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: Welcome in listeners a Friday edition of Yards and Stripes,
your home for Service Academy Football on Pryce Atkinson. He
is Stephen Carney, the best co host and producer in
the business, as we are part of the College grideron
Coast to Coast podcast network, also available at last Word
on sports dot Com. I say Friday edition because we
are apologizing. I personally will apologize because we are just
now getting this episode out here midday Friday day before
games start. It has been that kind of a week
on my end, so I apologize to Steven and our listeners.
But nonetheless we come to you with more service Academy
football content, especially especially after the first leg of the
Commander in Chief Trophy last weekend. We will not get
a Poppy Yann's pizza because it is still in the
am hour, unless you are frequenting QT or some other
place that has breakfast pizza, which I had last weekend
for the first time at a Boy Scout camp out,
which I was actually pretty good. Interesting, it was. It
was very interesting. But when you wake up with a
bunch of young lads out in the chill on a
chili Saturday morning and have coffee brought straight from QT
and the breakfast pizza you devour and enjoy it, so.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I would assume. So I for me, I
am a breakfast burrito kind of guy.
Speaker 2: I got too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was the breakfast pizza. I mean, you can.
Speaker 3: Turn breakfast pizza into a breakfast burrito. That's that I
think is pretty easy. So you just kind of give it.
Speaker 2: A little roll. Yeah, I didn't complain because it was
brought straight fresh from the store and another dad brought
it in, so I was. I was mighty happy with that.
Otherwise I would have if I was walking in the door,
I was going with one of their biscuits or one
of their breakfast tacos that actually like so couldn't do that.
But it was good nonetheless, but still different with the
gravy as the sauce, and then the cheese and the
egg and then the bacon and the sausage. So it
was it wasn't bad. It was bad. It does work,
and it did work, but it worked for Navy last weekend.
We do have our Papa John's or I mean, excuse me,
we do have a Travis Manning foundation on a roll segment.
We got three games this coming weekend, but we got
the two to recap from last weekend, and let's do
that right now, Steven, without further ado. Because it was
the first leg of the CIC Trophy and the Navy
midshipman in an offensive slug vest before the tenth largest
crowd at Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium history, they outlast
Air Force thirty four to thirty one. Is now Navy
is five and o, air Force dropping to one and four.
Navy's won eight straight going back to last year, and
seventy six straight when leading after three quarters. But more importantly,
they are five and oh for the first time. It's
nineteen seventy nine, and they have a leg up in
the CIC Trophy. As we mentioned offensive slug vest that ironically,
it was a defensive play that made the difference, the
ultimate difference in the game. Score tied at thirty one all,
Nathan Kirkwood kicks a thirty four yard field goal for
Navy with six forty seven to break the tie give
Navy the lead after they were stopped short. But then
Air Forces on the move has the ball inside Navy territory,
but Navy linebacker Jackson Campbell deflex a Liam sark A
pitch that Landon Robinson recovered with three minutes remaining, and
Blake Corbath put the kapra on this with a first
down on a third and eight keeper that ended the game.
And what a game it was. As we told you
not to go cliche, but it does not matter what
each team has done to this point. It never does
when it comes to the CIC Trophy game. Stephen, and
this game delivered everything you could want before a national
TV audience on CBS. Yeah, it's amazing to think that
two teams that are known for their discipline and known
for being able.
Speaker 4: To stop things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they stood in the middle of the ring like
Rocky Bombo and Apollo Green and just slugged each other.
Speaker 4: I mean, you look at it.
Speaker 3: There was not There was not much that that either
team did that the other team couldn't do. It was
a case of anything you can do, I can do better.
You know, maybe starts the game with a field goal,
Air Force goes down and scores a touchdown, and then
you know, and then in the second quarter it was
the other It was the other way around. Air Force
starts the second quarter with a field goal to go
up ten to three, and instead of being able to
punch it into the end zone for a touchdown, I mean,
and they went almost ninety yards on that drive, so
it was a short field goal. Navy turns around and
scores a touchdown to tie the game. And at that
point you knew it was on like Donkey Kong so
and it really was. It was you know, air Force
takes a lead, maybe comes back, Navy takes lead, air
Force comes back, And really it did come down to
that one defensive play and that's all that's all it
took for for this game to be decided. Is that
one late defensive play that allowed h Navy to prevent
Air Force from either tying this game or taking the
lead again, and then they were able to run out
the clock.
Speaker 4: It was it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, if you wanted an exciting game, you couldn't
do any better than what we saw last Saturday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, you could say that both defensive
struggled for most of the day. But you know, Navy
certainly did, but they came up when they needed to
to make the play to save the day. And this
was a game that was a bit higher scoring than
what is a typical Service Academy game. Certainly you could
you could say that without with total affirmation had they
been in the Ford in the forties. But still scoring,
you know, thirty plus boat teams. That's that's fairly high
or higher than your normal average Service Academy game, just
simply because these teams always just they know each other
so well.
Speaker 3: But Navy doesn't usually give up four hundred and sixty
yards of offense. No, Navy's defense is much better than that,
especially on the ground. You know, giving up two hundred
and eleven yards on the ground to Air Force, that's
certainly something that Brian Newberry was gonna harp on this
week that you know, if you want to you want
to continue being one of the top tier teams in
the American Conference, you cannot do that.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: Well, well, you know, the offensive show was led by
none other than the two quarterbacks, Liam Sarka for Air
Force Blake Corbath from Navy. Sarka was outstanding two hundred
and twelve yards, passing two touchdowns without a pick, ran
a team high twenty five times for one point fifty two.
Those were game highs actually as well, and Sarka also
had two rushing touchdowns. But you know what, Blake, Blake
Corbas said, whatever you can do, I can do it better,
as he was twenty twenty six for three hundred and
thirty nine yards in three touchdowns, and then he ran
seventeen times for one thirty and a touchdown to become
the first Navy player to throw for three hundred and
rush for one hundred in the game since Brian Broadwater
did back in two thousand, my first year working in
the sports information department at the Naval Academy. The four
hundred and sixty nine yards total offense are passing the
previous single game record up set by Will Worth in
twenty sixteen of four hundred and twenty eight. But you
know what, Blake Corbath had a sidekick in this one too.
Eli Heidinriich eight catches, two hundred and forty three yards
and three touchdowns the seniors three touchdowns in the game,
matching a single game record, and he now has fourteen
career receiving touchdowns the most in Navy history. And we've
said it, you know, time and time again. You know,
Navy's playmakers are stepping up, and they did it just
again on Saturday in the offensive Spectacle Steven.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man.
Speaker 3: And the one thing that I will say about Navy's
offense that.
Speaker 4: You uh, that you couldn't say.
Speaker 3: Uh, was the same about Air Forces, is they kept
play Corvath upright, you know.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: That was the one thing that Navy was able to do.
They were able to get to Horvath.
Speaker 4: I know, Landa.
Speaker 3: Robinson had a sack and a half in this game,
which which proved out to be a big, a big deal,
you know, with with the with the way that Sarka
was playing. You know, if you weren't able to get
if you weren't going to be able to get to him,
you were gonna have a hard time stopping him.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And you know, after the game, the second deaf
Pete Hegseth, greeted the Navy team in the locker room.
There was no flyover because of the government shutdown, so
it was a little bit uh, I'm not saying anti
climactic in any way, It just didn't have the normal
kind of pomp and circumstances you might have, especially pregame
with things going on down the road in DC. But
we'll say those political things for some other day and
some other show. As Navy thirty four to thirty one
over Air Force now having the leg up in the
Commander in Chief trophy, all right. Also last week and
Army on on the field again, they were taken on
UAB and the Fighting Trent Dilfers and Army a thirty
one to thirteen win on the road in Birmingham as
Kate Helms was back under center, running for three scores
in the second half, as Army got its first conference
win of the season to improve the two and three
one and two in the American Wall the Fighting Trent
Dilfers two and three, zero and two in the American Yeah,
and you know, you look at what Helms was able
to do. I mean there was this was almost the
complete opposite of Navy and Air Force when it came
to offense.
Speaker 3: You look at it. Neither of these teams broke four
hundred yards of offense. Army was held to under three
hundred yards of total offense two hundred and ninety five,
but most of that came on the ground two hundred
and forty seven yards of offense on the ground, led
by Helms, as you mentioned, with eighty one yards, but
they had by my count one two three four five
players rushed more than five times. They had sixty one
carries on the ground and most of them coming from Helms.
You mentioned the three touchdowns. They they were very fortunate.
They had a couple of very short fields in this game.
You know. They they got the ball twice from UAB
on turnovers, They recovered a fumble, they got an interception
of Jared Kittna as well. And really, you know, this
all stems, you know, Armies win stemmed from the fact
that they were able to bend but not break in
that in the first quarter, you know, I mean, you
think about it. UAB had the ball for a large
chunk of that first quarter, a twelve play drive that
only encompassed forty yards is which is incredible. They end
up missing the field goal, so that that tends to
be a good sign that you get a shorter feel
at that point. They were able to go down and
score a touchdown to start the second quarter in that game,
you know, a ten minute drive to finish off things.
Eighteen plays in seventy four yards. You're doing that to
the fighting Trent Delfers and unfortunately for them, they rolled
over at that point. You look at their next couple
of possessions were both three and outs. Army also did
not have a whole lot in that time, but they
ground down the period and after UAV was able to
tie it, they get a field goal to go ahead
at the at the end of the half and then
we're able to start putting some distance in front of
them in the second half. They get another touchdown in
the second half to pull to ten points up and
then started the fourth quarter with another touchdown. Now you're
up seventeen at that point and you can kind of
cruise from there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Army out gained you know, by about you know,
seventy something yards, but you know, coming up key on
a couple third downs, you know, three or four on
fourth down. Excuse me, you know. But then the discipline
in the penalties for UAB really kind of let I
don't want to say, let Army off the hook, but
certainly did not hurt the cause with the two turnovers.
Speaker 3: Eleven eleven penalties is a is a big number to
try and overcome, and UAB just couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which Army was fairly high in terms of you
know what they would average in penalties seven for fifty yards.
But you know, nonetheless, they played turnover free football, which
was important, and that's one of the things that Jeff
Mankin had stressed his team and getting back to the basics,
taking care of the football, doing the doing the little
things and get back to fundamentals. And it worked as
amazing what can happen when you do that. And they
kept John or jayly kitting in check. You know, that
was huge in the game, as they kept him for
just twenty four forty two two fifty nine after he
entered the game fifth in the nation with three hundred
and fifteen yards a game, third completions, completing seventy two
percent of his passes. So the Army defense doing a
great job, especially as in the second half, just giving
up the six points here in the fourth quarter. All right,
let's uh, let's give out some game balls here, Steven.
We'll let you fire first, because I think we're gonna
look up probably at the same game that Commander in
Chief Trophy game, because there were some mighty big performances
on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 3: Absolutely and obviously number one for me. When you say
that somebody has done something that has not been done
in the one hundred and forty six year history of
Navy midshipman football, you gotta get a game ball for me.
So that goes to Eli heiden Rake for two hundred
and forty three yards of receiving and three touchdowns on
eight catches to give Navy though victory in or to
help give Navy the victoration say in the first leg
of the cic Trophy.
Speaker 4: So yeah, Eli Heidenrake for me.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna go Well, I'm gonna kind of
go too. I'm gonna give up. I'm gonna give an
honorable mention to Jackson Campbell, the linebacker for a Navy
who deflected the pitch by Sarka that Landon Robinson recovered
because they were on their heels. And it really I
thought our air force was gonna go down in there
and score the game winning touchdown. You know, it's a
game of big plays or big plays by both offenses,
but with that much time left on the clock, I
thought we were at at least minimum for overtime. If not,
you know, if Falcons win and at a time where
they needed it most, they came up with and it
was Jackson Robinson, you know, jumping up and getting a
pall in that pitch. So he's gonna get honorable mentioned.
But look, Blake freaking horror Bath, I don't know how
you can look much further than that. I mean, four
hundred and sixty nine yards of total offense, you know,
breaking the single game record three thirty nine passing, one
thirty rushing on the ground, as I mentioned, the first
the senior captain, first Navy player to go for three
hundred yards passing and one hundred rushing in a single
game since Brian Broadwater back in two thousand. That's what
that name is, a blast from the past. So Blake
Horrmath gonna get my game ball in a game that
was full of drama, full of fun, and full of excitement.
Maybe not excitement if you were an Air Force fan,
but boy, if you're an Air Force fan, you still
had to be encouraged by the performance that you saw,
not by the result. You don't take moral victories in
this case. I totally get it, folks, But better you
played a lot better. And not only that, you had
a chance, you had the ball and a chance to
win the whole football game at the end. So yeah, absolutely,
all right, We've got our Travis Meaning Foundation on a roll.
We've got three games to preview coming up. We got
picks to make Steve, and are going to do that
here on our Friday edition as we roll along, Steven.
As we are part of the College Gridirn Coast to
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There is a whole lot to set the table for you.
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continuing to make its case for being the best team
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they the Hurricanes are able to do that. They got
a big win over Florida State last week, and so
Jeff and Matthew talk about Miami, the Big ten paradigm
of course, talking about Penn State losing to UCLA, the
first time a top ten team lost to an zero
to four team in the history of college football.
Speaker 4: What that means for James Franklin.
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and m and Texas Tech continuing to dominate in the
lone star state. And they even get into Abilene Christian Football.
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Burnt and Florida Football Insiders. Of course, Miami Florida USF
all winning last week. USF's got a big one this
week that I've got to deal with in fact, that
is tonight in Denton, Texas as USF takes on North Texas.
That could a big one in the American And of
course the Big twelve sec breakdown talking Red River rivalry,
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Speaker 2: Got a whole lot for you there, and we got
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
and Stripes Service Academy Football.
Speaker 2: Army, Navy and Air Force. Yes, that is what we
do here on Yards and Stripes. Appreciate you tuning in
spending a little time with us to get ready for
this weekend. And that is what Stephen Carney and I
Price Accent are gonna do is we're gonna set the
table for the weekend. And we've got three games coming
up as we were recording on Friday, so tomorrow a
triple header starting on it will up at Mikey on
the CBS Sports Network at twelve noon Charlotte hitting the
road to take on the Black Knights. Charlotte one in four,
zero and two in the American Army, looking for a
second straight win as they are two and three overall,
one and two in the American Army, A seventeen and
a half point favorite in this one. I believe it's
down from what was eighteen and a half. So a
seventeen and a half point favorite are the Black Knights
forty five and a half. It's the over under as
they're looking for that first win at mikey This Stadium,
which is kind of hard to believe. But Charlotte has
dropped its last two outings both American games, losing to
Rice in South Florida last week, fell on the road
last Friday evening at USF there and Steven's Neck of
the Woods fifty four to twenty six. Who you saw
them and I got we'll make some picks here in
our last segment, certainly, but I think that Army's gonna
have a field day with this one. I think they're
going to get that second straight win in the conference
and that first win at home. I don't think Army
is gonna have a lot of problems, but you know what,
you still got to show up and that's why you
play them.
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely.
Speaker 3: I got a chance to see Charlotte up close and
personal last Friday night here in Tampa. They came to
Raymond James Stadium to take on the South Florida Bulls
and USF jumped out on them huge early. I mean
it was twenty three nothing at the end of the
first quarter. It was twenty six nothing in the first half,
and USF kind of took their foot off the gas
at that point.
Speaker 4: They had to score.
Speaker 3: They scored three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to really
make it a laugher again. But this is a forty
nine ers team. They are not very good at stopping
the run, which obviously Army.
Speaker 4: Does really really well.
Speaker 3: And so I mean Byron Brown, the USF quarterback, had
one hundred and sixty three yards rushing on the game
and didn't play most of the fourth quarter, so they
they they gave up. I want to say it was
close to seven hundred there. There was close almost seven
hundred yards of offense from from from the USF in
this game. Was it was unreal at how much offense
was was put up by by the Bulls and you know,
I will I will say this. They changed quarterbacks in
the first quarter and they went to Zach Wilkie and
he looked a lot better than the first quarterback they had.
He and I mean he went fourteen for eighteen two touchdowns.
Did throw an interception that led to a USF score.
You know, they but they they didn't. They don't have
Connor Harrell and they don't expect him to be ready
for this game.
Speaker 4: CJ.
Speaker 3: Stokes has been banged up a lot this year, so
a lot of their offense has been not at one
hundred percent and I don't expect it to be one
hundred percent in this game. Is I think that holds
well for Army as we as we get ready for
this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of interesting that Charlotte is finally back on
playing on a Saturday. They've already played three weekday games
this year, which kind of tells you about the forty
nine ers show being somewhat of an afterthought there. But
they'll be back playing on a Saturday for the first
time in a couple of weeks. So coach head coach
Tim Albin, squad gonna try and find a way to
manufacture a road win. I just don't see having I
think Army roles, but we will find out. As I say,
twelve noon kickoff there at Mikey Stadium on the CBS
Sports Network, Army is seventy and a half point favorite.
All right, move on out West, UNLV the fighting Dan Mullins,
Holy Cow five and OH undefeated at one and OH
in the Mountain West. Air Force heading to Vegas for
a Saturday three thirty Eastern Standard time kickoff, also on
the CBS Sports Network is UNLV. I just had it.
Where did it go? I had my point spread and it.
Speaker 3: Is It is UNLV by six and a half over
under is sixty three and a half, six and a
half down from seven and a half.
Speaker 2: There we go.
Speaker 3: So Army, all right, excuse me. Air Force definitely getting
a little bit of love, but yeah, it is still
a very decisive UNLV favorite.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Air Force the leading the overall series eight to seven,
also nine and four in games played at UNLV. But
UNLV did defeat Air Force in the last meeting thirty
one to twenty seven there in twenty three at Falcon
Stadium to snap a five game losing strake in the series.
But look, this is a different I think we can
all agree Steve, that Dan Mullen's coming there and made
a difference immediately with quarterback Anthony Calandra transfer out of Virginia.
You mentioned they're five and oh one to zero in
the Mount West. This is the first time, think now,
this is we're talking perennial, you know, first time in
fifty one years that UNLV is five and oh steven.
And not only that, they lead them out less. And
you think Dan Mullen in offense, well, they're doing it defensively.
They lead them out less and third down defense, fourth
down conversions, block punts, defensive touchdowns, fumble recoveries, interceptions, turnover margin.
They're doing it with defense, ironically, still with a more
than capable offense. So impressive what Dan Mullen has been
able to do in a very very short time there
in Vegas, where it's a place that's been very hard
to win at.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Another quarterback that I have gotten to see in person,
Anthony Calandria went to Lakewood High School here in Saint Petersburg.
So so a guy that I have seen up close
and personal. Not a surprise that Dan Mullen went after him. Obviously,
he recruited the state very well when he was the
head coach of the Florida Cators. And when when I
saw that Calandria went into the transfer portal this last
offseason and was like, Oh, he's going to UNLV.
Speaker 4: I wonder what that's all about.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Obviously Dan Mullen getting his hooks into somebody from the
Sunshine State.
Speaker 4: He's been a fantastic quarterback for them here this year.
Speaker 3: They've had some some pretty good rushing totals as well
a very balanced attack from the running rebels. But as
you mentioned, their defense has been the reason why they
are five and zero this year. Granted, the the teams
that they have played not the you know they're not.
They haven't beaten an SEC or a Big ten team.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: I guess, I guess you could say they have beat
a Big ten team with a with UCLA, I always forget.
I always think of them as Pac twelve, not Big ten.
But they're a Big ten team now. Uh But apart
from UCLA, which gets gets better every week, you know,
because of them beating Penn State, but you know, they
beat Idaho State, they beat Sam Houston, they beat Miami
of Ohio, and they beat Wyoming in their only Mountain
West game so far this year. But they put a
hurtin on the Cowboys in Laramie. So that's a that's
not an easy place to play, and they went in
there and handled it quite easily.
Speaker 4: So you know, unfortunately for Troy.
Speaker 3: Calhoun and company, this is going to be I think, uh,
one of one of the tougher tests that they have
this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, without a doubt. To me, this game
is all about one thing, and that's the Air Force
defense being better than what they've been all season. Because
you just went through a couple you know, basically you
and l the schedule of this point five and oh
they've scored over thirty points and all their wins. But
the Air Force has got to find a way to
be better defensively because in their three losses in the
American they've gave it given up forty plus points in
all three of those games. Obviously they gave up thirty
four last weekend to Navy. You've got to be better.
You've got to get off the field on third down,
you've got to get stopped. So to me, this is
really Stephen about the Air Force defense. Can they be
better than they've been all season. Something tells me no,
but we'll find out. I just think that UNLV's got
a whole lot rolling right now, is we'll we will
make some picks here in the in the last segment.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 3: And if you're not gonna be able to stop either
the run or the pass of the rebels.
Speaker 4: You've got no shot at winning.
Speaker 3: You got it. You've got to You've got to make
them one dimensional. And if you can't do that, you're
in trouble.
Speaker 2: All right, last game of the weekend, This is gonna
be a four o'clock kick on ESPN two Navy at
Temple to undefeated teams in the American Are I believe
right now my count is six undefeated teams still in
the Americans. So this one's gonna knock another from the
ranks of unbeaten in the conference. Again at four o'clock
kickoff ESPN to Navy five and oh, three and oh
in the American Temple three and two, one and oh
in the American Navy a ten and a half point
favor over Under fifty two and a half as the
midshipman looking to get Bowl eligible for a second consecutive year,
getting it out of the way early. But this is
gonna be a homecoming game for Temple. Why they picked Navy,
I don't know. But Temple is also the only team,
the only team in the FBS that has yet to
commit a turnover this year. So turnover free football is
the name of the game. And this one at Lincoln
Financial Field certainly in place that Navy knows all too
well playing that annual Army Navy game there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I was looking at their their senior quarterback,
Evan Simon, you know, for for so long, you know,
I always I always think of when I think Temple.
Speaker 4: I always thought of EJ. Warner as the as the quarterback.
Speaker 3: But you know Simon, uh, you know, from from that area,
is from Mountjoy.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And as you mentioned, no turnovers so far this year
for the Owls, and he's thrown twelve touchdowns so far.
He's got over eight hundred yards passing and twelve touchdowns.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, had a really really tough showing a couple
of weeks ago against George Tech. You know, only one
hundred and twenty seven yards passing.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, it was averaging four yards of completion, which
is not a not a great look to have but
but came back, had a much better game, a much
stronger game last week against UTSA in UH in their
conference win. UH.
Speaker 4: That's that which is always a good sign.
Speaker 3: But you know, not turning the ball over that that's
the sort of thing that you want to see from
a service Academy team. And so if they can get
Temple to make mistake especially you know, this this is
a home game for Temple, but as you mentioned, this
is not a unfamiliar This is not unfamiliar territory for
Navy because obviously for so many years they you know,
they've played the Army Navy game so many times at
this stadium. So I certainly think that this is a
much better situation that Navy finds themselves in. And and really,
when you look at the American and you look at
the top tier teams, you know, you think of there
are five teams right now that I consider top tier
programs in this conference. Navy is obviously one, Memphis, Chilane,
North Texas, and South Florida. Those are your top five
in whatever order you want to put them. I don't
put Temple in that in that stretch though, if Temple
were to come out and get a victory in this
you have to consider them to be in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think the jury to me is still
really out out and what you're alluding to right now,
because you know, they beat handily two terrible teams U
Mass and Howard, you know, to start the season. Then
they played two really good teams and got thumped pretty
good by Oklahoma and Georgia Tech, two teams that are
ranked inside the top twenty currently right now, and then
they beat UTSA. I don't think it's you know, anything
to write home about by a touchdown last week, So
to me, how good is Temple? But I still think
the fact that you played against two top twenty teams
and you didn't turn the ball over, you know, is
a It's very more than respectable, clearly. But you know,
all time series, Navy does lead ten to nine in
last twenty years and the Mids are eleven and nine
in the game after playing Air Force. So we'll see
how Navy comes out in this one, you know, because
you're gonna have to manufacture a little energy after getting
up last week for the first CIC game, playing at home,
but you know, it's a big weekend in Philadelphia. Steven,
you know, in the in the surrounding area for the
Academy with you know, United States Navy in the United
States Marine Corps. You know, not only is Navy football
playing in Philadelphia, the Navy soccer teams are hosting Army
and a double header on Friday night at Subaru Park,
home of the Philadelphia Union. That's a double header that's
part of the Army Navy Star Series. So that those
games going to be happening tonight, you know, the weekend
celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth birthdays of the Navy
and the Marine Corps. So you know, a lot happening
there really around Philadelphia and a lot of excitement around
you know, the Naval Academy.
Speaker 3: You're you're so, you're telling me, Michael Kelly's got a
busy weekend in front of him.
Speaker 4: And that's a.
Speaker 2: Pretty darn busy weekend, I'll say so, is once again
Navy at Temple a four o'clock kickoff on ESPN two.
Maybe a ten and a half point road favorite in
this one. All right, we got our Travis Median Foundation
honor roll, we got a few quick notes to pass along,
we got some picks to make. We'll do that when
we come back. Steve Carney and Price sackets and you're
on Yards and Stripes.
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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 of yards and stripe see
Steve Carney and I am Pryce Ackinson. We were part
of the College Great Area Coast to Coast podcast network
and a couple of news notes just to pass along.
A real quick Armies game at Tulane on Saturday, October
the eighteenth. That's going to be a twelve new kickoff
on ESPN. U Blake Corbath named the American Conference Offensive
Player of the Week, no surprise there, and then Air
Force senior tight end Bruin Fleischmann earned the John Mackie
tight End of the Week award for a big day
at Navy last week in a career high six catches
one hundred and sixty six yards with a touchdown. So
off Fleischman. Six catches are the most actually by a
Falcon this season and the most by a tight end
the Troy Calhoun era. One hundred and sixty six yards
are the twelve most in program history and most ever
buy a tight end, So congratulations to him. All Right, Steven,
we got some games to pick. Let's see how different
we might be on our picks and the way we're
going to go this week, and let's start with Charlotte
at Army twelve, noon, CBS Sports Network. Army a big
home favorite by seventeen and a half points in this one.
I don't think there's probably any doubt that Army wins.
I think the question is by how much? Which way
are you going with your score?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I certainly am not not going to take the
forty nine ers in this game, Absolutely not. I think Army.
I think Army wins this game. I think Army wins
this game by three touchdowns. I think this is probably
I'm going to say thirty five fourteen, Army winning this one,
very very handily. Again, forty nine ers saw him in
person this past week.
Speaker 4: They can't stop the run. You can run through them made.
Speaker 3: Their defensive line is like Swiss cheese, and a lot
of that has to do with the with injuries. But
I think that Kate Kate, excuse me, cal Hellums and
and company, they're they're gonna have no problems with this.
Speaker 2: All right. So you you're you're going with Army, Well
give me the score again. Forty nine to fourteen thirty five,
fourteen thirty five four Oh man, god, we're we don't
discuss these, you know, in advance, I had I've got
Army thirty five to ten, So we were exactly the
same score for Army. We were just barely off on
opponent score. And like I said, we do not usually compare,
you know, our scores a lot. Sometimes we'll chit chat
about who we think is gonna win. But you know,
you are always pretty close. I think doing this now
for several years together, we're we're of the same mind
most of the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: Second game, Steven air Force at UNLV A big one
for air Force being challenged on the road, especially coming
after having to travel out e to Annapolis last weekend.
An emotional game Commander Chief Trophy game with this one
a three thirty kickoff on the CBS Sports Network right
after Charlotte Armydue battle UNLV undefeated five and zero, one
to oh in the American As UNLV is at home
six and a half point favorite. Can't air Force do
it get that first American Conference win? I mean first
Mount West Wind. I don't think so, what say you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think so either.
Speaker 3: I think this is going to be a much tougher
task for UNLV than they've had so far this year,
Allegiance Stadium is going to be packed. You know that
they are coming, that Falcons fans and the whole group
from Colorado Springs is going to make the trip to
watch this game in you know, one of the nicest
stadiums in the country. Allegiate Stadium is just absolutely beautiful.
Anthony Calandria I mentioned him or earlier. He's from Lakewood
High School. I've gotten a chance to see him in person.
He was one of the best high school football quarterbacks
here in this area when when he was playing, So
I'm I'm really excited to see what he does in
this game. Unfortunately, I think that air Force just falls short.
I think this one is thirty four to twenty four UNLV.
All right, this is where we're probably gonna differ a
little bit.
Speaker 2: I like you like UNLV, I just don't like it
to be nearly as close you're going thirty four to
twenty four. I just think the problem is that air
Force has got on defense right now, especially when it's
in conference games, is a major issue, and I don't
see them getting any better. I think air Force coming
off the Navy game, I think they're going to be
fairly flat in this one, you know, because you usually
think of UNLV as one of those cellar dwellers in
the conference, and they are anything button the Mount West
this year. So I'm going with UNLV forty nine to fourteen,
A big, huge win for UNLV at home over or
visiting Air Force. All right, Finally, a four o'clock Eastern
Standard time kickoff there from Lincoln Financial Field, City of
brotherly love. Navy at Temple in a game that I
think is gonna be pretty darn close down to the end.
Now we'll get Steven's pick first, but I don't know
which way this is gonna go. Well I do. I
think Navy wins, But boy, I think this one's gonna
be close. Stephen, what do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I would think that if if Temple doesn't
turn the ball over, I think you're right. I think
that this gets to be much closer game. But I
don't think that happens. I think not only does Navy
force Temple to commit their first turnover of the year,
I think they get two of them, and so and
I think they turned both of them into seven points each.
So I think that this is a little further away
than you. I am gonna say that Navy beats Temple,
and I'm going to.
Speaker 4: Say that it is How do I want to how
do I want to put this?
Speaker 3: I think this is gonna be forty two twenty eight
because because I think they get those turnovers and I
think they turn them into points.
Speaker 4: So I think it's forty two twenty eight, all right.
Speaker 2: I think this one is much closer. I like Navy
thirty one to thirty. And I think, you know, again,
the emotion coming off the Air Force game as mentioned
eleven and nine, is Navy coming off in the game
right after the air Force game in the last in
the last twenty years. And I think this is one
of those better Navy teams, certainly in the last twenty years.
But you know, the emotion and then going on the road,
you know against the Temple team, that's that's you know
that again, this is one that you think Sellar Dweller
a lot of times. Finally EJ. Warner not there. But
I think this is just gonna be a close one.
I don't know if it's going to be a field
goal at the end that wins it. I don't know
if it's gonna be Temple that's scrapping and Clawn, but
I think it's gonna be closed thirty one thirty Navy.
So we we all we both like Army, we both
like UNLV, and we like Navy and this one. Steven, Yeah,
all right, brother, Well let's get out of here because
it's Friday. Everybody's got to the weekend to get ready
for all three games. Best producer co hosts in the
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right Steve, Yes, absolutely, all right, brother, enjoy it, have
a good weekend. We will see you next week.
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