Speaker 1: Need to get your football fixed on all things Army,
Navy and Air Force. This is Yarns and Stripes Service
Academy Football. Now here are your hosts, Bryce Atkinson and
Steve Carney.
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and Stripes here hope for service Academy Football, Army, Navy
and Air Force. That is what we do. And he
is Stephen Carney and I and Price Atkinson, and we
appreciate you tuning in tonight as we are part of
the College Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast network, also available
at last Word on sports dot com. We got a big,
big episode and show this week. Games to recap. We
got finally Steven. Finally we got all three teams, no
more bye weeks. We got all three teams back in
action this coming week in our Travis Manian Foundation Honor roll,
honoring a fallen hero. We've got some news and notes
to pass along. We got picks to make at the end,
all the fun stuff that we do here on Yards
and Stripes Episode five. As we are rolling along here
on the twenty twenty five college football season. But it
is another well it's not a Tuesday, it's a Wednesday night.
So we're going off kilter a little bit, but we
still need a Poppy's Pizza report from young Stephen Carney
to you know, tickle all our fancies into you know,
make us all salibate with whatever time of day it
is you're listening to this podcast, because as we all know,
Stephen Carney loves to devour a good Poppy's pizza. What's
on the toppings tonight?
Speaker 3: It is absolutely true, and the Papa Yans is always
on a Tuesday night, and especially now that hockey season
has started. For me, baseball season is over, Hockey season
started the very next day, which is perfect like it was.
Speaker 4: I could not have thanked.
Speaker 3: The National Hockey League and Major League Baseball for making
my life any easier this year. I have no overlaps
between my two main jobs, and so I was able
to go straight from from baseball to hockey Tuesday night.
Speaker 4: Always it's always pizza night.
Speaker 3: We've got We've got a Papa Yon's right by the arena,
and so I always go straight meat lovers on on
Tuesday nights. And so thankfully for some of my partners
that are with me, especially on road games. I've got
three other people in the studio with me. I've got
the the two pregame and postgame show hosts Eric Arlinson
and and Bobby the Chief Taylor two times Stanley Cup champion,
and my broadcast assistant Jerry Johnson. It's always about a
Tuesday pizza night for the four of us. Uh when
when we're on the road. Uh when when the team's
on the road. When the team is home, we just
go with whatever they have there for us because they
provide the media meal for us. But on the road,
it's always it's always about pizza Tuesdays, and it's always
meat lovers because for the four of us, we all say,
you know, we're all like midwestern types. I'm not from
the Midwest, I'm from New England. I eat like a Midwesterner.
My broadcast assistant Jared is from New York, but he
eats like a Midwesterner. And then Eric is from Minnesota,
he's obviously a Midwesterner. And Chief is from Western Canada.
So they are meat potatoes. So we all say, if
we if we wanted vegetables on our pizza, we'd get
a salad.
Speaker 2: All right, So did you get banana peppers? Though that's
the question.
Speaker 3: Know, No, banana peppers on my own pizza. I leave
that for Emily.
Speaker 2: Make sure EM's ears are closed when you spout that nonsense.
I hope she's not within.
Speaker 4: Shouting She is not within shouting distance. All right, that's good.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll move along from Poppy's. We'll go from
the pizza to the pig skin, from p to p
We got games to recap, and we got two of it. Unfortunately,
it was not the best of weekends for our Service
Academy teams Army and Air Force, specifically falling at home
in conference games. Let's start up at West Point, where
Army was trying to get off the snide, especially when
it comes to home games and their first conference game
of the season. Another wild overtime game up there, but
unfortunately the Black Knights they couldn't find a way. They
first American loss for Army since twenty twenty three. After
going undefeated en route to the American Conference Championship trophy
last year, North Texas get goes in and gets a
forty five to thirty eight overtime win. North Texas is
now four and one to oher in the American and
the Army dropping to one and two in North Texas
at four and oh mark first time since twenty and eighteen,
and it was a comeback that was oh so close,
but Army just couldn't pull it off. But thanks to
running back Caleb Hawkins, a freshman outstanding thirteen carries ninety
nine yards for touchdowns, and then a sophomore Mackenzie McGill
the second nineteen carries for him one hundred and one
yards and oh yeah, quarterback Drew mesta Maker was pretty
good to two hundred and forty nine yards and a
touchdown is un t. They raced out to a big
twenty one to nothing lead with a minute left in
the first quarter, largely thanks to two Army quarterback Kate
Hellam fumbles that the Mean Green converted into a pair
of touchdowns, and then you and T they convert a
second quarter Kate Hellum's interception to another score to go
up twenty eight to seven. Was six thirty five left
in the half, and then Steven the comeback was on
for Army.
Speaker 4: Yeah absolutely, you mentioned it.
Speaker 3: Down twenty one to nothing, down twenty eight to seven,
and down ten points.
Speaker 4: They were down.
Speaker 3: Thirty eight to twenty eight with three minutes to go
in the game that usually is the death now for
a Service Academy team. But you know, credit credit Hellams
who came back into the game after being benched.
Speaker 4: They brought in Dwayne Coleman and he.
Speaker 3: Was very effective in the second half, but then he
suffered another leg injury and they had to bring Helms
back into the game, and Helms led them back down
on the field twice to get the touchdown and then
the game tying field goal. Unfortunately, on that final drive,
they found themselves inside with goal to go and less
than thirty seconds left to play, and they committed penalty
and that backs them up and it forces them to
instead of going for a touchdown and maybe getting the
win in this game over North Texas, they end up
having to kick the field goal. They tie the game
at thirty eight thirty eight, Hawkins goes and scores a
touchdown in overtime, Army cannot convert on fourth down. That
proves to be the end of the game and unfortunately
North Texas comes out with a victory.
Speaker 4: I mean Army.
Speaker 3: It's funny they are a one and they're now a
one and two team, but their two losses are in
We're both in overtime. By a grand total of ten
points to teams that are now a combined seven and zero.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's nothing, you know, there's nothing to be
ashamed of. The one thing that you want to be
that I'm sure that Jeff Munkin is his team is
ashamed of, is the sixth combined turnovers in those in
those two losses in overtime, as you mentioned, and both
at home. And that's what Jeff Munkin has talked about
already this week, is trying to clean those up. And
you know, as we all know, in service academy world,
you cannot put the ball on the ground or give
it to the give it to the other team like that.
So you know, obviously that's got to be cleaned up.
That's got to change. But is I think we saw
Dwayne Coleman coming back and saying, hey, look you remember me.
You know I'm pretty good too. It'll be interesting to
see what happens in terms of the quarterback position moving forward.
But I thought one thing that was interesting, you know,
certainly the jump start that Dwayne Coleman gave them throwing
the ball and running the football. But here's something you
don't see every day, Steven, You don't see in Granted, look,
we know when you're a out of me team and
you're running triple option, there're gonna be a lot of tackles.
When was the last time you saw in a box
score you saw four four guys from one team in
double digit tackles. I don't think I've seen that in
a very long time. As North Texas had three guys
with eleven tackles and another with ten. That's a lot
of freaking stops between four players that forty tackles. Granted
they were combined, they weren't solo, but still that's not
something you see every day. But at the end of
the day, you know Army coming up short, and you know,
somebody wrote me on Twitter said, look, this was one
disappointing game because after kind of it felt like you
handed the Tarletan State game away and then getting that
big win on the road at Kansas State where you
were flawless. What's amazing is is that you know they
were Army was pretty much flawless in that game in
the Little Apple, but then you come home and they
were just mistake after mistake, So you know, really straighted
and I think more of the frustration was the turnovers
and then you know, losing at home in that first
conference game first time in two years.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And and three of those four guys that had
double digit tackles, you know, Ethan Weslowsky, Patrick Smith, Young
Shane Whitter all were in the back seven. So that
meant that the that army was getting through the defensive line.
Now they did have fought a u fo a fe Valea,
the second who had ten tackles, he's a defensive lineman.
If you didn't if you couldn't figure out by his
h by his name, you know, a guy I think
they call him the Slender. But uh yeah, but those
those other three guys, and you mentioned you know, forty
one tackles combined, you know, but they had was it
for fourteen sixteen solo tackles between the between the four
of them as well?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's h frustrating for the Black Knights, you know,
you know, you're going to go through a few bump
in the road after losing a couple guys to the
transfer portal and obviously Captain America you know, Bryce and
Daily gone. You know, it's still early, It's only three games,
you know, like you said, you know, you got two
teams that are combined seven to zero and you lost
to them in overtime at home. So we'll see what
happens as Armies back in action this weekend. But Army
does fall forty five to thirty eight and overtime to
North Texas Army now one and two oh to one
in the American Let's move out west to Colorado Springs
where Boise coming off a bye week, Boise State taken
on air Force in Boise State's first mount Less Conference game.
This was a second for air Force, but Air Force
comes up short in this one, and really an incredible
high scoring affair one that Air Force hung around for
a while. They just gave up big too many big
plays in this game. Steven. It was seemed like it
was a big play after big play that did Air
Force in as Boise State got a forty nine to
thirty seven to win over the Falcons Boise State two
to one one and ozer in them out less and
air Force just like Army one and two overall, except
there now zero and two in the league. But you know,
air Force did taste, did taste the lead early in
the game, jumping out to a seven to nothing start,
but that was the only time they led. Is Boise
State race passed the Falcons, thanks in large part to
Broncos running back Dylan Riley five touchdowns. Ashton Gent's replacement,
the sophomore Dylan Riley was outstanding. Nineteen carries one hundred
and seventy one hundred and seventy one yards, four touchdowns
on the ground and one through the air. As air
Force they played keep up, but in the end it
was just a little too much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in a seventy five yard touchdown pass that he
got through the air from Maddox Madson and I had
said before that game that I thought that Boise State
would go as Madson went, and he had. He had
a very serviceable game. I mean, thirteen of twenty three.
He threw for two hundred and seventy six yards, He
had the two touchdowns, did throw and interception. But he
he was probably the reason why Air Force was able
to stick around in this game as long as they died.
I mean this was twenty one, twenty one, midway through
the third quarter, so I mean they were they were
holding their own. It's just that the the talent side
of Boise started to show at you know, as the
game war on, you could tell they were deeper, they
were more talented, and they ended up pulling away at
that point. The one thing that I was really impressed
with when it came when it or or I shouldn't
say impressed, I was kind of disappointed with was you know,
Air Force had.
Speaker 4: Too many penalties in this game.
Speaker 3: You look at it, you know, most times you want
to see the discipline show up when it comes to
Service Academy football. You want to see it in turnovers.
You would like to have seen them not have the
one interception, you know that that leads to that leads
to trouble and six penalties for forty five yards I think.
You know, even though Boise Will you know, obviously took
way more penalties than they did. I mean, twelve penalties
for one hundred and seven yards. You know they have
the talent to overcome that, and I don't think Air
Force does.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Liam Sarky getting his first career start thirteen to eighteen,
two hundred and forty six yards and two touchdowns with
a pick and then Dylan Carson throws in one hundred
and nine yards on the ground, but it wasn't enough.
And Kate Harris also you know another you know another
big plays for air Force. I mean, they did the
job offensively, but you got to get off the field
and you got to get stops. Which is something that
they did not do. Is is Boise was seven of
ten seventy percent conversion rate on third downs. Got to
get off the field on third down and that was
one of the big undoings for air Force. But Air
Force they do fall forty nine to thirty seven. Destroy
Calhoun just like Jeff Bunkin trying to get this thing
jump started this week, because you don't want to get
in too big of a hole, especially early in the season.
We know what happened last year with the Air Force
when they finally dug it out, but that doesn't happen
very often. Steven, gameball time. Let's pivot and give out
game balls. And this is something I feel bad doing
this man, because we usually like to keep it in
house and keep it in the family. And I know
there were some directions that we could go, but I
just couldn't do it. I had to go with an
opposing team, and I had to go with Dylan Riley
because the Boise State running back, the sophomore taken over
Ash and genty. When you put up five touchdowns in
a football game and do it the way he did,
which was just all world. One hundred and seventy one
yards on the ground, eighty four yards receiving, including the
seventy five yard touchdown pass that he caught, four on
the ground, one through the air. You gotta tip your cap, man,
and I gotta tip my cap to Dylan Riley because
he was so dark good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was thinking of going with Caleb Hawkins for
for the same reason. You know, thirteen carries ninety nine yards.
He averaged almost eight yards of carry, he had the
four touchdowns.
Speaker 4: But I'm gonna pivot. I'm gonna pivot.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna actually go into the same game with you,
and I'm gonna go on the other side of the football.
I Am gonna go with Kate Harris, the five eight
senior from South Weber South Weaver, Utah uh. He had
eight catches one hundred and seventy seven yards in this game,
did not find the end zone, but did have a
seventy four yard catch in this game. He's closing in
on the amount of catches, yards and the like that
he had last year combined. He only had twenty three
catches last year in the season for three hundred and
sixty eight yards. He's got thirteen catches now for three
hundred and twenty three yards.
Speaker 4: Wow, in three games.
Speaker 3: So I don't I think that's that's pretty good a
guy who's not very big. He's only five foot eight,
So you know this is not a guy that's gonna
Moss Moss guys. Uh but uh, but I love the fact.
I love the grit and the tenacity that that he shows.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And so I'm gonna I'm gonna pivot from from what
we talked about before the broadcast started, and I'm gonna
go with Kate Harris. So We're both gonna go for
the for that game between air Force and Boise.
Speaker 2: And I'm a bad guy for doing it.
Speaker 4: I feel like, no, five.
Speaker 3: Five touchdowns is five touchdowns, So I think I think
of Jamal Charles when I think of five touchdown games,
and so, h no, no, you have to go.
Speaker 4: You have to he had to be recognized.
Speaker 2: I mean, you almost roll it. You're just shy of
six hundred yards of total offense. And he was the
the train driving the locomo. I mean he was the
one doing it, so.
Speaker 4: Ye, I don't know, he was the conductor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. So I had to go with uh,
I gotta go with Dylan.
Speaker 4: Riley, No, we gotta. He certainly deserves it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we got a lot more to do here, Steven.
We've got three games to preview, we got picks, Travis
Manning Foundation on a roll segment. We'll step away really quickly,
but first let's tell our friends about the College Gridiron
Coast to Coast Podcast Network, because whether it's Pig Skin
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I mean, look, there is something for everybody here at
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gotta let everybody else know what's there because it's college
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and this week is a big one, of course,
for a lot of these teams across the country. I mean,
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that went through last week. Of course Indiana beating the
tar out out of Illinois, Michigan dominating Nebraska, and of
course the big matchup Oregon and Penn State coming up
as well, that is so.
Speaker 4: Huge over in the ACC.
Speaker 3: Obviously, Miami is the talk of the town this week
in the ACC talking about that, but also about Virginia
Tech and their struggles as well.
Speaker 4: Get off my pylon.
Speaker 3: Well they talk about the West coast, so it's a
lot about Oregon and of course their matchup against Penn State.
Pig Skin burnt ends covering Texas Texas Tech.
Speaker 4: I don't I.
Speaker 3: Didn't expect them to go into Utah and get the
victory that they got this week, but they certainly did
so a lot about that. And Arch Manning had himself
an actual college football game this week, but you know,
is it too early to say that he's back.
Speaker 4: It was against Sam Houston State after all.
Speaker 3: And then of course Florida Football Insiders the hot seat
in Gainesville with Billy Napier and of course they might
have the most brutal roads of the schedule coming up
because they face They've got like Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and
Florida State coming up, and so yeah, they're I think
Billy Napier is in big trouble and Jason Powers breaks
that down this week.
Speaker 2: I don't know who's in bigger trouble, Florida or Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
and Stripes Service Academy Football.
Speaker 2: We continue on here on Yards and Stripes. He's Steve Carney,
and I'm Pryce Ackinson, and that one Steve Carney, who
is the best producer and co host in the whole
wide world, is making me one hungry guy as we
record at ten o'clock on a Wednesday evening. God, he's
making me hungry talking restaurants and pizza and Italian I
just can't take it anymore. I'm gonna have to go
raid the kitchen here before I go to Bedstea.
Speaker 4: Sorry, madam.
Speaker 3: It's the beauty of living in one of the greatest
cities in the United States. I absolutely love Saint Pete,
Florida for this, for this very reason. They've got great
craft beer, They've got great restaurants. They've got just some
awesome little dives and holes in the wall that you
never would expect. And when you find them, you hold
on to them and you just clutch as hard as
you can and you say, this is mine. And so
we were talking about certain pizza joints and Italian markets
and Jewish delis during the break and yeah, so now
I think we're both free.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna trade Greenville, South Carolina in and head
down to Saint Pete here.
Speaker 3: Hell, I don't know if you can trade Greenville, South Carolina.
But you know, I, my my lovely bride has been
to Greenville, South Carolina. I have not, and so and
she raves about how great Greenville, South Carolina is. So
maybe maybe you'll you may have to come come visit,
but I'm gonna have to come visit that way as well.
Speaker 2: All Right, I got some hot spots for you, you
got hot spots for me. We'll do a fair trade
because I do think we could scratch each other's back
and be even Steven, no pun intended by the time
we finished the food trade off. All right, Steven, let's
get to some games because we got to do it quickly.
And the reason being is we got a game tomorrow night,
being Thursday night, and that's Army at East Carolina. Army
one and two again oh to one, looking for their
first American Conference win. Is East Carolina two and two,
but this is their first conference game seven thirty kickoff
on Thursday on the Big Network ESPN. East Carolina is
a four and a half point favorite. Over under is
fifty three and a half. Thursday Night football for the
Black Knights in Greenville, North Carolina is Sports Center Campus
will be on site broadcasting from downtown Greenville in the
afternoon while I understand it's country night in the student sections.
Army is looking to try and go six to oh
in their sixth straight appearance on esp They're six and
zero in the last or five and oh in their
last five games on ESPN. But they're gonna have to
get past East Carolina, who fell last weekend to BYU
at home thirty four to thirteen. Two costly turnovers late
in the first half swung the momentum with the score
six to three, but Blake Carroll's guided the Pirates to
a seven and three marks that's taking over last October,
including a five and one finish last season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know this, This East Carolina team kind of
I kind of scratched my head about it because their
two wins were definitely statement pieces. I mean, they gave
up a combined three points and their two wins. Now,
their two wins are against Campbell, which is not a
Division one FBS school, and Coastal Carolina, which if Jamie
Chatwell was still there might might be a little more impressive,
but he isn't, so you know, coastal is not the
coastal of you know, two or three years ago. So
I look at those two wins and you kind of
have to take them with a with a grain of salt,
so to speak. But there are two losses. I didn't
think we're that bad of losses either. And they lose
in Raleigh to NC State. You know, NC State is
not uh, you know Miami uh, and it's not Florida State.
But but it's still a power for conference school that
you went into and you lose by a touchdown.
Speaker 2: And you saw the end of it. If you saw
the end of that game, real quick stephen, not to
interrupt you. They were driving, I believe it was in
They were definitely inside the twenty. I want to say
they may have even been inside the ten yard line
of the wolf Pack when they had a four down
and I think they got called for a holding and
that it was a personal foul, it was something. It
was a live ball penalty and it was a turnover
and NC State took over and survived. Please continue.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you mentioned the loss at home UH
to b YU last week. So you know this this uh,
this team, this Pirates team being from the wrong Greenville.
Speaker 4: As as I like to call Greenville North Carolina.
Speaker 3: But you know they've had they've got They've got some
pretty decent UH players on this team. Katean Houser, their
quarterback has already thrown for over twelve hundred yards in
four games. You know they've got they've got some pretty
good wide receivers. I think that's going to be a
tough matchup for the Black Knights is going to be
out wide. I think that's where their struggle is going
to come from.
Speaker 2: Yeah, last season, if you remember, this was a big
I mean it was a big watermark on the on
the Army Black Knights season defeating East Carolina forty five
to twenty eight because Bryce and Daily that historic performance.
If you remember Steven six touchdowns, he scored six, five
on the ground and threw for one to break the
program single season and records for rushing touchdown and total
touchdowns responsible for with the first six touchdown game by
Black Knights. It's nineteen sixteen. So can they do it
against East Carolina? We'll find out. But that game is
tomorrow night. We won't have to wait long to see
what will transpire. Army at ECU Thursday seven thirty ESPN
East Carolina giving four and a half points over Under
fifty three and a half. All right, let's pivot to
the Naval Academy on Saturday. This one's going to be
a three thirty kickoff Eastern Standard Time on the CBS
Sports Network. Rice three and one steven, three and one
one in zero in the American taking on Navy, which
is three and oh two and oh in the American
coming off the bye week. And if you know anything
about Rice football, you know that this is one of
the toughest jobs in all of America to win at.
Is it doable, yes, but it is one of the
hardest to get it done at. And Rice will try
and do just that, get it done at Navy, as
they're off to a great start this year. It's best
start actually three and one since two thousand and one.
And I believe that was in a game where Rice
and Ken Hatfield came to Navy when I was still
employed by the Naval Academy Athletic Association, So I do
remember that Rice team. But Rice leads to all time
series against Navy seven to six, including a twenty four
to ten win in the last meeting November second of
last year in a game that was marred by three
lightning delays, almost three inches of rain for a total
of five hours and six minutes, including two hours and
twenty five minutes to start the game. But the Mids,
they're two and two and gets Rice in games played
in Annapolis, including a fourteen to thirteen win in their
last meeting, which was way back in two thousand and four.
But Navy trying to continue this outstanding start and under
Brian Newberry, after getting it turned around last year, can
they make it four and oh steven, Yeah.
Speaker 3: And you look at what Scott Abell has been able
to do for the Owls here in his first year
as the head coach at Rice. And this is a
guy that has come from the lower levels of college football.
I mean, he spent six seasons as the head coach
at Washington and Lee, which I believe is a Division
two school, and then Davidson in you know, so the
fight in Steph Curry's they actually do have a football team,
and he was their head coach before there before coming
to Rice this season. And what he is, what he
is instilled in this OWLS team, They look very much
like a Service Academy team because.
Speaker 4: They like to pound the rock.
Speaker 3: This is a team that is averaging almost two hundred
and fifty rushing yards a game.
Speaker 4: They are in the top fifteen in the country in.
Speaker 3: Rushing yards, and they know how to control the line
of scrimmage, they know how to control time of possession.
This is going to be a real, real fun game
to watch. And if you like smash mouth football, the
old school three yards and the cloud of dust Woody
Hayes style, I think you're going to see it in
this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you. I totally agree with you,
and yes, you're right. Well, actually, Washington Lee, where my
sister got her law school degree or a law degree,
they are, I believe a Division three team for football.
I think they're non scholarship. But the Owls twenty six
transfers on their roster and as you mentioned, they love
to ground and pound. With Quinton Jackson and Dalen Alexander,
the two headed monster is Rice is fifteenth in the
country and rushing with two hundred and forty six point
three yards a game, and like you said, they control
the time of possession. They control the clock because Chase
Chase Shenkins Red sh or the sophomore quarterback. It's done
a great job this fall, completing thirty five of forty
eight passes, which is not very much when you think
about it, but he can beat you with his legs.
But the big thing is Rice completing seventy four percent
of their passes, six best in the FBS. They've only
thrown one interception, and in terms of holding on to
the football, they rank twelfth in the country. All just
shy up. Thirty four minutes a game. Oh yeah, they've
only turned it over two times. Two times too, Steven.
That's a recipe for winning some pretty a lot of
football games and being able to run it to get
off the field on third down and being able to
control the clock without turning it over.
Speaker 3: And you are absolutely right. Washington LEEUE is a Division
three school. Abell has gone to the playoffs five times
as a head coach, which is so impressive for a
guy that grew up as a baseball player. I mean,
he was a pro baseball player that turned around and
went into college and went into football coaching for a
high school level, then to D three, then to FCS,
and now finds himself at the top level. Granted, you
know Rice's as you said, it's one of the hardest
programs to be the head coach of because of the
lack of success the Owls have had at this level.
And really it has a lot to do with the
admission requirements that they that they ask for. It is
almost like a service academy school. It's it's that hard
to get into Rice, and a lot of football players
don't make the cut academically to get into Rice. So
to have the success that he is having with the
Owls is a great sign. And the fact is that
he ain't a spring chicken. So if you're an if
you're a fan of Rice football, you're probably gonna have
this guy for a little while because I don't see
some of these big programs going out and getting a
fifty guy who's going to be fifty six years old
to be a first time coach in a in a
power for conference.
Speaker 2: Can Navy keep it going? We will find out Saturday
at three point thirty on the CBS Sports Network. Rice
and Navy Navy a fourteen and a half point favorite
there at Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, moving out to
Colorado Springs, where Hawaii is making the trip too. Air
Force Hawaii three and two oh to one in the
Mountain West. Air Force is one and two looking for
their first conference win at oh and two. This is
a four to ten Eastern Standard time kickoff on Fox
Sports one. Air Force is a six and a half
point favorite fifty three and a half or fifty three
and a half over under air Force and Army meeting
for the twenty fourth time overall. Twenty second is conference
bos are. Air Force leading the overall series or fourteen
to eight and one, including thirteen seven and one in
the league. Air Force is also six and two against
the Rainbows at home, but Hawaii did defeat Air Force
in their last meeting twenty seven to thirteen in November
of twenty three. You know, going across the country, we'll
make our picks here in a little bit. You know.
It's Hawaii just seems like a jeckel in Hide kind
of Team Steven when they're not at home, when they
have to hit the road and travel and obviously make
these long trips. It's just as it's just kind of
a it feels as you get a different football team.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Not only that, but unfortunately for Timmy Chang and the
Rainbows this year. They are not a very good offensive team.
There have been years that they have had, you know,
the great passing attack. You know, you can go all
the way back to when Chang was the quarterback at
Hawaii back in the early nineties, you know, and when
June Jones was there, and you would and you would
have you know, it was so much funn and gun
uh this year during those years, and and they've had
that passing attack on and off over the over the years.
This year is one of the off years unfortunately for Hawaii.
They find themselves they're not scoring a lot of points
in games. They are currently one hundred and first in
Division one FBS College football in points scored per game.
It's just over twenty two or just i should say,
just under twenty three points per game, and they're giving
up about as many. So, you know, and they find
themselves near on the other side, near the top of FBS,
in the top sixty when it comes to points allowed
in this game or in this season. So Hawaii, you know,
they they've shown they really have a tough time stopping guys.
They're having a hard time getting in the end zone themselves.
They're having to settle for a lot more kicks than
they are with touchdowns in the red zone. I think
this is going to be very, very difficult. You saw
what happened, you know, when Fresno State went out to
Honolulu this week. They come away with a twenty three
to twenty one victory in that game. This will be
their biggest tests so far on the road and this year.
And I really do think that, you know, apart from
their game against Arizona, this might be the toughest opponent
they have the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, air Force leading the Mountain lessons, scoring offense, rushing yards,
yards per completion, third down percentage, and red zone offense.
But I don't know if you knew this. I couldn't
remember this until I saw this. But these two teams
they played for the General Lawrence Couter Trophy. I don't
know if I've got that if I'm saying that right.
Cooter Cutter Ku T. E. R. Who is named the
trophy is named after the first Pacific Coast Air Force Commander.
It's a tribute to the friendship between Hawaiian Air Force
and the cooperation between the people of Hawaii and their
air force, and the trophy was conceived by the University
Hawaiian sponsored by the Pacific Air Command in the Air
Force Academy helped design the trophy that goes to the
winner of the game between these two schools. Obviously, Hawaii
holds the trophy from that twenty seven to thirteen win
in Honolulu in twenty twenty three. But if this game
could come down to a field goal, which I don't
know if it will, Hawaii's kicker Kinsai Matt Suzawa leads
the nation in field goal percentage. He's thirteen for thirteen,
first in the mount Less and third nationally and with
two and a half field goals per game. Air Force
has got a couple streaks on the line. We'll see
what happens. They've recorded at least two hundred and fifty
yards rushing in three touchdowns in a mountain Less record
seven straight games. And they extended the nation's longest active
streak of one hundred yard rushing games to eighty eight
with two hundred and sixty nine against Boise. So a
couple of small streaks on the line. But we'll make
some picks here in a little bit. Steven, what do
you think.
Speaker 3: You mentioned the Cooter Trophy and you mentioned the kicker there.
The last time that this matchup between Air Force and
Hawaii was DEI was decided by a field goal.
Speaker 4: You have to go all the way back to nineteen
ninety two.
Speaker 3: Wow, when Hawaii beat Air Force six to three at
Falcon Stadium in September of nineteen ninety two. This game
either way is never close. You know, it's usually two
touchdowns or more. Obviously, these two teams played two years
ago in Honolulu. The Rainbow Warriors won that one twenty
seven thirteen. And then you go back to before the
pandemic to twenty nineteen. Air Force went to Honolulu and
won by thirty in that game. The only other game
since nineteen ninety two that was decided by a touchdown
or few or less was in twenty sixteen, also in
Colorado Springs, Hawaii beat Air Force thirty four twenty seventy
in double overtime.
Speaker 2: One thing that karindeed, Stevens, is this game is always
about some points on the board.
Speaker 4: I love it. That's what's gonna make this one so
much fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love the fact that it's at four to
ten and not at twelve ten.
Speaker 4: Am.
Speaker 2: I could not agree with you Hawaii at Air Force
four ten Eastern Standard time on Fox Sports one. Air
Force is six and a half point favorite. All right,
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
and Stripes Service Academy Football.
Speaker 2: Picks are locked and loaded and we're about to fire
away as we got three games to pick. Stephen Carney
and I'm Pryce Atkinson. Final segment here on Yards and Stripes,
Episode five. If you're counting or scoring at home, a
couple of news and notes to pass along to you. Stephen, Big, big,
big honor that the Army Navy Game received last week.
I don't know if you saw this. The Army Navy
Game will be honored as the recipient of the twenty
or twenty twenty five National Football Foundations distinguish American Ward
in conjunction with the College Football Hall of Fame. It's
a pretty prestigious award recognizing an outstanding person or entity
who has maintained a lifetime of interest in the game
over a long period of time, has exhibited inevitable leadership qualities,
and made a significant contribution to the betterment of amateur
football in the United States. It is one of those
very big, prestigious awards, and it's really cool to see
the Army Navy game get recognized and put on yet
another pedestal. A pedestal I think you and I agree
without a doubt belongs by itself.
Speaker 4: Well, let me think about it here.
Speaker 3: You've got the length of time, let's see. I think
one hundred and thirty five years definitely counts. And then leadership, well,
I don't think you can find any better leaders than
you can at the United States Military Academy in the
United States Naval Academy. So yeah, I would say that
is completely fitting of this award, and it probably should
have been one of the first ones that it gave
out to.
Speaker 2: I concur but still cool and nonetheless also Army's game
on Saturday, October the fourth, that game at UAB, that's
gonna be a twelve noon kickoff Eastern Standard Time on ESPNU.
And then Air Forces regular season finale at Colorado State
on Black Friday. That one's gonna be at November twenty eight,
that will be a three pm Eastern Standard Time kickoff
on FS one.
Speaker 3: So so I'm curious when when Army gets to play UAB,
will Trent dilferd still be the head coach there?
Speaker 4: That's the question.
Speaker 2: That's a great that's a great question because if that if,
if it's I don't I don't know if this is true.
I just saw the headline that he was texting during
a drubbing that they received. I don't know. It was
one of their last couple of games, maybe Tennessee. I
think they've beaten them, you know, pretty badly. That he
was texting during the game. I don't know if that's
legit or true. I don't know how much longer the
Trent Dilfer experiment's gonna go on. I just can't think
it lasts another full season. That's I mean, that's a
basically safe way to go with it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think. I think you're right.
Speaker 3: I think that whatever happens here, I think that the
Blazers will have the will find themselves looking for a
new head coach for the twenty twenty six sies.
Speaker 4: And that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Whether whether or not he is relieved of his duties
here sometime in twenty twenty five is still yet to
be seen.
Speaker 2: All Right, let's make some picks. Because last week we
both had Army, we both had Boise, so we were
both one and one last week. But will we go
three and o this week? We will soon find out.
But our first game of the weekend, that's on a
Thursday night, coming up, quick Army at East Carolina. Army
one and two. East Carolina two and two seven thirty.
East Carolina is a four and a half point favorite, Steven,
you want to fire first in this one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that this is going to be tough
for Army. As I mentioned on the outside of this,
you know you're looking at the defensive secondary. I think
going down the field, I think East Carolina the Pirates
are going to want to try and throw the ball
down the field against the Black Knights. I think they're
going to find themselves with some success in doing so,
and so I think that unfortunately for Army, this is
the one game, and I think that they end up
not being as successful as they have been so far
this year. I have the Pirates beating Army by a
score of thirty four to twenty one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're pretty close in this one. I've got East
Carolina thirty one to seventeen. I think the short week,
it's just going to be a little tough for Army,
especially trying to come off and correct some mistakes and
with an injury, you know, the injury situation at quarterback
and Dwayne Coleman. Will it be Kate Hellams can hate
if it is Kate Hellams. Can he shake it off?
As Taylor Swift would like to say, get you know,
get that last game out of his head, which you
know played well up until that point in the limited
action he had seen. But we'll find out. I just
think on a Thursday night, you know, Thursday night games
are just kind of quirky. I think East Carolina with
Sports Center coming to town, I think they're going to
be just jazzed and jacked. I like East Carolina like
you do in this one, all right, the Naval Academy
hosting Rice Upstart Rice. The owls are three and one,
Navy is three and zero. A three point thirty kickoff
on CBS Sports Network, maybe fourteen and a half, just
over two touchdowns favored in this one. I don't think
Navy's gonna have any problems, but I think in this
game could be a little bit closer than people think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I tend to agree with you on this case.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I think there's gonna be a lot
of run in the football in this game, so obviously
that's gonna be an interesting aspect of this. I have
Navy coming out with a victory in this I think
they they send Rice back to Houston with a twenty
eight to ten defeat.
Speaker 2: All Right, I like it a lot closer than you do.
I've got Navy twenty four to nineteen in this one.
But will the Levy break, you know, will this finally
be the game where Rice, you know, doesn't put the
ball or does put the ball on the ground because
they've only lost two turnovers to this point. Is this
because you know, a lot of times when teams go
so far into a season where they don't turn it over,
they always have that one game where it's just you know,
it's bad. It's like four or five turnovers. So will
this be the case. I don't know, we'll find out,
but Navy's defense playing awfully good. I just think I
think Rice is gonna hang around for a while, and
I think this could be a slugfest toward the end.
I don't know, we'll find out. But our last game,
air Force, can the academies make it three in a row?
Air Force gonna be a tough one here, but we'll
find out. Against Hawaii. Maybe it's not tough because why
you making that long trip over to Colorado Springs. But
air Force still trying to get that first Mountain West
Conference when I don't want to say nothing's easy when
you're you know, when you go to play in conference.
Speaker 4: Stephen, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: And this one reminds me, and we mentioned in the
when we were talking about the Cooter Trophy that this
game is usually not close. You know, there's not a
lot of defense that is played in this game. This
is you know, stand in the middle of the ring
like Rocky Balbo and Apollo Creed and just swing at
each other. And I think that these two teams will
try and do that here this weekend. That being said,
I do think that air Force is going to have
a little bit of an advantage because Hawaii is so
struggled this year in trying to get the football down
the field, and when they when they struggle through the air,
they struggle everywhere. I hate to pardon the rhyme there,
but so I have the Falcons winning this game, and
I have them winning it handily. I have thirty five
to thirteen.
Speaker 2: Whoa big one, big one stay.
Speaker 4: They're normally not close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, you're right. I don't know why I'm
thinking some close games this week. I'm thinking air Force.
I like air Force also, especially with air Force or
Hawaii making the long trip. I just think that air
Force is gonna be too strong, too powerful at home.
I just think they're a better all around football team, offense, defense,
special team, especially playing at home, and I think air
Force is going to get that first conference win. I
think it'll be thirty eight to twenty eight air Force
over the Rainbows on What's gonna be should be a magical,
awesome day steven of college football with some not just
our games, but some big, big games with college football
playoff implications. Boy, I can't wait. Man, this feels like
the first real Saturday of college football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and for me, I don't have a college football
game here in town. USF is off this week before
they have a Friday night game next week when they
start their conference play against Charlotte. I'm going to get
a chance to watch a lot of American Conference football
here early and then of course some Mountain West in
the in the afternoon on Saturday.
Speaker 4: I'm very excited about all of that.
Speaker 2: Well, before we get out the door and shout out
to Stephen Carney, who is the MVP of the College
Grider and Coast to Coast podcast network, the best producer,
best co host anybody could ask for. Cannot thank Steven enough.
I got to give one more quick shout out to
one TJ. Reeves for his help in getting a special
birthday gift pulled together from my daughter from one Ryan Miller,
Tampa Bay buccaneer, who is her favorite NFL player former
Firman Paladin receiver number eighty one with the Bucks, a
surpriser with a little video message and assigned T shirt
from Ryan. So I got to give our good friend
uncle TJ a quick shout out on that because it
made my daughter's thirteenth birthday pretty darn special.
Speaker 3: Yeah well, Uncle TJ got his own present as well
this week as he got to fill in doing play
by play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers radio networking, got
himself a doozy of a game between the.
Speaker 4: Bucks and the Jets.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 3: So, and as I have been saying now for a
couple of weeks, when do we start the petition to
start building the statue to Baker Mayfield outside of Raymond
James Stadium.
Speaker 4: If he keeps doing that, he's gonna get one.
Speaker 2: Well I'm not the biggest Baker Mayfield fan, but doing
what he's done so far, what he's done is a
member of the Tampa Bay Bucks. I can't argue with it. Man,
He's been just spectacular. But he's gonna have to be
even more spectacular with Mike Evans out now for a
couple of weeks with a hamstring.
Speaker 3: So yeah, no Mike Evans and a banged up offensive line.
Oh yeah, and they got the Eagles coming this week.
Speaker 4: Uh oh yeah, I know it.
Speaker 2: So but go Bucks. That's all we'll say on the
NFL front, because I think you'll agree with me go Bucks,
especially beat them Eagles, because anybody but Philadelphia, all right,
I don't want to turn any Philly fans off, So
I better stop there, Steven. We'll do it again next week.
You're the best man. Appreciate all your hard work, all
your help, your passion and commitment, and certainly to the
College Regridering Coast to Coast podcast network everybody some great shows.
Check us out online wherever it is you get your podcasts,
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