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Speaker 1: Need to get your football fixed 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: Reached Championship Week here on Yards and Stripes your home

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for Service Academy Football. He is Steve Carney and I

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am Price Atkinson, and we are Yards and Stripes Service

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Academy Football. That would be Army, that would be Navy,

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and that obviously yes third times a charm that would

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be Air Force. And we're just excited you're tuning in

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with us again this week. As I mentioned, it is

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championship week and Army the Black Knights, they have a chance, Stephen,

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to do something that they have never done before, and

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that is when a conference championship by playing against Tulane

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on Friday night in the extreme cold up there in

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West Point. We're gonna talk all about it here in

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just a little bit, but we've got three games to recap.

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We had a great week because all three of our

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teams had a clean sweep. We've got our Travis Manning

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foundation on a roll segment. We got some picks to make,

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and we've got a lot of postseason accolades that are

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rolling in as well as the final set of college

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football playoff rankings. They are on tap to be delivered

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on Sundays, so we'll kind of see how this playoff

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shakes out. Well, one thing we can tell you really quickly,

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real fast, before we get the Steve Carney Poppy's pizza

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report tonight, Army did check in at number twenty four

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and the latest college football playoff rankings released last night,

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which that would have been Tuesday, and they are twenty

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four and the Ape Pole and twenty three in the

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Coaches Bowl after getting the win over UTSA last weekend. First, Steven,

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how the hell are you? Did you have a great Thanksgiving?

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I'm sure you're now pivoted fully from the dressing, the

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stuffing the turkey back to a delicious meat lover Bobby

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on pizza tonight. But tell us make us all hungry,

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tell us what the succulent toppings are on that that

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piece of pie tonight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The first off, happy Thanksgiving to you Price and

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and to your lovely bride and your family up there

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in South Carolina.

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Speaker 4: I hope it was a good one for you, as

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it certainly was for me.

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Speaker 3: Uh, as for pizza this week, let me tell you

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how delicious the pizza has been this week. I did

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not uh bring my wife, make my wife go get

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uh Papa Yan's today because we had pizza yesterday at

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at at Emily Arena as we were was we were

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doing USF basketball. Nothing for me goes better with college

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basketball than a big old pie split like four ways

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between four very hungry people. Uh and uh and some

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nice soft drinks to go down with it, because you

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know we're working uh so uh there'll be no beer

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with the pizza this tide. But uh, but we had

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we got like these these big like New York style

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or as I call them, regular pizza uh slices from

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a place close to close to campus. Uh you know,

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you know those slices that are so big you got

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to use two paper plates to hold them.

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Speaker 4: Oh god, yeah, they're the they're the best. I love them.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: We there's a place right by campus that that does

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the that does the slice.

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Speaker 4: And it's the best, it really is.

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Speaker 3: So uh definitely definitely enjoyed the pizza on Tuesday doing

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a USFU basketball and I'm sure that my wife was like, look,

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if you want pizza, tonight, you're gonna have to like

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go get some like Totino's pizza rolls or something like

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that and make it yourself, because I don't want to

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see another pizza in this out come on.

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Speaker 2: Emily can't do pizza every night of the week.

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Speaker 4: Not every night of the week now, No, no, no.

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Speaker 3: Nope, she she had uh uh look at me price.

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Speaker 4: Of course I can do pizza every night of the week.

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Speaker 3: Uh, you know, uh, thankfully, we have a little Asian

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place called the Eastern Kitchen right by right by the

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crib that that we definitely like a little Eastern fusion.

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So they've got Chinese, they've got tie, they've got Japanese,

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just a really great, uh little place. So I got

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myself a nice, a nice bowl with some with some

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baked chicken in it and some rice and some broccoli

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and some sweet corn because you know, I've had so

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much from you know, turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes

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and sweet potato casserole and corn castrole that my sister

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in law makes, which is just chef's kiss delicious. You know,

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we have, you know, had all the get ups and

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then go to pizza. Uh, you know, you don't want

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me being five hundred pounds. Uh, you know, hosting this,

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hosting the showing the price. You know, we're already you know,

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stretching the limits of the resolution on my webcam. And

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it could only get worse from here.

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Speaker 2: Well, I got two things that I'm gonna I'm gonna

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just throw out there. From from that, uh that pontification

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about food and in your general weight loss program or

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lack thereof or lack their off I was gonna say

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is number one, you might have the best crib location

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in all of Tampa because with the Poppys it's closed.

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then you've got that wing place that you rubbed in

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my face a couple of weeks ago when you literally

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go steps.

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Speaker 4: I've got your door, I've got I've got.

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Speaker 3: A Caribbean Uh, I've got a Caribbean joint. Like directly

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across the street, I've got a Cuban place right, you know,

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a couple of blocks down, I've got taco places. Uh,

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you know a couple of blocks the other way. It's

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it is like this is like the perfect spot for

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food if you if you live in the Tampa Bay

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region is Saint Petersburg because there's food everywhere and it's

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all good.

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Speaker 2: The other thing I was gonna throw out there is

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I was going to tell you the same kind of thing.

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By Saturday morning, I was completely ready to pivot away

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from all the Thanksgiving feast and festivities. Not that I

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don't enjoy. I love Feast week, but I couldn't do

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another you know, leftover ham turkey. I had to go

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get me a sub for my angles. I like, I

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just had to go get me a sub to go

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with Delicious for college. Yeah, I mean, I just I

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had to. I had to break away. I had to

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say enough, wasn't it.

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Speaker 3: So the problem with there being publics by my by

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my work is that during road games, you know, at

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home games for the lightning, they they they cater you know,

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we've got like the media meal and stuff like that,

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so so I can so I usually eat the media

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meal for those games, but on road games, I still

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have to go to amily arena, but there's nobody there.

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Speaker 4: So across the street from the arena.

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Speaker 3: Is a giant high rise apartment slash condo building and

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at the in the on the first floor is a

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grocery store. I'm great set up great publics there, and

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they of course have subs. I saw I be getting

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their holiday sub for the last month, which is Turkey. Yeah,

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and you know cranberry relish and bacon and grey are

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cheese and it's just delicious.

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Speaker 4: It is delicious though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, public subs are great. I will tell you it's

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price sacrilegious to say that I do like Ingle subs

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better because I know that public subs are raged. They're good.

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I just I don't like the bread so chewy. I

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like the bread really soft, and that's what Ingles does.

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it's all in the bread. So I love Jimmy John's.

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But I'm not going to get into a of sub debate,

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a HOGI debate, I mean, because I know we could

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really go off the rails and just do subs all night.

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Because I haven't eaten dinner and forgot to eat dinner.

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With so many things, I don't want to make myself

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like starving as I get bed here as soon as

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we're done. But let's plow ahead, Stephen, shall we? Because

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it was a big weekend. The dust has now settled,

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it will be too lane that Army this Friday night

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for the American Athletic Conference Championship. Before we talk about that,

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let's go in chronological order, because we did have Black Friday.

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If we had a Black Friday affair, Navy in East

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Carolina and the Naval Academy finishing the AAC portion of

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their schedule, Stephen with a big thirty four to twenty

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win at East Carolina in Greenville, North Carolina. Navy now

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eight and three, six and two East Carolina. They dropped

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the seven and five five and three in the American

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A nip and tuck game step until the fourth quarter

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when things really kind of seemed to explode offensively and

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the Pirates, you know they had a four game winning

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Street Well, it's no longer there because Braxton Woodson filling

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in at quarterback for the injured Braxton Horrbath. He accounted

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for three fourth quarter touchdowns as Navy went on to

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the thirty four to twenty win and now finishing in

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a tie for third place in the American Woodson, making

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his second career start under centersty outstanding day twelve to nineteen,

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throwing the football won sixty five in a touchdown while

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he ran fifteen times for one to twenty five and

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two touchdowns. You know, the mids rolling up almost three

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hundred yards rushing. Heiden Reich adds eighty two. Just a

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great way for the Naval Academy to go into the

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bye weekend as they now are getting ready to face

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those Army Black Knights, who obviously Army will not have

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the benefit of that bye week. No, they certainly long

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and this was a huge, a huge win for Navy.

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And yeah, as you mentioned, you know, the first the

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first half was well boring, to be honest. You had,

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you know, the one score coming after a Navy turnover, unfortunately,

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and really the defense, you know, it was it was

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deep in their own territory. So the defense, you know,

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to just the field goal at that point. But this

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was really just kind of a kick fest.

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Speaker 3: You know, We're getting to see a lot of Riley

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Rifman until late the third quarter and then it turned

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into Rocky and Apollo Creed where there was no defense

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being played played. The Pirates and the midshipmen just kind

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of stood there in the middle of the ring and

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just took swings at each other. I mean, you look

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at it from about a three and a half minute

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mark of a third quarter touchdown, you know, Navy had.

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The Navy drives were touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, and then

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end of the game.

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Speaker 4: Then the last five drives of.

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Speaker 3: The game, and really the only difference was that East

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Carolina had one drive that they were limited to a

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field goal and in one drive i've was an interception,

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so it was. But they had touchdowns up and down

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that fourth quarter as well.

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Speaker 4: It was a wild state of the pairs and really

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turned on a dime.

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Speaker 3: It seemed like at that point the defenses on both

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sides really kind of ran out of gas. They played

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so hard for the first you know, forty minutes or so,

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and all of a sudden it was like, okay, this

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is all we got and let's hope that the offenses

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can take it from here. And thankfully for Navy, you know,

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but with Braxton Woodson and for Blake Corvath, they were

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able to do so.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Navy was shut out at the half. It was

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thinking about this. It was three to nothing half and

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a half, and then Navy gets on the board with

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just under seven minutes left in the third quarter, so

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three points scored and basically the first what thirty eight

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minutes of the game and change, and then the final

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twenty two minutes you have a total of fifty one

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point scored. I mean it's insane. I mean it was

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it literally was an offensive explosion. But you know, Woodson

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really was kind of the I don't want to say

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the guy that saved the day, but with Blake Corbath

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out with the injury, you know, putting forward a performance

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like that, and like I said this, you know, just

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his second career starting to go for one twenty five

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and two touchdowns and you know, let's not let's not

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you know, not mentioned there the Navy defense because Rayon

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Lane he had nine tackles, all of which were solo.

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he had one tackle for a loss, and he had

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a pick. So, you know, big day for Navy obviously,

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just you know, giving up the three points there in

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the first half and then limiting East Carolina that really

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had that offense reveed up you know until until Saturday.

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So a big win for Navy. You know it's you

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know eight and three, you know, gonna go to a

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really good bowl game. Bowl projections are all over the place.

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I've basically seen Navy anywhere from the you know, the

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Armed Lackeyed Martin Armed Forces Bowl or staying at home

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and playing right there in Annapolis in the Military Bowl.

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Pretty sure it's gonna be one of those two. I

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think we'll all be really really surprised if it's not

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one of those two bowls for Navy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think it's probably going to be the

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Armed Forces Bowl. And and we're we're gonna know more

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on Sunday when when everything gets determined. Uh, you know,

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but I would I would say the Armed Forces Bowl

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makes more sense only because you would think that the

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NC double A wouldn't want maybe in a in a

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bowl game in their home stadium.

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Speaker 2: That's the only thing done it before. They've done it

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several times before, I know so.

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Speaker 3: But but you know, most people had uh they had

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them go into the Hawaii Bowl as well. That was

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one of the one of the games that they were

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they were looking at. But uh, that will be my

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alma mater instead. The University of South Florida playing former

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Navy head coach Kenyo Motololo and santas A state backame.

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Speaker 4: That'll be a fun matchup.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's move on, let's move to the next game,

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because the Black Knights are the toast of the town

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as we get ready for Army to host Tulane this

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Friday night. But let's take a step back, because they

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needed to beat Texas San Antonio, and they did on

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Friday afternoon twenty nine to twenty nine to twenty four

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at Mikey Stadium at West Point and just I think

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two words that we've said all year, and it basically

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kind of encapsulates this game. Stephen Rice and Daily once

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again just outstanding as Army won its tenth game for

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the fourth time in program history and the third time

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in Jeff Munkins eleven years. The Black Knights still perfect

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at home. They're going to try and keep that home

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record perfect again on Friday night against Tulane, but winning

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the right to host the American Athletic Conference Championship game

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over at UTSA who has lost all six games on

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the road. But this becomes this comes after Memphis took

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down New Tulane on Thanksgiving evening, so that basically set

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it all up. All Army had to do was get

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get this dub and it was there, and it was

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Daily leading the way again ten of seventeen, throwing the

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football for one to ninety one touchdown through the air,

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then twenty seven carries one forty seven on the ground,

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steven two touchdowns, Daily tying the AAC single season record

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for touchdowns with twenty five. Just another marvelous, marvelous performance

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by Bryson Daily.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, you had a had a fantastic day both on

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the ground and on and through the air. Again, a

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reason why I'll be disappointed not seeing him sitting there

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or being mentioned when it comes to Heisman. You know,

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obviously you know Travis Hunter of Colorado, Ashton Genet Boise State.

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one of those two, and most people think it's actually

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gonna be Hunter.

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Speaker 4: But you know, you look at what they were able

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to do in this game.

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Speaker 3: You know, you start in the first half after a

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fumble by the road Runners with you know, fifteen seconds

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playing a tie game. You know, they get the ball

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around midfield and they're able to get down inside the

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twenty and set up for a short field goal for

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Treger not to give them the lead going into halftime,

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which turned out to be a pretty big deal because

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the Roadrunners came out at the start of the second

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half and went down and scored a touchdown at that point.

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So I really do think that, you know, it's things

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like that when you have a you know, when you

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have a leader like like Bryce and Daily going all right,

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I know there's only fifteen seconds. A lot of teams

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just have knelt on the ball and said, screw it,

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we're tied going into the half. We know, we know

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we're not getting the ball to start the second half,

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but at least we're tied going into the break.

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Speaker 4: And he went, no, no, no, We're gonna go down.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna get some We're gonna get some more points

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because it's gonna take every single point in order to

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win this game. And you know, they they did a

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really really good job of that when when the when

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the Chips were down, Bryson Dally was able to get

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them to where they needed to be.

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Speaker 2: And like you said, Utsa, they come out the road

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Runners and score. They take it to eleven plays, seventy

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five yards and four forty seven to start the third

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quarter to take the lead. They go down the field

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and you know, every point you mentioned counted. And while

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it was just a field goal, it was a fourteen play,

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seventy yard drive that took almost nine minutes off the

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clock that they had. An Army had to settle for three,

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but still it was a big three that pulled them

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within one because they turned things over to the defense there,

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you know, basically in the fourth quarter and said, look, boys,

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go to work. And that's what Army did is they

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only gave up that that touchdown with nine minutes left

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when they were up twenty nine to seventeen. And so

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you know, once again the you know, the Army defense,

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you know, standing tall, once again rising to the challenge,

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Caleb Portner and Chance Keith combining to stop Brandon high

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on uh stop him short on fourth and one from

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the Utsa's sixteen on the first play of the fourth quarter.

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Just some big plays they're all throughout the fourth quarter

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and that may have been the biggest one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you look at it there, Okay, we've got

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you know, going for going for it on fourth down

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at that point of the game and that location, you know,

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it can be kind of head scratching, but you know,

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Army's defense holds they're on fourth and you know, about

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two feet and then they go down. They take the

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short field, put it in the end zone and they

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get a pick there from by Colin Matheson. On the

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next drive and they go another short field. They're inside

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of the fifty. They get a huge run from Noah's

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short at that point and then Delly puts it in

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the end zone again.

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Speaker 4: I mean that was fourteen play. That was fourteen points in.

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Speaker 3: The span of about five or six minutes of game time,

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and that proved to be the biggest point.

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Speaker 4: And so credit to the Black Knights defense on that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Army now ten and one overall, eight and oh.

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They finished the American regular season utsa seven and five,

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four and four in the American Just a fantastic season

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by Jeff munkin getting this thing turned around. Honestly, Brian

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Newberry as well, because they were down on their luck

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as well. And one team that wasn't down on their

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luck last year but has been this season, steven Less

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pivot to our last one is air Force, because boy, oh,

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what could have been for air Force The Falcons. They

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go on the road to San Diego State win their

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fourth straight game of the season, to close, while San

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Diego State loses their sixth straight in the twenty twenty

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four campaign. Thirty one to twenty is air Force knocks

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off San Diego State. Air Force finishing the twenty twenty

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four season at five and seven, just a win short

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of Bowl eligibility, third three and four in the Mountain West,

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while San Diego State, as I mentioned, losers of six

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in a row to end the season, they finished three

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and nine, two and five in the Mountain West and

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Dylan Carson a big game on the ground with one

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twenty five and two touchdowns in Quentin Hayes. Once again,

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I think we see who Air Force is quarterback of

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the future, Quin Hayes completing only one pass, but it

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was a big one. It was a touchdown to Kate

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Harris seventy six yards. He also ran for a score.

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You know, just it's just obviously a little bit too late.

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But as we talked about last week in the week before,

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you know, you want to see Air Force string together

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that momentum and certainly string together get a victory to

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end the twenty twenty four campaign, you know, not getting

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ball eligible, especially after all a couple of outstanding seasons

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at Troy Calhoun's team has had. I know, it's it's

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disappointing you don't send the seniors out to the postseason.

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But if you're looking ahead to next year, a lot

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of momentum that you can build off the way they finished.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then and they came very very close. I mean,

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you think about it, if Hawaii doesn't beat New Mexico,

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that now you have the eighty three six win teams

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for eighty two spots. So I mean you came within

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just a couple of teams losing a couple of games

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throughout the year. You know, Air Forces has got one

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of the highest UH numbers that they need for you

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know when it comes to UH when they look at

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the CPI, when when they're looking at when they don't

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have enough six win teams to fill these Bowl games

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that you know, if there were if there were seventy

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nine or eighty teams, you know that that were bull

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eligible and you would think Air Force would probably be

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one of those one or two teams that would get in.

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Speaker 4: Soir CPI is so high.

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Speaker 3: So they came really really close, which is an incredible

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bit of credit to Troy Calhouning Company because of how

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how poorly they started. But as we've said, now, for

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the last four weeks they figured out who they were.

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They you know, the last month air Forces looked like

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Air Force. You know, they're running the football two hundred

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and seventy six yards on the ground. They ran the

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ball fifty two times, they only had fifty four offensive plays.

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Speaker 4: So I mean they did. They did an incredible.

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Speaker 3: Job over the last month, being able to dominate the

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time of possession, being able to make sure that they

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are the ones that are keeping the ball on the ground,

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and and most importantly, not turning the ball over. Is

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when you're when you're when you're m O is running

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the football. Any sort of turnovers that leads to short fields,

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that leads to points for your opponent, it's gonna lead

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to some some big problems. And they haven't had that

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over the last month.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's hard to look back on some

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what if moments, you know, but there were a lot

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of close games there where, you know, during that seven

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game losing streak where they weren't blowouts, it was you know,

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basically two touchdowns or less, you know, kind of spreads.

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Speaker 3: And so yeah, I mean it was a it was

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a one score to to Colorado State at home, was

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one score to Fresno State. Uh, you know, it was

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uh you know, you know, you look at some of

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these early games. You know, it's ten points to to

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the Titans. Uh, you know, it's a couple of touchdowns

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to Wyoming, it's a couple of touchdowns to Mexico. But really,

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you know, you look at it, eight points to Colorado

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State and ten points to San Jose State, and they're

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and they're going bowling.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it just took too long to get that that

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offense jump started. You know, you know, they went what

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was it, I think what thirty five points roughly in

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the four losses to begin that seven game losing streak,

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and you know they've up it for thirty seven in

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the last to New Mexico, which made it five straight,

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but then it was back to just thirteen points, three points.

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They didn't find any kind of offensive footing, and it

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was largely because of Quentin Hayes. You know, they did

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play musical chairs at quarterback for most of the season,

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Bouchet and Jackson and then finally finding that quint Hayes

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is going to be the guy. So barring anything crazy

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with transfer, portal and him deciding is a what a

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sophomore to get the heck out of Dodgs. That's their

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guy moving forward. But just like loves not liking love

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seeing air Force finishing strong with the thirty one to

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twenty win over San Diego State, a team that had

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had their number. Now it seems like oh air Force

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might have their number the last couple of seasons. Steven,

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as Air Force once again finishes the twenty twenty four

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season five and seven, three and four in the Mountain West,

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game ball time, we got to give one of our

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last game balls of the season. Is we're barreling down

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the home stretch, Steven, who's gonna get yours this week?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean I obviously have to go with with

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a little bit of a fill in, and that is

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with Braxton Woodson.

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Speaker 4: I mean he certainly deserved it. I mean, there were

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plenty of.

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Speaker 3: Midshipman that deserved game balls, but I will go with Woodson.

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You know, as you mentioned, fifteen carries one hundred and

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twenty five yards and a couple of touchdowns on the ground.

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He was also twelve of nineteen for one hundred and

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sixty five yards and a score through the air. You know,

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they did a good job of making sure that they

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he did a good job of making sure that he

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didn't put the ball in the other team's hands. That's

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exactly what you want out of your backup quarterback. It

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allows Blake Corvath to get a couple of more weeks

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to get healthier and be ready for Army Navy in

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two weeks.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm gonna go with Braxton Woodson.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm gona to go with air Force A

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junior running back Dylan Carson, because, as I mentioned, the

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junior out of Marysville, Washington had a season high one

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twenty five in the win over San Diego State with

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two touchdowns. You know, Quinin Hayes is the straw that

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stirs the drink, right Steven, We know that, especially when

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it comes to a ball controlled, you know, offense like this.

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But Dylan Carson, they found something in him over the

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last few games, especially the four game winning streak where

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he finished the season with three one hundred yard games.

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Those three one hundred yard rushing efforts came in their

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last four during that winning streak, and the one game

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where he didn't hit the hundred yard mark, he was

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only three yards short from it. But he did score

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five touchdowns on the ground those last four games, So

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you really given air Force a one to two punch,

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you know, with with Quintin Hayes. So running back to

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Dylan Carson gets my game ball, Steven is we don't

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have any more to give out this season, Nope, but

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we got to give out some more information because we're

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about to give you our Travis Manning Foundation Honor Roll

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segment where you honor remember a fallen hero. We're gonna

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give out some picks as we break down the Tulane

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and number twenty four Army American Athletic Conference Championship game.

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We got a lot of news and notes to pass

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you because the postseason accolades they are flowing in, as

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they say, at this point with the regular season about

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to come to an end for all our teams. But Steven,

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we're part of the last word on Sports podcast Network.

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Tell everybody what they can find. Is part of the

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last Word on Sports podcast Now.

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Speaker 3: At College Gridiron, Coast to Coast, being part of the

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last Word on Sports podcast Network here, We've got tons

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this week just to give you a taste of what's

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already on board. Of course, this week in the ACC,

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the guys talk about maybe some coaches on the hot

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seat in that conference. And of course what an upset

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by Syracuse over Miami knocking the Hurricane out of a

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possible ACC championship and maybe a bye in the College

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Football Playoff?

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Speaker 4: How what is that going.

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Speaker 3: To do to their to the ACC's opportunities in the

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CFP this year? Of course, Uh, it just needs more

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football and coffee talking rivalry week in the SEC. Uh,

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you know, with Alabama being a three loss team, could

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you know, could they be in the in the College

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Football Playoff? Georgia is a three loss team, could be

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in the College Football Playoff?

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Speaker 4: It is absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Wild and Rob Williams and Craig McMichael take a look

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at all of that with Casey from message board Geniuses

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and of course get off my pylon Matt Zemic looking

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at the aftermath of a crazy rivalry week out West

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Arizona State and Iowa State in the Big Twelve championship

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game as a there's a full breakdown on that. Also,

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some talk about Colorado and the diverging paths in the

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Big Ten between two California schools, UCLA and USC coming

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up later this week. Of course, Florida Football Insiders with

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Jason Powers and the Big twelve sec Breakdown, Tyler Jones

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and Thomas Bridge is always good stuff there as well.

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Speaker 2: All Right, we got a lot more to do our

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Travis Mannain Foundation on a roll segment. It's coming up next.

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Then we take a look ahead to this weekend. All

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coming up on Yards and Stripes. You're home for Service

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legacy lives on through the words he spoke before his

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final deployment. If not me, then who words that today

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civilians at Travismanion dot org.

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

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your home for Service Academy Football, you know we've come

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to that point in the show where you honor remember

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a fallen hero, one that has given the ultimate sacrifice

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for our nation and for our freedoms. We partner with

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the Travismannion Foundation once again to highlight these many, many

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brave men and women who unfortunately have given that sacrifice

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for our nation, and you can find out more online

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at Travismanian dot org. You can check out their Fallen

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hero section. Just a great way to remember the lives

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of so many people that have meant so much to

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our nation in our nation's military, that are never forgotten

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because in the words of Travis that he spoke himself,

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if not Ethan who so so many heroes like this

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week's hero from the United States Marine Corps, Javier Ortez Rivera.

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Javier was born in Puerto Rico. His family moved to Rochester,

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New York as a young child, and he graduated East

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High in Rochester and joined the Marine Corps in July

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of twenty and twenty three. He was a machine gunner

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and deployed multiple times to combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan,

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where he was unfortunately killed in action while conducting combat

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operations in the helmmanned Province of Afghanistan during Operation and

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Enduring Freedom giving his life. On November sixteenth, two thousand

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and ten, he was awarded the Purple Heart Medal the

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Bronze Star with Valor Device. Xavier survived by his wife Veronica,

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three children, Alyssa, Andrew, and Anthony, his mother, his father,

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is brother, sister, and so many other family and friends.

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But Javier or teas He Javier or Tease rivera excuse

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me was a big Dallas Cowboy fan, living in a

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military town where there was a big mix of NFL fans.

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Every Sunday during football season, he would wear his Dallas

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Cowboys jersey to church and many people would hate on

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his team. But one day after church, he randomly told

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his wife that when he died, he wanted to hear

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he wanted everyone to wear Dallas Cowboy fan attire to

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his funeral. So that's what all the haters would have

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had to eat their words and could look down from

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Heaven and laugh at them. Javier Rivera's memorial service a

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church full of hundreds of people, including diehard cowboy fans

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and haters, but they did give him his wish wearing

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that Dallas cowboy's attire. So we remember marines and heroes

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like Javier or Tease Rivera from Puerto Rico, who relocated

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with his family to Rochester, New York and gave the

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ultimate sacrifice for a nation for freedom. On November the

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Sink sixteenth, twenty.

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

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and Stripes Service Academy Football.

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Speaker 2: All right, coming down the home stretch, You're on Yards

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and Stripes. You're over Service Academy Football. I am Price Atkinson.

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More importantly, he is Steve McCarney, producer, Extraordinary co host

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Jack Ball Trade. He is the MVP of the show folks,

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as we now turn our attention to this Friday night,

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it is a big time American Athletic Conference championship matchup.

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Tulane nine and three heading up to West Point to

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take on number twenty four Army ten one an eight

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o'clock PM Eastern Standard time kickoff on ABC. Tou Lane

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installed is a five point road favorite. Over under in

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this one is forty five and a half and something

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I mentioned at the outset, Army gonna try and do

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something very very rare, and that's when a conference championship

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in their first year since entering the conference first trying

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to win a first conference championship period. Navy played in

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one AAC title game, losing the Temple thirty four to

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ten in Annapolis in the two thousand and sixty AAC

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title game. Tulane now will be playing in the championship

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game for their third straight season. Obviously, this is Army's

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first year in the American I mentioned Navy before only

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because that's set in the record that another Service Academy

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team did play for an American Athletic Conference championship, but

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it will be Army's turn. As tou Lane they hosted

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this one for what three straight or two straight years

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until this season, but the two teams met have met

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on the grid iron Stephen three times in the series

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that began back in nineteen fifty three, with the Green

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Wave holding a thirteen to nine one advantage, and they

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have won the last four meetings, the most recent one

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of thirty eight to twelve decision into Orleans, but that

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was back on twenty and twenty. Steve, let me just

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ask you before we get out of the gate here.

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You know you're always looking for silver linings in this one.

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Dare I say advantage Army? Clearly? We know that this

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game is being played at Mikey, but you know the

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temperature is expected to be in the potentially mid to low.

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You know, twenties win coming off the water there with

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Mikey right there. You know next to the water, Army

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is six and zero at home this season. I know

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two Lane is five and one away from New Orleans,

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but Army undefeated at home, and Army just hasn't won

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at home. They've crusted their opponent Stephen in West Point,

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outscoring the teams that have come to Mikey seventeen to

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eighty six on the way to averaging forty six point

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two points per game at home. You know, is there

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another thing you know to kind of look at too.

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Another advantage for Army is, obviously Tulane is coming off

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that lost to Memphis on Thursday evening Thanksgiving night, losing

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the chance to host, you know, after playing host to

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the championship game the last two seasons in New Orleans,

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and then you know, maybe the lack of focus is

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they've got a head coach. It's being mentioned and John

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summerll with some of the openings. I know North Carolina

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is one of the ones that you've seen him prominently mentioned.

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Could focus be an issue there with a lot of things.

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So I bring those things up to say, do I

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dare say advantage Black Knights?

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Speaker 3: Well, I certainly think that the weather component certainly favors

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Army because you know, the kids from New Orleans are

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going to be huddled around the heaters on the sideline

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for this game. I mean, you mentioned the forecast is

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for twenty five degrees at kickoff, with wins of thirteen

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miles an hour. That's ay feels like temperature of thirteen degrees.

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It's going to be really cold for these kids. Whereas

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I think that you know, the Black Knights, they're used

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to this. You know, this is for a lot of

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these guys, this is not their first rodeo playing in

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really cold temperatures. For a lot of the Tulane kids,

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it is you know, especially the young ones that have

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played the only this season for the Green Wave, because

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they really haven't had any really.

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Speaker 4: Cold cold games.

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Speaker 3: You know, the game at Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium

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a couple of weeks ago was chilly, but it wasn't cold.

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I mean, this is this is, this is going to be,

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you know, easily the coldest game that they have to

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that they've had to deal with this year. That being said,

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Tulane likes to run the football, and that certainly helps

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when it comes to, you know, trying to keep your guys,

717
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,760
you know, keep your offense warm, you know, keep your

718
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:11,440
quarterback in good shape. So I don't think that you know,

719
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:19,280
I think that that certainly will tilt things towards towards Army.

720
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,679
You know, with with Navy, we said, you know earlier

721
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,320
this year, you know, they have not beaten a team

722
00:39:27,039 --> 00:39:31,400
that most people believe is better than them. Army is

723
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,519
the same way, they've only played one game this year

724
00:39:34,519 --> 00:39:37,519
against a team that people said is better than them,

725
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,639
Notre Dame, and obviously they lost that game, and they

726
00:39:40,679 --> 00:39:45,440
lost that game handily. Most people believe that Tulane is

727
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:50,719
a better team than Army. This is Bryson Dally's opportunity

728
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,079
to show them that if they thought that the Green

729
00:39:54,119 --> 00:39:57,199
Wave is better than the Black Knights, they got another

730
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,679
thing coming to them. And I think that Bryson daily.

731
00:40:00,039 --> 00:40:01,920
You know, I always think of, you know, the Last

732
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,800
Dance with Michael Jordan when he's when he's looking at

733
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:08,840
the iPad and he goes, I took that personally. This

734
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,320
is what this is a game that I think Bryson

735
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,039
Dally is going to say at the end of it.

736
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:14,679
Speaker 4: I took this personally.

737
00:40:15,159 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 3: I wanted this for my for my final game uh

738
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:20,719
at at Mikey Stadium.

739
00:40:21,159 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 4: UH.

740
00:40:21,599 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 3: You know, I wanted to go out as a champion,

741
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,840
to be able to hold a championship trophy for the

742
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:31,280
first time, a conference championship, uh for the first time

743
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,440
in this program's illustrious history.

744
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 2: Some may say, you know, they're beg to differ that

745
00:40:36,159 --> 00:40:38,880
you know that Army is the better program. Is Tulane

746
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,119
the better program? One thing I do know, Stephen, is

747
00:40:41,159 --> 00:40:44,320
that you know, you got probably two of the best

748
00:40:44,639 --> 00:40:47,480
you know, offenses and defenses, no doubt about it in

749
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,960
the league matching up. I mean, tu Lane was easily

750
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,480
one of the most prolific offenses in the country. You know,

751
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:57,000
they're lead at AAC and yards per game at four

752
00:40:57,039 --> 00:40:59,880
twenty nine thirty nine point one points per game with

753
00:41:00,079 --> 00:41:02,639
ranked six in the country. You know, the Black Knights

754
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,280
or no slouch at either offensively at three twelve of

755
00:41:05,559 --> 00:41:09,159
yards rushing per game and thirty two points per contest.

756
00:41:09,159 --> 00:41:12,599
But could the defense be the one could I mean points?

757
00:41:12,639 --> 00:41:14,880
Could they be at a premium on Friday night? You

758
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,159
know mentioned if it's windy and we know it's going

759
00:41:17,199 --> 00:41:19,360
to be cold, But these are two also the best

760
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:20,760
defenses in the entire league.

761
00:41:21,039 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, And you look at something you know, points

762
00:41:25,039 --> 00:41:28,760
certainly could be at a premium, and you know, with

763
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,119
some of the some of the games that both of

764
00:41:31,159 --> 00:41:34,199
these teams have put up this year, that that could

765
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:37,239
be quite the surprise. I mean you look at a

766
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,079
special and looking just looking at their common opponents, you know,

767
00:41:41,119 --> 00:41:43,320
you look at what Tulane has done with some of

768
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,119
these teams and what Army is done with some of

769
00:41:45,159 --> 00:41:49,920
these teams. You know, Tulane beat Rice twenty four to ten,

770
00:41:50,639 --> 00:41:54,239
Army beat Rice thirty seven to fourteen, Army beat Temple

771
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:58,679
forty two fourteen, Tulane beat Temple fifty two to six.

772
00:41:59,599 --> 00:42:03,880
You know, Army beat UAB forty four to ten to

773
00:42:04,039 --> 00:42:06,920
a bet u AB seventy one to twenty. So, I

774
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,320
mean there's a lot There's been a lot of points

775
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,920
put up by both of these teams. But I think

776
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,880
the I think the weather is certainly going to put

777
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,719
points out a premium. It's really gonna be good for

778
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,079
defensive players because you're gonna have cold footballs. You're gonna

779
00:42:22,119 --> 00:42:25,599
have You're gonna have players with cold hands, and you're

780
00:42:25,639 --> 00:42:28,320
gonna be able to If you're a defensive player, you're

781
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:32,280
the first thing that coaches teach you go after the football,

782
00:42:32,559 --> 00:42:35,079
get that football on the ground. So I have a

783
00:42:35,119 --> 00:42:38,239
feeling that you're gonna see a lot of swiping, especially

784
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:42,039
early in this game. As as the players finally get

785
00:42:42,079 --> 00:42:47,599
accustomed to the colds. I think that that's probably gonna

786
00:42:47,599 --> 00:42:48,360
be big early.

787
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't wait. Tulane an Army eight o'clock on

788
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:56,079
Friday night on ABC again, Tulane is a five point

789
00:42:56,119 --> 00:42:58,679
favorite on the road over under at forty five and

790
00:42:58,679 --> 00:43:02,159
a half. We'll pick this game here, excuse me, Steven

791
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,639
just a second. We'll kind of get we'll give our

792
00:43:05,679 --> 00:43:08,920
scores and what we think and kind of recap last

793
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,960
week as we all three is both of us picked

794
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,639
all three winners, and that's exactly what we got. But

795
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,079
let me just a couple I do want to hit

796
00:43:16,159 --> 00:43:18,800
on a few news and notes because certainly a lot

797
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,519
of the postseason accolades well deserved by all three of

798
00:43:21,519 --> 00:43:24,000
these teams. Clearly we know the Army and Navy are

799
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:25,840
gonna have a lot more pouring in and that's exactly

800
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:27,960
the case. When you have a successful season, you do

801
00:43:28,079 --> 00:43:31,199
get recognized. But you know, congratulations Steve to Army head

802
00:43:31,199 --> 00:43:33,760
coach Cheffmunkin being named the AEC Coach of the Year,

803
00:43:34,039 --> 00:43:37,719
and obviously Bryce and Daily no surprise whatsoever, tabbed the

804
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:41,440
American Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year. In all,

805
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:45,320
twelve Black Knights were recognized by the AAC on the

806
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:49,320
first team. Of course, Daily, center Brady Small, left guard

807
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,960
Bill Katsigiannis, and then safety Max d Domenico. They were

808
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:57,519
first teamers on the second team Connor left tackle, Connor

809
00:43:57,559 --> 00:44:02,719
Finnecane right tackle, Lucas Scott right guard, Paalo Generelli, Kanye

810
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:06,119
Udo the running back, defensive lineman Kyle Lewis, and then

811
00:44:06,199 --> 00:44:09,920
and and Thomas Elo Medozi they were all third team.

812
00:44:10,039 --> 00:44:14,119
And inside linebacker Caleb Portner, he was honorable mentioned all

813
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,199
A a. C. Daily selected by the fans as the

814
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:20,440
Manning Award Quarterback of the Week last week. And then

815
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,519
certainly Army's offensive line they were named a finalist for

816
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:27,559
the Joe Moore Award, the top offensive line in college football,

817
00:44:28,119 --> 00:44:30,679
so a big honor for them. And then Army defensive

818
00:44:30,679 --> 00:44:34,159
coordinator Steve Nate Woody named a semi finalist for the

819
00:44:34,199 --> 00:44:36,639
prestigious Broyles Award. And if you know anything about the

820
00:44:36,679 --> 00:44:39,960
Broyles Award, he's given to the top assistant in college football.

821
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,400
So that's a big piece of recognition right there.

822
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:46,760
Speaker 3: And for some of the other assistant coaches that are

823
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,519
that are mentioned in the Broyles, I mean there's some

824
00:44:49,639 --> 00:44:50,800
really really good nations.

825
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:51,639
Speaker 4: Yeah.

826
00:44:51,159 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 3: I saw Derk Cutter's name in that in that list

827
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,920
as well, So that's a that's a former NFL head

828
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,880
coach that is that is working as an assistant at

829
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:04,119
his alma mater and a really good offensive mind. So

830
00:45:04,199 --> 00:45:07,079
to be in there with with guys like Dirk Cutter,

831
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,519
that that's a real that's a real uh.

832
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:11,039
Speaker 4: That's a real high praise.

833
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 5: Yeah.

834
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 2: Absolutely uh. For the Naval Academy, they had five defensive

835
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,360
players and a specialist name to the All League team

836
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:23,559
that that just came out. Junior nose guard Landon Robinson,

837
00:45:23,639 --> 00:45:27,440
senior linebacker Colon Ramos, and safety Rayon Lane the third

838
00:45:27,519 --> 00:45:32,320
they were named first Team All AAC UH, defensive end

839
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:38,000
Justin Reid, corner Deshaun Peel, and punter Riley Readman named

840
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,280
for the second team, and while the Mids did not

841
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:43,079
have a player selected to the third team, a senior

842
00:45:43,119 --> 00:45:46,719
tackle Connor McMahon and junior guard Ben Purvis, they were

843
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:51,239
named Honorable Mention All AAC Braxton Woodson name to the

844
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,800
Davey O'Brien Great Eight for an outstanding week and then

845
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:57,159
Blake Corbath, a Simili semi finalist for the Comeback Player

846
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:01,480
of the Year award. For the Falcon Air Force had

847
00:46:01,559 --> 00:46:05,519
senior offensive lineman Alex Moore and junior punter Luke Freer.

848
00:46:05,519 --> 00:46:08,920
They were named second team All Mountain West according to

849
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:13,039
the vote by Elite the league's coaches. And then they

850
00:46:13,079 --> 00:46:17,480
also had five players that were named Hounible mentioned All

851
00:46:17,519 --> 00:46:22,800
AAC and those included Matthew Dpour, the outstanding placekicker for

852
00:46:23,039 --> 00:46:26,000
the Falcons. So congratulations to all the teams, you know,

853
00:46:26,039 --> 00:46:29,840
having postseason awards and recognition coming in for just an

854
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:34,039
outstanding twenty twenty four college football season. Thankfully, we got

855
00:46:34,039 --> 00:46:36,119
more to go. We got Army this weekend. Clearly, we

856
00:46:36,159 --> 00:46:38,880
got the Army Navy game coming up next weekend and

857
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:40,840
then his bowl season as we'll have Army and Navy

858
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,000
both playing in bowls. So we got a lot more

859
00:46:43,039 --> 00:46:46,119
to do, Steven. But more to do here is we're

860
00:46:46,119 --> 00:46:49,280
not going anywhere last week. As I mentioned, we all

861
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,760
picked both you and I. We picked Navy, we picked Army,

862
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,480
we picked air Force in that order to get wins.

863
00:46:54,599 --> 00:46:59,880
We got that two lane and Army just two lane

864
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:02,679
in there. Can they rave the cold get out in

865
00:47:02,679 --> 00:47:05,719
New Orleans? Can they get bring this thing back home

866
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:09,760
to the Big Easy again? Or does Army pull off

867
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,800
that rare conference championship something that's never been done at

868
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,599
West Point? But do they get it. Do they get

869
00:47:15,599 --> 00:47:18,599
the job done and being one of those rare teams

870
00:47:18,639 --> 00:47:20,400
in their very first year in a new league to

871
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:21,519
win a conference championship.

872
00:47:22,159 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really do think that Tulane has that opportunity.

873
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,280
They've got a lot of experience of being in this game.

874
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,760
They've got a lot of upperclassmen that have gone to

875
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,400
a number of these games. You know, anybody who's a

876
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:40,320
junior or higher that came in as a freshman has

877
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,320
been to both of these games, and so I think

878
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:47,880
they have the opportunity to do so. That being said,

879
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:52,400
Tulane does not have bryceon Dally and he is the

880
00:47:52,559 --> 00:47:56,639
X factor. So I say that Army is leaving the

881
00:47:56,679 --> 00:48:00,960
field with the championship trophy. In this game, it's gonna

882
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:04,320
be it's gonna be low scoring. I think we both

883
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,840
believe that it's going to be low scoring. I think

884
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:10,159
that Army's defense does enough to keep Tlane out of

885
00:48:10,199 --> 00:48:13,119
the end zone though, and so I think it is

886
00:48:13,159 --> 00:48:17,239
going to be Black Knights twenty one, Green Wave nine.

887
00:48:17,639 --> 00:48:19,480
I think they hold into three field goals.

888
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 2: Wow, that is low scoring. I too, like Army. I

889
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:24,880
think Army is gonna win. I think because they're at

890
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:28,800
home I think it's gonna be an incredible atmosphere. I

891
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:32,719
do far be it for me to say, but you know,

892
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,719
I wish that that stadium renovation may have taken a

893
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:37,960
year before they started it, because I would love to

894
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:39,320
see that side packed too.

895
00:48:39,559 --> 00:48:40,159
Speaker 4: Oh my god.

896
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,639
Speaker 2: Yeah. But the fact that you know you're gonna have

897
00:48:42,679 --> 00:48:46,599
a thirty thous a small thirty thousand, you know crowd,

898
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,159
it's just gonna be incredible. It's gonna be cold. I mean,

899
00:48:49,199 --> 00:48:52,519
it's football weather in upstate New York. I think it's

900
00:48:52,559 --> 00:48:54,519
gonna be fun. And I think Army is gonna protect

901
00:48:54,519 --> 00:48:56,599
the home field. And like you said, I think Bryce

902
00:48:56,639 --> 00:48:59,000
and Daily and I think the toughness of the line

903
00:48:59,039 --> 00:49:02,599
of scrimmage by the offensive Army or the Army offensive

904
00:49:02,639 --> 00:49:06,800
line and the Army defensive line. I think those ultimately

905
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:08,559
are gonna be the difference. And that's why I like

906
00:49:08,679 --> 00:49:12,239
Army to win twenty three to twenty, beating Too Lane

907
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:16,039
by a field goal. Steve, let's get out of here, man.

908
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,039
We got a big weekend ahead, we got a lot

909
00:49:18,079 --> 00:49:21,119
of the conference championship games. Appreciate all that you do

910
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:24,039
keeping us straight and keeping us ahead of the game.

911
00:49:24,079 --> 00:49:28,360
On the last word on Sports Podcast Network. Appreciate everybody

912
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:31,079
for tuning in all season long, for investing their time

913
00:49:31,119 --> 00:49:33,599
with us. I can't think of anybody better to spend

914
00:49:33,599 --> 00:49:35,480
it with you and all our listeners, because it has

915
00:49:35,519 --> 00:49:37,639
been a blast from start to finish. But we're not

916
00:49:37,639 --> 00:49:38,760
done yet. We still got more. Go.

917
00:49:39,559 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's gonna be a it's gonna be a great weekend,

918
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,360
you know, being able to watch this on Friday night

919
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:48,159
going into what's gonna be a It's gonna be an

920
00:49:48,199 --> 00:49:54,639
awesome weekend here locally. For me, I'm definitely really excited

921
00:49:54,679 --> 00:49:58,519
for this, and then of course America's game, you know,

922
00:49:58,679 --> 00:50:02,039
coming up next week are in a you know, I

923
00:50:02,039 --> 00:50:05,480
think I think it's going to be just a phenomenal

924
00:50:05,519 --> 00:50:08,880
that we get another opportunity to talk Army, Navy and

925
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,280
the pageantry and people. You know, I've had so many

926
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:14,800
people go come up to me, you know that listen

927
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:16,880
and they go, I can't believe that you and Price

928
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:21,400
do an entire hour on a single game, and it's like,

929
00:50:21,559 --> 00:50:24,639
you don't understand. This is the most important game of

930
00:50:24,679 --> 00:50:28,400
the year, yea for you know, so many college football fans,

931
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:32,239
and I'm really excited for next week's show where we

932
00:50:32,679 --> 00:50:35,159
you know, when we get to talk about hopefully an

933
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:39,800
Army you know AC Conference championship going into the Army

934
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:40,280
Navy game.

935
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 4: It's going to be a blast.

936
00:50:41,639 --> 00:50:44,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, Army Navy previous special. Don't want to miss it

937
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,360
next week as we will break down both teams, the game,

938
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,239
the matchup, everything going on around it as it will

939
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,400
be back in landover Maryland next week, so we will

940
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,280
do that next week here on Yards and Stripes. But

941
00:50:56,559 --> 00:50:59,480
until then, Steven, have a great weekend, enjoy the games.

942
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,119
Everybody can't wait to be with you again for Army

943
00:51:02,159 --> 00:51:03,280
Navy Week next week.

944
00:51:03,559 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: We'll see then join us again next time for Yards

945
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:11,679
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946
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:15,360
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947
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948
00:51:18,639 --> 00:51:22,159
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949
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