Speaker 1: Need to get your football fix on all things Army,
Navy and Air Force. This is Yards and Stripes, Service
Academy Football. Now here are your hosts, Pryce Atkinson and
Steve Carney.
Speaker 2: Army takes the second leg of the Commander in Chief Trophy,
and we have a ballgame, folks in December. We are
Yards and Stripes and we are happy to have you on.
Pryce Atkinson, he is Stephen Carney, and we are part
of the College Grid Aaron Coast to Coast podcast network,
also available on last Word on Sports dot com. Army, Navy,
and Air Force. That is what we do here on
Yards and Stripes, all about Service Academy football. And as
I mentioned, Army taking the second leg of the Commander
in Chief Trophy over Air Forces past weekend, we're gonna
get into that Navy's winning streak comes to a screeching
halt on the road. We'll talk about that one for
the first time. Steven and I feel like weeks we
have all three teams back in action this weekend. We'll
preview all their games to make picks. Travis mannan Foundation
hon a Roll segment, a jam packed shows. We get
you ready for a another weekend of college football. But
you know, as we record in the evenings, you know
what time it is. And I'm gonna throw everybody a
massive curveball here, folks, because we are not going to
get the poppy Yn's Pizza report from one Stephen Carney
and his lovely bride Emily. We are going to get
the first official Killer Pizza report from Steven because it's
right out his back door. He is now a change man.
He devoured some pie earlier tonight. Let's get it from
the man himself, Steven. Give it to us.
Speaker 3: Oh, there is nothing I enjoy more than an eighteen
inch pie that only costs seventeen dollars. I mean, I
mean right there, you're going, all right, this is the
perfect it's the perfect size of pizza. And when you
can get it for less than twenty bucks, and it's.
Speaker 4: Made fresh by a mom and pop, a.
Speaker 3: Local business, and and you're able to enjoy it and
and give that money back to the community, it's fantastic.
And I I we went full Pepperoni again uh.
Speaker 4: This week, uh with with to pizza.
Speaker 3: But they have the best uh specialty pies that I've
ever seen. I want to give them a shout go
visit their website. It's Killer Pizza f l a dot com.
Speaker 2: Pete.
Speaker 4: This is in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
Speaker 3: And I really think that we're gonna have to start
going through the specialty pies, Emily and I are are
going to have to start devouring some of these. You know,
the the pies are are fantastic. You know, talk about Buffalo,
you know Buffalo chicken pies. And you know Rakota, you
know white pizzas or Kota based uh the meat massacre
with with twelve different types of uh meats on on
a pizza. Of course, you know my opinion, if I
if I wanted vegetables on pizza, I'd order a salad.
The one thing that I will say is there is
one one of the specially pizzas pizzas called Sugar and Suffering,
which I am very very intrigued by because it has
candied jalapenos on it. So I'm kinda I'm telling you,
I'm I'm really really surprised with a lot of these pies.
And we may be going through a specialty pie every
week here for the rest of the college football season.
Speaker 2: Well, we joked before we started recording that I just said,
I want to come and just spend a full weekend
with you, just to sit and eat killer pizza, have
cold drinks, watch football and do nothing but like just
you know, become comatose at Steven's palatial estate there with
you and Emily and I. Listening to the specials in
the different kind of specialty pies they have there just
has me salivating, especially because you did not get banana
peppers on that said pie tonight.
Speaker 4: Absolutely not, but.
Speaker 2: I wos oh yes, But we had as one of
our most loyal listeners, Steven Astenborski West Point Graduate listens
to us every single week without fail. I think I
can say he probably is the most loyal listener because
he's been with us since season one, never misses an episode.
Sent me a message and said, and I'll read it.
It says, okay, and I hope I'm not getting trouble
Stephen for reading this. I don't think I will. Okay.
I know Stephen doesn't like banana peppers on his pizza,
but I want to know if he'd eat these fried
banana peppers with tomato ranch dipping sauce at Wiles Station.
Long story short, they were inspired by a Burger and dinners,
drive ins and dives went there. It's a place and
he sent me the photo of them. They look delicious
fried banana peppers. They look amazing. But it's a place
called Wallas Station, Lexting, Kentucky. Because he was on the
Bourbon Trail ill this past weekend. Usually makes the trip
up there once once a fall for Keenlan. But he
specifically sent me that because I think he has finally
met some banana peppers that you would like, not on
a pizza, but fried. How could you beat that? Especially
with a special ranch dipping sauce.
Speaker 4: First off, Lexing can Lexington, Kentucky. Uh is my jam, Okay.
Speaker 3: I would love to to drive through the Bluegrass heading
to Rupp Arena to watch a basketball game.
Speaker 4: Uh for sure. You know I love me some college basketball.
Speaker 3: And so I would love to, uh to make a
trip to Wallace Station and and and and and maybe
give it him, give him a try. I mean, anything
that's deep fried with ranch dipping sauce can't be bad, now,
you know, it can't be bad if it's deep fried
with ranch. So I would definitely try them. I'm not
a huge I'm not a huge fan of of them,
just you know, on uh, especially if they're not like
pickled peppers, Like I'm not a fan of h of
fresh jalapenos, but I like, uh but give me a
good pickled kalipano and I and I'm and I'm thinking
absolutely so when you are if if we're talking about
a a a pickled banana pepper, and and Prices just
sent me them.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, yes, oh oh, I'm definitely messing with those.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am.
Speaker 4: Definitely messing with those.
Speaker 2: How good do those look? Courtesy of Steven Aston Moorski.
Those look delicious? Dog delicious?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, all right, Steven, you you've you've you've officially
convinced me, right, thank you, thank you for sending that
picture to Price because uh yeah, I am definitely I'm definitely.
Speaker 4: Going to be uh enjoying some of those.
Speaker 2: All right, Well we have we could do a whole
food special show, but we will not. Might we get
closer to the holidays, You never know what can happen
here on yourd and stripes, and that very well could
be the case, But we got football to get into, Steven.
Food always goes great with football, as you know, and
it went great for the Black Knights on Saturday, the
second leg of the Commander in Chief Trophy. It goes
to the Black Knights as the Black Knights go into
Colorado Springs before a sellout crowd of almost forty thousand
and score a twenty to seventeen victory thanks to a
last second field goal that in a game where Steven
the last i'll say four to five minutes. Let's just
put it this way, it was a doozy. I felt
like an age ten years in the closing minutes alone
of that game, as it is a game winning field
as time expires, Army wins twenty to seventeen. They are
now four and four overall and air Force dropping to
two and six, but this now setting up a winner
takeoff versus Navy on Saturday, December thirteenth for the CIC Trophy.
Army has won now three straight in this series and
seven of the last nine against the Falcons. Wow. What
a football game.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And you know, if you had watched say the
first fifty five or fifty six minutes of this game,
you would have certainly have thought that this game was
well in hand by the Black Knights, and it was
until you get to about two minutes and nineteen seconds
to go in the contest, you know, just before the
two minute time out. I can't you know, this is
college football, can't call it a warning, but the two
minute timeout and then Army for some reason, and and
you know, I re likably, yes, this this baffled the imagination.
And and we just and those of us uh here
in town that we're watching that game where we're on
a little text chain discussing what the what the heck
was going on because I couldn't believe that Army decided
and I know it was fourth and you know, uh
was fourth and of fourth and of maybe a yard
and a half, like it was a short it was
a long one or a short two. But you're practically
in your own red zone. You know, you're at the
twenty six yard you know, the twenty five or the
twenty six yard line, going for it on fourth down
with just over two minutes to play. You're you're nursing
a seven point lead, and all of a sudden, you
can't get that yard. You turn the ball over with
the shortest of fields. With an air Force team that
knows how to put together game winning drives, and they
go down and they score the game tying touchdown, and
all of a sudden, now Armies got to scramble to
hopefully get themselves into a position where they can where
they can kick the game winning field goal, which is
exactly what happened. But you don't want to put yourself
in that situation. I was blown away by the fact
that Jeff Munkin did not want to punt the ball
in that situation and let your defense have a lot
larger field that you can take care of, because the
worst that can happen is that they can score a
touchdown with you know, very little time on the clock.
They're probably not gonna go for two in that case,
They're probably gonna kick the extra point and go to overtime.
At least if I'm Troy Calhoun in that situation, you're
at home, Yeah, you know, kick the extra point and
go to overtime. And I think that that's that would
have been the much smarter and the much more beneficial decision.
But it just was so rough for the Black Nights
to have to put the for for them to have
to put their their defens's backs to the walls in
a short field and very little time because you think
they would just run it down and take all the
time off the clock and then punch it in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they hear the the the immediacy and then the
history the immediacy is the Army defense had played fan
freakingtastic up until that point. Why put their backs against
the wall. Yes, I know, it's you become a genius
if you get it, and if you don't, then we're
having the discussion we're having right now. But at the
same time, Air Force had not scored a touchdown their
first touchdown. The Air Force had scored against Army to
end the third quarter Liam Sarkas three yard touchdown run
that made the score ten to ten. That was the
first touchdown that arm had allowed the Falcons to score
since twenty and twenty two. It had been one hundred
and eighty nine minutes of game clock between touchdowns. So
the fact that that that was the only touchdown they'd
given up in what three to four years, and then
you give them a short feel there at the end
when they have been struggling all game and for years
to score. Why would you even think of doing that?
But you know, as Kate Hellum said after the game,
you know coach up Munkin had told him, you know,
on the field, I think it wasn't of an Army
Navy game his plea year, his freshman year, that he
would have a chance, Monk and talking to Kate Helems,
you will have your chance to win us a Commander
in Chief trophy game before it's all said and done,
Dad Gummett, he was right because Kate Hellms bailed them out.
They get the ball back with what under two minutes
to go, and they have a couple runs four down,
they get it and then Hellum's forty two yard or yeah,
forty two yard completion to Brady Anderson with twenty four
seconds left. That's what's set up the game winning Dawson
Jones field goal. But if it's not for that pass
play to Brandon Anderson, Brady Anderson, we're having a different
conversation here, Steven, because you know to go forward at
fourth and one on your own twenty six. You know
he was tripped up, you know, just shy. But you know,
Kyle A, I mean talking about gladly obliging to take
that gift of a field position late in the game
and almost have a gift wrap. I don't know if
I mean, I think Troy Calhoun's eyes were probably like
yours and mine. What in the heck is going on here?
And what are they thinking?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can only you can only imagine, you know,
the forty two yard pass was big, But you mentioned
the fourth down run going forward again on fourth down
in your own territory. Now in a tie game if
they don't get that one, and now air Force has
a very short field to allow Rigged Dobbs to kick
the game winning field goal for air Force at home,
you know, I you know, everything was just going the
wrong way in the last in the last couple of
minutes for Army, and it just kind of is like,
I can't believe they're gonna fall apart at this point
because that's not what Army does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and and this is this great stat from Brent Brigaman,
who we've had on our show many times before. And
uh right, so for the Colorado Springs Gazette beat rider
that covers air Force. You know, he tweeted during the
game the only kind of stat that the kind of
stat you only see in service academy games. Army ran
just three offensive plays in the third quarter. They only
ran three offensive plays in the entire third quarter. Think
about that for a second, Steven, and they still win
the football game. Just the kind of crazy things that happened,
you know, like that amount of time almost two hundred
minutes going by of game clock between touchdowns that that
Air Force has scored. I mean it's just astounding. But still,
at the end of the day, to me, this was
all about the Army defense stepping up and winning this game.
You know, forcing three turnovers, you get two interceptions of fumble,
and then you have you know, several drives in deep
in air force, you know territory. You don't allow a touchdown,
you know, until the last play of the third quarter.
I mean that Army defense was outstanding, but they just
were almost They almost had to to, you know, duck
their tail and run, you know, due to jeff Mankins
call at the end. Again, I know that that's what
coaches are paid the big bucks to make those tough choices.
But my goodness, you were up seven. Just kick the
ball away. I won't belabor it a whole lot more.
I think the big thing, too is Army now gets
into a viable state where getting six wins before you
get to the Army Navy game is certainly now in place.
Speaker 4: Steve, Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: We mentioned this last week that I thought that even
after their loss to Tulane, I thought that they had
a very a very credible path to six wins. And
now they find themselves at four and four. You've got
two home games coming up in the next three weeks.
Speaker 4: You've got a.
Speaker 3: Home game this week against Temple and then a bye
week before your home game against Tulsa.
Speaker 4: And those you know, are.
Speaker 3: Not very good teams in this you know, Tulsa especially,
you know, in this conference. And all of a sudden,
now you're six and four and you and then you
still have your game against Utsa. You know, even if
you were to lose one of those two games, you
could still main you could still get Bowl eligible by
winning in San Antonio. That'd be a very much tougher prospect.
But the fact is you've got an opportunity to be
six and four going into Utsa. And I think that's
exactly where Jeff Mounkin wants his team.
Speaker 4: To Bay.
Speaker 2: Army twenty to seven to take the second leg of
the CIC Trophy. Boy can't wait now That winner take
all seems like we've gotten the winner take all at
the end of the season the last several years, and
that will be a lot of fun. On December thirteenth
between Army and Navy once again, all right, big upset
of the weekend, steven North Texas thirty one to seventeen
over visiting Navy, North Texas running their record to eight
to one for to one in the American Navy having
their ten game winning streak it snapped halted one game
shy of the school record as they lose for the
first time this season, now seven to one and their
first conference loss to put them in a basically a
six way tie atop the American but U and T
the Mean Green. They jump out to a fourteen to
nothing first quarter lead and the Navy was down twenty
one to three thanks to three three Caleb Hawkins touchdown
runs by midway through of the second quarter before the
Mids finally finding the end zone on a thirty one
yard touchdown run by Brandon Chapman. Sidekick failing or the
failed on sidekick early didn't help the matters at all,
as maybe went down fourteen to oh. But Hawkins, a
true freshman, the star in this one, running for a
season high one to ninety seven on thirty three carries
the rest of the team minus twenty one yards rushing.
So this was certainly the Caleb Hawkins show as he
ran wild on the midshipman and that winning streak coming
to an end.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you think about it that, you know, Navy
found itself even with everything that went on in that
first half, they they found themselves with an opportunity in
the middle of the third quarter, down just a touchdown
they get, they force the mean green to punt, and
all of a sudden, you're thinking, okay, here's here's an opportunity.
Speaker 4: You're gonna get.
Speaker 3: The ball, you know, just just outside the you know,
right around the thirty five yard line after the punt,
and you're thinking, okay, they're gonna go down and maybe
get an up opportunity to tie up this game at
twenty at twenty four to twenty four. Unfortunately, you know,
Navy throws an interception and North Texas takes it down
to score what proved to be the final score of
the game that you know, a ten play, fifty yard
drive to make it thirty one seventeen. Navy only had
two more possessions the rest of the game. That the
twelve play drive in the that ended up going into
the fourth quarter and they end up turning the ball
over on downs so they get no points there. Then
after getting North Texas to punt again, they throw another interception.
So at that point you knew that things were going
to be in big trouble and North Texas was able
to run out the ball, run out the game, run
out the clock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what you said was possessions right there, and that's
the key thing because turnovers. We talked turnovers all the time.
When you're in a minus at least a minus two
hole and turnovers, you're you know, usually going to lose
the game seventy five to eighty percent of the time,
especially as a Service Academy team and Navy minus three
with three turnovers in North Texas playing clean football, when
you have those possessions that end and with those it's
the lack of possession usually when you turn the football over,
and when possessions are at a premium, when you run
a ball control typically a more ball controlled, you don't
have that kind of quick strike ability. You know, with
the big time playmakers. Nothing against any of the players
from service academies. You just don't see the you know,
the you know, some of just the sheer incredible athleticism
rise to the top, you know what I'm saying. And
so when you when you slice off some of those possessions,
that makes a very very big difference oftentimes in these
kind of games, especially when it's service academy versus you know,
somebody else, like you know, a quality opponent like North Texas,
and they're certainly a quality opponent. And this was without
a doubt, North Texas's most win of their entire season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, you know, getting this win over a over
a very good Navy team at home. We mentioned it
last week that you know, North Texas's schedule was not
one that you know, you really could write home about
because the game the good teams that they had played,
you know, they played basically one good team at home.
It was it was South Florida and they got the
doors blown off by by the Bulls. So I really
do think that, you know, for for North Texas, this
gives them a very good spot. They're in a very
good spot now to you know, find themselves with an
opportunity at the at the American Conference title game because
they don't have to play Memphis. That was the really
tough matchup that they had still to come on their schedule.
You know, they don't have Memphis on their schedule. They
don't have Tulane on their schedule. You know, they've got
three games left. They're all against teams that they should hate,
they should be able to handle. Uh They're at u
AB at Rice, and at and at home against Temple.
You know, there's there's no reason why North Texas isn't
seven and one in in conference. Uh and and looking
at everybody else in the conference and going all right,
who wants us? Because there you know you look at it.
You know Memphis, uh still has to play Tulane. One
of those teams is going to get its second loss
in conference. You know, USF still has a still has
a rough a rough road because they'll play Navy in
a couple of weeks. Uh and and the same you
know in Annapolis and the Michael Kelly ball uh and
obviously you know the Midshipmen are looking at that as well.
Those are the teams that you know, the American Conference
you believes is going to be in there. Uh uh
in their title game there are going to be some
are going to be those teams you know you look
at you know meant you know, so North Texas finds
itself now it's in a really good spot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you would think maybe might be in the
best spot of them all, having just what I think
what two conference games left, But those two conference games
are against two of the best of in the entire
league in Memphis and South Florida. So yeah, there's a
lot to be sorted out. I mean, there is a
lot to be sorted out over this final month of football, Stephen.
And you know, in a conference that is really emblematic,
I feel like of a lot of leagues around the
country that is just I don't want to say there
it's cannibalization, you know in these in these leagues, but
like the SEC, you know, there's no standout team. There's
a lot of good ones. And I think that's a
lot of the same thing that we're seeing in the Americans.
There's several really good ones, but there's just not that
one that you're like, oh, this is the one that
might be able to wreck the college football playoffs.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think it's you could say that about
a lot of conferences though, yeah, look at the look.
Speaker 4: At the ACC.
Speaker 3: Remember Miami was the number two team in the country,
and you know, now they've lost to two home, two
conference games in a row, and they find themselves, you know,
mired in the middle of the ACC.
Speaker 4: You know, Georgia Tech, there was talk.
Speaker 3: That they could have been undefeated going and going into
the game against Georgia. Uh you know, but here you are.
The only undefeated team in that conference is Virginia.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: So You've got Pittsburgh, You've got Louisville, You've got Georgia Tech,
you got SMU, You've got Duke.
Speaker 4: It's it's so crazy, you.
Speaker 3: Know, the the tops of these conferences and you know,
whether you're talking about the Big Twelve, the A C C,
the Big Ten, you know, because the Big Ten you're
going to see Ohio State in Indiana at some point.
Uh So, I mean it's just wild how you know
these teams are going to end up cannibalizing each other.
Speaker 2: Like you said, well, and that's that's why I said emblematic.
I feel like this the American is just really in
a lot of ways emblematic of college football across the
country this year, where you know, Yeah, there's some great
teams here and there, but but by and large, I
mean you'd mentioned Ohio State Indiana. That's a little bit
different than what we, you know, were used to seeing.
You know, we're used to seeing a Michigan right there,
or maybe even a Penn State. You know, you're not
used to thinking Indiana's right there competing could even be
a favorite, you know, over Ohio State to win the
conference championship. I'm not saying they will be, but you're
seeing some different things happen, and you're seeing I don't
want to call it parody, but you're just seeing a
lot of really good teams and just there is not
that elite in a lot of these conferences. Like you said,
the ACC is another great example of what we've seen,
you know, the last several weeks, just where we think
we've got to figure it out, we don't. Steven, let's
give out some game balls real quick before we get
out of here. We got a lot more to do
if you fire away with your game ball first, my friend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously, I think, uh, I think you know where
both of us are going with with these game balls
is you've got to give a lot of credit to
Armies defense. I am going to go with senior. With senior,
Gavin Shields the uh six foot two safety out of Pittman,
New Jersey.
Speaker 4: UH. In the game against Air Force, UH.
Speaker 3: You know, you look at his at his tackles numbers,
you know, four tackles, three of them are solo.
Speaker 4: He had a tackle for a loss as a safety.
Speaker 3: But the big thing is that he has one of
the two interceptions and the one where Air Force is
driving in the third quarter deep in Army territory and
Leamsarka throws it basically right to Gavin and they're able
to stop the Falcons in the red zone and keep
them from from picking up points there.
Speaker 4: It turned out to be really big. So he gets
my game ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna stay in the Army defense as well.
And in Thomas was fantastic, you know, Colin Madison was
was great too, had eleven tackles and and Thomas was
right behind him with ten, none of which were solo,
you know, and a tackle for a loss and pass
broken up. But the fact that you know, they force
three Air Force turnovers and they continue to make Air
Force grind plead, you know, outside of the one, you know,
touchdown at the end of the third quarter. That was
a seven minute drive. You know, they spotted them. You know,
I'm gonna call it what it is. They they basically
spotted them that last one, you know, with their backs
against the wall, when when they went for it and
didn't get it and gave Liam Sarkin air Force a
short field. So I Armies defense without a doubt won
the football game for him on Saturday. That's the reason
why they're gonna have a chance to play for the
Community in Chief Trophy against Navy and that winner take
all game. So senior linebacker and to Thomas, he gets
the nod for me. This week, Steven, tell everybody about
the College Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast network, because we
have something for every college football fan all season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we certainly do.
Speaker 3: And this week on College Gridiron Coast to Coast, Oh,
it's it's it's a good one. Let's let's put it
that way. Starting off as we do every Monday, with
this week in the ACCU the the guys welcomed did
He and more from Louisville. Obviously, the Cardinals in a
really good spot in that conference. A wild Week ten
involving most of those teams in that conference, so definitely
check that out. Noah Drury and Big Big Ten Paradigm
talking about how their conference playoff picture is starting to
take shape again. You know, we'll see what happens in
a Big Ten title game, which will probably have Ohio
State and Indiana. That could be Uh, that's one you
probably wish was going to be waiting for you in
the National Championship game, but you'll get a chance to
see it probably in a Big Ten title game. Get
off my pylon, you go out West. Obviously, b YU
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End Show talking Lone Star Football, Texas A and m
I'm sorry, Texas Tech and Baylor A, big.
Speaker 4: Big games, big wins for them.
Speaker 3: SMU takes a tumble though, so Tim Indycartim taking a
look at all of that, and of course the collapse
in South Florida. Florida Football Insiders with Jason Powers talking
all about that.
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the world, that would be Stephen Carney. I'm Pryce Atkinson.
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
and Stripes, serve US Academy Football.
Speaker 2: All right, as we roll along here on the Yards
and Stripes your hope for Service Academy Football on Price Atkinson,
he is young Steven Carney, and we are Yards and Stripes.
We got three games, Steven, and this is the first
time I feel like since maybe the first month of
the season that all three teams are on the gridiron
this weekend, and we will start with Temple and Army.
This one going to be played up at Mikey Stadium
at twelve noon on Saturday on the CBS Sports Network.
Army giving six and a half points and over under
in this one right now is set at forty seven
and a half between visiting Temple. That's five and four,
three and two in the American versus Army, which is
even steven now four and four, two and three in
the League. First time in four weeks that they will
be back at Mikey following that victory over Air Force
last weekend. They will play consecutive home games to close November,
with an open week in there between matchups against Temple
and Tulsa. Army needing to go two and one over
these next three games before Army Navy to secure that
guaranteed Bowl eligibility. Army leading the all time series in
this or excuse me, the series is tied all time
seven to seven, but Jeff Mounkin is three to zero
all time against the Alis with victories in twenty sixteen, seventeen,
and last season, which was a forty two to fourteen
win in Philadelphia. So the Army defense now ranked number
three in the American and total defense allowing just one
hundred and eighty five total points. They got to get
it done at home against Temple on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Steve, Yeah, absolutely, and this is a Temple Temple team
that just putting just putting things into into perspective. Remember
the a couple of weeks ago when we were talking
about Army taking on Charlotte, and I think I said, Charlotte,
no stop you the running Temple. Temple goes to the
Charlotte school of defense, especially their running game. Temple's defense,
get this, gives up one hundred and ninety two yards
per game on defense. That is one hundred and twenty
third in Division one FBS college football. This team, no
stop me the running And if you're and if your Army,
and if you're Jeff Mounkin, you should be licking your
lips in anticipation for, oh my god, we're gonna have
some long drives in this game at Mikey Stadium, and
you know that the Corps wants to be there and
just shouting shove the ball down the owl's throat. And
I think that this is one of those one of
those teams that Army's going to be able to do
it pretty handily.
Speaker 4: Let's put it that way. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Timble lost forty five to fourteen last week in the
East Carolina at home as a Pirates score thirty one
unanswered to pull away. But you know, Casey Keeler's team,
they they secured their most amount of wins they've had
in a single season with five. That's the most they've
had in the season since twenty nineteen, probably going back
to what maybe is that is that Matt rule? Maybe
era they're at Temple now. It's just too soon, you know.
But Casey Keeler, longtime Delaware coach, had tons of success
at the one double A, you know, FCS level. I
think he's going to get Temple back to fighting and respectable,
but it's not going to be on Saturday. I'm you know,
like you said, the inability to stop the run, that's
a recipe for disaster. And when you're a team that
can run it for you know, four hundred capable of
four hundred and almost five hundred, this is not This
is not the kind of a recipe you want if
you're a Temple fan looking for a win. So, yeah,
I'm with you. Well, we'll make our picks here in
just a little bit of Temple at Army on Saturday
twelve noon on the CBS Sports Network. Army has six
and a half point favorite. All right, our next game,
Stephen air Force at San Jose State. This is a
six pm Eastern Standard time kickoff on FS one. Air
Force two and six, one and four in the league
against San Jose State. That's three and five, two and
two in the Mount West air Force getting five and
a half right now on the road over under is
sixty seven and a half. Is these two teams meeting
for the ninth all time as conference foes, but Air
Force leading the overall series five to three, including a
two and two record in games in San Jose. They
have split the last four meetings, with each winning once
on the road. But last season San Jose State defeated
Air Force seventeen to seven and Falcon Stadium wall. In
twenty twenty three, Air Force went to San Jose and
beat the Spartans forty five to twenty in the last
meeting there in San Jose. So, big time showdown. Is
air Force looking for another Mount West Conference win? Will
they get it? Steven, We'll make picks in a little bit,
but you know the fight in Kenny Neamatal Lolos. They
have protected that home field pretty well outside of the
season opener.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And you definitely if you're if you're air Force,
you want to keep an eye on their quarterback. They've
got a senior quarterback, Walter Egot, who has been very,
very very good this year. I mean, he's got already
over twenty six hundred yards passing in this season, seventeen
touchdowns and only three interceptions, so he definitely has learned
not to put the ball in the opponent's hands.
Speaker 4: And you're looking at a kid.
Speaker 3: That against Stanford at the beginning near the beginning of
the year the end of September, he threw for four
hundred and seventy three yards in that game, and in
their last game against Hawaii, the forty five to thirty
eight victory, twenty of forty for four hundred and fifty
eight yards. So obviously they want to stretch the field.
They want to be able to have what al Davis
Lake took all the vertical passing game, and they've got
a kid that certainly knows how to make that happen
in Walter Egan. He is he is really really impressive.
His big target is a sophomore Danny Scadero. He's already
got more than sixty catches and over one thousand yards
receiving in ten touchdowns, so he had seven catches for
two hundred and fifteen yards and two scores in the
win over Hawaii. His big game this year came against
Wyoming back on the eleventh of October. Ten catches, one
hundred and eighty yards and four scores. So so you
definitely want to keep an eye. You need to know
where number ten is on the field. Scadaro, you know
with he when he's out wide. He's not a big guy.
He's only he's listed at five to nine and one
hundred and seventy four pounds, So this is not a
guy that's gonna go Randy Moss style on you. He's
going to try and run past you, and you can't
let him do it if you're the Air Force.
Speaker 2: Secondary you heard it here first, folks, Air Force at
San Jose State, six o'clock Eastern Standard time, kickoff this
one on FS one. Air Force getting five and a half.
The line was three and a half but now it's
jumped up to five and a half in just a
couple of days, so we'll have to find out in
that one. But our final game of the weekend, Navy
seven and one at Notre Dame six and two. The
Fighting Irish are rolling right now, to say the least.
After losing those first two against Miami and Texas A
and M to open the season, they have since reeled
off but six in a row. As they are really
looking like a college football playoff you know, big time
contender right now is they're gonna be favored the rest
of the way, and they're favored in this one as
they're giving Navy twenty five and a half points. This
one is gonna be a seven to thirty pm kickoff
Eastern Standard Time on NBC. The big NBC over under
fifty five and a half is these teams meeting on
the grid iron for the ninety eighth time overall, the
first time at night in South Bend on Saturday. So
you know mentioned a Notre Dame really streaking right now,
might have maybe the best I think what arguably is
one of the best players in all of college football,
running back Jeremiah Love. He scored eleven touchdowns eight hundred
and ninety four yards averages over six yards at carry.
I think he should be firmly in the Heisman conversation.
Probably isn't right now, but should. This is a Notre
Dame team full of weapons. You know, we know what
they did last year and fighting their way through the
college football playoff. They're going to be a contender once again,
or they are a contender, maybe going to have their
hands full, but boy, that line is awful. High twenty
five and a half will make our picks in a
little bit. But kind of sneaking suspicion, maybe coming off
that loss to North Texas, they might have just been
looking past that mean green team a little bit to
what was ahead this week.
Speaker 3: It's possible, but you mentioned Jeremiah Love, and boy, I'll
tell you, when you're a freshman quarterback like CJ. Carr,
you've got to feel real good when you can turn
around and see him lining up lining up behind you.
And I'm sure that that's given him a whole lot
of confidence because we're talking about a young man who,
by the way, has over two thousand yards passing so
far and sixteen touchdowns through the air.
Speaker 4: So he's had he's had himself some.
Speaker 3: Really good, good games, and he's also had games where
he hasn't had a throwhole heck of a lot because
they've been able to get out in front and you
just turn around, you hand the ball to Jeremiah Love
and let him do his thing and let him let
him run over guys or run around guys or run
past guys. And you do that and you find yourself
in a in really good shape. But yeah, it's amazing.
It's amazing what a great running back can do to
help a young quarterback, oh boy.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, without a doubt, and then taking the
pressure off, especially a freshman like CJ. Carr. This isn't
like what's his name, Riley Leonard last year from Duke
where he had the two headed monster at running back,
you know, and he was honestly a lot of ways
a three headed monster last year. But he was such
a veteran quarterback. That's not the case this year. It's
the Jeremiah Love Show and he is running the show
there in South Bend. You know. The last time Navy
beat Notre Dame was in twenty sixteen, when the Mids
knocked off the Irish in Jacksonville twenty eight twenty seven.
Their last win in South Bend I came in two
thousand and nine when they knocked off the Irish twenty
three to twenty one. I was in a stretch where
Navy had won three out of four from two thousand
and seven to twenty ten. So if those scoring at home,
is Notre Dame right number ten in the country in
both polls both polls. Navy's last win over a ranked
opponent came in December of last year when they ran
all over Army thirty one to thirteen. The last time
they beat a ranked or Dame team was it November
the seventh, two thousand and nine, when the Irish were
ranked as high as number nineteen. That was twenty three
to twenty one. And the last time Navy beat a
top ten opponent on the road, well, you got to
go all the way back to nineteen seventy four when
Navy knocked off number eight Pence State seven to six.
Even so to say this is a tall order is
putting it mildly.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah it is. It is definitely a very tall order.
Speaker 3: But you mentioned we saw Navy back in the in
the late two thousands win three out of four in
that in this series, of course, that came on the
heels of Notre Dame winning forty three in a row.
So I mean it was you weren't going to be
able to to not lose again.
Speaker 4: But uh, but you can you've seen.
Speaker 3: This team and and I want I'm curious to see
just how much of a factor having an experienced quarterback
like Blake Horvath means for Navy, where whereas they've got
that that very young in the inexperience in CJ.
Speaker 4: Carr.
Speaker 3: Now they've talked about the early success that car has
had in his career in South Bend. But I would
love to see Blake Horvath.
Speaker 4: Slow things down.
Speaker 3: And we both know that the best way to prevent
Jeremiah Love from getting his hands on the football is
to let him stand on the sidelines. You know, if
you've got some long you get some long drawn out
if you can get fourteen fifteen sixteen play drives, if
you're the midshipman, and let the let Notre Dames offen
sit over there. But those drives can't end in kicks.
They've got to end with you getting the ball in
the end zone. If you can do that, you've got
a shot.
Speaker 2: Let me just throw this also out there. Three of
the last four times that Navy has beaten Notre Dame,
the mids were coming off a loss in two thousand
and seven. Navy was coming off at fifty nine to
fifty two lost to Delaware. In two thousand and nine,
Navy was coming off of twenty seven to twenty four
loss to Temple, and then twenty sixteen, Navy was coming
off of fifty two to forty five loss at South Florida.
Just in case you're wondering Navy lost, remind you they
lost at Nord Texas last weekend thirty one to seventeen.
So if you're looking for a silver lining, could that
be one for the Mids? I don't know, but maybe Stephen.
Speaker 3: Well, well, we'll certainly find out if we feel that.
If we feel that way coming up in our next segment.
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
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Speaker 2: Final segment of Yards and Stripes. Right here, he is
Stephen carneim Price Acketts and we got three games to pick. Man.
It feels good to have three games this week instead
of just two or one like we seem to have
had the last few weeks. So we've got a full
slate of action here and we're gonna pick some games.
But first, just for those scoring at home. How about Stephen?
Last week he called that Army win twenty eight twenty seven,
while I had North Texas beat Navy forty five to forty.
So we split last week. We knew that we were
we went different directions. We were going to see how
it played out. But that is indeed how it played out.
And we will talk about how it's going to play
out this week, Stephen, as we will talk about the
Army Black Knights welcoming the Temple Owls in Ta Mikey
twelve New kickoff on Saturday. Army needing two of these
last three before they play Navy to get to guaranteed
Bowl eligibility. I don't think they're going to have a problem.
What do you think about this one on Saturday?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't. I don't think they're gonna have a
problem either.
Speaker 3: As I mentioned in the in the previous segment, Temple
no stopy the running they would. They go to the
Charlotte school of not being able to stop the run.
And I have a feeling that this is going to
be a big run, the big run Day at at
Mikey Stadium. I have Army winning this game rather handily
and getting themselves an opportunity to get to Bowl eligibility
with a with a win against Tulsa in a couple
of weeks. I have the Black Knights with a twenty
four to thirteen win over Temple.
Speaker 2: All Right, I was a little bit bigger. I went
with Army thirty five to ten, getting the win by
over three Tuties. So we definitely like Army. We like
him big over Temple. On Saturday, our next game the
Air Force Falcons heading out west, heading to California, fertile
recruiting ground for Troy Calhoun and his club. They are
taking on Kenyamatalolo is somebody that knows Service Academy very well,
as the former Navy coach now at San Jose State
in his second year welcoming Troy Calhoun and those Falcons
can air force pull this one off on the road
because I got the feeling because San Jose State has
been awfully good at home this year. All their wins
have been at home. They did fall in the season
opener to Central Michigan sixteen to fourteen, but ever since
that they've they've been able to protect that home field
pretty well. So I'm liking San Jose and San Jose
State and this one. Steven, what do you think?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I tend to agree. I mentioned Walter Egot.
Speaker 3: I really think that he's He's definitely a guy that
I'm going to be keeping an eye on.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I know that it's going to be tough for the
Spark to make a Bowl this year, which which is
really disappointing because I think it would be a lot
of fun to see San Jose State be able to
play one of these other teams that loves to play
track meet Paul west Head style football and just throw
the ball down the field, stand in the middle of
the ring like Rocky Balboa clubber Lang, and just beat
the tar out of each other. I have San Jose
State winning this game by a narrow margin. I have
them I have the Spartans winning thirty four to thirty
one in this.
Speaker 2: Game, all right. I liked San Jose State as well,
except I like San Jose State by a little bit
more of a comfortable margin, not not as much. But
you know, thirty to twenty, you know, ten point win
versus a field goal. So I think Santawa San Jose
State will pull away late, or they might even get
up big. But I think they're going to get a
comfortable win over air Force and Air Forces Road with
Road continue, all right. The biggie, really, I think the
biggie of the weekend Navy heading to number ten Notre Dame.
Is there an upset and Navy, I told you about
what they've done coming off of losses before they played
Notre Dame, when they've had success. I just don't see
it happening. I do see Navy covering the twenty five
and a half points, Steven. I don't think Notre Dame
is gonna bludgeon, you know, Navy to that kind of point.
But I think this will be somewhat close. But I
think or a Notre Dame will pull away. I was
thinking somewhere along the lines of twenty eight to seventeen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am a little less optimistic than you. I
actually have I have Notre Dame covering this one, and
I have them covering it pretty easily. I think the
defense is going to try and get the ball on
the ground, and if if there's even one turno, if
Navy is even turns the ball over once, I think
that this becomes a laugher. And I think this becomes
a laugher quickly. I have Notre Dame winning this one
forty four to ten.
Speaker 2: WHOA, all right, So we're definitely we like Notre Dame,
but you definitely like to see you like a steamrolling
Notre Dame steamrolling toward that college football playoff.
Speaker 3: So good this year, Like I know that they had
a couple of losses early, but ever since that loss
to Texas A and M. And obviously we found out
that Texas A and M is a really good team
this year. You know that this Notre Dame team has
been has been on on really really strong footing.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe the thing I underestimate this game being
played at night. You know, you say, well, what's the
difference between day and night? Well, it's you know that
you're playing under the lights, and you know your primetime
audience is just a little bit of a different feel.
You know that, you know that sphincter is just a
little bit tighter, you know, when you're in that kind
of situation and you know you got all that crowd.
It's a nighttime atmosphere. So we'll see what happens. We'll
see if maybe you can keep it close. We certainly
hope all three of our Service Academy teams go get
it done this weekend. Stephen, what else you're looking at
on our way out the door across the college football
land skate before we get out of here, anything good
that's just striking your fancy?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean obviously, uh for me here in town.
Speaker 3: Uh, we've got utsa uh with with the University of
South Florida. That's gonna be a big game this week.
You know Texas A and M in missoo. Uh, that's
that's gonna be a huge game in the SEC. I
know that that they're certainly looking at at that one.
You know the first game a b k in batuh
for for l s u uh you know after Brian Kelly. Yeah,
and oh by the way, uh here comes here comes
a trip to Tuscaloosa and Alabama, who seem to have
gotten things uh going right. Those of those are the
three that I'm really looking forward to this week. In
top twenty five.
Speaker 2: I think that for the first time, you know, the
the three thirty CBS game, which obviously CBA or SEC
occupied forever and ever and ever. You know, it's to me,
it's and one of the worst games of the of
the Saturday that they have on CBS, like just terrible
big ten games. I feel like this is finally a
good one for the first time all season. Number nine
Oregon and don't look now, number twenty Iowa. So I
think that could be an offense, I believe it or not.
It's crazy. They're six and two, and Oregon now has
a really tough stretch. Yeah, they're number nine right now,
but having to play against Iowa on the road, they
gotta play Minnesota, which is I believe, six and three.
Then you got number nineteen USC and then number twenty
wash here twenty three Washington, So Oregon's got a really
tough road to finish out the season. Yeah, I think
that game could be really fun at Kennick on Saturday.
All right, we hope everybody enjoys the games this weekend.
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