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Speaker 1: Need to get your football fix on all things Army,

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Navy and Air Force. This is Yards and Stripes Service

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Academy Football. Now Here are your hosts, Pryce Atkinson and

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Steve Carney.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back into Yards and Stripes. You're a weekly home

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for service Academy football, Army, Navy, and Air Force. That's

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what we do. And he is also Stephen Karney and

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I am Price Atkinson. We are back with you as

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we were part of the College Granar and Coast to

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Episode eight of Yards and Stripes. As we barrel on

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to about the halfway point in the season, Steven fantastic

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weekend of games last weekend, two really really close ones,

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a couple of thrillers, and then one obviously non thriller.

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We'll get to those. We got our Travis Medium Foundation

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Honorall segment. We got picks to make in our two

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games this week, but we are recording back in primetime tonight.

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Is that it's a Wednesday night. Last week, I know

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we cramped there by style by trying to get it

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in on Friday morning, but we are a little bit

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earlier in the week this week, so that's a win.

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But as we are in primetime, you know, we got

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to get a Papa's Pizza report from young Stephen Carney

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to see what toppings he's got and how he's gonna

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make us all hungry, regardless of the time of the

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day where you were listening. Right now, Steven, you're up

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what we got on it tonight?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely now. Luckily for me, I was able to have

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my papayns on on Tuesday at Benjmark International Arena as

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I was working the Tampa Bay Lightning road game against

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the Washington Capitals. He didn't turn out so great. The

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pizza was fantastic, and then you know, you know, the

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only thing better than than pizza is free pizza. That's

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what That's what I got on Tuesday. I was very

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very happy. But about that and the guys that I

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was that I was getting the pizza with, they are

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like me of the mindset that if I wanted vegetables,

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I would order a sal Welly full meats.

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Speaker 2: That's what I was about to say is usually when

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you get free pie, usually it's in the form of

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one of two cheese or pep Rarely is it, you know,

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especially when it's mass pie. You know, you've got eight

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to ten, that's feeding a big group of people. Clearly,

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you guys did not have that situation. Clearly you were

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able to go customize with the meat lovers, which is

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always a way to any young man's heart.

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Speaker 3: Thankfully, it was not a group of eight to ten,

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because then we'd all get like, you know, one or

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two slices a piece. There was only four of us,

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so that worked out certainly better. And the fact that

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the four of us are all of that same mindset

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that just throw as many meats on there as a

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can made it a very very welcome sort of night

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for us at Benchmark International Arena.

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Speaker 2: Well, that sounds delicious, Steven, and I did for get

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that it is usually on Tuesday night we get a

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poppy On's Pizza report because most of the time we

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are recording on Tuesday. But it is a Wednesday. But

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as I mentioned, it is also a little bit later

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or earlier in the week than it was when we

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recorded last week. All right, Stephen, without further ado, let's

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hop into the three games, because let's get to Army

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and Charlotte first, because that was our non excitement of

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the week, and that's but It was sure excitement if

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you were at Mikey Stadium because that was Army's first

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win at Mikey this season and it was their second

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straight coming close to darn near shutout effort against the

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forty nine ers as Army gets a twenty four to

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seven win. Army now even steven at three and three overall,

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two and two in the American Charlotte one and five,

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zero and three in the American. You know, it was

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the defense, Army defense all day long. Kate Hellms had

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another great day. We'll touch on that in a second,

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but Army's defense holding the forty nine ers is just

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sixty eight yards rushing one hundred and seventy eight total

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yards of offense. As they did not give up a

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point until the final seconds. It was a less than

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twenty seconds from a shutout as Army defense just puts

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up another great effort. Granted, you got to keep in

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mind the opponent Charlotte, not the offensive juggernaut, but nonetheless

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Army back in that win column getting to even after

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a rough start, really really good to see Jeff Munkin's

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team after they had the ball for over thirty seven

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minutes in the football game, the Army offensive line and

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offense doing the job and getting out early and not

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relinquishing that big league.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you mentioned the time of possession that Army

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had thirty seven minutes and fifty four seconds time of possession.

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forty nine ers defense. We said last week that we

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knew that Charlotte had problems stopping the run. I believe

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I made it so simple as to say, Charlotte, no

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stop e the running, and they certainly did not do

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it again. I saw it two weeks ago against USF

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where they gave up four hundred and seven yards of

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rushing to the Bulls. They gave up three hundred and

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four yards to the Black Knight. So that's seven hundred

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and eleven yards in rushing in the last two games.

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And those are probably going to be some of the

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bigger numbers that you will see when it comes to

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At least if you're a Charlotte fan, you now don't

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have to worry about having to face those beasts anymore night.

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You just have to wait for Navy. But that which

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is another thing completely. But you know, I look at

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Charlotte as being the type of game that can really

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turn around the season. Because remember it wasn't that long ago,

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you know, we were wondering would Army be able to

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do enough to be Bowl eligible here this year, And

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now they've gotten their self back going in the right direction.

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There are three and three. You need three more wins

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the rest of the way just to get to Bowl

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eligibility and then you're in. And then you're in good

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shape if you're Jeff mounkining crew, and you're going to

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find yourself with an opportunity to play after the end

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of the American Conference season and after the Army Navy game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if Kate Hellms keeps playing like this, he's clearly

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locked down the starting quarterback job. Dwayne Coleman, you know,

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getting more of the you know, kind of fill in,

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mop up substitute duty here and there, change of pace.

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But Kate Hellums just another great day. Twenty one carries

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one hundred and forty three yards, two touchdowns, averaged almost

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seven yards of carry, and completed to a four for

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fifty yards. So a great day for the Army offense,

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you know, rolling up over three hundred yards of rushing

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three h four to be exact, and route to only

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one penalty, the least penalized team in FBS football. They

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only had one penalty that have They've only had nineteen

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all season, and they had the ball for almost thirty

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eight minutes. An outstanding effort, as you mentioned, you know,

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turning the season around in a way. You know, got

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a couple of tough games here because we'll talk about

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tu Lane this weekend. Then you obviously got the Service

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Academy at matchup against Air Force, you know. But but

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right now, Bowl eligibility is the name of the game,

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and especially having you know, some confidence right now going

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into Tulane, that's gonna be a big thing for Jeff

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Mounkin's team, especially getting healthy. But you know, right now,

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you look at the rest of the schedule, Bowl eligibility

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should certainly be well within those cross heres for the

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Black Knights.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, And and you mentioned with with Tulane coming

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up here, you know, that's a that's a very that's

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a very tough ask. You know, Tulane obviously one of

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the best teams in the conference this year that there's

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only uh I believe three teams left in the American

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that are undefeated, uh now or no, I'm sorry, there

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are four now, uh with Memphis, with us F with

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Tulane and uh uh you know I look at I

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look at those, you know, those teams and go all right,

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now now it comes the time, you know, this is

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this is one that that our Army can really you know,

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look to try and put a statement on things if

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they can, if they can make and and I know

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we'll talk about this, uh this game coming up here

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in uh in a little bit, but this is a

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game that I think can really make this make a

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statement in the uh in you know, in in the

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conference here. So uh they if they're able to to

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you know, make some make some waves here. Not not

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to put the pun on the Green Wave, but but

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this this is a this is a big week for

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Army and hopefully, uh what they did with with Charlotte

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last week is something that they can you know Bilbon

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going forward. Yes, absolutely, Army twenty four to seven, now

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three and three in the American As they get the

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win over Charlotte, let's move out west, let's go to

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Las Vegas where it was U N l V and

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Air Force.

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Speaker 2: And I don't think any of us had this on

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our bingo card nine nine combined points in this one

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steven exactly twelve hundred yards of total offense between the

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two teams combined. But wow, what a fourth quarter and

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what a finish in the last few minutes. Is the

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teams combined for forty two total points in the last

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quarter alone, and the game featured six lead changes as

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air Force scored the go ahead touchdown with one thirteen left,

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Liam Sarkas scoring from nine yards out on a touchdown

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run to put air Force up forty eight to forty four,

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but the Falcons leaving just way too much time on

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the clock as UNLB quarterback Anthony Klandra, who threw for

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three sixty one, also ran seven times for sixty two yards.

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He ran nineteen yards to the end zone with thirty

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six seconds remaining for the go ahead score that would

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stand up Army missing a game tying field goal or

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excuse me, air Force missing the game tying field goal

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at the end. But a game that just was back

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and forth a fourth quarter. As I mentioned, forty two

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combined points in the last quarter alone. Who you know,

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when we talked to we thought it'd be high scoring.

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We didn't think it'd be nine to nine points, but boy,

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This was Mountain West football at its finest.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was fun to watch for sure. And

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and the fact of the matter is is that Troy

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Calhoun and Liam Sarka were able to get that team

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into field goal position. And you know, a forty yard

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field goal is something that most college kickers can can make.

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And you know, you miss it, you miss that field goal,

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and you know, you make that field goal, and all

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of a sudden, we're talking about overtime and all bets

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are off. You know, un l V may not be

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uh in the ranks of the unbeaten if if they

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make that field goal, because who knows what happens in overtime?

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Do we do we play two overtimes? Do we play

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eight overtimes with you know, five or six different two

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point conversions?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 3: You know, I I really think you know, this was

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this was a game that even though you lose this game,

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and I and knowing Troy Calhoun, he'll say, you know,

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there's no such thing as a moral victory for Air Force,

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but this is a game that if you're Liam Sarka,

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and if you're the air Force offense, you certainly feel

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good about, you know, being able to put up those

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sorts of numbers, because if you put up those sorts

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of numbers against a team like UNLV, you should be

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able to put those numbers up against anybody. Now the defense,

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on the other hand, you've got to be able to

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play better. You know. I always think of you know,

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there was Bill Russell, the great Celtics Center, put out

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a book in the eighties and it was it was

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a business book of sorts, you know, because he was

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talking about leadership and you know, being able to run things.

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And he used to say that Red Auerbach would tell guys,

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you know, it's you know, you can put up you know,

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you know, you can give up one hundred and thirty points,

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but you got to score one hundred and thirty one

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points Towler to win. And so that that's what I

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out of Air Force. The Air Force often should feelreat themselves.

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The Air Force defense unfortunately should not, because they did

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not do enough to get that victory and they needed

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that victory bad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they really did. And you know, you talk about

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good quarterback play, Kate Helems. We've talked about Blake Corbath

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all year. Liam Sarkas, Samana himself. I mean the sophomore

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or six foot sophomore out of Aurora, Colorado. I mean,

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he's certainly the quarterback moving forward, you know for air Force.

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I think if you're probably air Force right now, you're like, well,

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for a junior and senior year. I don't know his

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you know, situation, but now in the day and age

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of college football, you get a guy playing the way

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he's playing, you you kind of have to hold your

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breath sometimes. Uh. But Sarka was really really good on Saturday,

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as you mentioned, you know, the Falcons four hundred and

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twenty eight yards on the ground, a season high obviously,

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and they actually outgained UNLB six oh three to five

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ninety seven. But Sarca he threw for one seventy five

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and a touchdown. He had also added one hundred and

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thirty six yards rushing on twenty seven carries with two touchdowns.

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of the guy early and then Liam Sarkas taking that

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spot and it's ripped it away. But you know they're

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moving the ball is not the problem. It's stopping people,

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as you just alluded to, because they've given up over

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forty points in every single game except the season opening

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win over Bucknell and the win or in the loss

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to Navy where they gave up thirty four. So right now,

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it's an issue of being able to get off the

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field on third down and get stops. And that's just

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simply what they did not do yet again on Saturday. Yeah,

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and look at look at what happened at the start

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of the first half. You know, they fumbled, you know,

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Kate Harris fumbles and they lose that funnel in the

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first play of the second half, you know, deep in

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their own territory. UNLV immediately turns that into a touchdown.

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next play it's an eighty six yard touchdown pass from

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Calandria to Dejon Reynolds, I really think and at that

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and at that point you go from being up twenty

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one third team to being down twenty six twenty one.

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Speaker 3: That's that right there. Well, we'll tell you all you

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need to know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, then you're playing uphill from there. But nay, or

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excuse me, air Force, they fall forty eight to fifty

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one at UNLV UNLV now six and oh two and

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oh in the Mountain West under Dan mullin, first year

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at the Helm Air Force dropping to one and five,

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zero to four in the Mountain West, needing, just trying

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field this coming weekend. We'll talk about that in a

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little bit. But our last game of the weekend last weekend,

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another thriller in the City of Brotherly Love. Not waiting

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for the Army Navy game. This one Navy and Temple

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doing battle and Navy having to battle back. They found

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themselves down seventeen to seven midway through the third quarter,

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but they outscored Temple eighteen to seven the rest of

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the way as Blake Horbath came to the rescue. With

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time winding down less than a minute ago. Horbat takes

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the keeper right up the middle, Jets fifty one yards

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straight ahead, go ahead, touched now late in the fourth

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and you know they don't decide Navy, you know, instead

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of kicking the point after for the tie and you know,

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hopping to play this in overtime, they opted to go

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for it. Horbeth finds of Alex Tesca, uh just before

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going out the side of the end zone completes it.

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Hor Tesca hauls it in and it's a catch. It's

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a two point conversion, and Navy thirty two to thirty

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one to stay unbeaten, six and oh overall, four to

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zero in the American Temple now three and three, one

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in one in the American His Navy is now Bowl

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eligible and six and oh for the first time since

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twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what a great finish, uh.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: And I was watching this game, uh, you know, off

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on this on the side while I was waiting for

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my game to get going between USF and North Texas,

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and I was sitting there and I'm like, Okay, here

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we go. It's fourth down in one. You know, there's

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you know, coming up on thirty seconds left in this game.

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obviously you have to get the first down, uh in

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order to uh to do anything. And all of a sudden,

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it was like Moses parting the Red.

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Speaker 4: Sea with with red uniforms just doing like this, and

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you know, you know, you know, to the side, and

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you know, Blake corvav had a had a hole right

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down the middle of the field.

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Speaker 3: You could have driven a truck through.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And you know it was like okay, and like it's

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not like anybody had a chance to try and trip

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them up.

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Speaker 4: UH.

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Speaker 3: You know, there was no temple defenders around there. You know.

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I I keep laughing about what I what I saw

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with that because it reminded me. And I wonder if

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you remember this uh display in the NFL price back

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in the nineties, there was a Kansas City Chiefs quarterback

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named Steve Bono that had that had a touchdown run

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against I think it was the Arizona Cardinals, and it

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was like on a fake bootleg and everybody went to

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the left and he rolled out to the right, and

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there wasn't a single person in the entire television shot

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as he ran seventy I think it was like seventy

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one yards for a touchdown and everybody went the other way.

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what Blake Corvath looked like. For about the last twenty

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five or thirty yards down the field. There wasn't a

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single temple defender in sight, and all of a sudden,

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he's finding himself in the end zone with a chance

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for the win.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a great trap block right up the

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middle and you know keeper find his daylight. It's just

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hard to believe that after Temple played that well pretty

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much most of the game, because you know, they outgained

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Navy five eighteen to three eighty four. They had twenty

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seven first downs to fifteen. It did turn it over

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one time, they had the ball for ten more minutes.

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You're kind of scratching your head out in the world

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had Navy pull us out? Well, it was because of

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Blake Corbath at the very end and just making plays

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simply is what he did a lot like Bryson Daily

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did last year when the Army Black Knights needed it

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most in crunch time, Blake or you know, Bryson Daily delivered.

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And that's what Blake Corbath is doing for this Navy

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team right now, especially on a day where you guys

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like Alex Tesca and Eli Hyde Wright didn't have the

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big offensive days. You know, so Navy's defense, you know,

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which has been tested at times, did just enough and

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we the Blake Corbath show rears its head again. It's

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Navy now thirty or six and oh but thirty two

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to thirty one over Temple in our picks last week,

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I had this one thirty one thirty. I was all

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by a point, so I was fairly close. I'm gonna

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get We're good. One of us is going to get

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one of these. Is exactly right. But I thought it

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would come down to the end. I just didn't think

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it would be a Blake Corbath fifty yard keeper up

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the middle with less than a minute to go that

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would decide this one.

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Speaker 3: But boy, it was take it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely all right, Stephen, game balls this week.

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I'll let you fire first, because we certainly have a

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host of options this week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I was looking at Blake Horvath, I mean two

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hundred and ninety six yards of combined offense, both through

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the air and on the ground. But now I gotta

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go with Armies offensive line, you know, three hundred and

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four yards of rushing offense for the Black Nights, and

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then of course thirty seven minutes and fifty four seconds

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time of possession. Yes it's Charlotte, Yes they are, you know,

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the proverbial doormat of the American Conference down there with

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Tulsa and the now fighting fire. Trent Delfers of UAB.

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But you know, you know what they're on your schedule.

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You gotta play him. You might as well grind him

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into submission, and they certainly did that. So my game

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ball goes to Army's offensive line. Well, I'm like you,

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we could go with Blake, Krvath and Degum.

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Speaker 2: You know you got we do it every week, though

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you could. It's like Bryce and daily. Eventually you just

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got to kind of pivot and you gotta look elsewhere.

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It's as good as Horvath was, and he was phenomenal there,

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especially at the end. But like you, I'm gonna go

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offensive line. I'm gonna go with Air Forces because Air

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Force has not had many moments this year. But you

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know they paved the way for four hundred and twenty

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eight yards on Saturday, six hundred and three yards of offense.

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That should be good enough to win you a football game.

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I know that they're playing in them out less, but

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this was also against an undefeated UNLV team, a pretty

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darn good well coached UNLV team under Dan mullin in

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that was leading them out less in a lot of

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the key defensive categories. And you know, to put up

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six hundred and three yards and forty nine or you know,

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forty eight points that usually does the job, but obviously

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just didn't do it this week. Is you know, Liam

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Sarka is trying to get that breakthrough, trying to stop

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that losing streak. But I got to tip my hat

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to the to the Air Force offensive line. They just

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got to have some help defensively one of these days.

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All right, Steven, let's get out of here, because we

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got a couple of games, we got a preview, we

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got our Travis Meding Foundation Honor Roll segment, We've got

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a few news and notes to pass. We got some

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picks to make. But first tell everybody what they can

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find here on the College Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast network.

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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, there is plenty this week so far on

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College Gridiron Coast to Coast, as I will tell you that,

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we always start every week with a look at both

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the ACC and the Big Ten. Of course, with the

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ACC Miami being undefeated, how about Georgia Tech also being

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undefeated so far this year, and they are certainly looking

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like they could be setting themselves up for a showdown

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against the Hurricanes late in the season. And then of

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course Big Ten Paradigm talking a lot about James Franklin,

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who of course was fired this week at Penn State

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after losing two. As I like to say, a bunch

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of nerds at Northwestern get off my pylon looking at

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the West coast of things and how things are starting

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to take shape out west with you know USC and Washington.

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Washington's got a big game this week coming up against

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Michigan at ann Arbor. That's going to be a huge game.

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Pigskin and burnt ends of course looking at football in

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Texas' what's the deal with arch manning A and m

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of course in Texas Tech are just fantastic as always.

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Later on this week we will have Florida Football Insiders

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with Jason Powers and the big twelve sec breakdown with

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Tyler Jones and Thomas Bridges. That's all still to come.

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Speaker 2: This week, Tons tons for you right there on the

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College Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast network, including Yards and Stripes.

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But we got more of exactly that Army Navy in

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Air Force. When we come back, Stephen Carney and Price Atkinson.

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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards

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Speaker 2: All right, as we continue on here on Yards and Stripes, Army,

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Stephen Carney and Bryce Ackinson. So we got a couple

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of games to preview here and let's get right into it.

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Because our first one on Saturday, it's a rematch last

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year's American Conference Championship game. Army at two Lane in

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the Big Easy Army three and three, two and two

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in the American against the Fight, John Summers and the

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Green Wave from two Lane five and one, two and

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zero in the American Saturday twelve noon on ESPN U

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two Lane is a nine and a half point favorite

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over Under forty six and a half. As the winners

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of the last two American Conference titles, they're going to

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do battle. They're at Tulane is Army now trying to

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build on its two game win streak in a series

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that tu Lane leads actually all time against Army thirteen

488
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ten and one, with the team's first meeting in nineteen

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nineteen fifty three playing a zero zero tie actually in

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New Orleans. Imagine that in today's day and age of

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college football. Don't think we'd see that happen in a

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million years. But as we sit here right now, this

493
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should be a darn good football game because this Tulane

494
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is flying high right now. Army scot the mojo back

495
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and Kate Hellms, who ranks first in the American Conference

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and tied for fifth nationally with eight rushing touchdowns. He's

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playing with a lot of confidence right now.

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Speaker 3: Steven, Yeah, but really this game is going to be

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all about Tulane and their quarterback of course, Jake retz

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Laugh who was at BYU last year and transferred after

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a little bit of controversy in Provo and has really

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landed on his feet in New Orleans with the Green Wave.

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He's got almost twelve hundred yards passing and oh, by

504
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the way, he's got seven rushing touchdowns, so he's right

505
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on Cale Hellum's uh tail when it comes to to

506
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rushing touchdowns in college football. You know, this is going

507
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to go as Red's laugh goes, if they can get

508
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pressure on him and if he if he's able to

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stand there and and able to stay keep his uniform clean,

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so to speak. I think that this is going to

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this is going to be a tough matchup. Uh here

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for Army. And and you know, this is not the

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same Army team that that John John summerl and the

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Green Waves saw you know less than you know twelve

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months ago. This is a this is a much different team. Uh,

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it's built out different. Uh. Obviously they do a lot

517
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of the same things, but you know, the personnel is

518
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not quite where it was, say twelve months ago when

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these two teams clashed the last time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Green Wave also you clearly come into

521
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this with a lot of confidence five and one, but

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they won their last two games, and they're both conference

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games against Tulsa and East Carolina. With their win, you know,

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Tulane is now one nineteen of the team's last twenty

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regular season conference games. Is there obviously two to o

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this year? There were seven and one in twenty and

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twenty four, and then eight o in twenty twenty three,

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and then including the last two Conference games in two

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thousand and two. So well under John Sumral this is

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and certainly Willie Fritz, who was the head coach before

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John Sumrall, it's a program that hadn't missed a beat.

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I think we can safely say that John Someumral's not

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going to be the head coach next year, but the

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here and now is exactly what it is. He is

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still there, and this is gonna be one of those

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teams that probably out of three maybe four that's going

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to be playing that you know, one of these three

538
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or four teams is going to be playing certainly in

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the American Conference Championship game.

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Speaker 3: Yet again, yeah, absolutely, And you look at what they

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what they've been able to do so far this year.

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I mean, they've got to win over Duke, and Duke

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is obviously, uh, you know, one of the better teams

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in the ACC this year.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Their lone loss was on the road to Old Miss

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uh in Oxford. So and you know, I look at

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that game kind of like I look at South Florida's

549
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loss to Miami again on the road. It was you know,

550
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a a much higher step up in competition, and you know,

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you saw the difference between what uh you know, an

552
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upper echelon SEC team or an upper echelon ACC team

553
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is this year compared to uh what the American Conference brings.

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And they were able to use that, uh you know,

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the learning element of playing at Old Miss, and then

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they beat up Tulsa and East Carolina. Tulsa obviously not

557
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a very good team this year. You know, East Carolina

558
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is a is better that than Tulsa. But that's a

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team that obviously, uh, you know, beat Army pretty convincingly

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just a couple of weeks ago at home.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Again, this is going to be a twelve noon

562
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Eastern Standard time kickoff there from the Big Easy on

563
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ESPN U TU Lane giving nine and a half points

564
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over under forty six and a half in this one.

565
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All right, let's move out west to the Mount West.

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Commerce we go and Wyoming going to be heading to

567
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Colorado Springs to take on Air Force. Wyoming is three

568
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and three, one to one in the Mount West. Air

569
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Force is certainly looking to stop the five game slide,

570
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is there one in five overall zero to four in

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the Mount West. This is a three thirty Eastern Standard

572
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time kickoff there from the Air Force Academy on the

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CBS Sports Network. Air Force kind of a surprise given

574
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three and a half points at home in this one.

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Fifty eight and a half is the over under NS

576
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series that air Force leads all time thirty one, twenty

577
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eight and three, and they also are nineteen twelve and

578
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one at home. So air Force coming off a win

579
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over Wyoming and twenty three the last time they met

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at Falcon Stadium thirty four to twenty seven. But last

581
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year Wyoming did knock off air Force there and layer

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me thirty one to nineteen. So we'll see what happens

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in this one. Is air Force has won three straight

584
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at home in the series going back to twenty and seventeen.

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We'll make picks in the next segment. But I got

586
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a sneaking suspicion that I might be taking Air Force

587
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to stop a losing skid. We will find out which

588
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way you'll go. But I like the air Force is

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playing at home. They just got to find a defense

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that can get off the field.

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Speaker 3: Stephen, Yeah, absolutely, and maybe it's against the Cowboys. You know,

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I was looking at some of their you know, common

593
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opponents so far this year. Obviously, both teams have played

594
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UNLV air Force in Las Vegas loses by three points

595
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last week. Two weeks ago, Wyoming welcomed the Rebels to

596
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town and got beaten by two touchdowns. So that that

597
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that you know, you know, I know that, you know

598
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you look at common opponents, and you know it means

599
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you know, a hill of beans when it comes to

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the game that's being played this week. But that should

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tell you that the sort of caliber of team that

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Wyoming is. And even though they are three and three

603
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and air Force is one in five, I think that

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these two teams are much closer in competition than their

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records indicate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're dead spot on with that. You know,

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it's hard to compare scores against common opponents, but when

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you look at, you know, their body of work to

609
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this point, and at six and six or you know,

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basically six gamesxcuse me, you can get a pretty good

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sense of who a team is, and I think we

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have a pretty good sense of that with Wyoming. It's

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this is not a top tier mount Less team. Well,

614
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certainly air Force is not either, But I think they're

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pretty too evenly matched teams, and I probably would even

616
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give air Force maybe a little bit of an edge,

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especially playing at home, which is probably why they're three

618
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and a half point favored in this one, you know,

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but especially since, especially since the Falcons have scored at

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least thirty points in each of their last five games,

621
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and Wyoming has scored thirty points once so and that

622
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was in their game against Coach Kenny and the Spartans

623
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this past week. Yep, So you know, I it's hard

624
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not to like Air Force to meet in this one,

625
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you know, but history says playing at home and the

626
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home team has won this one, you know. I think

627
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what's six in a row. Air Force has won three

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in a row at home in this one too, So

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history is on the side for the Air Force Academy

630
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as they're trying to fight get out of you know,

631
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the seller. Is there one of three teams New Mexico,

632
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Nevada and air Force, three teams that have not won

633
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them out West Commerce game. I think that's gonna change

634
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this week, but we'll find out again. Air Force is

635
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a three and a half point favorite a three point

636
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thirty Eastern Standard time kickoff on CBS Sports Network against Wyoming.

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They're from Colorado Springs. All right, we got more to do,

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Steven on our Travis Manion Foundation Honorale segment. We got

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a few news and notes. We got some picks. Man

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picks are the most fun. We'll do that when we

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come back here on Yards to Stripes.

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Speaker 5: In two thousand and seven, Mareen First Lieutenant Travis Manion

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Lieutenant Thomas Mullen Adams, Remember the United States Navy. Lieutenant

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Mullen Adams. Thomas Mullen Adams gave the ultimate sacrifice on

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March to twenty second, two thousand and three, when two

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Royal Navy C King helicopters collided in the air above

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the Persian Gulf. Lieutenant Adams had been assigned as an

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exchange officer with the Royal Navy's eight four nine Squadron

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from October two thousand and two until his death. He

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was just twenty seven years old. A native of of

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nineteen ninety three, where he was a National Merit Scholar

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as well as valedictorian. He went on to graduate with

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honors from the United States Naval Academy with the class

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in nineteen ninety seven. He had a long standing passion

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for both the Navy and soccer. Quote from his uncle

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and posters was only part of the story. Even when

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he was in elementary school, he could describe in remarkable

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detail the performance and history of each when end quote

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when describing his love for all things Navy. The Travis

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this time every single week to remember fallen heroes like

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that have given that ultimate sacrifice, because, as we all know,

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our freedom is not free. The games are fun to

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talk about, but ultimately it's our heroes like Lieutenant Mullen

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at Thomas Mullen, Adams and so many others that gave

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that ultimate sacrifice for US.

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Speaker 2: All right, final segment here on Yards and Stripe Steve

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Carney Price Atkinson as we've got some picks to make,

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but first a couple of news and notes pass along

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as the Lombardi midseason watch list is out. We've got

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players from all three of our teams. Landon Robinson defensive

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tackle from Navy, Palo Generelli offensive guard and offensive center,

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Brady Small from Army, and then Peyton Drosick from the

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Air Force Academy. They all make the midseason watch list.

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Blake quarterback named Surprise Sprise one of Davey O'Brien's great

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eight for the week, also named the American Offensive Player

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of the Week for the second straight week, and Navy

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was the with the late touchdown two point conversion. Was

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the name the cheese at Crunch Time Team of the Week.

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Then finally Kate Hellum's name honorable mention for the Earl

718
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Campbell Tyler Rose Award last week for his twenty one carry,

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one hundred and forty three yard and two touchdown effort

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in the win over Charlotte. And I won't go through

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and read them all, but the opponents for all the

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teams in the American in twenty twenty six that was

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announced this week, So I won't run through the opponents

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for Army and Navy. I'll let you guys go check

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those out. Not too totally different, but don't want to

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be a show killer here, as we got some picks

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to make.

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Speaker 3: Well, is that before we get to the picks, you

729
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have to congratulate Brian Newberry as well because he is

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officially one of the coaches to watch on the twenty

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twenty five American Heart Association Paul Bear Bryant Awards for

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Coach of the Year. There are is it twenty eight

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coaches that are that are on that list, and so

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Brian Newberry and this who leading the six and zero

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Navy midshipman is on that list. He is one of one, two, three,

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four American Conference coaches on this watch list. Obviously, Alex

737
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:46,079
Golesh of South Florida, Ryan Silverfield of Memphis and John

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Summerl of Tulane are also on that list.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and of funny how to change those lists they

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add they take people off mid season. I mean, you've

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probably been a voter on a lot of these things too,

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and you just see these the different the way they

743
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,760
maneuvers like chess piece, you know, adding guys taking guys off,

744
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:04,840
it's you know, it's par for the course. So but

745
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,480
congratulations to Brian Newberry to being on that list. So

746
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steven two games? How crazy we're going to get this week?

747
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Let's see last week we both had Army, we both

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had un LV, and we certainly both had Navy. We

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were pretty similar in Army score UNLV we thought would

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be a runaway winner that wasn't. Then we uh, you know,

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my Army Navy pick was close, but we we both

752
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,719
had Navy. We don't we don't stray very often. But

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are we going to strade this week? We'll find out.

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Let's talk about it. Tulane and Army rematch of the

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American Conference Championship game last year when Army spank Tulane.

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There at Mikey Stadium. Will they do it again or

757
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will the spanking be done the other way? We'll find out,

758
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But it is in the big easy. It's not at

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Mikey Stadium this year on a very very cold night

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like it was in December last year. So I got

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to think the advantage is going to be with John

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00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,000
Someroll and the Green Wave. Is there a nine and

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a half point favorite steem?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely. You know the spanking came from Army last

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year because of their quarterback. I think the spanking comes

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this year from Tulane thanks to Jake Rehetz laugh. This

767
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is going to be the Jake Reetz laugh Show. If

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you ask me, he's gonna throw the ball a lot.

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I think. I think you're gonna find a lot of

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wide open receivers if if your rets laugh and you're

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getting you down to the close to the goal line

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and then he can just run it in himself. I

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have Tulane winning this game thirty four to fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, Wow, we're close. I had too long. I've got

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Tulane thirty one to thirteen. So we're very close. So

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we don't just usually we don't.

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Speaker 4: Ever.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we might chat about who he thinks in a win,

779
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,679
we never, you know, give our scores in advance, So

780
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pretty darn close on this one. Let's I'll take this

781
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,760
next one first because air Force uh in Wyomings is

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I did elude. I thought air Force, certainly being a

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00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,880
three and a half point favorite, was probably right, as

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they have won three straight at home in this series,

785
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and I think that they are going to get a

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win in this one against the fighting Cowboys from Laramie.

787
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,280
I'm going with air Force in to the tune of

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thirty one to twenty seven because I think their offense

789
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is just much better and I think for the first

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time in a while that they're going to get a

791
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,800
few needed stops they need, which will be the difference.

792
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,039
Air Force thirty one to twenty seven Steam.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're very close. Again. I think you're absolutely right

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00:41:19,159 --> 00:41:21,920
that air Force has shown that they can put thirty

795
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:26,039
points on the board at a consistent basis. Wyoming can't.

796
00:41:26,599 --> 00:41:29,519
And that's why I think air Force gets the stop

797
00:41:29,559 --> 00:41:32,079
they need. I think they win thirty to twenty four.

798
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That's how I have it. So I think that they

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do get a stop late, and whether it's a fumble

800
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,480
or an interception, or something get that causes a turnover

801
00:41:43,199 --> 00:41:45,039
at the end of the game and they finally get

802
00:41:45,039 --> 00:41:47,559
their first conference win of the season.

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Speaker 2: What I know is we've been doing this a while, Steven.

804
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:54,079
So because we've been doing this a while. Two smart

805
00:41:54,159 --> 00:41:56,920
dudes think alike here, and we're usually pretty close on

806
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,119
the way we feel about these games, and this week

807
00:41:59,159 --> 00:42:01,960
is no different. But I can't wait to see how

808
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,199
things go down as we move into really the meat

809
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,519
of college football, as we are in the middle of October,

810
00:42:06,519 --> 00:42:09,119
and this is when they start sorting things out, man,

811
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This is mid October is when we start getting a

812
00:42:11,519 --> 00:42:14,159
little bit clear of you and figuring out which way

813
00:42:14,159 --> 00:42:15,639
these things are going to go as far as college

814
00:42:15,639 --> 00:42:19,599
football playoff conference races, et cetera. So maybe obviously right

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00:42:19,639 --> 00:42:23,280
now is in the thick one Armies trying to scrap

816
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,480
and claws fight their way in there. As we know

817
00:42:25,519 --> 00:42:28,199
Air Force, they're just trying to get a win in

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00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:32,239
the mountain less. So Stephen, great work. This week. Has

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always always loved the Poppy Ons Pizza Report as we

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00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:36,119
get things started.

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Speaker 3: But can't wait me agree again.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're gonna have to go raid the fridge because

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it's almost ten o'clock at night, So we need to

824
00:42:42,079 --> 00:42:44,199
go find what we got for a midnight snack. You

825
00:42:44,199 --> 00:42:45,840
need to get Emily fed, you need to give her

826
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:47,920
a midnight snack tonight. I need to go find something

827
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,599
after my swim practice tonight. So just everybody check out

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00:42:51,639 --> 00:42:53,960
the College GRODW and Coast to Coast podcast network where

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00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:55,599
we are where there's so much more if you're a

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00:42:55,599 --> 00:42:58,559
college football fan. We will be back again next week.

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Until then, Steven can't wait to do it, brother, absolutely,

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00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,599
I'll look forward to it. Enjoy the two games this week.

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