Speaker 1: Need to get your football fix on all things Army,
Navy and Air Force. This is Yards and Stripes Service
Academy Football. Now here are your hosts, Pryce Atkinson and
Steve Carney.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome into Yards and Stripes, your home for
Service Academy Football. He is Stephen Carney. I am Pryce Atkinson,
and we are Army, Navy, and Air Force because that's
what we are about here on this podcast as we
are part of the Last Word on Sports podcast Network
and the college football Gridiron Coast to Coast team, and
we have got a ton to get into, including a
pair how about a pair of shutouts last week Steven
two shutouts and we'll tell you which way those went.
We got a massive game on tap this weekend, Army
taking the nation's longest winning streak into New York City
to take on Notre Dame. We will break that one down.
We also talk about Air Force's upcoming game. Navy has
got a buy this weekend. We got a Travis Mannion
Foundation on a segment. We got game balls to give
out from last weekend picks to make for this upcoming weekend. Stephen,
how how the hell are you give us a Poppy's
topping report on the pie that you will be devouring
either right now during breaks or after we are done.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be after we are done.
Speaker 4: My wife, My wife decided that with with a lightning victory,
that a fifty percent off pizza was a good deal today,
and I completely wholeheartedly agree with that. So it is,
it is like one time, it is a one topping,
and obviously if it's pizza.
Speaker 3: That means it's meat. So it is.
Speaker 4: It's just a just pepperoni this week. So you want
to go with just sausage now? Now, my my wife,
my wife likes if it's just a single meat, it's pepperoni.
If it's if she you know, we'll do the full meat.
But this was a fifty off of a one topping,
a large gun topping.
Speaker 2: So all right, I get a little deeper. I gotta
dig a little deeper. Do you like the thin crust
that Papa Yan's is doing? Now? Do you like the
regular Like? What kind of crust are we going with?
Speaker 4: Well, we're just a regular crust tie. I mean, I
don't mind. I don't mind the thin crust. The tavern
style pizza from Chicago is great. I pretty much any
type of pizza is good pizza. Her pizza is not
really pizza though, like deep dish Chicago style deep dish
and really pizza.
Speaker 3: It's like kind of like lasagna or casserole.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but tavern style poe good. Uh, pan pizza fine regular?
Uh you know what what people will call New York
pizza and I just call pizza is his thumbs up.
Pretty much any any pizza is good pizza.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: So Lou mal Natti's and Giordano's fans, don't get me.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, do not get me. Do not
do not twist it.
Speaker 4: I love deep dish pizza, but it's not pizza if
you have to if you have.
Speaker 3: To eat it with a fork and a knife and
you're not in Europe.
Speaker 2: That's not I. I am kidding with you. I am
kidding with you. So I don't want.
Speaker 4: I don't want the folks that Loo Luma Almadi's and
Pizza Ri and Duet and Giordano's.
Speaker 3: Uh you know I I love I love them.
Speaker 4: We love for them to sponsor send us a frozen
pie or tow or you know, please good for that
many other.
Speaker 2: Money, no bit more, bigger pizza lovers on this earth
than Steven Carney and Pryce Atkinson right here. So bring
it on, folks, bring and we can do it. Any style.
You can do, round, you can do square hand tossing.
Old Detroit style is my favorite. So let's don't even
get me going on that. My wife is not listening
to me right now, because I love Detroit style, all right.
With the clock is ticking, we got to it to
it because we got a lot to do. One thing
we can tell you real quick. Army obviously was off
last weekend as they prepare to get ready for Notre
Dame this weekend. I can tell you that Army checked
in at number eighteen in the AP poll, number seventeen
again in the coaches poll. But they did move up
five spots in the College Football playoff rankings, and so
they now check in at number nineteen, still with dare
I say it, a lot more work to do, but
they have done everything they needed to do so far,
but still more ahead for the Black Knight. So one
to go ahead and get that updated real quick as
we get out of the starting game. And so let's
get out of this gate and talk about our two
games last weekend, Navy hosting what a lot of people
call was one of the biggest games in Navy Marine
Corps memorial history, at least in recent the recent time
they host number twenty five two lane. But the Green
Wave they scattered. They give them the waffle house treatment.
Stephen scatter, smothered, covered, chunk top and dice, you name it.
Tulane get it in this game, and it was the
Green Wave, a thirty five to nothing shutout win over
Navy two lane, now nine and two, seven to zero
in the American. Navy falls to seven and three, five
and two in the American with the rolling of the
Mids on Senior Day in Annapolis. Tulane did punch that
ticket to the AAC Championship game. So they will take
on Army the Black Knights on December sixth, as Navy
was shut out for the first time since a fifteen
to nothing lost Army in twenty twenty. But Stephen, now Navy,
who they've lost three or four. They were just simply
dominating every facet, turning it over twice and being limited
to just eight first downs and one hundred and three
total yards of offense. Obviously, Lake Corbath going out in
the first half and not returning, factoring into Navy's offensive
woes as he left with a rib injury. But simply
they were outclassed in, you know, pretty much every single
way by Tulane. They got beat by the better team.
Tulane was the better team and it showed on Saturday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they played a Navy type of football game,
the green Wave, and because they got out to an
early lead, and they were able to lean on the
run game to help to propel them and to maintain
control of the football in time of possession, I mean
two hundred and twenty yards on the ground by Tulane.
They had three guys rushed for more than fifty yards,
including quarterback Darian Mensa. But I think that you know,
when you look at what happened with this game, you know,
I think that both of us would agree that the
better team won in this game.
Speaker 3: The more talented team won this game.
Speaker 4: And I think for Navy, unfortunately, there are going to
be times as a service academy that you have to
beat teams that are better than you. Yeah, and the
Midshipman for all that they've done this year, and let's
face it, they've been very good this year. They're going
to a bowl game this year. Yep, that that's already
been decided. Now they have not been able to beat
the two teams that I think that they are better,
that are that are better than them that you know,
they didn't beat Notre Dame. They turned the bowl over
six times to the Irish and they get shot.
Speaker 3: Out by Tulane.
Speaker 4: And obviously they have the two turnovers by Braxton Woodson
uh in this game as opposed to the zero turnovers,
so they were minus two total in the in the
turnover battle. You do that as a service academy, you're
gonna be behind the eight ball to begin with. And
when a team is better than you, you're you're not
gonna win those games. And Tulane proved why they are
going to be in the American Athletic Conference Championship game
against Army.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely just didn't think it would be a
thirty five to nothing so one sided. I think that
was the biggest thing. But you know, too lane cut
not Eulaane linebacker Sam Howard had a lot to do
with that. He intercepted a pass and then he recovered
the fumble that you know is Tulane look This is
the their second shutout of the season and the fourth
time the season they've held opponents to single digits. So
this is a very tough, defensive minded team. They can
also score. Met Willie Fritz, you know, was a I'm
not going to call him an offensive genius, but certainly
an offensive minded head coach with a lot of his direction,
and you know, recruited a lot of these players that
are obviously still there in John Sumrall, who was a
defensive minded guy, played you know as a linebacker safety
he played in college. You know, kind of complimenting each
other perfectly. But you know, Tulane quarterback Derrit Mensai, he
was efficient, went great to a fourteen one thirty eight
and two touchdowns, and Makay Hughes had you know, twenty
two carries eighty two yards for two touchdowns, and you
know that was really that was really it. You know,
they just kind of slowly, methodically got it done. And
you know that's you know, maybe he's just going to
have to take this bye week and flush it. So
that's what they will do.
Speaker 3: Comes maybe perfect time, Yeah, does it not?
Speaker 4: I mean you get this, you get this week off,
You've got East Carolina in uh next week, and then
you start to prepare for your bowl game, and you've
got and you're gonna have, uh, you know, at least
a couple of weeks to prepare for that bowl game.
And you know, once the Christmas holiday comes around and
and everybody starts to to leave their their campus, you know,
the the football team's gonna be able to have, uh,
have their way, and it's gonna be a lot it's
gonna be a lot more simple for them, uh, you
know once you know, once the holiday season begins, uh
at at the at the academy.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know that better than anybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and especially getting a week off from Blake Horvath
and we don't know the extent of his injury yet,
is he gonna be back, what's going on, but you
know it was a rib injury, so you know that
that time has got to you know, favor him to heal.
Whether he's back or not, we don't know. But then
also taking the account East Carolina, you know, they won
three straight and they're high scoring right now too, and
you're gonna have to go to their house to do it.
So I definitely agree with you. I think this bye
week comes at a perfect time for Navy and head
coach Brian Newberry his squad. All right, let's look at
our other game from last weekend, Stephen, the Air Force Academy.
Don't look now, but the Falcons. They have won two
straight after shutting out Pack twelve Loaner. I guess I
shouldn't say loaner because Oregon State's got company with Washington State.
But or air Force does shut out Oregon State on
Senior Day in the Springs twenty eight to nothing, as
air Force is now three and seven, four and five
for Oregon State overall, and it was air Force's first
first shut first shutout. Talk about twenty twenty like the
last time Navy had been shut out, Well, this was
air Force's first doing the shutting out since they beat
New Mexico twenty eight to nothing back in twenty twenty.
And here it was again, Sophomore quarterback Quentin Hayes. I
think he's coming into his own right before our eyes, Steven,
because you have they're three and seven. But Quinn Hayes
just continues to play a little bit better every single week.
And you know, he led the Falcon offense perfect throwing
the football, five of five one ten through the air,
and then he ran for seventeen seventeen times eighty four
yards and two touchdowns. And then Dylan Carson he had
another big day, rushing for a team high twenty six
times ninety seven yards in a touchdown. And you know,
slowly but surely, you know, this air Force team kind
of you know, competition notwithstanding, you know it's starting to
find its footing. As Carson and Hayes led the way
as Air Force rolled up four hundred and ten yards
though Ohio, Oregon States won seventy five first downs advantage
air Force twenty three to eight. Big key in this game,
I think was air Force going eight to twelve on
third down and one to one on fourth down. The
Beavers were just if you take it fourth downs combined
with third down just three out of fourteen. And you
know what that translates into, also steven time of possession.
Air Force had had the football almost forty two minutes
in the shutout.
Speaker 4: Yep, absolutely, those are those are all great numbers. I
was looking at it, you know, when when you mentioned,
you know, eight of twelve on third downs whereas Oregon
State was two of ten, I thought of the old
Bob Knight thing where he would say that he wanted
his guys making more free throws than the opponents took. Well,
you look at it. Air Force nearly converted as many
third downs as Oregon State had in the game. And
I think that that that's very, very impressive.
Speaker 1: And all of.
Speaker 4: The numbers that you see, you know, out rushing Oregon
State two hundred and seventy one to sixty nine, you know,
being perfect through the air with Quinin Hayes. Here's the
number that stands out, you know, for air Force, for
wanting to make this a victory. Here the you look down,
you look down the chart and you look at penalties.
Zero penalties done taken by the Falcons in this game.
That is a huge number. I mean that's great. I mean,
if you're Troy Calhoun, you know you can you can
talk about Okay, you know, we still we still lost
a fumble. You know, we were still only even in
the turnover battle because you know, we picked off the
Oregon State's quarterback, but we also lost a fumble as well.
You know, you can find things if you're Troy Calhoun
to pick on, but you can't pick on uh, you know,
this team not taking a single penalty in the game.
That's that's a great testament to their uh, you know,
just their awareness and being able to do their job
to the best of their abilities and not overstretch. You know,
you didn't see a hold, you didn't see a mindless
false start penalty or a delayed game.
Speaker 3: Nothing from the Falcons. That's a great sign.
Speaker 2: Hey, give give Oregon State a little credit to I mean,
three penalties for twenty five yards. That's not too bad either,
But you're right of being perfect in the penalty column.
Zero for zero is perfect for air Force. But to
Quintin Hayes first half touchdowns made it fourteen to nothing
at halftime, and then Dylan Carson he got in the
end zone early fourth and then Owen Allen a short
and two yard run capping an eleven play fifty three
yard drive that took seven eighteen off the clock. That
was all she wrote. And so air Force now has
won two straight and three and seven overall. Dare I
say it could they get a third straight win this weekend,
because it is definitely gonna be possible as they're traveling
to Nevada. We will talk about that one here in
a little bit. But Steven, game ball time you want
to lead off.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think my game ball is not going to
be much of a surprise. It's Quintin Hayes.
Speaker 4: You know, you couldn't have asked for a better performance
from the junior quarterback you And like you said, he's
coming into his own right in front of us, and
he's going going to be into his senior season in
twenty twenty five. It's the perfect situation for Troy Calhoun
for next year is having Quintin Hayes now with a
lot of I guess you could say some confidence and
some swag going into his going into his senior season.
This is exactly what you want to see out of
him as this season comes to a close in Colorado Springs.
So he gets my game ball for a fantastic game
against Alden State.
Speaker 2: I definitely like it too. I'm gonna go with air
Force obviously as well as they get to win, and
I'm gonna take air Force. Sophomore linebacker David Santiago, the
sophomore out of Raleigh, a big six and thirty five
pound linebacker who had a sack and a half team
high six tackles in this one also broke up a pass,
so certainly was a big catalyst in the Falcons holding
Oregon State to just one hundred and seventy five yards
a total offense to a ten on third down. David Santiago,
he gets my game ball, Stephen, all right, we got
more to do here. We got our Travis Median Foundation
Honor Roll segment honoring a fallen hero that's given the
ultimate sacrifice. We got two games coming up in a
none bigger than Army and Notre Dame steven. We got
to talk about that one. We got to make some picks.
We will do that as we get out of here.
But tell everybody what we've got at the Last Word
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Don't be surprised. And Craig McMichael and Rob Williams doing
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who would have thought Arizona State would be where they are,
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got the Big twelve SEC Breakdown with Tyler Jones and
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Speaker 2: All right, Steven, we'd be moving tonight. We're moving and
grooving because we got things to do and we know
our listeners do too, and we're gonna get you ready
for this weekend, Steven. And it is a big one.
I mean big, big, big is in big City, is
in big Apple, and that's where it's to take place.
As number nineteen Army undefeated nine to zero, taken on
number six Notre Dame nine to one in prime time
seven pm on NBC. Right now, Stephen, the latest I've
seen Notre Dame is giving fourteen and a half over
under forty four and a half as the nation's long
the nation's longest win streak. It's on the line as Army,
with thirteen straight dating back to last season, is gonna
take on Notre Dame, who's also fighting to remain in
the college football playoff race. The Irish have won eight
in a row themselves since that early season set back
to Northern Illinois in South Bend. Notre Dame leading the
all time series thirty nine, eight and four. And this
is the twenty fourth time Army in Notre Dame will
have played at Yankee Stadium. Boy, how cool is this
going to be on Saturday. Army and Notre Dame had
met at the home of the Yankees twenty three times before,
including twenty two times at the original Yankee Stadium from
twenty five to twenty nine, already one to forty six
and nineteen sixty nine, and then obviously once at the
current Yankee Stadium. So this is going to be a
special affair on NBC on Saturday night at seven pm.
Speaker 3: Stephen, Yeah, and it's going to be packed.
Speaker 4: You know that this crowd is going to be energized.
You know, when it comes to college football, especially in
New York, there are two teams that people are root
for in the state of New York when it comes
to college football.
Speaker 3: It's Army and it's Notre Dame.
Speaker 4: Especially especially if you are south of Interstate eighty one,
which obviously you know this certainly would be south of
I eighty one in New York. You know, once you
get up in that area, they start rooting for Syracuse
and the like. But you know, when you are down
down in the in the metropolitan region of New York City,
you know, obviously this is about as big of a
college football game as you can have in the state
of New York.
Speaker 3: And you look at it.
Speaker 4: You've got two incredible quarterbacks going to get it going
against one another. Bryson Dally obviously, you know, we all
know what he has done so far this year as
the as the quarterback for the Black Knights. Riley Leonard, obviously,
the transfer from Duke, is having an incredible year for
the Irish, who find themselves with an opportunity in the
college football playoff here this year. And you know, I
went and took a look at what Notre Dame has
done so far as a team, and they have just
been absolutely incredible.
Speaker 3: At how diversified they are.
Speaker 4: This is a team that has that's almost fifty to
fifty when it comes to passing and rushing. They've got
two one hundred yards on the ground as a team.
They've got almost two thousand yards through the air as
a team. So it's amazing to see just how balanced
the Irish have been. And you know, obviously when you
look at you know, between these two teams, which one
of these is the more talented team.
Speaker 3: It's no, there's no doubt. It's Notre Dame.
Speaker 4: But this Army team has something to prove to everybody
in the college football world. They don't want to be
known as the oh well, you know, they were the
last Service Academy team to lose this year. You know,
they were ok, they were they were a nice story,
but they they don't deserve a spot in the college
football playoff. And bryceon Daily, if you know anything about Daily,
he wants to prove everybody in the college football world wrong.
Speaker 3: This year when he was coming out of high school.
You know, there's the story.
Speaker 4: Pat forty of uh Sports of Sports Illustrated had the
story here last week about Daily talking about like when
he was recruited, it was a.
Speaker 3: Bunch of you know, Nai A and D two and.
Speaker 4: The Ivy League schools were recruiting him to play linebacker.
You know, they didn't want him to play quarterback. He
wanted to play quarterback. And that's when the United States
Military Academy said.
Speaker 3: You want to play quarterback, you come to West Point.
Speaker 4: We'll let you play quarterback because we're the last of
the hard and I you know, if reading through the
story of Bryce and Daily that Pat Forty did on
SI dot com, it's a great read.
Speaker 3: Definitely recommend it. But it shows you that this kid.
Speaker 4: Wants to prove everybody wrong and that they can beat
Notre Dame this year, this.
Speaker 2: Week, and that. And that's what the mindset when an
Army or a note or a Navy takes on Notre
Dame every year. That's because the kids on both academies
when they play Notre Dame, they're often always overlooked, at
least at the D one level. And if they were
looked at it at the D one level, it was
something other than usually the glamour position that they might
be playing.
Speaker 3: Special teamers, play special teams.
Speaker 2: Prius or you know, a lot of times, you know,
Paul Johnson used to tell me he used to recruit
nothing a lot of times, just quarterback, quarterback, quarterback, because
why they were the best athlete on their team. They
weren't going to necessarily play quarterback at Navy, but he
was going to put him usually defensive back at running
back because they typically high school quarterbacks, they're the best
ones with the ball in their hands and those kind
of positions of skill positions, that's where you want them
because they're going to have the ball in their hands.
But you know, like you said, this is they're going
to be playing with a chip on their shoulder. And
the fact they're doing it in New York, not too
far down the road from West Point and the Military Academy.
You're going to have an obviously huge crowd of Army
fans are going to be in the house. Obviously it's
going to be more packed with Notre Dame. But two
teams very very similar, Stephen. The one difference obviously the
running game of Army and the passing game of Notre Dame.
But you know, outside of that, very very similar statistically
in points per game, points allowed, total defense, I mean
very I mean these eerily similar outside of those two
offensive statistics. But you know, if you're wondering, you know,
the last time that Army matched up against another ranked team,
that was twenty twenty when number twenty two, Army lost
to number fourteen Cincinnati twenty four to ten. The last
time Army beat a top ten AP ranked opponent that
was back in nineteen sixty three when they knocked off
number nine Penn State ten to seven. But you know, hey,
anything can happen. And as our Army's defense hasn't allowed
a touchdown on the last two in the last two games.
They're also on a three unbeatens left along with Indiana
and Oregon. Army's going to be playing with an awful
lot of momentum, especially havn't had that bye week and
Bryson Daily having a chance to heal up and get
better from what the nagging injury he had for missing
the Air Force game and you know, having to come
back and battle through it against North Texas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and think about it. The last time that Army
beat Notre Dame. You gotta go all the way back
to nineteen fifty eight when the number three ranked Cadets,
the Black Knights, beat Notre Dame fourteen to two at
Notre Dame Stadium. So they were playing they were playing
in South Bend for that game. But it has been
a long long time, so Notre Dame has won the
last three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen. I see sixteen games
in a row in this series. So it's been a
long long time. And you can't tell me that every
single every single I would say, graduate any alum of
the United States Military kedemy. You go all the way
back to Gary Steele, and I know Gary Steele is
going to be at this game because because he he
is really excited about this, you know, having having watched
his daughter Sage Steele, who you might know from ESPN.
Sage is actually she actually was here before she came,
before she went to ESPN. She worked here in the
Tampa Bay region. I know stage a little bit. I
have met Gary Steele before, and you know, I've nothing
but a ton of respect for him, and you know
he wants to win this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's going to be a sight to see again.
A seven pm kickoff on NBC. Number nineteen Army against
number six Notre Dame. Again, Notre Dame giving fourteen and
a half over under in this one is forty four
and a half. All right, Let's get to the other game.
Air Force hitting the road. They are hitting the road
and heading to Reno to take on Nevada. This one
is going to be a ten to thirty pm Eastern
Standard Time kickoff eight thirty pm. They're locally in Reno
on Fox Sports one. Nevada giving up three and a
half over unders forty four and a half. I kind
of was thinking that maybe, just maybe air Force might
be the favorite in this game three and seven overall,
one in four, but Nevada's three and eight zero to five.
They haven't won them Mount West Commerce game, and while
the Falcons have won what two straight, Bada's lost four
in a row, but the overall series goes to air
Force five and two. They're also two and one all
time in Reno. Every meeting in this series has been
as conference fos, and the Falcons have won four the
last five, while five of the seven meetings in this
entire series they've been decided by seven points or less.
History tells you this is going to be a close game, Steven,
But I still kind of thought I might look down
when I was looking for the line earlier today, that
we might see air Force slightly favored. Not the case.
It's Nevada three and a half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very strange.
Speaker 4: If you ask me, I certainly would have thought that
if this game would have gone with the Air Force
as the favorite, But you look at it, Brendan Lewis
has done a really really good job, you know, controlling
things through the air. Has not dealt with a lot
of interceptions. He's you know, not a huge guy when
it comes to touchdowns. You know, it's not like he's
got twenty five or thirty touchdowns this season, only has
twelve touchdowns, only seventeen hundred yards through the year, but
only five interceptions. And most importantly, he's only he's been
sacked only sixteen times in ten games.
Speaker 3: Here so far this year.
Speaker 4: So you know, it's they've done a good job keeping
him upright, And I think that they I think that
this is going to be a big test for Air
Forces defensive backfield. Yes, I know Nevada is is winless
right now in the Mountain West, that they're three and seven,
but they're they're going to do any everything in their
power to try and make the Falcons defensive backfield uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: And I think that they're going to have a little
bit of success.
Speaker 4: But you know, for me, I really like what the
Falcons offense has done to help their defense out. And
then you know, you look at it. Their defense has
not played a lot the last two weeks. You know,
when when you're on the when you're on the field
on offense for forty two minutes last week, forty five
minutes the week before. Uh, that's great. That's great for
your for your defense, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Every time I see Nevada out on the field, I
just harken back to the you know, the legendary coach
Chris Alt, you know who, and then in the pistol,
you know. And every time I see the wolf Pack
in a game, you know, I always think back to that.
But what I would like to think ahead to is
the forecast in this one, because I haven't seen what
the forecast in this one is. Usually this time of year.
One of the things I really look forward to, Steven,
when you pop on a Mount West Conference football game
in the month and you see you're just playing in
a driving snow, especially in Reno too, where the weather
can change on a dime.
Speaker 4: I can tell you that looking at the weather forecast
for Saturday night, it's going to be chilly, that's for sure.
But they are saying that it is not going to
be snowy. They're they're looking at thirty nine degrees at kickoff,
so you know it's gonna be cold, especially for this
Florida boy. But it is not, thankfully going to be
snowing in Reno. That's a good thing, all right.
Speaker 2: Air Force Nevada again, ten to thirty Eastern Standard time,
kickoff on Fox Sports one. Nevada three and a half,
one favor over Under forty four and a half. Can
the Falcons make it three in a row? Can they
tag a fifth straight loss on the vat of the season.
We will find out. We will also find out more
about the Travis Mannon Foundation honor roll, honoring a fallen hero.
That's coming up next. We got uniforms. We got to
get stevens. We gotta play fashion police here when we
come back. We got to make some picks here as
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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, final segment here, Bryce Atkinson's Stephen Carney. We
got to get this done so Stephen can get to
that fifty percent off Popayan's Pepperoni Pizzai. Yeah, absolutely, any
like you said you quote of the Year on Yards
and Stripes. Any pizza is delicious. Pizza's right, all right, Steven.
I know we all love to play fashion police. I
know everybody is uniform police when it comes to it.
But this is the time of year where we get
to see the threads for the Army Navy game. Let's
talk about Army first, honoring the soldiers in the one
hundred and first Airborne Division. I feel like the last
time they wore uniforms. Maybe I'm wrong, honoring the hundred
and first Airborne it was the white ones. It was
I think maybe one of my last Army Navy games,
maybe twenty seventeen in the snow. Oh. I feel like
that those were one hundred first Airborne, haven't you know?
They just came out so I hadn't been able to
go back and research them all. But boy, these these
never disappoint. I mean, I can never go wrong, and
you know, picking which ones you like the best, but
these they are the home team this year, and boy,
these uniforms they are tough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there is you know, I I love this is.
Speaker 4: You know, of course, Army Navy our favorite game of
the year, and the fact that we're talking about uniforms
is my favorite part of my favorite game of the
year because it's always cool to see what these two
teams are going to do. And when Army came out
with with one hundred and first Airborne UH uniforms earlier
this week, I was really excited. You know there there
are certain things that that the Black Knights have done
over the last couple of years that I've been really
excited about. When they went to the matte black helmets.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Those those were so cool, Like the desert uh style
uh uniforms, when they when they had the sand you know,
the sand ye sand camo uh. You know, I was
really excited with those and for me, And it was funny.
I was watching the North Texas game with my mother
and she was like, She's like, I don't know any
of these guys' names because on the back of their
jerseys it says Army Instead. I said, it's because you
got to look at their over their uh over the
right uh uh over the right pack because that's where
the where the name plate is because that's where the
name plate is on the uniforms. Uh so, which which
I always think is really like one of the one
of the absolutely chef's kiss when it comes to Army's uniforms.
Speaker 3: And obviously they're gonna do that.
Speaker 4: Again here this year, uh with with the one hundred
and first yearborns as well. Uh love love Armies uniforms
this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Screaming Eagles, the Dark basically all black with
a touch of like you know, the snow pepper spring
on the shoulder pad. I mean, it's just they're just awesome.
So the night chefs fired, Yes, absolutely all right. The
Naval Academy they unveiled their uniforms a day later. They're
obviously the away teams, so they're gonna be the white
infused uniforms by under armor, and Navies are gonna be
honoring the Jolly Rogers. Fear the bones. Dude, what do
you think of navies?
Speaker 4: Well, obviously being a Navy guy, I absolutely first off,
when they when they said that they were unveiling second
I was like, oh, that's that's perfect.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I love anytime that they can they can get the
dig in uh, you know the academy as well. So uh,
the fact that they unveiled them second was was a
great little dig at army that I that made me smile.
I really love the Jolly Roger on the on the
helmet obviously, the stripe, uh with the with the flags
on the on the on the middle of the helmet
going going towards the the back of the uniform. I
absolutely love them. I I thought they were they were awesome.
I thought the white really pops out. Uh, it's gonna
be it's These are always great uniforms, and they they
looked fantastic.
Speaker 3: I really love them.
Speaker 2: And I think one of the reasons why I and
I think I'll speak for you and everybody at least
you and I, the reasons why we do love these
is they're always just so classic. You know, you don't
see them going crazy with like pink or something that
Oregon might do with some crazy, you know style UNI.
I think this is because the typically the academies obviously
are very classy. The colors are straightforward and usually fairly simple.
I think that's why they always pop, and they certainly
are gonna pop again. So if you haven't gotten to
see him, go to both Navies and Army's websites. You
can go to both them on social media. I'm sure
most of us are most of you listening right now,
you've seen them already, But if you haven't go check
them out. You're gonna want to take a look at
them before they hit the field for the Army Navy game.
All right, Stephen, A couple more things, just real quickly.
If you News and Notes, Jeff Bunkin named the AFCA
Regional Coach of the Year this week and also Air
Forces road game on Saturday, November the thirtieth against San
Diego State. That's gonna be a ten to thirty five
pm kickoff on Eastern Standard Time on Fox Sports One.
So a couple of news and notes to pass along,
including last week, Steven had Navy and he picked Air Force.
I was the exact opposite. I had Tulane and had
Oregon State. So we both swung and missed on one
of them, which we figured might happen, but we got
to make pick Steven before we let everybody go and
we get ready for this Titanic matchup on Saturday night.
I guess let's start. Let's let's not pick that, Let's
pick that one second. Yeah, air Force in Nevada, which
way are you going?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know, as I mentioned, I think that the Wolfpack
are going to try and make it difficult for Air
Force's defensive backfield.
Speaker 3: When they're on the field.
Speaker 4: The problem for Nevada is going to be that I
have a feeling that the Falcons offense is going to
find itself on the field a lot more than the
wolf Packs. So I'm going to take the Falcons to
win again this week. I'm saying twenty eight seventeen. I
think that they get a good, strong road win this
week and another conference victory for Troy Calhoun and company.
Speaker 2: All right, give me your score one more.
Speaker 3: Time, twenty eight to seventeen.
Speaker 2: Twenty eight to seventeen, all right, marking the tape. I
also am going with air Force as well. I think
it's gonna be a little bit more high scoring. I
think it's gonna be air Force thirty four to thirty because,
as history suggests, these are closed games when air Force
and Nevada get together. But I think the big thing is,
like Steven mentioned, I think air Force is gonna be
able to run the football. Boise State was the last
team that Nevada faced, and they they gave them everything
that they want before Boise State did pull it out.
They're at home twenty eight twenty one. But Boise State
behind Ashton gent Who A lot of people consider that
one of the Heisman favorites. They ran for two seventy
four in the win over Nevada. I think air Force
is gonna be able to do just that and maybe
then some behind Quin Hayes. So I think Troy Calhoun
is definitely onto something now with the sophomore So I
like air Force getting the win thirty four to thirty,
all right, Notre Dame and Army steven can Army? Will
Army pull it off?
Speaker 3: Can Army pull it off? Yes? I think they can.
Speaker 4: The problem is is that this game is not going
to go sixty five minutes.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I have a feeling that this is going to come
down to Army getting that last opportunity and just running
out of time. I have Notre Dame thirty Army twenty four.
Speaker 2: Wow, we are very close on our predictions. I'm with you.
I think it's gonna be a close football game. I
think Army is going to give them everything they want
and then some. The two keys to this game for
Army clearly taking care of the football, which which Navy
did not do. And the other thing is Army getting
off the field on third down when they have the
third and seven, third and eight. Can they get pressure
on Riley Leonard, which they've shown in the past that
they can, and can they get that stop when they
get pressure on them? Can they get off the field
on third down? To me, those are the two biggest
keys for Army knocking off Notre Dame. In the end,
I just think like you, I think it's just going
to be a little bit too much talent and too
much Irish. I like the Irish thirty one to twenty
one over Army in this game. All right, let's let
everybody get out of here. We will be back again
early next week on Thanksgiving week. We'll set the table
for you early literally, not figuratively, as I know everybody's
gonna be setting their own tables getting ready for some stuffing,
some turkey and everything later in the week. But we
will set it for you on the football end of
things early next week with an early podcast for you
to listen on your holiday travels wherever it is you
may be going to, but for Stephen Carney on Pryce Sackinson,
enjoy the games this weekend. Don't forget Yards and Stripes.
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