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, Bryce Atkinson and Steve Carney.
Speaker 2: It is episode six of Yards and Stripes your home
for Service Academy Football. If you love Army, you love Navy,
you love Air Force, this is the place that you
want to be.
Speaker 3: My name is Steve Carney.
Speaker 2: It is great to be here with you here as
we get ready for what is going to be quite
an interesting week when it comes to the Service Academies.
We will get to the first leg of the Commander
in Chief Trophy which will take place this weekend. Also
Army's matchup as they head out to Oklahoma for a
matchup with the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. But if you've noticed already,
I am riding solo this week as both Price Atkinson
and I are dealing with the after effects of Hurricane Helene.
You may have heard us joking about it during the
last episode, which was actually being taped on Thursday, as
the hurricane was passing where I live here in the
Tampa Bay region on the west coast of Florida. As
it was on its way to make landfall in the Panhandle.
I joked about the fact that it hadn't started raining
or getting flooded here yet, And unfortunately that term yet
was the most important for me here in Florida, as
about half an hour after we finished taping that episode
and getting it up and set for publish and release,
the water did come in here in Saint Petersburg and
we ended up with some severe flooding and a lot
of flood damage as a result of Hurricane Lean and Price,
unfortunately being upstate in South Carolina, dealt with a lot
of the effects of the hurricane as well. Price is
still without electricity in South Carolina, and I know that
he wanted to be here for this week's show. I
told him, don't worry about it. I'll take care of everything.
You just worry about getting your home back in order
and then we can get back to having some fun
talking about Service Academy football. So I may have lost
a car and Price had a tree come down in
his house, but as Price said on social media earlier
this week, that no matter what happens to you when
it comes to this hurricane, you can almost guarantee that
there is someone around you who has had it worse
than you, and that small acts of kindness.
Speaker 3: Really do go a lot long way.
Speaker 2: You never know what kind of day someone is having
or the challenges that they are facing, So be the
good today.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I could.
Speaker 2: Say anything better than what Price said, but what I
will say is that I hope that this week we
can be a respite, we can be a little bit
of an escape, and hopefully we plan on giving you
a little bit of a smile as we get ready
for what is expected to be quite the exciting weekend
in Service Academy football, and hopefully by the time the
weekend rolls around, you're starting to get back into the
routine of a college football Saturday. I know that I
look forward to being in the same sort of routine
coming up on Saturday, and I hope you will as well.
And with all that being said, let's get into the
week that was in Service Academy football. You know meat
Loaf it best with his song two out of Three
eight bad, And I guess if you're an Army or
a Navy fan, you can feel that way. If you're
Air Force, I don't know if you have that same
sort of feeling right now, but we'll get to the
Falcons here coming up in just a couple of moments.
We want to get started with last Thursday, while we
were taping the last episode of Yards and Stripes, Army
was having its way with the Temple Owls. They win
forty two fourteen in Philadelphia as Bryson Daily has yet
another monster game under center for the Black Knights. We're
talking one hundred and fifty two yards on the ground
on twenty four carries, including three touchdowns. He also threw
for fifty four yards as well. Wasn't a whole lot
of throwing that needed to be done by the Black Knights,
as they jumped out very very early in this game.
They led fourteen nothing at the half and twenty eight
nothing in the middle of the second quarter. They did
allow a couple of touchdowns late in the third and
early in the fourth quarter to the Owls, but then
turned back around and had two more scoring drives, scoring
fourteen more points in the fourth quarter to put things
away and make it feel like, well, this was never
going to be in doubt.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: The Owls got back to within two scores, but that
would be it for them, and they really did have
a monster day on the field. I mean, you look
at some of the stats that came through. Of course,
Army had four hundred and seventeen yards rushing as a team,
they averaged over seven yards per carry. So when that happens,
you're gonna be just marching the football down the field.
Quite apropos for the Black Knights, and the Owls really
had no answer up front. Their front seven looked like
they were going to be swallowed whole by the Army
offensive line and the blocking backs. They just were opening
up holes left and right. I mean, these things were
big enough that you could drive a Sherman tank through them.
And really they did a great job making sure they
controlled the line of scrimmage. They controlled time of possession
thirty five minutes plus for the Black Knights less than
twenty five minutes for Temple. They had almost twice as
many first downs twenty three to twelve. They were six
of eleven on third downs. They converted one of the
two fourth downs as well, and most importantly won the
turnover battle one nil in that In that case, I've
always said that for Army it is all about making
sure that you're able to control the line of scrimmage,
control time of possession, and control the turnover battle. And
if you do that, you're gonna find yourself in really
good shape. And that's where Army has been pretty much
all year long. It's why the Black Knights are four
and oh overall three and oh in their first year
in the American Athletic Conference. And if you look at
a lot of the college football pundits when they talk
about the rankings of the Group of six, Army is
right up at the top with some of these other
big name Group of six clubs and squads that are
out there for the college football playoff.
Speaker 3: Are they going to stay that way? Who knows?
Speaker 2: You know, we could certainly see the American Athletic Conference
being the real spoiler when it comes to the Group
of six and seeing who gets in as a alternate,
as a wild card, as an at large as opposed
to a championship team. Will they allow a second team
from the American Athletic Conference as opposed to just the
champion And will they give all the at large bids
to the power conferences, whether it's the SEC, the Big Ten,
the Big Twelve, or the ACC. For Temple, they really
had it come in left and right when it comes
to what they were having to deal with when it
comes to Army, they weren't able to get any sort
of rushing attack going. In fact, they finished as a
team with twenty two overall carries and minus five yards,
which is just a ridiculous number there. I mean, they
had a lot of tackles for loss, did Army. So
you look at that's where it mostly came from their
quarterback Evan Simon, not only throwing for just two hundred
and twenty four yards on nineteen of thirty, he threw
an interception, had minus eighteen yards on the ground on
fifteen carries, a lot of that coming from tackles in
the backfield and all the like. So they were able
to basically have their way, did Army with Temple's offense,
And then of course had a number of long plays
when or long play drives they should say, when it
comes to what they were doing. And then some also
very quick drives. You know, their first touchdown in the
first quarter only three plays, but covered eighty six yards.
Their touchdown in the second quarter, however, thirteen plays, eighty
nine yards and eight minutes and twenty nine seconds. Going
from the first quarter into the second quarter. That's all
the scoring that took place in the first half, and
then pretty much had their way in the second quarter,
scoring twice in both the third and the fourth quarter
with touchdowns seven play, six play, and then a six
play and an eight play drive in the fourth quarter
that allowed them to find the end zone. So they
had their long drives early on in the game, shorter
drives later on in the game where the Owls defense
was completely run down and they really just couldn't find
an answer for anything that Army was bringing. So Army
ends up going to four and zho atop the American
Athletic Conference standings there at three and oh as well.
Speaker 3: Now turning to Navy.
Speaker 2: Navy always trying to one up Army when it comes
to the scoreboard, they come close, they aren't able to
quite do so with UAB they win forty one point eighteen.
In Birmingham, Blake Horvav has another huge day. He throws
for two hundred and twenty five yards. Who is this
Navy team that is throwing for two hundred and twenty
five yards in the air. They had two hundred and
twenty seven yards on the ground, again led by Horvath
thirteen carries eighty four yards and a touchdown. But you
look at it, they had one, two, three, four, five.
Speaker 3: Six seven.
Speaker 2: Eight guys touched the football on the ground, led by Horvath.
Deba Fofana had eight carries, Brandon Chapman got the ball
seven times. Eli Heidenreich had four carries, Alec Tesca had
four carries, Shane Reynolds three, Braxton Woodson had two, and
Isaiah Bryant also carried the ball once in the game. Also,
how about eight, excuse me, six guys getting the ball
through the air. Nobody got more than three catches, as
there was only nine completions in the entire game. But
Eli heidenrich three carries are three catches I should say,
one hundred and eight yards, including a seventy four yard touchdown.
Nathan Kent had a seventy seven yard score as well.
So a very balanced offense against Trent Dilfer's Blazers. And
I was really really surprised to see that UAB committed
as much, if not more so, to the run than
Navy did. They ran forty three times, the Midshipman only
ran forty two times, so they were certainly looking to
run the football as opposed to throw the ball with
senior quarterback Jacob Zeno, which kind of surprised me. I
had said last week that I thought that they were
going if they were going to win, they were going
to have to throw the ball through the air. But
Zino through two interceptions in the game and the Blazers
decided they were going to look to try and get
the ball on the ground and battle the time of
possession with the midshipman again. The time of possession was
extremely tight, in fact, only eleven seconds difference from being
a straight fifty to fifty split thirty minutes and eleven
seconds for UAB twenty nine minutes and forty nine seconds
for the midshipman. The big thing though UAB committed a
lot of penalties eleven of them as a matter of fact,
one hundred and four yards of penalties for UAB, Navy
characteristically six penalties for forty seven yards, and then of
course the midshipman again winning the turnover battle to nil.
So for both Army and Navy, not turning the football
over leads to victories, and I think that that is
what we wanted to see from both of these teams. Now,
Navy not ranked quite as high as Army when it
comes to the strength of the Group of six. I
believe I saw they are usually in the number three
or number four spot behind Army, behind Boise State and UNLV.
Those are the teams that right now are ahead of
Navy when it comes to most of the Group of
six rankings by the college football pundits. But there's still
four and h They're still undefeated and they get ready
for a huge matchup coming up this week against the
other of the service academies, of course, that being air Force.
Air Force look to try and get off the schneid
coming off of what was going to be two weeks
off as they got ready for Wyoming to go to
Laramie and hopefully be able to pull out a victory
get their first win in conference here this year. It
would not be the case, unfortunately. Wyoming gets the win
at home over air Force thirty one to nineteen. It's
the first time this year that Wyoming had scored more
than four teen points in a game. Now, air Force
did have the lead going into the half thanks to
a big second quarter that saw a field goal for
Matthew to pour actually two of them from inside thirty
yards and then of course a caid through four yard
touchdown run that made the score thirteen to seven after
two quarters. But then Wyoming came out and scored twice
in the third in the third quarter and then got
a touchdown and a field goal in the fourth as well.
They outscore the Falcons in the second half twenty four
to six.
Speaker 3: It was a better day on.
Speaker 2: The offense for Air Force, but it still would not
be enough in order to get the victory. They did
run the ball quite a bit forty six carries, they
had two hundred yards on the ground, averaged four and
a half yards per carry, but unfortunately they weren't able
to get into the end zone enough. Wyoming had four
rushing touchdowns on the day, air Force just the two,
and then of course when they had to go through
the air, John Bosche not quite as accurate as you
would want to see him. He went six of thirteen
for one hundred and fifteen yards, whereas the Wyoming passing
attack led by Evans Faboda, fifteen of twenty one one
hundred and sixty five yards, and then they also got
a twenty three yard pass from Caden Anderson in the
game as well. This game was just a total sludge
fest if you look at the numbers. Going by the numbers,
they were even in first downs with nineteen. Wyoming did
convert three more third downs than the Falcons did. They
were seven of fourteen, air Force just four for twelve
and converted both of their fourth downs, whereas air Force
went zero for two in that aspect. Penalties relatively even
four for thirty five for air Force, three for thirty
three for Wyoming. And of course the time of possession
did lean towards Wyoming. The Cowboys thirty one minutes and
twenty eight seconds twenty eight minutes and thirty two for
Troy Calhoun's bunch. So not a very big time of
possession difference, but it was enough in order for it
to be at least part of the difference. But really,
you look at the big factor in why air Force
is now zero to two in the Mountain West is
the fact that they were not able to put the
ball in the end zone enough on the ground, just
the two as opposed to Wyoming's four. As for game
balls this week, I think we could give a game
ball every week to Bryson Daily and to Blake Horvath.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to stay away from those guys.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm going to stay away from the offenses
on both Army and Navy this week, and instead I'm
going to take a look at somebody from the midshipman defense.
How about senior defensive end Justin Reid, who had a
monster day against UAB on Saturday seven tackles. Didn't lead
the team in tackles. Raywan Lane had twelve tackles on
the day, but he had five solo tackles, three tackles
for loss, and two of the three sacks of UAB
quarterback Jacob Zeno. So I think you could say that
while there may have been guys with a lot more
quantity when it comes to defense, I think the quality
of Justin Reid's defense with Navy last week was second
to none. And so that's why defensive end Justin Reid
will get my game ball for this week.
Speaker 3: Now. Air Force doesn't.
Speaker 2: Get any easier for them, but they are able to
get the first leg of the Commander in Chiefs Trophy
out of the way. Coming up this week when they
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
and Stripes Service Academy Football.
Speaker 2: As we continue here on Yards and Stripes, you're home
for Service Academy Football, episode number six of the twenty
twenty four college football season. I'm Steve Carney Price Atkinson.
We'll be back with us, hopefully next week, as we
continue to deal with the after effects of Hurricane Helen
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let's get into the week that is upcoming for the
service Academies. Two games on the DOC this week. We
will get to the main event coming up in just
a couple of moments, but want to start with Army,
who will head to Tulsa, Oklahoma this weekend Saturday twelve
noon on ESP and U. They will take on the
Golden Hurricane. Tulsa is two and three overall oh to
one in the American Athletic Conference. That lost coming last
week fifty to twenty at the hands of North Texas
on the road. Their wins this year coming off of
against Northwestern State, which is a Division one FCS club.
At the beginning of the year, they also went to
Louisiana Tech and emerged with a twenty three twenty victory
over LA Tech. You know, this Tulsa team is going
to be a group that is going to want to
throw the ball through the air. They've got a freshman
quarterback in Kirk Frank. Kirk rancis a red shirt freshman
as a matter of fact, but he's already thrown for
almost a thousand yards through the air. He has six
touchdowns four interceptions here so far this year as a quarterback.
Speaker 3: You know, this is.
Speaker 2: A guy that got a little bit of time last
year with numbers that are quite similar in about the.
Speaker 3: Same amount of games.
Speaker 2: He was nine hundred and sixty seven yards in three
games last year, six touchdowns, three interceptions, this year nine
hundred and eighty yards, six touchdowns and four interceptions. They
don't really run the ball, does Tulsa very well. They're
leading rusher Anthony Watkins, who is a senior five ft
eleven two and two pounds fort Worth, has never rushed
for one thousand yards in a collegiate football season. Last
year in what was his original senior season. He is
a fifth year senior here at Tulsa had eight hundred
and eighty nine yards on the ground. But they don't
really run the ball a whole heck of a lot.
The guy that you definitely want to keep an eye
out for is a sixth year receiver, Camden Benjamin from
mid Lothian, Texas. As I mentioned, a sixth year guy,
has thirty two catches so far this year. He's averaging
over thirteen yards per reception. A couple of touchdowns does
take a couple of end rounds, but this is a receiver.
I think that the Army defensive backfield is going to
be able to handle better than most mostly because Camden
is not a big guy. He's listed at five eight
and one hundred and seventy five pounds. Well, when your
defensive backfield and Army runs about the same, they're going
to be able to I think match stride for stride
with Benjamin, and I think that's going to make for
a much better I guess I would say result for
the Black Knights because you know that the Golden Hurricane
are going to want to throw the football. They're not
going to be able to use a height advantage.
Speaker 3: Like some teams would.
Speaker 2: You know, some teams, if they've got that big six
three or six ' four receiver, they'll just put him
out there on an island and challenge a service academy. Okay,
here he is, go stop him and just throw the
ball up and let their receiver use his height advantage
and his reach advantage with the long arms in order
to be able to make plays. Tulsa's not going to
be able to do that here on Saturday because Benjamin
is as slight as he is a big guy. He's
not a thick guy. He's got to be able to
use his quickness to try and outspeed these Army defensive backs.
I don't know if he's going to be able to
do so, and I certainly think that Army has a
much better outcome in hand here as they are twelve
and a half point favorites in Tulsa on the road
with an over under right now of fifty and a half.
I really do think that Bryson Dally is going to
be able to use his experience and the offensive line
as an advantage here this week. You're gonna see Army
look to try and control the time of possession as
they do just about every game out and I almost
feel like it's a broken record right now. But if
your Army, you're looking at running the football, maintaining time
of possession in your favor, and limiting the turnovers. So
if as long as the football doesn't hit the deck
when Army is on offense, I think they're going to
find themselves in a pretty good situation leaving Tulsa. And
I think that you know, they've got as good of
a chance as any to end up five to zero
and including four and oh in conference, they would be
the first team in the American Athletic Conference this year
to win four conference games. Nobody else really has more
than a conference game or two other than Navy. So
it makes sense that that Army would have this really
good opportunity here coming up against a Golden Hurricane team
that is projected to be at or near the bottom
of the American Athletic Conference this year. Now we get
on to the main event in this week's doc and
that of course is leg number one of the Commander
in Chief Trophy, as Navy goes to Colorado's Springs to
Falcon Stadium for a tussle with air Force. This will
take place also Saturday at noon. It will be shown
on CBS. Navy, of course is four and oh on
the year. They are also three and oh in the
American Athletic Conference. This is obviously a non conference matchup.
Air Force now one and three after their loss to
Wyoming over the weekend, and this is now the moment
that Troy Calhoun's players are ready for. They had to
be prepared for this, even with working towards whether it
was Baylor a couple of weeks ago, whether it was
Wyoming last Saturday. I know that Troy Calhoun always talks
about it being one game at time. You got to
focus on the game. That's right in front of you
and not worry about the one that's coming up. But
his players are human and I'm sure that they saw
on their schedule that after they went to Laramie to
play Wyoming, they were going to get a chance to
come home and have Navy come in here. And I'm
sure that they're thinking much like Army was thinking last
year in the middle of the Commander in Chief Trophy legs.
You know, remember last year, Air Force is eight to
zero going into their matchup against Army. They had already
defeated Navy earlier in the season, and Army comes in
and just takes the Falcons behind the woodshed, and that
was the first loss of the season, and it really
sent Air Force into a spiral of sorts because remember
they really stumbled all the way up until their Armed
Forces ball matchup against James Madison. They really fell off
a cliff after that game against Army. They know that
this is another possibility here that Navy is going to
want to come in.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Obviously, Air Force has won the Commander in Chief trophy
a number of times over the last five years. I
believe they held on too Wittlin last year, but they
Navy is certainly and Brian Newberry is wanting to get
back into the conversation. They want to have that opportunity
to hoist the Commander in Chief trophy at the end
of this season. There's only one way to do it,
and that is you've got to go in to Colorado
Springs and you have to take it to the falcons
and show that the Air Force, after being at the
top of the Commander in Chief race for all these years,
is now in a process of having to rebuild what
their program looks like. This has been a really, really
tough year so far for Troy Calhoun and his group
in Colorado Springs at Air Force, and I really think
that when Blake Horvath comes in here, you know he
has seen what has happened in years past, whether it
was with ty Lavataie under center or any of these
other guys that they've had under center's Xavier r Line
in the bunch. Horvath wants to show why this Navy
team is so much better now with him taking the
snaps at quarterback than anybody that they've had over the
last couple of years. He has shown it now against Memphis,
he showed it off against UAB last week, of course,
with Temple and Bucknell before that, but they certainly want
to get to five and oher as well. They may
not be able to be four and oh with a
victory in conference like Army would with a victory over Tulsa,
but I certainly think that they want to be able
to keep pace with the Black Knights, and they want
the pundits in college football to know that there's more
than just one team that they need to watch out for.
Coming out of the American Athletic Conference here in two
thousand and twenty four should be a blast of a game.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: I'm certainly excited to be able to watch it here
this week, and I hope that you are ready for
the first leg of the Commander in Chief Trophy coming
up here on Saturday again at noon on CBS.
Speaker 3: Coming up.
Speaker 2: I've got predictions for both games on Saturday, but also
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
and Stripes Service Academy Football.
Speaker 2: Coming down the home stretch here on Yards and Stripes
your home for Service Academy Football, episode number six. I'm
Steve Carney. Thank you so much for bearing with us
here this week. As both Price and I deal with
the after effects of Hurricane Heleen Price should be back
with us here next week. I'm sure he'll definitely want
to give us his thoughts on what happened in the
first leg of the Commander in Chief Trophy. And we
will get to that game coming up here in just
a second, as we've got prediction is coming up here
right now. We will start again twelve noon on ESPN
U Army in Tulsa for a matchup with the Golden
Hurricane Army four and OH overall three and oh in
the American. Tulsa looking to get its first win of
AAC play here in twenty twenty four. They are two
and three on the year, zero to one in the American.
If you are a betting individual, Army is laying twelve
and a half points in this game with a total
of fifty and a half at Chapman Stadium in Tulsa.
It is supposed to be a relatively good Saturday when
it comes to weather. There is nothing that is expected
to be going on in Tulsa when these two teams
take the field at noon Saturday, and I think that
that really is going to put a damper on anything
that the Golden Hurricane may look to do, because I
would think that the rain would maybe cause some issues.
I don't know about Tulsa's field there at Chapman Stadium,
but I certainly think that if you are looking for
mistakes from Army, the weather can certainly provide that for you,
and they're not going to get that here this week.
I can see Bryson Dally having another huge day on
the ground. I can see him doing what he needs
to do through the air, and I certainly can see
Army's defense really holding serve against the Golden Hurricane. As
I mentioned campedon Benjamin not being the biggest guy in
the world. You would love to see him be six
foot four and not five foot eight, and I think
that's going to be a big minus when it comes
to the Golden Hurricane.
Speaker 3: Will Army win this game by two touchdowns?
Speaker 2: That is probably the biggest question if you are looking
to try and put some money on this game. I'm
certainly not going to be betting either of these games
here this week at all, So I would say that
Army probably is a very good shot. And if I
had to make a prediction, which I'm going to do
right now, I do think that they end up winning
this game. I think it's probably going to be closer
to thirty four to fourteen as opposed to just twelve points.
I think it's going to be closer to three touchdowns
than it is to two. So I would certainly like
Army in this spot. Now the moment that you have
all been waiting for, Navy and Air Force game number one,
the first leg of the Commander in Chief Trophy, taking
place Saturday at noon Eastern at Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs.
Navy four and zero, air Force is one and three.
Not surprising that Navy is favored in this game by
ten points, the total being thirty five and a half,
so obviously they're expecting this one to be somewhere in
the vicinity of twenty three to thirteen. I think that's
probably the right number to have here. I think that
twenty three to thirteen sounds like it would be the
right score for this game.
Speaker 3: Though.
Speaker 2: I think that Navy's offense, especially if they're able to
throw the football like they were last week against UAB,
I think that they really could find a lot of
success against Air Forces defensive backs, especially with Eli Heidenrich.
I could see him having a monster game this week.
You know, we're talking another one of these where he's
only catching like four or five passes, but he's going
for one hundred and forty yards and a couple of touchdowns.
Would not surprise me at all. But I am going
to say that this stay is a relatively low scoring game.
Twenty three to thirteen is the number that I'm gonna
go with here. In this game, I think that air
Force is able to get into the end zone once,
but then are going to have to rely on the
kicking game from most of their points, and then Navy's
defense could end up with a safe in this game.
So I would really think that Navy and air Force
low scoring. Absolutely, Navy comes out with the win. They
improved a five and zero on the year, and we
could see absolute chaos when it comes to the second
half of the American Athletic Conference schedule if Navy and
Army can stay where they are in the standings. But
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