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you into another edition here of Yards and Stripes as
we have got a lot to get to. A losing
street snapped and a rematch goes the other way. We're
going to get into that in more. Two games to recap.
We got one only one game. One game on the
doct this week, we'll talk about it. We've got a
Travis Mening Foundation on a roll segment. We got picks,
game balls to give out. We got a lot here
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to a Tuesday night. Poppy's Pizza Report is a go
what we got.
Speaker 3: It most certainly is tonight. Prise, Yes, so it's too
days damn right about that. It is a Tuesday night
in the carnealhousehole that means it is Papa Yon's Pizza night,
and it is already it has already been destroyed. Both
both my lovely wife Emily and I we missed lunch. Uh,
so we got the Poppa Yan's pizza and absolutely destroyed
one that was half pepperoni and half pepperoni and banana
pepper because it's my wife, she loves banana peppers, and
that means that there are going to be banana peppers
on the pizzas. So obviously I am absolutely full. It's
satiated and ready to go here on this college football
getting ready for Week nine and a huge matchup coming
up that will get but we got to get to
these first two games from week eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it. Let's start in the big easy
because as we mentioned last week, talked about a lot
and as I mentioned, they were at the outset the
rematch between last year's American Conference Championship game and the
two most recent the last two American Conference champions That
would be Tulane An Army doing battle in the big
easy and it's Tulane coming back to get a twenty
four to seventeen win and a really exciting game as
the Green Wave now six and one, three zero in
the American Army dropping to three and four two and
three in the American. But this was a game where Army,
if you watched it and you took it in like
we did, this was a game where Army dominated their opponent.
I mean to the tune of almost forty minutes a
time of possession. They just did not make enough plays
in the end, so stinking close. You can look back
to a lot of different spots, but if this had
been different, could this have changed the outcome? And you
can do that in almost any football game. But in
the end, it was Jake Rhetz Laugh who rose up
above everybody two touchdown passes in the final two minutes,
the second of which was to Shas Preston from twenty
six yards out with twenty seven seconds left that gave
to Lane the victory and Army I don't want to
say that they're a road team this year, but they
certainly seem to rise up when it's a game on
the road versus at Mikey but coming up short and
one that was right there for the taken man at
the very end. Just got a feel for Jeff Unkin
and his kids in this one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you certainly do. Price. We were talking about this
before we started the show. If this game had gone
fifty eight minutes, Army would win the game. This game
had gone sixty two minutes, I think Army ends up
winning this game. That's how close this was at the end.
But yeah, credit Jake Rhetz laugh. I mean, you know,
you could imagine what he would be like if he
had stayed at BYU, who, by the way, is seven
and zero on the season so far without him. But
you know, he was the Mount West quarterback of the
Year last year. I mean he was. He was an
absolute monster at BYU and in the Big twelve last year.
So I really do think that with you know, the
way that he finished this game, you saw why he
is considered one of the best quarterbacks in all of
college football. Because without him, obviously, Tulane has very little
to show for in this contest, and Army I think
wins this one pretty handily. And you know, this is
a seventeen to three game with any other quarterback other
than Jake Retz laugh. But for me, the word that
I would use for Army in this game, I was
impressed by them.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I thought that they played about as hard of a
team and a team that most of the pundits believe
will be in the American Conference Championship game again this year,
just because of the schedule that they have and the
fact that they don't have to play a lot of
the big names in the conference. You know, they do
have to play Memphis and that's pretty well and I
believe they also play Navy, but you know, they don't
have to play North Texas, they don't have to play
South Florida, you know, so they they have a really
you know, easy schedule comparatively to the rest of the conference,
you know, the other big names in the conference. And
I think Army took them absolutely to their limit. And
I think they showed other teams what it takes to
beat Tulane and and I think that, you know, if
I'm Jeff Monkin, yes, you absolutely feel for the kids
because they did everything possible apart from you know, basically
one or two plays you know, going the other way.
And I really do think that for them. I think
that you have to take this as a learning moment
and and understand that with this game, you can hang
with just about anybody in this conference.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And you know, after Army knocks off Kansas State,
who was in by a lot of people's mind the
preseason picked to win the Big Twelve and you know,
taking Tulane to the to the bitter end, a team
that's been a mainstay, you know, in the in the
America in the last several years. Obviously, Army knocked him
off last year in the conference. Chamiship didn't knock him
off dominated him at Mikey in December or the conference
title game, but you know, came close to doing it again.
And you know one thing I was, you know, watching
the game too, is I was just thinking, God, I
wish Kate Helems was a sophomore set of a junior,
because how much he's just come into his own you know,
I mean, carries darn here forty times one hundred fifty
yards and two touchdowns and then he throws for one
twenty five too, to keep that defense fairly loose. Just
I wish that Kate Hellams had that was a sophomore
because if we might be having some serious conversations, it
could be different. Not to look ahead too far, but
you know, if he had two more years of eligibility
versus just one, I don't know what you know, there's
turnbacks and all kinds of other things that happened every
now and then Service Academy football with certain programs more
than others. But I just wish that Hellam's, you know,
had that chance to play two more seasons because a
lot of times, you know, it's it's it's a kid
that you know, they they're cycled through their backup and
then they don't take the reins until basically like what
we're seeing right here at Kate Hellams in his junior year,
or maybe it's the senior year before they come into
their own. So Blake Corbath is a little bit, a
little bit different where you know, he's been playing since
he was a sophomore, even as I think as he
was playing good bit as a freshman, but certainly as
a sophomore he was a mainstay, you know, under center
for the Midshipman while they were still going you know,
playing some musical chairs at quarterback his sophomore year. But
I just you know if Hellam's had one more season,
because Kyala he is really, you know, been dynamite. I
was trying to look for the stat here. Let me
see if I could find it it was about Hellams.
So I don't. I thought I had it right in
front of me. I don't. But the big thing is
is that he kept them in the ball game. And
the Army defense, you know, they they stood up but
were fantastic until Jake red Slap just rose above it
all and you were you were pumping Jake red slaugh socks,
you know, last week on the show and before we
started recording, just you know, talking about how good the
guy is and the mistakes that BYU did to even
let him leave pro vote.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and and to think and like I said,
you know, b YU is now is one of these
teams that a lot of people think is going to
end up in the college football Playoff as representative of
the Big twelve. Here this year, you know, there's seven
and they're not even they're not playing who was their
best quarterback, you know, who had eligibility and because of
the off the field stuff that went on there, you know,
they were talking about possibly suspending him for a number
of games, and he was like, well, screw that, I'm
just gonna go take my way someplace else. And he
finds himself now in the driver's seat for another conference
title in Tulane with with the American Athletic Conference.
Speaker 2: YEP, so twenty four to seventeen, Tulane getting the win.
As now the Black Nights, they will have the weekend
off before they get ready for the second leg of
the Commander in Chief Trophy. They will be taking on
the Air Force Falcons on Saturday, November first. We'll talk
about that certainly a lot more detail next week, but
we'll turn the page right now to head out to
Colorado Springs, where Steve and don't look now a five
game losing streak snapped gone. The Falcons get their first
mount Less Conference win of the season, twenty four to
twenty one over the visiting Cowboys of Wyoming two and five,
now air Force one and four in the Mount West
and Wyoming dropping the three and four one in two
in the Mount West. You and I both had air
Force winning this game in our picks last week, but
the least amount. It's amazing what can happen when your
defense rises to the occasion, and it's the least amount
of points they have given up all season to an
FBS team. Liam Sarkas certainly don't overlook him one bit
because the Air Force quarterback rushing for one forty one
to a touchdown, also doing a great job through the air.
The fifth straight one hundred yard rushing game by Sarka
an Air Force record, as it was Air Force's ninety
second consecutive game with one hundred yards rushing, the longest
streak in college football. But two big interceptions by defensive
backs Roger Jones, a sophomore, Maximus Stella rushman, two underclassmen
coming up with two big picks in the game, and
that ultimately was the difference is getting a few stops
and getting off the field and Air Force is victorious,
finding the win column. Thank the Lord again, twenty four
to twenty one over the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and after being outgained by Wyoming four o nine
to three sixty three. You know their their quarterback there,
Kayden Anderson had a really good game. Other than the
two interceptions. They mean he finished you know, twenty three
of thirty two hundred and eleven yards. He had a touchdown,
also had the one of those two interceptions. You know,
they I thought did really well attacking Air Forces defense,
but the fact is that they had two drives that
ended up getting nothing because they were turned over and
Air Force didn't turn the ball over once. And we've
always said that that is the most important thing for
a service academy is ball security and being able to
win the turnover game. If you're if you're plus in
the turnover ratio, you're gonna find yourself with opportunities to win.
And Air Force took advantage of that. And as you mentioned,
you know, another one hundred yard game on the ground
from Leams Sarka. The Falcons have three hundred and thirty
yards total of rushing offense. They averaged almost six yards
per attempt on the ground, you know, and if you're
doing that, you're gonna find yourself in really good in
a really good position and not having to take the
ball to the air. I mean, the Air Forces had
to allot this year throw the football and Sarka has
had some really good games through the air, but you know,
we only had to have you only had to throw
the ball eight times on Saturday, finished with only thirty
three yards passing that's not a big deal when you're
able to do what the Falcons were able to do
on the ground.
Speaker 2: Air Force's defense entering the football game allowing forty points
per game one hundred and thirty fourth worst in the FBS,
four hundred and ninety six yard total yards of offense
three hundred and twenty three passing yards per game, both
the worst in the FBS. Wyoming was well under that
four h nine, almost one hundred shive of what Air
Force is given up and the three to twenty three
the Air Force is given up through the air. Air
Force only had two eleven, so about one hundred and
twenty yards lower air So to me, the story of
this game was Air Force's defense finally showing up and
taking their ticket to the party, because we've been waiting
for it all season. We've been waiting for this team.
You just can't continue to play that awful on defense.
I mean, I guess you certainly can. I don't know
how you find a win playing as bad as Air
Force has had, where they can't get off the field.
They just keep giving up hunks and hunks and hunks
of yardage, big plays, even in the even in the
Loston Navy where they didn't give up that many points,
which was you know what thirty four shy of the
forty which they averaged giving up per season, but it
was still they gave up just hunks of big plays
in that game.
Speaker 3: Steven, Well, they're still giving up hunks of yards per
play in this game. I mean seven yards per attempt passing,
five and a half yards per rushing attempt on the ground.
You know, they they got out first downs. You know,
the Cowboys had twenty five first downs in this game,
and they were at fifty percent efficiency on third down
and perfect on fourth down. And so, you know, as
much as we want to talk about, you know, them
stepping up, I don't know if it was so much
of a step up, but it certainly was a bend
but don't break type of day for Troy Calhoun's defense,
because they did They certainly didn't bend, but there were
a couple of times that they were able to come
up big and not break.
Speaker 2: Well, that's gonna lead us into our game ball, Steven.
I'll let you fire first, because that that tease that
tees me up for a game ball. But I'm always
liked for royalty to go first. When you pick your
game ball. So that's why Steven Carney is gonna fire
away his tradition here in Yards and Stripes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm and I'm probably taking your h your
game ball, so you're gonna probably have to figure out
a new one. I'm going with Roger Jones Junior, the
sophomore defensive back for air Force. He had the big
interception of Caen Anderson in the end zone in the
fourth quarter. He had a game high ten tackles, sixth solo,
and a tackle for loss in this game to go
along with that interception. And so I'm gonna go with
Roger Jones.
Speaker 2: Well I wasn't gonna go with Roger Jones. I mean
I could have, but I was just gonna give give
a game ball to the Troy Callan's entire defensive unit because,
like I said, we've been waiting for this all season.
They have not had a pulse on defense. No, we're
not gonna get you know, say that they did against
buck Nell because that was, you know, an FCS team,
But in big boy football, this is the first time
that they have come to the party. And welcome to it,
because you made the difference in the football game one
thing I just wanted to say real quick, not a
game ball here. But you know, as we mentioned is
I you know, talked about Kate Hellms, you know, for
Army just a second ago. Liam Sarka is on the
other side of that because he is a sophomore and
provided he decides to come back to the academy next year,
Air Force has got their starting quarterback for the next
two seasons. Troy Calhoun would argue that till we're blue
sitting in front of him having a beer all night. Yeah,
but you know he would tell us, no, nothing set
in stone, and I get that, But look, Liam Sarka
is the guy I've been thoroughly impressed with. The young
sophomore out of Aurora, Colorado, just six feet tall, but man,
he is. She seems to be getting better and better.
He's taking hold of that that starting quarterback job, and
you know he's doing all he can to put that
team on his back. But you know he had to
be taking a couple of guys out on the defense
for stakes. Probably Roger Jones was one of the guys
he took to find a nice steakhouse in downtown Colorado.
Spring Steven all Right, let's we'll get out of here
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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely. And it started on Monday with This Week
in the ACC as Jeff and Matthew are always first
up every single week, and of course their big topic
this week Louisville upsetting Miami, the Hurricanes no longer being unbeaten.
That causing chaos in the ACC. And of course the
big question of is Mike Norvel's tenure in Tallahassee maybe
coming to an end? He got the dreaded vote of
confidence after the loss to Stanford. So those guys definitely
going about things in the ACC. Matt Zemaic has get
off my pylon talking West Coast college football coaching chickups
going on out there, obviously, Jay Norvell being let go
at Colorado State this week, that of course a big one,
and of course the rise of UCLA in the post
to Shaun Foster era and causing the firing of James Franklin.
Big ten Paradigm talking about how USC is still struggling
to play a full sixty minutes after their loss to
Notre Dame and Nebraska being knocked from the top twenty five,
but that conference is one and two in both of
the polls this week with Ohio State and Indiana, and
of course Big Pigskin and Burnt Ends talking all things
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
and Stripes Service Academy Football.
Speaker 2: Moving right along Steven Carney my co host, I'm Pryce Atkinson.
We are Yards and Stripes as Stephen and I bring
this to you every single week, aren'ty, Navy and Air Force.
That's what we do here. We'd love having you listen.
Appreciate you dialing us in, tuning in to get caught
up and get you ready. For the weekend, and we
this weekend we only have one game because it is
not very often we're in the heart of college football
where we only have one weekend or one game at
the week but that's where we are. Because Army and
Air Force are ironically both off before they face each
other next weekend, so it will be the Naval Academy.
The only game on the Saturday docket is they will
host Florida Atlantic on homecoming Saturday in Annapolis Saturday three
point thirty, kickoff on the CBS Sports Network three and
four Atlantic six, and Oh Navy the Midshipman Florid oh
in the America in Florida Atlantic two and two. Stephen,
you just saw the owls. We'll talk about them in
a minute, but maybe giving fifteen and a half points
in this game. The over under is sixty two and
a half as they will meet for the first time
as Conference fos and the third time overall on Saturday.
As I mentioned homecoming, maybe forty five and twenty eight
all time in homecoming games, including fifty one to seventeen
one over Charlotte last season, but Navy leading the all
time series against FAU two to zero. The last defeating
the Owls in Annapolis in twenty twelve, twenty four seventeen,
and then I remember the game that they won FAU
forty two to nineteen in twenty seventeen, in the game
that I think had about eight different lightning delays and
took yeah, forty hours to play because it was I
think in that game, if I remember right, twenty seventeen,
I think that they I don't think that they ended
up finishing all sixty minutes. I think they ended up
calling it and coach Kendy and Motilolo said, let's just
go ahead and get out of here as long as
you're cool with it, and that's what they did because
the game had taken so long. But maybe nonetheless sit
one of just six unbeaten teams left in college football,
joining BYU, Georgia Tech, Indiana, Ohio State, and Texas A
and m AS. The Meds have one nine consecutive games
dating back to last year, tied with BYU for the
second longest streak in the country behind Ohio State's eleven
game winning streak steven Here we go on what should
be a awesome homecoming in a homecoming Saturdays in Annapolis,
especially when they're in October. Boat Show is in town.
It's just a place to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Florida Atlantic playing the perennial homecoming queen here this season.
They are Navies obviously homecoming opponent this week. Last week
they were here in Tampa to be South Florida's homecoming opponent.
They lost forty eight to thirteen to the nineteenth ranked
Bulls at the time. Here's the thing about Florida Atlantic.
If you have not seen Florida Atlantic, this is not
the Tom Herman style of Florida Atlantic that you've seen
in the last couple of years. They definitely love to
throw the football. They're starting quarterback Caden Velcamp. Last week
against South Florida through the ball fifty times and overall
because Jordan Magwood came in when things got out of
hand in the fourth quarter and basically ran the last
couple of series for Florida Atlantic. They finished with fifty
eight passing attempts against South Florida, and normally when that happens,
and they were forty one of fifty eight, it's not
like they were, you know, thirty of fifty eight or
twenty eight of fifty eight. This is a group that completed,
you know, close to seventy five percent of their passes,
and they still only threw for two hundred and eighty
nine yards. It was only five yards in attempt by
Florida Atlantic. So they love, they love to throw the checkdowns.
I kind of liken them to the New England Patriots
teams from the early two thousands that really didn't have
a running game and used their short passing game as
their running game. Because Florida Atlantic, I mean, they went
quite a long time into the game in negative numbers
for rushing. In fact, I remember in the middle of
the fourth quarter they were twenty three carries for zero yards.
Uh And so yeah, it was it was very very
poor rushing. They they don't run the ball, uh very well,
and I think that's really going to hamper them here
this week. But that being said, they they have they
do have a very tall Caan Bell Camp is a
very tall quarterback.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: So he's one of those guys that can see about
over the offensive line and especially if you're undersized like
Navy is on on the defensive line. Uh, I think
that he's gonna have an opportunity to pick out the
passing lanes. And I think it's really going to be
incumbent for Navy secondary to play press defense. I know
that sometimes they'll want you think that being undersize, you
want to back off. And they've got some really good
UH receivers uh Easton Messer Uh was was I was
an impressive UH wide receiver that I saw aside was
seem uh basically or they're nonumber one and number two guys.
And Messer also doubles as their punt and kick returner,
So he's a guy that you're definitely going to see
a lot of here this week in Annapolis. But for
NAVS Secondary, I think it's going to be imperative for
them to play up close and really try and stop
the timing plays that Florida Atlantic likes to run, because
they like to run those little five yard three yard
checkdowns and try run and try and move the football
in little increments and really love to use the clock
and run a lot of plays. I mean, in the
first drive of the day for Florida Atlantic last week
South Florida, I had to call time out in the
middle of it on defense because they'd run like twelve
or thirteen plays and they had just gotten into the
red zone. And they were like, we need we need
a breather here so we can try and stop them,
and thank the Bulls did and it did. They did
hold them to a field goal, but they still it
was still like a fifteen play drive at that point
for three points. And it was all these little check down,
dinking dunk passes that that I think is going to be.
I think this is going to be a real test
of endurance and conditioning, especially for Navy secondary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I keep waiting, Stephen, I talk about
this every year, but we see it happen time and
time again with academy teams where it's so hard to
get up every single week in college football, which it
just seems like the games are just so good now,
conferences are so big, you're playing tough opponents every single week.
Not everywhere, but by and large, service academies is a
little bit different because the whether you're a midshipman cadet,
it doesn't matter the academy you're at. The demands are
just they're just different, right. We all know that school
military commitments, Uh, you know, personal, it's just it's just
there's so much more on these on these kids and
these student athletes, and every single year, without a doubt,
you just see an egg laid by And I've seen
it in all sports. It's not just football, basketball, at soccer.
It's across the athletic spectrum where it's just you know,
it might be exam week, you know, where the kids
are just they're just mentally, they're toast. They don't have it.
They're done physically and mentally. But my point, what I'm
getting to is you see an egg that's laid oftentimes
by a team of one of these academies, especially when
they're really good. We're good and bad, we're you know,
it might be a meal. I mean, I used to
see it all the time. Baseball is a little bit
of not the best example because you usually throw a
lot of different arms, but you would you would like
maybe play like a cop and state or you go
over play the U NBC in the middle of the week,
and you know teams that you should just you should
handle if it were you know, a weekend seer. But
like it's you know, it's almost like an afterthought during
the week. Getting back to my point, is this the
week that maybe Navy lays an egg. I don't think
it is but you just never know when it's gonna happen.
Sometimes it's an egg and it's laid and you can
overcome it because you're just that much better than who
you're playing. Sometimes it's look, you're in a dog fight
and there's just nothing else you can do, and it's
gonna bite you. Is this the week? I'm not saying
it is. I'm just I'm kind of right now. The
reason I'm bringing this up is because and maybe it's
six and oh, the chance to get to seven and oh.
Let me just hit on this real quick. A win
over FAU would give maybe a seven and oh record
for just the fifth time in school history. It'd be
the first time they'd start seven and oh since nineteen
seventy eight time. This would also tie the second best
start in school history, because the other Navy teams to
start seven to oh was nineteen sixty when Joe Blino
won the Heisman. In the nineteen thirty four when they
started seven to oh, finished eighty one and earned a
share of the national championship. Now this is different than
nineteen thirty four, Well, they started in nineteen thirty four,
they started seven to oho finish eight one. In nineteen
twenty six is when excuse me, they earn a share
of the national championship. My point is is that yes,
those were different times in college football than where we
are now, but still this would be some rarefied era
that if Navy can get to seven to zero, I'm
just as the wins mount up and as they stay
one of these six undefeated teams in college football, how
long can Navy hang on to that that undefeated mantle
because it just seems like inevitably there's going to be
a trip upcoming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the pressure obviously is going to ratchet up on
the midship and players as the as the number in
the L column stays zero. You know you mentioned it.
There are only six teams left in FBS college football
that are undefeated, and Navy is one of them. And
so I really do think that the pressure is obviously
going to ratchet up. And that's where it becomes incumbent
on Brian Newberry uh to be able to not try
and diffuse the situation. But you got to acknowledge the
pressure obviously that that's something that that Navy has done
extremely well over over the last two years, and know
where the pressure is going to come from every single
week because every team is does something different that you
may not expect. With Florida Atlantic, it's the amount of
guys that they get in on offense. I can tell
you last week that these owls, they Caden Belcamp and
Jordan Magwood threw to thirteen different receivers. Thirteen different players
caught made a catch. Now, yes, it was like so
like Cayden Shields Dutton, who is like their primary running back,
he had he had three catches. You know, Jamari Sans
had four catches. He's their backup running back. Even than
Irvin uh who is like their little scat back, got
a couple of got a couple of catches h as well.
But even taking away those three running backs, I meant
nine different receivers and tight ends caught a pass in
the game against South Florida And and understanding that that's
where the pressure is going to come from this week
with Florida Atlantic, and and that's where the coaches like,
all right, that's where we have to make sure that
we don't. You can you can have mistakes happen, even
at the service academy level. You can make mistakes because
football is a game of mistakes, uh and and and
be able to come out with a victory. But you
can't make a mistake where the other team is best
and and I and I really do think that this
is where the pressure is gonna come from. And it's
gonna land squarely on the shoulders of the secondary, whether
whether it's the defensive backs coach uh you know, or
and and the players themselves, the defensive coordinator. This is
this is something that I'm sure was addressed in the
room this week, and I'm sure it's going to get
addressed in the room every single week as long as
that number stays zero. And they they're in that conversation
for possible college football playoff spot.
Speaker 2: Like the teams that Florida Atlantic has played with any
kind of quality. Maryland they got drilled by thirty two.
Played in Memphis at home, got drilled by j just
shy of thirty, played Ua B it's not very good.
At home, we got beat by twenty. Then you know,
most recently obviously at South Florida mentioned they lost by
thirty five. Anybody that's had a pulse and that's been
a you know, somewhat of any kind of quality has
they've been drilled. You know, maybe we talk a lot
about you know, you know, ball control, converting, converting on
third downs. You got to play a clean game sometimes
when you play the you know, the ball control option style.
I'm just you know, kind of stereotyping here. You know,
it's a game that can keep a team in it,
you know, sometimes maybe a little bit longer versus if
you're a team that's quick striking, can literally score in
seconds every time you get the ball, being able to
throw it up and down the field. So maybe this
is a game where potentially that Florida Atlantic can hang
around for a half, will make some picks in a
little bit. I don't think so. I don't think you
do either.
Speaker 3: No, this is this is a game that you know,
even though Fau likes to throw the ball a lot,
I think there's going to be a limit on the
number of possessions on both sides like that. I really
do think, like you know, this is not going to
be a game where a team is going to get
you know, eleven or twelve possessions on offense. I just
don't see that happening.
Speaker 2: Well, we will find out, because once again, this game
is going to be a three thirty kickoff on Eastern
Standard Time on the CBS Sports Network. Navy again a
fifteen and a half point home favorite over under sixty
two and a half Florida Atlantic at Navy. Can Navy
keep that unbeaten record going? It's six and oh? Can
they get to seven?
Speaker 4: And oh?
Speaker 2: As they are now Bowl eligible, we will find out.
But home coming in in Annapolis on Saturday should be
quite a day there at Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
All Right, Steven will step away. We got more to do.
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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, Stephen, only one thing left to do. I
got it right that time. It's to pick a game.
We only got one game. We got one game. We
just talked about it a few minutes ago. But just
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Go check them out online. Certainly, their tickets are on
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But check that out at Travismanan dot org. Steven just
real quick. Navy's offensive line named to the Joe Moore
Award mid season watch list. That one coming out this week,
and I didn't have many other things. Yes, I have two.
Speaker 3: I have two things and they both involved Air Force.
Right Roger Jones Junior, who I mentioned for my game Ball,
was named Mount West Defensive Player of the Week here
this week. Ten tackles, as I mentioned, six of them solo,
a tackle for a loss and an interception in the
end zone that kept Washington all right, that kept Wyoming
excuse me, from getting back on the board, and actually
I believe that would have prevented them from getting within
three points at that point. He kept the game twenty
four fourteen, and also kicker Reagan Tubbs was named Mount
West Special Teams Player of the Week, just to second
ever start for the Falcons. He went three for three
on field goals of thirty two to twenty nine and
forty yards and also converted his only extra point attempt.
So congratulations to both of them.
Speaker 2: Well, there you go, well done, Steven. He's not the
best producer and co hosting the business for anything, folks.
All right, let's get to it. We both aced the
test last week, Steven, Yes, we did, and it's going
to be pretty easy to ace the test this week
because it's one game. You miss it. He nothing. But nonetheless,
maybe in at Florida or Florida Atlantic. At Navy, you
and I both I think are lating Navy. The question
is by how much leading leading? I am.
Speaker 3: I am fully falling over on that side. Uh No,
I I really do. Yeah, this is this is a
certain this is past fail. U. So you make the
right make the right call, you pass. You don't make
the right call, you fail. And obviously for me, the
right call is nyvy by a bunch. And I know
this is a two score uh line. You know it's
fifteen and a half. Uh So, uh, I think it's
gonna be I think it's gonna be higher than that.
So I have I I really do think that. You know,
both of these teams, I think one. I think one
of them is gonna I think Nyvy's gonna get eight
possessions for the game. And I think then FA is
going to get seven. Okay, And I think here's here's how,
here's how. I can't wait con this is going confident
I am in Navy's offense compared to Fau's. I have
Navy winning this game forty one to thirteen.
Speaker 2: Okay, forty one to thirteen. All right, Well, I mean
I see you and I think too much alike.
Speaker 3: I know you know.
Speaker 2: In podcast, listeners would like to say, I want to
hear fighting. I want to hear arguments. I want to
hear you guys, tay, I want to hear you rip
somebody's head off. Because I think Navy two. I think
Navy is going to score exactly forty one points as
you did. Because we don't compare numbers before the game
before we podcast. I just think Florida Atlantic is going
to score a lot more than thirteen. I think Navy's
gonna win. I think it's gonna be a comfortable win,
but I think it's gonna be by the tune of
you know, two touchdowns, So I'm I'm saying something along
the lines of forty one to twenty eight. So I
don't know if Florida Atlantic you have seen them more
than I have, so probably end up trusting your thirteen
more than my twenty eight. But nonetheless trust Navy more
than we to trust Fort Atlantic because Navy is gonna
score more points and that, by folks, is the name
of the game in college football.
Speaker 3: Absolutely steved.
Speaker 2: What else you looking forward to this weekend before we
get out of here around the horn in college football
with as we hit the mid I mean, we're really
at the mid season point. As midseason all Americans come
out and a lot of mid season watch list are
being readjusted. Any big thing that's on your radar this week,
especially some for late star folks that College Grin and
Coast to Coast podcast not.
Speaker 3: Well obviously for for us and for me specifically, Uh
we had we had a big game this week Memphis,
as the University of South Florida travels to UH mister TJ.
Reeves alma mater, the Memphis Tigers coming off of a
loss to to U A B and the formerly fighting
Trent Delfers. Uh, they got they get the win. I
guess I'm gonna have to start calling the fighting Mortz
as Alex Mortenson, the son of the late ESPN broadcaster
Chris Mortenson, has taken over as interim coach, and all
he does is beat Memphis and knock them from the
ranks of the unbeaten in his first game as coach.
Speaker 2: Let's get a bonus pick here, because I think South
Florida wins. How much do you think South Florida wins
by Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think you know Byron Brown, their quarterback does not
get the respect that some of these and he is
one of the most three dimensional. I mean, you want
to talk about a guy that could run the ball,
that can throw the ball as tough as hell. I
do think that that USF gets A gets a pretty
good win in this and I'm gonna say it's probably.
I mean, they've scored, they've scored well, they've scored forty
five or more points in each of their last five games.
I don't think they get to forty five points, but
I think it's thirty eight to twenty eight. I think
they get a ten point win over over Memphis.
Speaker 2: WHOA. I think Alex Scholess should be being talked about
as national coach of the Year. I'm not saying he's
the favorite right now, but he should be. Let's just
say say Signetti in Indiana. That's gonna get all that. Yeah,
the difference between Signetti as Signetti made the playoff last year.
And when I look, everybody's got their criteria on. You know,
when it comes to like the Heisman, is it most valuable,
is it most outstanding? I think it's most outstanding, not
you know, the best player, best team. When I look
at coach of the year stuff, I always look at, okay,
what's the adversity, Like what did they do last year? Sure, look,
I got I've got no problem giving it to a
guy like Kurt Signetti. I have to go back and
look and see kind of what he lost off last
year's team going into this year. But there are just
certain factors, you know, if they've had success last year.
I'm not as quick to maybe hand a Coach of
the Year trophy. I'm a lot quicker to hand it
to a team or to a coach that is in
a place where it's parentally very difficult to win. And
when they you know, flip the script from one year
to the next. I just think what Alex Golesh has
done in year, you know, this year at South Florida
is magical because as we know, Jeff Scott had that
program in the toilet Bowl.
Speaker 3: Well and it really started with uh, it started even
before before Jeff Scott.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, Charlie Strong didn't didn't do a lot to
help this this program either, So you know, but this
is a this is you know, a program that lost
out on its chance at being in a power conference
because of what happened with Charlie Strong and with Jeff Scott,
and they allowed and and and you know it's sad
to say this, but you know U s F uh,
you know, got got the nod over over us F
because people thought, you know, people in the Big twelve
thought that, you know, that U c F was going
to be the the better program to take. Now it
turns out that that obviously was not the case. And
anybody with you know, two brain cells understood that. And
so I laugh now looking at where they are in
the Big twelve, or or as I call it now,
the Little twelve because without Texas and Oklahoma, that conference
is obviously a lot smaller than it should be.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, when when BYU is the is the cream
of the crop, you know, you you know there's something
that's going wrong there. But you know, I I really
do think that, you know, if if Alex Golesh gets
you know, some Coach of the Year talk, that's fine.
I just want him going to one of these other programs.
I want him to stay, you know. But obviously his
name is going to be bandied about for all of
these programs that are now looking for coaches, whether you're
talking about Billy Napier in Florida or James Franklin at
Penn State or over at u c l A. You know,
I'm sure that they would love to have an Alex
Golesh in that, you know, and and having him in
the Big ten would be certainly something would that would
be a site to behold. But you know, talking to
him this week, he has said that, you know, he's
not chasing any any program. That doesn't mean that other
programs aren't chasing him. But I think that they've got
a really good thing here and the culture that that
started when he came here is just so important, uh
for this, for this team, and now, uh, they're going
to be in the driver's seat I think, you know,
waiting for Uh. They've got Navy in a couple of
weeks up there in Annapolis, and if they were to
somehow get through the three hardest games on their schedule,
all on the road, with victories at North Texas, at Memphis,
and at Navy, you you would have to say that
they are the team that's in the driver's seat for
the college football player from the group of six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just real quick before we get out the door mention,
we're talking. You know, Memphis South Florida the game probably
the game of the week in the American I think
probably the game of the weekend.
Speaker 3: Probably should have had College Game Day if UAB didn't
do what it did.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like, you're like, oh, we can't go to Memphis,
Let's go to Nashville instead.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, you know, Vanderbilt people are they're salivating over
the Vanderbilt story. But San Diego State and Fresno State
probably the game of the week and the Mountain Less Conference,
the San Diego State five and one, two and oh
in the mountain Less versus Fresno State five and two
overall two and one the mount Less. So with that
we will bid you a douce Stephens, we get ready
for another outstanding Saturday. You are freaking the best. Brother.
Cannot say thank you enough for your time every week
and the amount of energy you give, not to just
this show, what you do for the College grid our
Coast to Coast podcast network, because as we mentioned in
that first segment, we have got something for everybody. Whether
we're your cup of tea, a cup of tea or not,
we have got things that you can sip on all
day long. Whether it's sec, acc tech, it doesn't matter.
We've got something for you. But appreciate all you do, Steven,
and we will get back at it next weekend. Fire
away one last.
Speaker 3: Thing, Absolutely, enjoy the games. We'll talk to you next
week here on Yards and Stripes.
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