred and that they still lost,
I would be left scratching my head in you know
what you alluded to right there? You know, some long drives.
Possessions were at a premium, as you just I think
the teams each had one possession there in the third
quarter alone, So you know, when possessions are at a premium,
you can't do a lot.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Air Force only had three penalties for sixteen yards.
They played probably a pretty darn clean game, but you know,
two drives that'd end on downs and you know you're
only four to you know ten on third down anyway,
but you don't get both the fourth down conversions that
you're attempting, and you know, it's just kind of the
way the game shakes out sometimes, and so you know,
hate to see it for Air Force, you know, them
not find a way to kind of backdoor their way
into a bowl game in the postseason again. But you know,
it's still these Air Force cadets going to have a
chance to come home and play on Senior Day this
coming weekend. We'll talk about that here in a second.
But you know, Troy Calhoun's team, it's been another difficult
season after a magical run, what for about four or
five years in a row, winning you know, ten plus games.
You know they're gonna have to figure it out, you know,
but you know, Liam Sarka another solid day. Just hate
seeing you know, Air Force going down is uh, you know,
really kind of a it's weird to have a non
conference game, you know, like this, especially when you've never
played each other this late in the season. Yeah, it's
just it's just kind of odd. Timing on the schedule,
especially when you already have the Army game that comes
in November. To have a second non conference game there
in November, it's just kind of strange.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you think about it. They have, you know,
they've got three non conference games when uh, you know,
other teams and other conferences, you know, are are deep
into their conference play. I mean, they have the Navy
game right at the beginning of October and then you
know the Army game, you know, at the beginning of November.
So it said have a third non conference game, and
especially to have a non conference game of that caliber.
You know, obviously Yukon is a very good team this year.
You know, they're gonna be in a bowl for a reason.
And uh, you know, so you give Jim Morra the
credit there, and now you know it's it's gonna be
even tougher. Now, uh, when we when we get into
you know, talking about next week. I mean, now you've
got New Mexico looking for a shot at the at
the Mountain West title game. They you know, they are
right there in the middle of things and we'll we'll
get to that here coming up. And you know, for
for the Falcons, it's gonna be really tough, you know,
sledding the rest of the way with New Mexico and
then of course the ram Falcon Trophy game, which will
wrap up their season. I know that the Rams are
not nearly the team that they've been in years past,
but that's still going to be a very, very hotly
contested game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. Let's let's get to our
game balls this week, Steven. Obviously Navy springing the upset,
air Force losing. You know, a lot of big time
performances in that Navy game, a lot of different ways
you can go. Who's going to get your game ball?
Speaker 3: Friends, Yeah, my game ball's got to go to Braxton Woodson.
You know, like I said that, if you had told
me that Blake Corvath would have not finished the game,
that would have been out for a large chunk of
the second half. I would have thought that that would
have been the point. And especially with USF scoring twenty
two points in the fourth quarter, I certainly would have
thought that that the Bulls would have come back to
beat the midshipman. But it seemed like in that fourth quarter,
every time that USF needed to stop Braxton Woodson made
sure that he didn't give it to them, and so
you know, I know that you may say, you may
say that's what a game manager does, and that's always
a bad word when when you're talking about a quarterback,
usually as game manager. But he did a fantastic job
of not just managing the game, but making sure to
put the final stamp on that game and get them
in an opportunity to still be alive for a conference title.
So yeah, I'll go with Braxton Woodson.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna go give it to Eli Heidinrich
because becoming the Navy's all time leading receiver, especially at
a you know, an academy which is, you know, typically
an option oriented offense, you know you're doing big things
when you when you break a passing record and are
they passing records like you see at in Oklahoma or
a Houston or something like that. No, but still when
you break a career record, all time receiving or all
time record for career, it's a big deal. Heinrich hauled
in with one hundred and forty six yards on five passes,
now has one thousand, seven hundred and ninety four career
receiving yards, moving ahead of Rob Thompson's one thousand, seven
and eighty one he compiled from nineteen sixty five to
nineteen sixty seven. So Hide and Wright getting my game ball,
you know, in this game. And he's just had so
many big moments, and I think he's probably going to
still have some more big ones because there's a lot
more for Navy to play for as we move through
the season. All right, Steven, tell all our listeners about
what they can find at College Gridarn Coast to Coast
Podcast Network. We have something for everybody.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, and this week is no exception. Starting off
checking out this week in the AC. Don't look now,
but SMU has found themselves pretty much in the driver's
seat for the ACC Conference Championship. It's going to be
a tough road to hoe. I mean, you still have
Georgia Tech, Virginia and Pitt still up there with them.
But how about how the Mustangs have really taken to
the ACC and also the stumbles that have gone on
in Louisville since them beating Miami a couple of weeks ago,
the playoff push in the Big Ten that is all
through Big Ten paradigm, and of course the shifting landscape
out West, Get Off My Pylon with Matt Semik has
that and the coaching carousel in the Sunshine State with
Florida with the possibility of a new coach maybe at
Florida State if Mike norvel Is let go. And then
of course what is going on with Alex Golish at USF.
Could he be going to Arkansas? Could he be going
to Oklahoma State? Could he be going to UCLA? Those
are all names that we have heard, and Jason Powers
gets into that on Florida Football Insiders. Then of course
you've got Pigskin and Burnt Ends with Tim Ham and
also the Big twelve sec breakdown Tyler Jones and Tamas Bridges.
Those are also this week.
Speaker 2: All right, we got a lot more to do here.
We got two games for preview, we got new uniforms,
Army Navy uniforms. Those are always an exciting time. Our
Travis Maning Foundation Honorall segment that we'll make some picks
before we get out the door. We got that coming
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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, continuing on here on Yards and Stripes, You're
home for Service Academy Football. He is Stephen Carney, best
co host, producer, extraordinary and at jack of all trades
that you will find anywhere. And I Pryce Atkinson appreciate
you listening this week to games to get into. Navy
is off this week, getting ready for the showdown on
the road at Memphis next week during Thanksgiving. But let's
talk about our two games we got on the dock
at steven because first up on Saturday twelve noon, Tulsa
riding into Army to take on the Black Knights Senior
Day at Mikey Stadium. Tulsa three and seven zero to
six in the American while Army is five and four
three and three in the American. This is going to
be a CBS Sports Noon Sports Network kickoff at noon.
Excuse me, Army given ten and a half points over
Under a forty five and a half. As I mentioned,
it is Senior Day as the Black Knights will recognize
twenty three players before kickoff, and it's a big one
obviously Senior Day, but a chance for the mid or
the Black Knights to get Bowl eligible, making Bowl appearances
in back to back seasons. A win would also mark
head coach Jeff Munkins ninth winning or ninth season winning
six plus games at Army, So a lot on the line,
especially with that Bowl berth is Army's ten in one
on Senior Day in the Jeff Mounkin Era at Mikey Stadium, Tulsa,
oh and six Right now, I mean we'll pick games
here just a little bit, but I think the big
thing right now it's just concentrating on what's in front
of you and getting eligible for that postseason.
Speaker 3: Steven, Yeah, and you you know that Jeff Monkin hash
has probably instilled in his guys to focus on this
week and not worry about the two games that you
still have to come especially because, uh, if you don't
win this week, you're gonna really have a hard time winning,
uh against Utsa at the Alamodome where they play so well.
But really, you know, if your army, you know the
the what I what I have seen out of Tulsa
this year. Uh, you should be able to look at
this group and go, yeah, I don't think we've got
that much to be overly concerned about as long as
we do our jobs. Because you know, they've got a
freshman quarterback, Baylor Hayes has put up a bunch of yards.
I mean, he's got almost eighteen hundred yards passing in
ten touchdowns, but his QBR is really one of the
it's in the bottom quarter of Division one FBS quarterbacks
right now, So he makes a lot of mistakes because
he is a very young quarterback. They've got a pretty
good running back, you know, Dominic Richardson had a big
day last week against Oregon State. He ran for one
hundred and sixty six yards and a touchdown that broke
the Golden Hurricanes five game losing streak at that point
thirty one to fourteen. But they have been really really
they're not They're not a team that can that that
that can win without the other team making mistakes. Let's
put it that way. Like Day one at Oklahoma State
earlier this year nineteen twelve, and the Cowboys made some
serious mistakes in that game, letting the Golden Hurricane get
back into this game. You know, they they were able
to last week against Oregon State take advantage of, you know,
the certain certain problems that you that you may have had.
You know, Oregon State's not not a good team either,
and having you know, having to come to Tulsa was
definitely you know a disappointment for them. But you know,
like I said, for Army, you know, playing discipline football
and being able to do your job should be able
to take care of Tulsa pretty formidably this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think what's interesting I was mentioned Tulsa being
zero to seven, but it's kind of the Hodgepodge and
non conference games that they've won, you know, beating Abilene Christian,
winning at Oklahoma State, and then beating Oregon State. It's
really kind of an eclectic mix, if you will, in
my opinion of non conference games that Tulsa is played.
You know, but still looking for that first conference win
as they're coming off the thirty one to fourteenth victory
at home over Oregon State. Yea last week. We will
pick games here in just a little bit, so stay tuned,
but Saturday, twelve noon on the CBS Sports Network Tulsa
and Army as Armies giving ten and a half points
in this one, all right. Also Senior Day out in
Colorado Springs. New Mexico is seven and three four and
two in the mount West traveling to air Force three
and seven two and four in the league. This is
a seven o'clock Eastern Standard time kickoff on the CBS
Sports Network and air Force is a three and a
half point home underdog. Run your fifty six and a
half mentioned twenty three seniors going to be honored at
Army thirty two are going to be making their final
appearance in Falcon Stadium this weekend. As this class is
a twenty seven and twenty one record, a nineteen and
fourteen mark in Mountain West games, and they've gone to
two Bowl games, winning both. So quite the senior class
as they are heading out the door. Air Force leading
the series against New Mexico twenty six and fifteen, including
an advantage of twenty one to thirteen at home in
conference games, so big chance to knock off another quality
opponent for air Force Bowl game obviously is out the window,
but you still want to go out strong. You still
want to win that last one at home, protect your
home field, get that win for those thirty two seniors
who've done some big things and during their time in
the Springs.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, as I mentioned, the Lobos find themselves. You know,
they're Bowl eligible, They're still in the thick of things
for the Mountain West Conference championship. You know, they're right
up there with with Boise State and San Diego State
and the likes. You know, the one thing that they
do well is stop the run. So you know, I
know that you know Air Force they want to run
the football. It's gonna be pretty tough. They're almost They
are a top twenty defense in Division one FBS. In
run defense is New Mexico allowing just one hundred and
five zero point eight yards per game. That puts them eighteenth.
They're not very good at stopping the stopping the pass.
But you know, if you're air Force, you're not worried
about the pass. You're worried about trying to establish the
run defense or the run offense. And they're you're gonna
go up against a team that really does that well.
The one thing that New Mexico does not do well
is keep their hands on the football. They are minus
nine this year in turnover marchin That is one hundred
and twenty d third in Division one FBS. Now now
correct me if I'm wrong. It's only one hundred and
thirty six teams in FBS, I believe this year. So
that's that idea is really really really bad. So you
can you can definitely get the ball on the ground
if you are air Force going up against New Mexico's offense.
That being said, you know you've got to be able
to extend drives and air Force has done that. Running
the football, I think that's gonna be really difficult.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The Lobos five way time for second in the
Mountainless at four and two, still trying to keep pace there.
Atop the league. They have won four straight, the longest
active streak in the in the Mountain West. But mentioned
running the football, they are seven to oh this season
when they run for at least one hundred and when
they don't when they're under one hundred, zero to three.
Uh so another big thing to look out for. And
also seven and oh this season when they don't throw
two or more interceptions. I think most teams would win
when they three when they throw two or more picks.
They're also zero to three, but mentioned averaging thirty points
a game three hundred and eighty five yards total. You know,
Bankston McKinney, You've got a bunch of guys that being
able to run the football by committee, and they also
are pretty good on defense. A couple fcs all Americans
that joined the team this season, so this is a
much improved New Mexico team is usually more one of
the more pushover teams in the Mount West. Not this season.
Speaker 3: Steven No, You're absolutely right, and you know, I would
definitely keep an eye on if you're Liam Sarka and
you are, you know, going to try and run the football,
the guy that you're gonna look for in the middle
is the guy wearing number one. You have ever seen
a defensive tackle wearing number one? I s we haven't,
but Kishawn James Newby Senior has six and a half sacks,
so obviously able to get pressure in the middle of
an offensive line. So I would think that you know,
on the with the option and you know, being trying
to read the defense, you want to know where number
one is at all times because he's going to be
pushing hard in the middle of that offensive line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, once again, New Mexico and Air Force
seven pm, Eastern CENTERD Time, kickoff five pm there in
Colorado Springs on the CBS Sports Network. Air Force a
three and a half point underdog at home fifty six
and a half over under on Senior Day there. All right,
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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, final segment here on Yards and Stripes as
we get you ready for this weekend Thanksgiving holiday just
around the corner. Stephen Hope everybody, if you're hitting the
road this weekend, has safe travels wherever it is you
are headed to to ring in the holidays season. But
Stephen a couple news and notes real quick, because I
want to talk uniforms. And then we'll make some picks.
But kickoff time for the Army at uts game at
UTSA game on Thanksgiving weekend, Saturday, November twenty nine, that
is going to be a three thirty kickoff there on
ESPN plus. Air Force senior punter Luke Frere one of
ten semi finalists for the Ray Guy Award. What I
think is interesting is that Freer He's only punted nineteen
times this season, Stephen. I mean, a dude, that's only
funny nineteen times, you know, one of ten finalists for
or semi finalists for the Ray Guy Award. I think
that's pretty awesome. But he's averaging over forty five yards
a kick this season in those nineteen punts. So props
to mister Luke Frere for being a Ray Guy. UH
semi finalists all right. Navy senior quarterback Blake Corbath, he's
been raking in a lot of honors. He is one
of twenty quarterbacks named as a debut O'Brien Awards semi finalist,
also a Walter Camp Player of the Year semi finalist,
and finally, Navy senior noseguard Landon Robinson, a semi finalist
for the Ben Eric award so wards season starting to
creep back up again as we get closer to the postseason.
All right, Steven, let's talk uniforms. One of our favorite
topics army baby game. These babies are usually debuted in
a social media extraordinary video debut, and that's what the
academies put out this week as they gave us the
peak underneath the thread to let us see what they
look like. And damn are they awesome, both of them
honoring two hundred fiftieth anniversaries of their respective branches of
the military. Let's talk about Army first, because they will
be honoring the twound fifty fiftieth birthday of the Army
coming up this summer. I think they look sharp. I
think both of them look sharp. The uniform featuring a
marble based color on the jersey and pants and a
nod to the marble headstones at Arlington National Cemetery.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And then of course the type facing, the
font of the numbers, and and what they're using for
for Army on the you know, for saying United States
Army on the on the uniform, you know, based on
the United States Constitution, which you know, obviously very very
big when it comes to the service academies as they
look to support, protect, and defend, excuse me, preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
And you know, I I have said the last couple
of years that I thought that Army had the better uniforms,
you know, And and these these uniforms are really really nice.
I mean it's the first all white look uh for
for the Black Knights since twenty twenty one, remember the
Snow game, because they when they when they were wearing
white in the in the white snow uh you know.
So I think, you know, they're really sharp looking and
and for fans of the Nights, you should be really
really happy they are. They're really really sharp.
Speaker 2: Yeah. That they reminded me of the year with the
was it twenty eighteen? Was that nineteen with the white
and the snow Navy the midshipman. These are gonna be
Navy blue, honoring the two or fiftieth anniversary of the
Navy that they just celebrated the USS Constitution serving as
inspiration from their especially specialty uniforms, the Navy blue tops.
I think they just look totally sharp.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The one difference, you know, both of them are special
in their own right. The one thing I typically like
about Navy's uniforms is you have more colors that you
can go to with the Navy and the Marine Corps,
so you typically have some different color schemes where you
can really mix and match from one year to the next.
I mean, shoot, they had the nasty inspired uniforms at
one year. Armies are typically more of the black, the white,
the camo. They don't they're not quite as exotic, you know,
they're typically a little bit I don't want to say plainer,
That's not the word I'm looking for, but Navy typically
can go with a little bit more of It's not
even flamboyant. They just have they have a variety, a variety,
that's yes it They have a rot a lot of
variety that they can go to. And so when they
mix them up so much from year to year, I
just think that's really cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you really for for a two hundred and
fiftieth birthday, you know, you you kind of have to
go with you know what, you know, as they say,
you dance with who brung you? And so I you know,
I love the dark blue jersey, the typeface uh, you know,
obviously is something that you know, those of us that
served in the Navy are very familiar with. I think,
I think I still have a couple of those that
still say maybe sitting around here, uh somewhere. And and
the the uniform numerals are just so so sharp and like,
you know, looking you know, exactly like you would see
on one of the on one of the fighter wings,
on one of the the the air squadron wings. So
I love the obviously the Constitution. They've got the rope
design both on the shoulders and on the where the
striping would be on the helmet. Uh, you know, it
just looks so so sharp and I and I love
the the winged eagle, uh you know, obviously a nod
to the USS Constitution as well an eagle and six stars.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The helmets are usually the what always what always
blows me away too. I mean, we talk about the threads,
the actual uniforms, but the helmets usually are typically the
chart topper in my opinion.
Speaker 3: Tell me about it. My wife is still looking for
one of those NASA helmets. So yeah, memo, Distrass, if
you got one laying around up.
Speaker 2: There, I think, what's ironic is the navy helmets, you know,
the ship's hull of old ironside sheathing copper nineteen twenty
five pennies campaign the letter helped fund its restoration. I
think it's ironic is the penny was just discontinued so
that the penny gonna be front and center on the helmet,
and so to speak with for the navymanshipman, all right,
uniforms are awesome. We can't wait it just when you
see them in the social media videos, it's cool, But
when you see them actually all out on the field,
that's what really gets me. Ex absolutely all right, Steven,
let's make some picks. Last week, you and I both
took USF. We both took yukon. This week we have
two games. Let's start with Army welcoming Tulsa winless Tulsa
in the American I don't think Tulsa's getting their first
conference win. I guess I'll fire first in this one.
I'll let you fire first in the next one. I've
got Army winning big by three touchdowns to the tune
of thirty four to thirteen. They've been very good on
Senior Day ten and one under Jeffmunkin, I think they're
going to be eleven and one. I have no problems.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you. I don't have the score
quite so lo lopsided. I have them winning by two touchdowns.
I have Army twenty four and Tulsa ten in this game.
But yeah, I agree with you. I think it's Senior
Day at Mikey Stadium against a winless team. I think
everything stacks against the Golden Hurricane, and so I think
the Black Knights get themselves bull eligible here and don't
have to worry about UTSA.
Speaker 2: All right, last game New Mexico at air Force and
New Mexico trying to keep pacing them Mount West air
Force three and seven, honoring thirty two seniors. They're also
on Senior Day in Colorado Springs. Can air Force pull
off one more at home for those seniors?
Speaker 3: Steven, Yeah, I would. I would love to say yes,
but unfortunately I have to say no. I have New
Mexico winning this game. I just think that, you know
the way that they have been able to, you know,
use it as a you know, it's like a cast
of thousands that the Lobos are able to have been
able to use this year on offense. I don't think
air Force is going to have the ability to get
the ball on the turf enough to stop New Mexico's offense.
So I have the Lobos winning this game. Thirty one seventeen.
Speaker 2: We're pretty close. We're very close. Actually, we don't go
over these in advance. I too think New Mexico is
just going to be too much for air Force. I've
got New Mexico thirty one to twenty, so just a
difference of a field goal. So yeah, smart minds think
alike Steven yep.
Speaker 3: And so unfortunately, you know, for one, for one academy,
it'll be a happy uh senior day this week, and
for one it will.
Speaker 2: Not before we get out the door. Anything else is
catching your eye in the college football world this weekend?
And what's typically a lot of times, at least in
the SEC A tune up, tune up Saturday for rivalry weekend,
not a whole lot to me on the docket that
catches my fancy. Yeah, I think everybody's looking at it
to next week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean really, Oregon and USC is kind of
a big one in the in the Big Ten, and
obviously we talked about uh Pitt last week. You know,
they've got they've got the the the grinder that they
were run through. I mean, they got destroyed by Notre
Dame last week. This week they have George Tech, and
next week they have SMU. So this is the second
game of three for Pitt that's going to be really,
really difficult. But yeah, for me, outside of you know,
USC and Oregon, that's probably the one game that I'm
certainly looking at.
Speaker 2: Well, let's we'll keep it filed away because we got
a lot coming next week with Thanksgiving me lots of
big games, a lot on the line. But certainly best
of luck to Army and Air Force on Senior Day
this weekend, we'll get out of here. Hope everybody has
safe travels out there. We will come to you during
Thanksgiving week next week because the show must go on
and we will continue on here on Yards and Stripes.
So Steven, have a great week, have a great weekend,
and we will talk to you next week.
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