Army vs. Navy Game Preview: Stats, Location & More

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00:00Army-Navy is an institution here, man.

00:01It is.

00:02It is.

00:02It's going to be played in Baltimore.

00:04They played it there last year.

00:05But I got to tell you, there's talks potentially about Atlanta in the few.

00:09You can't do that.

00:11What's next?

00:11Ireland?

00:12Come on now.

00:13Indoors?

00:13It's got to be played on grass.

00:15I'm sorry.

00:15They should keep it in the link.

00:18Now, from the series perspective, Army has won six of the last nine.

00:23Navy did pick up this win last year, 31-13.

00:26It was like 16 straight unders.

00:28Then they went into overtime like four years ago.

00:32I was on the over, but I altered it all the way up to like 45.

00:36The kid fumbles on the one-yard line in OT, and it wound up 20-17.

00:41They blew through the total last year as well.

00:44When you look at the 38-and-a-half, I'm not so sure.

00:47I have a strong feel about the 38-and-a-half, but I like Army with the points.

00:51Both teams obviously can run the football, 298 for Navy, 256 for Army,

00:57and two good quarterbacks, Blake Corvath in the passing attack,

01:01averaging 136 for Navy.

01:04Army obviously only 78 with Helms, their quarterback.

01:08But Helms has stepped up.

01:10This Army team went into Manhattan earlier in the year.

01:13They were 17-and-a-half, 18-point dogs against Kansas State.

01:17They won the game outright.

01:18They went toe-to-toe with Tulane.

01:21They went toe-to-toe with some of the better teams on their schedule.

01:24You look at Navy, Navy beat Memphis and USF at the end of the regular season

01:29to get to this point.

01:31Army has six wins.

01:32I like the points here in this matchup.

01:34I think they can match up well, score.

01:36I don't know if we get to the total, but give me Army outright.

01:39Yeah, we'll take a look at that too.

01:40But, Joe, just like the pageantry around the game, the midshipmen line in there,

01:43the cadets come in way before the game an hour early.

01:45The president, who will sit on one side and then go to the other side,

01:49just talk to him before the game.

01:50We'll see if that happens again today.

01:52But also, Joe, one of the things that I love about this game is the uniform

01:56combinations that both of these teams have year to year.

01:57Yeah, so what are they rocking today?

01:59I didn't look at them.

01:59Like, I saw them.

02:00They're nice.

02:00But, like, I went back and, like, because usually to me, Joe,

02:04Navy wins the uniform battle.

02:05Like, I don't know who their designers are on their side,

02:07but they're fantastic.

02:08Like, I went back to 2020 and 2012, my two favorite uniforms for Navy here.

02:12But every year I like to see what they do.

02:13And also, like, the storyline behind the uniforms.

02:16Like, hey, just throw through a graphics machine and AI it and come back out.

02:19Like, it's like, hey, this commemorates the battle in, like, 1879.

02:23Like, they do a lot of really cool stuff with that.

02:24Yeah, they come out.

02:25Like, Navy does have rocking uniforms.

02:28I mean, Army comes out usually with the camo and everything else.

02:32But, you know, Monk and that team are blue-collar.

02:36He's done a really nice job there.

02:38And, again, they step up.

02:39And when you just look at defenses, you know,

02:43that's where I give still the slight edge to Army in this matchup.

02:47But usually they tweet them out, Donnie.

02:49Yeah.

02:50I haven't seen anything.

02:51I have seen them.

02:52They're not as stunning as sometimes they typically are,

02:55but obviously pretty good uniforms as is.

02:57Yeah, pedestrian.

02:57No, they're pretty sharp ones.

02:59It's a 126 meeting between these.

03:02Yes, but I think Navy's uniforms have the 250 on them today, if I'm not.

03:06Really?

03:07Like, on the back of the – I always – the one thing I don't like, though,

03:09is when they put, like, the uniform saying on the back where the nameplate is.

03:13You don't like that?

03:13No, I don't like that too much.

03:14Like, I like when Army-Navy, like, sometimes they'll pop the patches,

03:18like, on their chest with their names.

03:19Like, I think that's really cool stuff that they actually play out

03:21and do that today, Joe.

03:22But if we do look at the total itself, that's always the lightning rod of this game,

03:26isn't it?

03:2638-and-a-half.

03:27Feels like you can just print it between 34-and-a-half to 38-and-a-half.

03:30Why can we never go over?

03:31Now, we are handicappers.

03:32We understand why.

03:33Because the operations on offense are, let's get nine plays,

03:37let's eat up every second we can, and then we might pump the football from the 50.

03:41Yeah, I mean, when you have two run-heavy offenses,

03:45especially with college football now, the clock doesn't stop after a first down.

03:49It only stops after a first down in the final two minutes of the game.

03:54So that game-and-half, so that's what's changed.

03:58And when you have teams that are very disciplined without any penalties as well,

04:02that takes time of possession, and there you go with an under.

04:05And again, we always talk about playing triple option, right?

04:09All right, triple option, when you face it on a short week

04:12or you never faced it before, you could be exposed,

04:15whether it be in the Conference USA, American Athletic, especially these teams.

04:19But these teams work against a triple option every day in practice.

04:25Scout team, backups.

04:26So again, if anybody's equipped to play the triple option, it is Army and Navy.

04:33And that's why you see very close games, rare blowouts in this series.

04:38And both defenses, Donnie, only allowing about four yards per rush.

04:42Army's giving up a buck 43 on the ground.

04:44You have Navy giving up 146.

04:46Army's defense only giving up around 22 points per game.

04:50Not as explosive as they were last year, obviously.

04:54But they could still move the football.

04:56And again, turnovers do matter in this game.

05:00Again, Navy's averaging six yards per carry.

05:03They are the better passing attack.

05:05I like Army, though.

05:06I think they play better third-down defense.

05:08I think they're just a little bit more physical.

05:10I think they pull it out.

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