Speaker 1: Need to get your football fixed 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: Welcome in the Yards and Stripes your home for Service
Academy Football on Pryce Atkinson. More importantly, he is Stephen Carney,
and we are again Yards and Stripes, Army, Navy and
Air Force. That is what we do. Here is all
about the Service Academies is Week one is in the books.
We finally got to see all three of our teams
take the field and it wasn't anything unexpected as all
three teams got big wins. But Steven will get into
that in a second. Along with the Travis Mannon Foundation
hon a roll segment previewing our three upcoming games this weekend.
But damn it, man, how are you? How did you
enjoy it last weekend?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Price that is
that's for sure. I know we're going to get into
these games. I certainly kept my I on things while
we were while we were working UH in Major League
Baseball and some of the other things that I do
outside of outside of talking UH Service Academy Football.
Speaker 4: So uh, it was.
Speaker 3: It was a fun week, although it was very hot
and very rainy here in Florida. You if you, if
you've been on social media, especially on on TikTok, I've
seen a lot of tiktoks this week of people canoeing
down the streets of of Tampa Bay, Florida, So the
Tampa Bay region, whether it's over in Tampa. In Saint Pete,
we have one of our major road thoroughfares has a
low spot not too far from my house and there
are a lot of cars getting swamped because of the
weather here uh in town. But it's been it's been
a very good week, not quite as good of a
week as you're having.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: I'll let I'll let the listeners know that price is
coming to us from the beautiful city of Montreal, all.
Speaker 4: Quebec, Canada as uh.
Speaker 3: And and so he is uh he's been dealing with
poutine and people speaking French, which is always fun.
Speaker 4: So uh uh how is you? How has your week been?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: As we as we get ready for week two.
Speaker 2: It has been good. When you can eat poutine from
the horse's mouth here in Quebec, this is the place
to get poutine in Canada, and boy is it good?
And boy am I excited? Because this is on another
note as we're recording Friday, the day before the games,
because it has been a heck of a week and
we're going to get to the games from last weekend
here in a second. But excuse me, I'm excited, Stephen,
because tonight I'm going to my first ever CFL game.
Speaker 4: CFL three down football, baby.
Speaker 2: The British Columbia Lions in the Montreal Alouettes. I can't wait.
I love CFL football. I love CFL football more than
the NFL. And that's a really bold statement to make.
It's like that, like the saying goes, the NFL is better,
or excuse me, the CFL better better plays, not better players.
You know, NFL is where you'll find the better players.
But I think the CFL. I love the product because
it is only three downs. You can go in motion,
you know, before the snap. The field's bigger. I just
I just love it. It's just it's different.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My friend the late Jim McKean, who's a major league
umpire and major league umpire supervisor for many many years before,
is passing a couple of years ago played in the CFL,
and so every time I would have him on on
the radio here in Tampa, I would always finish our
conversation with Jim, you still.
Speaker 4: Have not told me what the hell of rougees?
Speaker 3: And which would always make him laugh kind of like that,
you know, the running joke with I knew what a
rouge was, I know what a single is in CFL.
But there's so many little intricacies in the in the
Canadian Football League, like the single. If you if you
miss a kick out of bounds or you gets down
UH in the end zone that the kicking team gets
a point, you can have UH resetting of downs by
kicking across the UH the line of scrimmage. I've seen
that happen UH a couple of times, where they just
do a little dribble kick and UH and then fall
on the ball to recover an on side kick and
it resets the downs for the offense. It's very very
strange some of the some of the some of the
rules that they have in Canadian football very very weird.
But I'm glad you're gonna get to go to McGill University.
I know that's where the Awls, UH play their play
their games.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: BC is always a fun team to watch. Uh.
Speaker 3: They don't travel uh as much in the Canadian Football
League as they do in the NFL, but you can
understand why.
Speaker 4: Uh, but it should be fun.
Speaker 3: And I'm looking forward to hearing your your take on
what it's like to actually be live at a CFL game.
Speaker 2: You will be getting photos tonight. It's not a Saskatchewan
Roughrider game. That's Saskatchewan and the rough Riders are my
team in the CFL. But I'm excited Riders and the
rough Riders. Yeah, the rough Hell boy, don't get me
started on the rough Riders. It's been a rough season,
no pun intended. All right, let's get it back on
the rails. Let's get it back to American college football.
What we're all here for, what you're here for. And
let's start last week with the Army Black Knights on
the Hudson Friday night affair, kicking off at six pm.
But they get a forty two to seven win as
Jeff Munkins team now one to zero. The renovations were
on full display. If you were at the game, if
you watch the game, you know the Mikeys Stadium preservation
project well underway all around the stadium, but especially on
that visitor side across from the cameras. But on the field,
it was you know, it kind of started with the bang, Stephen,
because you know, Army gets the ball and they run
that fake punt and the season is off and running.
That was the last thing I expected, was that fake punt,
I think on the very first possession to keep the
drive alive. But they do end up scoring, and then
Lehi comes back and ties at seven to seven, and
then in the four in the second quarter a pair
of touchdowns and Army literally runs away with it. Steve.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it is funny because I didn't expect to
see the fake punt on the first series either. But
that's just how how coach Bunkin is going to run
things here this year. I guess we were we were
talking about this, uh you know, we've we expected last
week that this was going to be.
Speaker 4: A matchup that was not going to be closed.
Speaker 3: And after finishing the first quarter seven to seven, and
you'll see this as a running I guess theme here
this week when we talk about the Week one games. Uh,
you know, it was closed for a quarter and then
all of a sudden the better team ends up pulling
away for the final forty five minutes of the game.
I saw Bryson Daley had the had the touchdown run
in the first quarter. He had won later in the
game as well. Honya Youdo had two touchdown runs in
the game as well. They ran for I want to say,
three hundred and seventy five yards in this game did
the Black Knights, which is absolutely what you wanted. And
then most importantly, no turnovers. You know, if you're not
turning the ball over, Lei's not gonna have a chance
to try and make it a two for one or
or even a three for one in that case, So
you're able to to keep the ball the you know,
possession correct and you end up with a with a.
Speaker 4: Dominant victory in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, the no turnovers the big thing. And you
know the other stat you know, always taking a look
at especially when you're running the football and keeping it
on the ground. You know, if you're gonna convert third
downs and fourth downs, you're gonna have a time of
possession advantage. And that usually always happens with our three teams.
The way they play up the ball, controlled offense and
certainly Army being seven to nine on third down, perfect
two of two on four downs, a nine of eleven
clip if you will there on third and fourth down combined,
and that, you know, coupled with the no turnovers, that's
gonna usually make for a pretty darn good night, especially
when your defense doesn't have to be on the field
all night, and they did not have to be on
that field very much as they get a forty two
to seven win over the Mountain Hawks. Their first game
is members of the American Athletic Conference, Steve so not
a conference game, but still their first game with those
AAC patches on forty two to seven over Lee High.
All right, let's pivot to the Naval Academy. The Naval
Academy opening up on Saturday at noon at Navy Marine
Corps Memorial Stadium. The Bucknell Bison, another Patriot League team
coming into one of our Academy's home stadiums, and the
Midshipman at forty nine to twenty one winner over the
Bison beautiful afternoon and Navy Marine Corps memorials Stadium. Steve
is Brian Newberry getting the win in his first game
is now we'll have a chance to go and oh.
But more importantly, it was a good showing showing by
maybe those Navy quarterbacks. I was a little bit surprised
by because they came out and they were throwing the football.
Steve Blake Horbath starting quarterback Braxton Woodson, who we thought
we'd see and we did. They combined for ten and
nineteen throwing the ball. But Blake Corbath was damn good
with his arm. Seven to twelve, one hundred and eight
yards and two touchdown passes.
Speaker 3: What I said, the same thing, And I think we
saw Horvath in the first half, we saw Woodson in
the second half. You know, I think that was probably
what we all thought was likely to happen, that you
were going to see both guys. Didn't know what sort
of breakdown you would see from them, but it ends
up being.
Speaker 4: First half in second half.
Speaker 3: And how about how you know Heidenreich took advantage on
both sides. He had a touchdown reception from each of
the of the quarterbacks. Woodson also added a touchdown run
in that game. You know there were you know, unfortunately
Horvat did throw throw an interception in the game. Uh,
And you know, I'm sure that that is something that
coach Newberry is going to harp has harped on this
week that hey, you know, you can't be just being
willy nilly throwing the football. If you're gonna throw the football,
you've got to be able to throw it, uh, you know,
and be safe with it and get the high percentage
reception uh, you know, opportunity with it.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Throwing an interception is probably not what you want to see,
especially against a FCS club. But uh, I really was
impressed with how uh I guess, I guess how balanced.
They looked much more balanced uh than Navy did uh
in or then Army did in their game. Uh, you know,
with the with all of the touchdowns uh through the air,
but then you had Alex Tesca run for run for
a touchdown. You had double Folfauna uh involved uh in
the in the run game as well. So I I
love the I love the balance of their offense this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. When you can you know, throw it
and run, it makes you a little bit more of
a dangerous team. But you know, speaking of running it,
Navy runs it with eleven ball carriers. Eleven guys touch
the football for two hundred and sixty four yards total rushing.
And you mentioned Hide and Wright two four catches, seventy
four yards and catching a touchdown pass from each of them. Steven,
That's not something you see every day a Service Academy
wide receiver catching a pair of touchdown passes, not only
two touchdowns in a game, but from two different quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's it's one. It's one for the books for sure.
I know watching if you go back and watch the
highlights on YouTube, he had, he had a couple of
really nice His touchdown catches were both pretty impressive opportunities.
He had one I was on the sideline going out
of bounds. He was able to get the foot down
for the reception for that for that touchdown.
Speaker 4: I think that was the Horvath touchdown that he caught.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then of course the touchdown to woods by Woodson
to him.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, we talk about who's going to be the
guy that can that can be the I guess the
the the player for which of these teams can be
the one that kind of changes defensive perspectives. And you know,
I think Hide and Reik might be the guy this
year that other teams when they go into a service
Academy and is like, all right, we know they're gonna
run the football, but you're gonna watch this guy down
the field as well. You can't just put eleven guys
in the box and try and stop the run game.
You've got to have someone at least out there with
with Heide and Reich with the making sure he's not running.
Speaker 4: Willy Nelly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, three touchdowns for the midshipman in the second quarter.
They reel off five straight touchdowns after Bucknell goes up
seven to zero, and then, like I said, the Naval
Academy five touchdowns in a row before Bucknell gets back
on the scoreboard with a touchdown there late in the
third quarter. And that was all she wrote. Forty nine
to twenty one. Maybe a big winner over the visiting
Patriot League Bucknell Bison. All right, Stephen. Last game of
the week last week the Air Force Falcons hosting Marymack.
They have been darn good to see the least in
home openers against non conference opponents there in Colorado Springs
and Troy Calhoun's team twenty one to six over the Warriors.
And it was a grinder. Let's I mean, let's call
it what it is. We knew that the Air Force,
not that they would be in trouble, Steve, but that
you know, playing a lot of players not going to
show a lot, you know, replacing so many new key
guys and key areas all across the offense and a
lot of places on that defense. And you know, Air Force,
you know, go, they go up seven to zero in
the first quarter, they get another touchdown there in the
second and man, it was I don't I'm not going
to call it a boring football game, but they were
up fourteen to nothing for a long stretch of that
game before Merrimack found the end zone, you know, late
in the game to get on the scoreboard, not be
shut out. But it was just kind of one of
those grinder blah like efforts. But I'm sure, nonetheless Troy
Calhoun happy with that one to oh victory.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And you're right Merrimack waited until the very
last second in order to score. They scored on the
last play of the game. But for Air Force, it
was I mean, you had to have your program to
know who these guys were, because it was like, all right,
who's this guy?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: I knew John Busha because he played late in last
season in a couple of the losses, but it was like,
all right, I don't know any of these guys running
the football, and I don't know any of these guys
that that caught a pass from from Busha. So I
was like, wow, I mean to to have to go
in and basically replace everybody and still come out and look,
you know, it looked like an unfinished product to me.
But they they did some very very good things in
this game. Last week we talked about Donovan Wadley. He's
a Walter Payton Award watch list here to start the year.
Of course, that is the FCS equivalent of the Heisman Trophy.
Speaker 4: They use him.
Speaker 3: Merrimack does is a as a hybrid running back slash
wide receiver type. Wadley did not get a single carry,
which is which is a plus. He only had three
catches in the game for seventeen yards. So obviously they
definitely kept their eye on mister Wadley and made sure
that he wasn't going to be the guy that beat
him in that beat the Falcons in this game, and
that that's what they needed to do.
Speaker 4: And as they say, mission accomplished.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Mission accomplished. You know, Kate Harris Senior out
of utibhaw only carrying the ball five times in the
game for Air Force. Did he steven but five of
the five carries, two of them went for touchdowns. He
got the first two scores for Air Force, especially that
one right before the halftime within what left I think
was sixteen seconds left in the first half, to put
Air Force up fourteen to nothing. And you also mentioned widely.
I mean, you got to feel good. You know, a
guy that, regardless at the FCS level, is electric with
the ball in his hands. He was a complete non factor.
You know that the Air Force defense shut down and
did not allow to get going. And you know something
about Bouscha he mentioned we saw him a little bit
last year. You know, Busha was the guy that came
in to games when they actually had to really start
throwing the football when they might be behind. And you know,
you saw what he could do with his arm as
they you know, threw it fourteen times. You know, he's
only six or fourteen, but he's a guy that can
throw the football and is pretty effective when he does.
I'm sure it's a little bit rusty that first game.
You're trying to get on the same page as your
receivers and everything. But he's a guy that certainly brings
a lot of tools to the table for Troy Calhoun's team,
especially being six to two. You know that junior out
of Port shoot Charlotte, Florida, Steve.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's good to see a Florida kid, and
of course him being from Port Charlotte. I know Port
Charlotte very well from my time in spring training, so
it was it was nice to see he got the
ball around six different receivers, including in Calvert and Cad Harris.
They each caught a pass in that game, so four
receivers to two of their big running backs also getting
involved in this. You would like to have seen more
than you know, two hundred and thirty seven yards on total.
Speaker 4: Offense against an FCS club.
Speaker 3: You know, you saw a lot more than that from
Navy and Army against Patriots League teams. But and especially
the other thing is they they won the turnover margin.
Speaker 4: You know, Merrimack fumbled the ball three times and I
should say lost three funnels.
Speaker 3: They actually fumbled four times yah and uh and lost
and lost three of them. So you certainly when you're
plus you're plus two in that in that case in
the turnover ratio that that's also a big plus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Air Force again twenty one to six over Merrimack,
now one and oh to start the season, Steve, let's
give out some game balls. I'm gonna fire first, because
we didn't coordinate, you know, before we started for it,
which we usually do, but late recording here on Friday
to get this episode out to you. I'm gonna fire
away with my game ball with last week because I
like to go defense. I know you do when we can,
and I think there was a lot of defense that
was being played, certainly in that first week. There's also
a lot of offense that was being played, especially if
you're Navy an Army, you know, eclipsing the forty point mark.
But I'm gonna go on defense. And a Navy A
junior safety Jackson Campbell led the team or tied for
the team lead with Colin Ramos, a guy that we
talked a lot about Service Academy football, one of the
best linebackers the entire country. But Jackson Campbell and Colinamos
having ten tackles in the game for Navy and their
win over but Nell but Campbell, you know, had a
half a sack, one and a half tackles for a loss,
had a pass breakup, it was all over the field.
Was the junior from Thompson Station, Tennessee. So Jackson Campbell,
the safety from Annapolis. He's getting my game ball this week. Steven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good name to put out there. I'm
gonna go with. I'm gonna go with. It's like, do
I want to go with Bryson Daily? Do I want
to go with Kanye?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: You know what, kids, you're both getting game balls from me.
Between the two of them, thirty two carries, one hundred
and fifty three yards on the ground and four of
Army's six rushing touchdowns on the day against Lehigh. So
you get Bryson Daily, you get Kanye. You know, you
get two game balls for me this week.
Speaker 2: Well, you're also going to get some game previews coming up.
You're also going to get our Travis Mannian Foundation on
a roll segment. So we're going to do that when
we come back Stephen on episode two the season of
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that is what we do, and that is what we
love to do, and what I love to do is
preview some games, Stephen, because we have all three of
our teams take in the field once again week two,
and let's start down not I don't want to say
close to you, but in the Sunshine State. Nonetheless, it
will be down in South Florida Stephen as the Army
Black Nighteights hitting the road to take on Florida Florida
Atlantic at Saturday twelve manon on the CBS Sports Network.
Army at three and a half point underdog on the
road against the Owls.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then the Owls are a team coming off of
a loss last week. You know why when they with
started starting the year here with a loss to at
Michigan State. So it's not like they they played a.
Speaker 4: You know, a cream puff here to start the year.
Speaker 3: They went to East Lansing with sixteen ten defeet at
the hands of the Spartans. But you know, FAU is
a team that really surprised people last year. You know,
I think that they really had problems getting their passing
game going, which is what they're best known for. Last
week they threw had a couple of interceptions that were
thrown in that game. And Cam Fancher, their quarterback, also
ran twenty five times in the game for sixty seven yards,
so he was the one man banned. So to speak,
for the Owls here in their first game against Michigan State,
this is a big jump in competition for army, going
from seeing what Lehigh was like to now their first
conference game as a member of the American Athletic Conference
and it comes against the team that you certainly want
to see a better performance from if your Army, you
want to certainly be better against Florida Atlantic than they
were against Lehigh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, big moment for the Black Knights. First time since
two thousand and four they will be involved in a
conference game. Two thousand and four was the last season
they were in a conference when they were part of CUSA. Well,
this is going to be their AAC opener down in
South Florida against the Owls. And you mentioned the Owls.
They hung tough. They hung tough against I don't think
a very good Michigan State team. Time will tell again.
First games of the season. I always think it's hard.
It's it's easy to overreact for fans after one game,
but I just think it's it takes the sample size.
You've only got one game, we'll find out what teams
are really made of here. Usually by at least week
three you start getting to read on. But you know,
every time Steven, I think a Florida Atlantic football, I
don't know why I still have the Lane Kiffen Bowl
in my head. You know, I'm when Lane Kiffin was
rolling and trolling the sidelines there at Florida Atlantic. And
I remember you probably remember this. It was WOA what
five six, seven years ago the game that Navy played
down there. I believe it was a Thursday. It was
a week night. It was either Thursday or Friday night,
and the game being delayed over and over and over
again lightning. I think they finally said, you know what,
we're done here. They didn't even finish the game because
it was so many lightning delays. It got so late.
They finally just said, we're done. I hope the weather
is going to be much better. I'm not a weatherman
or meteorologist, but I just know I hope it's better
than it was. One of the last times the Surface
Academy team went into FAU Stadium, Steve Yeah.
Speaker 3: And and Fau's had had their history of amazing coaches there,
and you know, Howard. Howard Snellenberger, a long time Miami
head coach, UH coached at FAU.
Speaker 4: That was his final stop.
Speaker 3: You mentioned Lean Kiffen, Willie Taggart UH coached at at
FAU after leaving Florida State as well. And now Tom Herman,
the former Texas head coach, is the is the head
coach for the Owls. So uh So obviously you know
you can get some pretty good talent to go to
Boca Raton.
Speaker 4: Uh when when you have a coach like that.
Speaker 3: So so, while while you say, okay, you know, Michigan
State might be not the best team in the Big
Ten this year, and I completely agree with you, it
is still much better competition than what Army saw in
Lehive here this week. So I think this game is
going to be very very close, and I think a
lot lower scoring than even people will let on.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely again a twelve noon kickoff there on the CBS
Sports Network, Army a three and a half point underdog
at FAU.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: Continuing on with the triple header on Saturday on the
CBS Sports Network, the Temple Owls heading into Annapolis. They
will take on the Midshipman Temple oh to one after
falling last week. Of course Navy want to zero again.
This is gonna be a three to thirty pm kickoff
on CBS Sports Net. Navy a twelve and a half
point favorite. The last I've seen over under a forty
four and a half, a team that Navy has, you know,
had some issues with. It feels like over you know,
the past several years. You know, they won an overtime
in twenty twenty two, but they fell last year on
the road there in Philadelphia. But a chance to kind
of get back on the winning side, especially your first
conference game, and a chance to be two and o
for the first time, it feels like what would be
a while for the midshipman.
Speaker 4: Steve, Yeah, it.
Speaker 3: Certainly seems like it's been forever that we've seen the
midshipman start two and o. Temple coming off of a
drubbing in Norman to Oklahoma fifty one to three. They
had six turnovers in that game, the Owls did. The
Sooners were just all over the place against Forrest Brock
and company. But I think you're absolutely right, this is
this is certainly an opportunity here for Navy to show
where they belong in the American Athletic Conference here this year.
I think that much like Army wanting to come out
and show have a good first show of conference play
this year. I know, as you mentioned with Army and FAU,
this is a very small sample size, but they the
history has shown that that Temple has given Navy fits
over the years.
Speaker 4: They don't want that to happen.
Speaker 3: You want to be the team that goes out there
and forces Temple to make mistakes. And if they're making mistakes,
I think Navy's got a good shot at this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think this is a stretch. You know,
we oftentimes, especially before season begins, you look at like
certain you know, two three, four game sets where you
think this could be a key and I think this
might be the start of a key stretch for Navy. Yeah,
it's only the second game of the season. It is
the first conference game, which you always want to win.
But getting off to a two and oh start, you know,
after two games with when you have Memphis coming up
after the bye week, because Navy you'll have a bye
week next week, but then you have Memphis coming to
town and then you've got a pair of road games
at UAB and at Air Force. To me, this kind
of four game stretch coming up, especially after this week,
it's going to be big with Memphis and then two
road games with the Air Force Academy being the last
one on October the fifth. So the Navy mit Shipman
chance to go to and Oh, Welcoming Temple into Annapolis again,
Navy a twelve and a half point favorite, three point
thirty pm kickoff on CBS sports Net. Steven and the
game that I am looking for probably the most Steve
you alluded to it last week. The Air Force Falcons
at home the conference opener and the Mountain West Conference Saturday,
seven pm Eastern Standard Time on CBS sports Net. Welcoming
San Jose State, the Spartans coming in to Falcon Stadium,
but more importantly, Kenniamatalolo, the new head coach, the former
Navy head coach. He's going to be bringing his Spartans
in there, and boy, that's going to be fun to
see coach Nia Mott and Troy Calhoun going at it.
Two coaches that know each other very well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were joking before before the taping started here
this morning that this is going to be coach Kenny's
revenge game because obviously Air Force had their way with
the last couple of Kenny's teams when he was in Annapolis.
And you look at what San Jose State looked like.
This is not your your normal ken Neo Montalolo.
Speaker 4: Coach team. I mean you look at it.
Speaker 3: Emmitt Brown through for almost three hundred yards and three
touchdowns in their win over Sacramento State. Uh and uh
they they are running gun. This is this is quite
a different look to to a ken Nea Montololo team.
You know, we're so used to seeing him from his
time even as Paul Johnson's assistant. Uh, you know, running
the triple option style offense. Doesn't have that in San Jose.
So I think that while you're going to see the
discipline that a Navy team had under Kenya Montalolo, in
San Jose, the Spartans are not going to look like
the midshipman, at least not this year. So so get
ready for some go go Kenny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a game last week that the San
Jose State did knocked off Sacramento State, but they had
to rally. They were down seventeen to fourteen at the half,
and you know, thank goodness, they forced five turnovers or else.
They may not have scored those three touchdowns there in
the last quarter, but Kenya Montalolo bringing the Spartans into
Falcon Stadium for what should be a fun affair, a
seven pm Eastern Standard time kickoff again on CBS Sports Network,
the Mountain West Conference opener. This one is going to
be fun, Stevens, I can't wait. All right, we'll step away.
When we come back, we'll pick some games, and we'll
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Speaker 2: All right, final segment here on Yards and Stripes. You're
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steven three games this week, as we just previewed them
all for you. Let's just start picking Army in Florida,
Atlantic Army on the road. Which way are you gonna go.
I'm gonna say the Army goes in there and gets
a upset win. They're a three and a half point underdog.
I'm gonna go I'm just gonna spitball it and say
Army twenty four to twenty.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it's probably gonna end up being around that
sort of score. I'm actually gonna go the other way
with this one, and I'm gonna take fau By actually
by the same score. Twenty four to twenty thing, it's
gonna be very close. I think it's whoever comes down
and has that final possession of the fourth quarter that
comes up with a victory.
Speaker 2: All right, Temple Owls and the navymanshipment again, maybe a
twelve and a half point favor in Annapolis. Which way
are you gonna go? I think Navy's gonna get to two.
And oh, you tell me what you think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, this is probably the best shot for
Navy to start too. And oh, I think it's gonna
come down to how much of usage from Blake Corbat
versus Braxton Woodson you see in this game. I think
if they're successful, they're used close as close to fifty
to fifty as possible, though if one struggles, you could
see Brian Newberry go with the hot hand in this game.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I see, I certainly see Navy starting two
and O.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Navy gets I think it's gonna be
somewhere in the neighborhood like a thirty five to twenty
one type game. I think Navy. I think Navy covers
the spread, and I think it's you know, maybe a
two touchdown win.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Again, sample size only one. That's all we've seen. But
I still have a feel that Nyvy's going to get
this win after falling last year. Pretty big to Temple,
all right, I go with twenty.
Speaker 4: Twenty seven on my on my end, there we go,
all right.
Speaker 2: Last one, San Jose State at air Force steven best game,
no quot to me. I think this is the best
game of the weekend between all with all three of
our teams involved. Which way are you going on this one?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I have a feeling that EMMITTT.
Speaker 3: Brown is going to get has had quite a work
this workload this week in practice, and I think he
takes it out on the Falcons. I see San Jose
State coming out, throwing the ball around and really making
it tough fair Force's secondary. I think that the Spartans
end up taking the victory away from the Falcon and
so the Service academies.
Speaker 4: I have them going one in two this week.
Speaker 3: I think this is another big, high scoring game, though
I think that this is probably in that thirty five
twenty eight realm.
Speaker 4: So, but I'm gonna take San Jose State for this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna do the same thing I do. I
think you're right. I think San Jose State goes in there,
and I think it's a fairly high scoring affair. I
just don't know if this Air Force offense yet is
quite tuned up to maybe put up the kind of
points they're going to need to put up. So I'm
gonna go with the Spartans maybe in the tune of
say a thirty four to seventeen type of win. I
think that they get a comfortable victory there in the Springs.
But we shall see. It's gonna be fun. You know,
there's gonna be a lot of fireworks, I think, Steven
this one. But let's get out of here. Let's get
ready for the games. Appreciate all our listeners tuning in Steven.
Appreciate you keeping us running every single week. Appreciate the
Travis Manion Foundation, you know, for sticking with us again
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Go Army, goat Navy, Go Air Force. Steve, we will
do it again next week, my friends.
Speaker 3: Sounds good, my brother, we will talk to you next
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