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.
Speaker 2: It was a big weekend in Service Academy land and
we're gonna get all deep into the details here on
Yards and Stripes Episode four. I'm Pryce Atkinson. He is
Stephen Carney, and we are part of the College Grider
and Coast to Coast podcast network Here on Yards and Stripes, Army,
Navy and Air Force. That is what we do, is
all about the service academies. One of us was right
and one of us was wrong. Steven. Last week two
games to recap, we got our Travis mannon Foundation Honor
Roll segment. We got two games ahead this weekend. Boy,
We've had a lot of off weeks early with all
three of our teams, but I think this will bring
the off early off weeks to an end. But first,
before we dive into the football, we gotta dive into
a Tuesday night Poppy report with Steven. Give me, give
me the details, my friend.
Speaker 3: Well, it is Tuesday night. It is Tuesday, that's right,
it is pizza night. Here in the Carni household, and
so the Papa yns this week is, uh is a
little different. My wife, Emily, God bless her, she likes
banana peppers on her on her pizzas. I'm not a
banana pepper person per se.
Speaker 2: Okay, but.
Speaker 3: There she has obliged many many more times about not
getting banana peppers on her pizza than I do, saying okay,
you can get banana peppers on your this time.
Speaker 4: So this is one of those not this is the
one of.
Speaker 3: Those weeks where I I kind of just gave in
and said, you can have your banana peppers as long
as I can have my pepperoni to go with it.
Speaker 4: So it was.
Speaker 3: It is a large hand tossed with pepperoni and banana
peppers on it.
Speaker 4: This week we'll.
Speaker 3: See how my We'll see how my stomach candles it
both both the banana peppers and the lactose from the cheese.
Speaker 4: But uh well, we'll see how that works. But it was.
It was quite tasty for sure.
Speaker 2: Great call Emily on the banana peppers. I love some
banana peppers, So she gets major kudos from me. So
this podcast recording, we're not standing in the way of
said Poppy's pizza. Right.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, it is it is devoured. It is gone,
Thank goodness. Uh the leftovers are already in the fridge
cooling for lunch tomorrow. And uh and so we'll handle
that as as we get the college Gridiron Coast to
Coast podcast network going here for week four. Uh I,
as you mentioned, one of us went to and O
this week when it comes to college football in the
Service academies.
Speaker 4: The other one did not go to and OH. I
unfortunately am not the one that went to and Oh.
Speaker 3: I went one in one price did go to and O,
correctly predicting both the navyes win over Tulsa as well
as Air Force falling to Utah State on the road
in their first game of their Mountain West schedule. We'll
get to both of those games here coming up in
just a moment.
Speaker 2: Every squirrel finds a nut at some point in their life. State,
that's just what happens.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's Maverick Stadium, it's Logan Utah, it's a
beautiful venue. I can certainly understand why people would want
to go to Utah State.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would too. It looks gorgeous. And I'd love
to go visit. I'd love to go visit. And I
think you mentioned last week go for a basketball game.
I know we're a football podcast, but I've heard of
Utah State home game. There is really really fun we basketball.
Speaker 4: We went.
Speaker 3: We went to Utah State last year, I believe with
the University of South Florida because Ben Fletcher, much like
his his predecessor, is mentor a mir abdua Raheem late
great a mirror abdur Raheem used to say, we'll play anybody, anywhere, anytime,
and so they had set up a meeting in in
Logan against Utah State. Utah State, of course, one of
the better college basketball programs out west and was in
the top twenty five and was undefeated when we went
out there. And it's a it's a fun experience at
the Spectrum Mountain Logan that the fans, especially the student section,
there is something to It's a site to behold. And
all you have to do is go on to YouTube
and put in Utah State and the Scotsman and you
will find out just how cool of an experience it
is going out to Logan for a basketball game. But
I would love to go to Logan. I would love
to go to Colorado Springs. I would love to go
to Fort Collins and see football games at air Force
and Colorado's state, of course Boulder. Everybody wants to go
to Boulder, and then you work your way up the
Rockies and you go into Idaho, you know to go
see a Vandals game there, and of course Boise State
at the Blue Turf.
Speaker 2: Well, let's get into it, Stephen. We usually go chronologically
through the day, but we're hit on Utah State and
air Force. Let's start there, because the first time all
season in our picks last week we went a different direction.
Like you mentioned earlier, I had Utah State, you had
air Force, and it was Utah State coming out on
top forty nine to thirty and the Mountain West conference
opener for both these teams. Utah State now two and
one one and ohero in the league and air Force
dropping to one and one oh and won the Mountain West.
They were coming off that bye week, but a game
that air Force never led in Stephen, as Utah State
quarterback Bryce and Barnes was just beyond outstanding, seventeen to
twenty two, passing two eighty seven two touchdowns, ran a
team high fifteen times, only forty four yards, but scored
three touchdowns running the football all while playing turnover free
football as Air Force turned it over three times, two
picks in a fumble. But it's a difference, I mean
pretty much. For most of the football game it was
score for score. The big difference was a third quarter
where Utah State outscored Air Force twenty one to six.
This was a fourteen to ten halftime game, but then
the third quarter was all aggies. And that was a difference.
Is they went even steven two touchdowns apiece in the
fourth quarter. But that's all it took was a massive
third quarter come out of the locker room and Utah
State gets a big win the fight in Bronco Mendenhalls
forty nine to thirty steven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you mentioned it right off the bat, turnover
free football from Utah State whereas air Force was minus
three as you mentioned, the two interceptions and the fumble
lost in that game. And they also, as I mentioned
last week, if Air Force was going to be able
to come out with a victory in this, they had
to get more pressure on Bryson Barnes. Barnes was sacked
twelve times in his first two games of the season,
six times in each contest. They got to him three
times in this game total, with two guys having a
full sack, two other guys sharing a sack, so they
got to him three times. They needed three or four
more big pressure situations in which they could force Barnes
into making a mistake. They did not have enough opportunities
to see him make a mistake in order to capitalize.
And you mentioned, you know, the two interceptions. One of
them went down and was turned into seven points. The
other one, thankfully for air Force, was turned into a
three and out. So that that was good on the
foul Flkins defense for being able to force to stop
at least once when it came to a turnover. But
you're right, that third quarter was just absolutely incredible. When
you look at what the Aggies were able to do
in that third quarter, You're looking at two hundred and
twenty three yards of offense from Utah State in that quarter,
whereas air Force had just seventy seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and a couple of the picks. Josh Johnson was relieved,
you know by Liam Sarka, who went you know, pretty
much most of the rest of the way in the
football game, you know, six to fourteen from Sarca, the
sophomore out of Aurora, Colorado. I think he's a little
bit better of a pass or two. We haven't seen
a lot of them yet, but he did throw a pick.
But Sarka was responsible for three of the four touchdowns
on the ground for air Force as he ran twelve
times forty yards but three scores. Air Force rolled up
to sixty six and rushing in this game, which is
not bad, especially when you throw in you know, nearly
one hundred and eighty yards passing. But like you said,
the three turnovers when you when you give the ball
away and your minus three and you know you're on
the road especially, you know, just that's not going to
win you many academy football games, especially when it's a
road conference game. And that's that's exactly what you mentioned, Steven,
But you know it, I think the hard part for
air Force, you know that sort of hard the stomach
is you that was coming off a bye week. You know,
you had that early bye week, and that's kind of
the performance you get. Certainly you want to, you know,
have some better results as you move forward, because you
won't have any open date here for a little while
if you're air Force. But you know they're gonna have
to pick it up and pick it up quick with
Boise State coming to town this weekend.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I've gotten a chance to see Boise Stay
up close and personal the first week of the season
when they came here to Tampa to take on the
Florida Bulls. And so there they are a they are
not the team that they were last year. Obviously they've
got no Ashton gent which is going to be a
big sigh of relief for Troy Calhoun, I think, but
that that's a team that you cannot take lightly.
Speaker 2: No, not at all, not at all. But air Force
dropping the football game forty nine to thirty on the
road now one in one, zero to one in the
Mountain West Conference as Troy Calhoun's team, Let's pivot to
the Naval Academy because they were also on the road
for their first conference game, first road conference game of
the season. They were traveling to Tulsa steven and after
a disastrous, I mean utterly disastrous first three possessions, Navy
Rallies gets off the deck, comes back forty two to
twenty three over Tulsa on the road. They're now six
and zero in games played at Tulsa's Chapman Stadium all time.
Another three and oh start for Navy, two and oh
in the American But as I mentioned, I mean it
could not have been a worse start for the Mids
with three straight turnovers at interception fumble, interception to open
the game, falling in a fourteen to zero hole. But
then Blake Corvath and company they picked it up. Tulsa
ends up turning it over twice as Navy rolls up
three hundred and sixty nine yards and converting on third
and fourth down. That was a big key in this
football games. Navy rallies. I just an abysmal way to
get out of the gate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was certainly not smiling after the first quarter
of play, even though Navy went down and scored before
the end of the first quarter to make it fourteen
to seven. But you're right, you go pick fumble, pick,
and you're already minus three in the turnover battle at
that point, You're going, this is going to be a
very very brutal evening at Chapman Stadium. And thankfully, once
they got through and they and they scored that touchdown.
It seemed like something changed both on the defense in
on the offensive side, because they went they go after
the first touchdown and they get a three and out,
so they were able to get the offense back on
the field. And while that next possession was certainly nothing
to write home about, that that certainly made the defense
feel a lot more confident. They go and they get
a turnover in the second quarter on that on what
would end up being Tulsa's fifth possession, and they turn
it into seven points, and then after limiting to a
field the Golden Hurricane to a field goal, they get
another touchdown right before the end of the half to
take the lead. So it's amazing to see that after
being down fourteen to nothing, something turned in the second
quarter and they were able to end up taking the
lead before the half, and then the third, the third quarter,
and really going to the fourth quarter. I was looking
at it that second half. You know, Navy outstores Tulsa
twenty one to six in the second half and they
had three and out, turnover and downs, turnover on downs
for Tulsa's first three possessions of the second half, and
Navy turned them into twenty one points.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think one of the Maybe it may have
been Navy's most impressive drive of the season so far.
After Tulsa came back and got the lead, what seventeen
to fourteen on a field goal, Navy going seventy five
plays or seventy five yards ten plays in one thirty
four to find the end zone. You know, a key play, well,
without a doubt, not a key play, v cap. The
key play a nineteen yard scrambled by horror Bath on
third and eighteen to keep the drive alive, nineteen yards
to get the first down. Incredible as they take the
lead right before the half on the touchdown pass from
Blake Corbath to Luke Hutchison to give Navy that advantage
twenty one to seventeen. A big moment they're late in
the first half, Steven, an impressive pressive drive, especially going
ten plays seventy five yards in just a minute and
a half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just think right before that nineteen yard play
on third down, the run by Horvath on third and eighteen,
he had just been sacked before that, you know, with
less than you know, with about you know, thirty seconds
to go in the half.
Speaker 4: He takes a sack, which.
Speaker 3: You never want to do because you don't want to
have to burn the time out. They end up not
burning the timeout and they wait until after they hurry up,
they get back to the line and you get nineteen
yards from Horvath at that point and get the first
down and take the time out at that that I
think was was the most impressive part about that was
that they took what was a setback and turned it into.
Speaker 4: Into a sling shot forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and what's a common theme for Navy so far
in this young season at three and oh two and
oh in the league is their offensive stars are being
offensive stars. Now. Blake Corbath was not a star to
start the game, but he rallied in a big significant way.
I mean, overcame the two interceptions and the fumble. Early
he runs for a team high twenty one times one
fifty nine seven and a half yards of carry, gets
into the end zone once Alex Tesca their best you know,
be back fifteen carries seventy two yards two touchdowns. Eli
heiden Wright carried it for seventy two yards and a score.
Caught two passes for forty yards as well, So you
know the stars offensively for Navy have been just that
in every game so far. And that's what you need
because you know, typically when you're an academy team, you're
not loaded with all kinds of playmaking depth up and
down your lineup. Yeah, you got to play defense, but
you know, offensively maybe has been doing it every single
game this season. Saans quarter there in Tulsa, it was,
it was, it was.
Speaker 3: It was certainly difficult to watch that first quarter, as
you said, But like I said, three hundred and sixty
seven yards on the ground for the midshipman, they ran
able sixty three times. So you look at it, they had,
uh how many how many plays did they they end
up having? So you had ten passing plays and so
so seventy three plays on offense they ran about sixty
three times. And that's how you get ten minutes more
time of possession than your opponent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially when you average just right at six yards
of carry, and you could convert always with the academies
when they go for it so much on fourth down,
you combine at ten to sixteen on third and fourth
down combined. That's keeping a lot of drives alive right there, Steven.
That's how you win a time of possession where even
Navy only had that and I say only thirty five minutes.
But when you consider the three turnovers of giving it
away quickly, that's pretty significant because if you take those
turnovers away, Navy's probably got it for forty minutes plus.
Speaker 3: And they were, and they were two for two on
the fourth downs all the way up until the fourth quarter.
That that that fourth down that he did not convert
came late in the game already when they were up
big in in that game, I think they were. It
was already forty two to twenty three at that point.
By by the time that they were that they did
not convert on fourth down.
Speaker 2: All right, let's give out some game balls. Steven usually
fire first. I will go ahead and lead the way
today with our my game ball from the weekend. I'm
going with Mark Anthony Parker. The thin I want to say, undersize,
six foot, two hundred and twenty pounds, seems a little
small for an academy. For an academy though, yeah, you
think more safety. But Mark Anthony Parker, the sophomore out
of Frederick Free Dricksburg, Virginia, a career high eleven tackles
team high obviously in the game as well, seven of
us were solo. You only had I think one total
solo tackle coming into the game in the first two games,
but he had seven, including two tackles for a loss,
which one of them was credited with a half sack.
So Mark Anthony Parker leading the way defensively for Navy,
especially a second half that held the Golden Hurricane what
to believe it or to have it? What six points
in the entire second half right there, Steven, So Navy's
defense once again doing a great job there in the
second half of the football game. You far away with
your Steven what you got?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, absolutely?
Speaker 3: I mean for me my game, ball is going to
go to five very important guys in this game. Sean Crowley,
Ben Purvis, Torren Smith, Hoke Smith the second and Mac Taylor.
You may not know who they are. They are the
offensive line for the Midshipman. That that helped the team.
That led the way for all of the backs, whether
it's Horvath or Tesca or hedenreich Er whoever else, was
carrying the football for the Midshipman to three hundred and
sixty seven yards on the crown, so they they the
big uglies, get the big game ball from this big.
Speaker 2: Ugly Yeah, not a big ugly man. Your site for
sore eyes. Getting to chat with you.
Speaker 3: It was a site for sore eyes for Navy fans,
especially after what was a dreadful first quarter.
Speaker 2: Well, if you hold another piece of that Papa Yanza up,
that's gonna be another site for sore eyes. Because I'm hungry.
Speaker 4: It's already in the fridge.
Speaker 2: You're not getting any I'm rating Stevens fridge. As soon
as this podcast episode is over, folks, All right, let's
step away. When we come back, we got games to preview.
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
and Stripes Service Academy Football.
Speaker 2: He is Stephen Carney and I'm Pryce Atkinson, and we
are Yards and Stripes your home for Service Academy Football, Army,
Navy and Air Force. And one of those teams is
going to be off this week and that will be
Navy and the Naval Academy will be off, but that
means Army and Air Force. They are in action. Army
coming off a bye week this past weekend, steven as,
they will host the Mean Green from North Texas. Boy
and are they mean right now? As North Texas three
and oher. This will be their American Conference opener. Army
obviously one in one, splitting their first two. This will
also be their first conference game. This is a Saturday
twelve noon kickoff Stephen on the CBS Sports Network. And
something that was odd a day ago, Army was a
point and a half favorite. Now as we check it
this evening, North Texas is now a two and a
half point favorite. That was quite a swing over under
fifty and a half. Fifty and a half. But I
don't think I've seen a line move like that in
a twenty four hour period. You and I talked about it.
We were looking for anything that possibly could have moved
it that much, but we didn't find anything. But that's
quite quite a swing in just twenty four hours.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of is is head scratching, especially because
we haven't heard of any sort of injury on Army side.
We have not heard of somebody coming back from North Texas,
so to see a number move like that, And I've
had friends who have been odds makers in Vegas tell
me that, you know, going through the zero is not
as significant of a change than going across one of
the other key numbers, whether you're looking at three, a six,
or a seven, But it is still very strange to
see in the short amount of time that that line
has been up, to see it move four points through
the zero where Army went from being a favorite to
being almost a field goal underdog at this point. And
we'd assume that it's probably going to stay that way
all the way into the weekend.
Speaker 4: And really, I.
Speaker 3: Was looking at North Texas's schedule to see, you know,
they're three and zero. They're coming off of a bludgeoning
of a West Coast team in Washington State. I actually,
when I had heard it first, I was like, I
was like, North Texas beat Washington fifty nine to ten.
Speaker 4: I had to look it up.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, no, no, they be Washington State
fifty nine to ten. Yeah, there's a definite difference in
the caliber of team between the Huskies and the Coogs
out in uh Wallah Walla, you know, out.
Speaker 4: In Pullman, you know.
Speaker 3: And and looking at the rest of North Texas schedule,
they they haven't played. You know, this is not like
and and I hate to bring it up, this is
not South Florida's type of schedule. You know, they did
not play three ranked teams to to start the year.
Before their conference play started, they played Lamar, which if
anybody knows anything about Lamar, you should. The only person
I know that went to Lamar is Don Mattingley's son,
Preston Mattingly, who is the uh the general manager of
the Philadelphia Phillies. Now he played college basketball at Lamar.
And they win that game fifty one nothing. Then they
go to Western Michigan. That's a that's a that's quite
a hike, and you know, they come out of there
with a thirty three thirty victory before the game against
Washington State. So I think this is certainly a game
that if this game was in Denton, I would be
a lot more concerned for the Black Knights than I am.
Speaker 4: With this game being at Mikey.
Speaker 3: I think that the early start, obviously it's going to
be a twelve noon start on Saturday, that that holds
better for the Black Knights. I think the fact that
it's going to be in what it's not going to
be awful conditions at Mikey. You know, right now they're
saying it's going to be sunny in about sixty five degrees,
which I personally think is.
Speaker 4: Perfect football weather.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but sign.
Speaker 3: Exactly, and especially at Mikey. Oh, my goodness. But I
really do think that this game being at home, uh,
and especially since the Black Knights have had an extra
week to get ready for the start of conference conference play,
it means a lot. And the fact that cal Helms
is going to make his second start.
Speaker 4: I know that, Uh. Jeff Mounkin mentioned that.
Speaker 3: Earlier this week, uh, that that Hellms was going to
get the start in this game. Again, I think that
this is this is big for the the junior signal caller, uh,
to start conference play.
Speaker 4: He's he's he's.
Speaker 3: A very very big clone of bryceon Daily. I think that,
you know, you look at him, He's not quite as
big as Daily, uh, but I think he runs in
the same sort of fashion and that's exactly what what
coach Monkin needs for for his team to get going.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You mentioned a few minutes ago. You know, obviously
the difference you know, in this game not being in
Denton last year it was a slug fest. It wasn't
this high scoring, high flying affair which North Pet's the
numbers they put up so far this year. Army won
a fourteen to three slug fests down there last year,
which was the Black Knight's lowest output of the season.
So that was daily. Yeah, that's right. So getting to
come home. Look, we got to remember this is the
defending American Conference champions and so Army in their first
home conference game. I think they're gonna buck up. I
think they're gonna I think they're gonna stand tall. We'll
make our picks here in a little bit. But you know,
North Texas, they had to make the tough trip to Michigan.
This is even further going to Upstate New York. The
other thing I like about Army chances, you know, going
up against a red shirt freshman quarterback that has not
seen the kind of defenses that he's gonna see with Army.
They've liked to move a lot of guys around, you know,
I know he put up great numbers last week, Drew
Mesta Maker, the red shirt freshman two und e even
a career high four touchdowns was twenty four or twenty nine.
This is gonna be a little bit different going up
an Army against a playmaking Army defense on the road.
The Core Cadets is going to be roaring. You know,
they've had one home game. It was clearly, you know,
the last team from Texas that came in, you know,
clipped him up. Now, let's hope it's not two in
a row. Let's hope Army can stand tall. I think
they will, just because I think this is going to
be a significant step up in competition for the Mean Green.
Both teams playing their first conference game.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and Messa Maker. You mentioned the four touchdowns. He
only threw for two hundred and eleven yards in that game.
So he's not one of these quarterbacks that's going to
try and test a secondary by throwing the ball down
the field. He didn't have to last week against Washington State,
and I think that that bodes well for Army's defense.
I think that unless they can get him the amount
of time that he needs to throw the ball way
down the field, you're gonna have a lot of these
dinks and dunks, a lot of checkdowns, and I think
that bodes well for the Black Mens defense and especially
their secondary. They can play in they can play tight
and keep guys close to the line of scrimmage rather
than close to the line the game.
Speaker 2: A couple of nuggets about the Mean Green offense. Something
that's much different than last year when they had converted
just seventy five percent of their red zone chances. That's
a lot different this year, Stephen. They're twenty of twenty
one so far this year in the red zone, scoring
a touchdown on sixteen of those trips, which is second
most in the FBS. Also, their offense right now, very
very balanced, twelve different players scoring a touchdown, trailing only
Southern col and Tide was second for second with Utah
the Utes tied for second in the nation. North Texas
at seven different players score touchdown against Washington State, the
most in programmed history so right now, spreading it around, Yeah,
there have been some blowouts, getting a lot of guys,
some reps, but you know, pretty balanced so far offensively
and making it count when they when they get in
that red zone once again. North Texas at Army Saturday,
twelve noon Eastern Standard time. The CBS Sports Network is
North Texas is a two and a half point favorite
in the American American Conference opener for both teams. All right,
let's move out west, Stephen, because the Boise State they
are hitting the road and they are coming to the
Springs to take on the Air Force Falcons. Boise State,
they're coming off a off weekend as they are one
in one overall. This will be their first conference game.
Air Force looking to erase that poor taste in their
mouth after losing on the road at Utah State last weekend.
They were one to one, zero to one in the league.
This is going to be a seven o'clock Eastern Standard
time kickoff on the CBS Sports Network. Air Force a
ten and a half point home underdog. The over under
in this one is set at fifty one and a
half and steven. You've said it earlier. You've seen Boise
State up close and personal, right when they were there
in Tampa. I know that, you know, USF clipped him
up and it pulled off one of the biggest shockers.
I think that most people agree on that opening weekend
of the season. Uh, but still this is this is
still a very talented Boise State team that was picked
to win the Mountain West for a reason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it all starts with Maddox Madison. You know,
when when he struggles as he did here in Tampa,
the Broncos struggle when he has a good game. They
went to Eastern Washington the next week, and you know,
don't get it twisted. Eastern Washington is an FCS school,
so it is not the same caliber of competition as
South Florida was by any stretch of the imagination. But
he had a fantastic game against Eastern Washington and the
Broncos were able to roll. The one thing that we
saw from Boise State here in Tampa were mistakes. The
penalties certainly added up, and obviously they had a lot
of opportunities to go for it, they were unable to.
The Bulls defense held them and gave their offense short
fields Eastern Washington that didn't happen.
Speaker 4: I think that.
Speaker 3: Boise State is going to look to continue to be
aggressive against the Falcons this week, and I think that
for Troy Calhoun and company, they have to understand and
their defense is certainly going to have to understand that
the Boise State is going to play for down football
more often than not, and so I think that they
have to be ready to play for down football.
Speaker 4: If they're not, the Broncos are going to roll all over.
Speaker 2: Boise leads the overall seas eight to four, with every
meeting as Mount West Conference opponents. They have also won
seven of the last eight meetings between or against Air Force.
The falconso two and three at home against Boise. The
last meeting came two years ago when Boise defeated Air
Force twenty seven to nineteen on the Smurf Turf, which
clintched a tie for first place in the Mountain West.
And you know just mentioned it before they if I
remember right, going back to the beginning of the season,
Boise was a bigger conference, a bigger favorite to win
their league than I think any of the other p five.
You know, the power in even the group of fives,
you know in the FBS, they were that. It was
that lopsided in terms of them being the betting favorite
to win the Mountainless. And yes, there's still a damn
good team, a team that went to you know, the
two time defending Mountain West champion, went to the College
Football Playoff in twenty twenty four at twelve and two overall.
So you know, while that loss to South Florida in
the first weekend hurt, this is a team that could
reel them off and may not taste a defeat to
the rest of the way, Stephen, they are likely to
be favored in every other game they play the rest
of the season.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, you look at this is a team
last year that played Oregon as close to as anybody
did all year in college football. And so I really
do think that when you're looking at this Broncos team,
even without Ashton Genty, they are still going to be
a very, very formidable opponent for any Mountain West team,
and I would think would be the favorite in just
about every contest they play the rest of the way.
They are that good, they are that talented up and
down their roster.
Speaker 2: Boise stayed at air Force Saturday night, seven o'clock Eastern
Standard Time on the CBS Sports Network again, air Force
at ten and a half point home dog to the Broncos.
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
and Stripes Service Academy Football.
Speaker 2: All right, we're putting a bowl on this episode of
Yards and Stripes. He is Stephen Carney and nine Price ackets,
and then we are going to make some picks here
because we've got two games. Once again, Navy is off,
but we told you about the two other games that
we have this weekend, both obviously big conference games Boise
State at air Force North Texas and Army open an
American Conference play between the both of them this weekend.
Up at less point. Before we make those picks, Stephen
just one nugget to pass along. The Air Force Hawaii
game the Colorado Springs set for next weekend. That one's
going to be a four to ten Eastern Standard time
kickoff on Saturday, September twenty seventh. That game can be
seen on Fox Sports One.
Speaker 3: So that is going to be a very early game
for Hawaii. Hawaii is not going to be used to
be playing to playing that early.
Speaker 2: No. And you know what's funny is it went to Hawaii.
Not to get totally off subject, but went to Hawaii
last spring for about ten days with family. Won't get
into all the specifics, but rode by the old Aloha
Stadium and I always wanted to go to that old
Aloha Stadium. But we went for a hike which was
right past the University of Hawaii campus, not but ten minutes,
so it was a waterfall hike one day. That campus
looks really really cool. And not only does the campus
look cool, I would love to go to a football
game there because it looks like it's it has a
little bit of a feel of a Navy game a
little bit back when Navy Marine Corps was smaller and
they weren't getting the kind of crowds that they do now.
Not that they're overwhelming there, but there's just something about
the way that that small stadium, the way they've got
it just situated right me because there's not a lot
of space there on the island, so you don't have
a lot of real estate to work with. But the
way they've got that stadium just sandwich right there next
to the stand Sheriff Arena where they play basketball. I
would love to go to a college football game there
at at Hawaii's home stadium. It just looks like a
ton of fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The the little stadium that they are using now, is
it Clarence TC ching That is what there is the
name of the the small stadium now that they had
they had to move obviously out of Aloha Stadium because
the stadium was basically just rusting away.
Speaker 4: Well, if you want to go.
Speaker 3: To that little stadium, you're better go quick because guess
what's coming a new Aloha Stadium.
Speaker 4: It's going to not be nearly as big. I think.
Speaker 3: I think I saw that it's only going to seat
about thirty five thousand people, whereas like Aloha Stadium was
like a sixty thousand person stadium.
Speaker 2: They don't eating bigger they Iloha Stadium. Even when you
would watch like Hawaii games, when you would watch the
Hawaii Bowl back in the day, it was usually over
half timpty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but this new Aloha Stadium, from what I
have seen, they can change the seating configuration of the
of the stands so they can play baseball there too.
I saw I saw some of the the behind the
scenes of it, like some of the things that they're
looking to do and some of the renderings, and I
was like, that is cool as hell, and like for me,
like Hawaii really doesn't, uh, you know, hold a whole lot.
Like I'm not like, oh, I have to go to
a Hawaii. I'm not I have to go to Hawaii,
you know, other than going to to Pearl Harbor to
see the USS Arizona Memorial, which is obviously you're going
to Hawaii, you should do that. Yeah, And so that
that is that obviously is a must. But I'll tell
you what if I could, if I could see baseball,
and I would love to see major League Baseball do
something with, Hey, we're gonna go play you know, a
spring series or something like that at the new Aloha
Stadium in the baseball configuration. Could you imagine like the
Dodgers and Padres playing three you play three spring games
in Hawaii. That would like you don't have to play,
you don't have to play regular season games. This isn't
like going to South Korea or to or to Tokyo
or you know, or to Australia where they where they
do the you know, the opening series. Uh it would
this would be like uh last year the Rays of
the Red Sox went to the Dominican and played two
spring games there. I would love to see like the
Dodgers and Padres go and play two spring games at
Aloha Stateium in Hawaii. I think that would be awesome.
Speaker 2: Think you more than two, as long as it takes
to get there, boy, you gotta get you gotta get
your money's worth.
Speaker 4: Well you get two or three. I'm you know, you
play two or three.
Speaker 2: I totally get now. After that was our first time going,
I'd never been. I totally get now why they give
teams that travel to Hawaiian an extra game in the season,
because you it's that taxing. I mean it's a hard trip.
I mean by the time you get to LA and
then you fly from LA, it's solid four hours I
think from Los Angeles or wherever on the you know,
on the West coast. But we get we'll get back
on the rails. As we bring this thing back to
Service Academy football and out of the out of the sunshine,
the fun and the sun there of diamond Head. All right,
let's talk. Let's talk Army, Let's talk air Force, because
those are two teams in action. We just previewed the
games North Texas at Army the American Conference Open or steven.
This is again a twelve new kickoff on the CBS
Sports Network where the Mean Green are a two and
a half point favorite. I guess I'll fire first in
this one. I'll let you fire first in the next one.
I like Army in this one. I like Army to
the tune of forty to thirty four. I think it's
gonna be very high scoring, like the Mean Green have
been for the first three games. But I think this
is where the run ends for North Texas, and I
think Army gets their first own win of the season
again forty to thirty four. What say you?
Speaker 4: Yeah? A memo to North Texas.
Speaker 3: This is not Lamar, This is not Western Michigan, this
is not Washington State. This is the defending American Conference champions,
even without Bryce and Daily, these are the defending conference
champions that you are playing at their place. I don't
think it's going to be nearly as high scoring as
you have it, but I certainly have the margin of
victory to be something very similar. I have Army twenty
one North Texas six. I don't even think they get
into the.
Speaker 2: Out zonne Wow. Much lower scoring my forty to thirty four.
Maybe wildcard role. All right, I'll let you fire first.
And this last one. As Boise State is heading to
the Springs, this will be their first Mountain West Conference
game as air Force one and one, they're looking for
their first conference win after dropping that game at Utah
State last week. And seven o'clock Eastern Standard time on
the CBS Sports Network where air Force is a ten
and a half point home dog. Can the Falcons pull
it off? It's been Boise seven out of the last eight.
Destroy Calhoun's team have it in them?
Speaker 4: Can they do it? Absolutely?
Speaker 3: It's going to take a couple of early turnovers, I think,
and you've got to turn those turnovers into touchdowns. You
cannot you cannot get stopped on defense early. And you've
got to get some You've got to get some takeaways
when you're on the field, when your defense is on
the field. That being said, I think that Boise is
going to run away late with this one. I think
that the second half is where the Broncos are going
to shine. And I have the Broncos winning this game
thirty eight to ten.
Speaker 2: Wow, we were pretty darn close with our predictions. I've
got Boise State thirty eight to twenty. I think that
if Air Force had trouble getting pressure on Utah State
last week, and I think they're going to have an
even tough for time getting to Maddix Madson in this one.
And I think that's that's going to be the name
of the game. They're going to have to get him
off kilter and try and force them to go to
the run, which is we know ash and Genty is
now in the National Football League. He is not toting
the rock for the Broncos anymore. So I think they
need to try and make them more one dimensional and
you have to run the football. If they can get
some pressure on Madson, it's not going to stop them.
I don't think you can ultimately stop their passing game.
But South Florida sure did something right. But I still
think that there's just too much in the tank for
the Broncos that they won't They won't have much problem.
It could be close at the half, but I think
a big third quarter will be air Force is undoing,
so you've got to boise thirty eight to ten. I've
got boise thirty eight to twenty. So that'll do it
for our picks this week, Stephen, What else do we
need to hit on the way out the door? Another
big weekend of college football. Certainly a lot going on
around the country other games to watch is I had
to chuckle this morning. I was listening to College Morning
Show on Sirius XM. I love those guys, Dusty and Danny.
I don't know if you listened to them, but they
even had somebody a guess, come on. I think it
was Matt Berry from ESPN that just roasted them because
they had a conversation this morning about who is the
Heisman favorite. In the minutes they open their mouth about
who to start a Heisman discussion. I was like, guys,
I looked at my watch to check the date. It's
the third week of September and they're talking Heisman. I say,
come on, guys, get a new producer. And that is
why we have the best one in the business in
young Steven Carney.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, there's a couple of games that everybody's
gonna have their eyes on. Utah and Texas Tech is
a is a huge one. Obviously. That is one that
I know that our pigskin and burnt and certainly keeping
an eye on. They've got a whole thing on that,
as does get off my pylon. The Civil War is
this week. Yes, as people forget even though even though
the Beavers are oh and three uh so far this year,
you know, and this game is at Austin Stadium in Utene.
Speaker 4: You know this game.
Speaker 3: I love the fact that you know, I don't care
what the records say. This is always a fun game
to watch, and you know that this game is going.
Speaker 4: To be played hard.
Speaker 3: So obviously those are the two the two biggest games
Oklahoma obviously, and in Auburn Battle of three and oh
is that that it's also this week? And uh, Michigan
and Nebraska I think is a game that I is
is underrated because the corn Huskers, even though they're three
and oh and really uh their schedule was light to
start the year. I'm really excited h for Dylan Rayolo.
That's that's gonna be that's gonna be a huge test
for him.
Speaker 2: I think from a service academy standpoint, and Armies not
on their schedule this year like they were last year,
but I think watching Navy you will keep an eye
on Notre Dame this weekend as Navy is off. Can
Notre Dame avoid an oh and three start, Stephen, because
produced at the top you you would think oh and two,
you know, and they're still hanging on at number twenty four.
And I'll tell you this real quick before we get
out of here. I think one of the sneakier good
games of the weekend might be one of the latest
of them all. And nobody's not that I'm paying a
lot of attention to it, but it's enough to catch
my eye. Is that Michigan State's three and oh for
the first time. And I don't know how long they're
hitting the road to Los Angeles to play Southern col
That's a battle of two undefeated three and oh teams,
which it's still weird to call it a big ten game,
but that's exactly what it is. Is they'll be undefeated
squaring off at eleven pm Eastern Standard time.
Speaker 3: Stephen, how about the how about the fact that both
Jayden may Ava and Aiden Childs have.
Speaker 4: Six touchdowns so far.
Speaker 3: I mean they are and and Maab has almost got
a thousand yards through the air through three games, which
is which is quite quite impressive.
Speaker 4: That game.
Speaker 3: A lot of people think that that the Trojans are
gonna stomp the Spartans. I don't think that that's going
to be the case. I think that you're right, that's
gonna be a very very interesting game. But an eleven
o'clock start out on the West Coast eight pm Pacific. Uh,
you know what it's on Fox? You got you got
a late night college football on Fox on Saturday.
Speaker 4: Lead you right, it leads right in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Sunday, no getting you just connect the dots early sometime,
very early Sunday morning to eat your waities for that one.
All right, let's get out of here. Steven great job,
as always, the best producer, best co host, best everything
in the world. He is Stephen Carney, Iron Price Atkinson.
We'll be back for the Arts and Stripes here next week.
A lot more to get into as our season rolls along,
as we get into the end of September and will
Power rank our three Academy teams here going into that
last weekend in September. We'll do that next week here
on Yards and Stripes. We'll see them.
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