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Army and Navy meet for the 124th time on the gridiron and for the first time in Massachusetts when the two square off on Saturday at Gillette Stadium (65,878) in Foxborough, Mass. Kickoff is set for 3:00 pm and the game will be televised nationally by CBS, while Westwood One will handle the national radio broadcast. The annual Army-Navy Game, America's Game, is presented by USAA.
Army was listed as a 2.5-point favorite mid-week, and FanDuel offered that line, plus unique Parlay Builders. The Army-Navy game routinely sees some of the heaviest action of any sports event during the year. The Congrove Computer Rankings at CollegeFootballPoll.com has Army favored by 6.18 points.
The same can be said of the bowl season, which kicks off the following weekend.
The Mids will have an opportunity to earn a share of the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy with a win over Army thanks to the Black Knights' 23-3 upset over Air Force. Navy lost to Air Force 17-6 on Oct. 21. This was the same scenario in 2021 when Navy defeated Army 17-13 at the Meadowlands. If Navy defeats Army the trophy will remain with Air Force since the Falcons won it last. If Army wins, the Black Knights will win the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy for the first time since 2020.
Navy leads the all-time series 62-54-7. Army won last year's game 20-17 in double overtime. The two teams are 2-2 against one another over the last 4 contests, while 7 of the last 9 games have been decided by 7 points or less.
The Army-Navy game is the 8th-most played rivalry game in college football.
The next 4 sites for the Army-Navy game are - Dec. 14, 2024 in Washington, D.C. / Landover, Md.; Dec. 13, 2025 in Baltimore; Dec. 12, 2026 in New York City / East Rutherford, N.J. and Dec. 11, 2027 in Philadelphia. Including this year's contest, all 5 Army-Navy games will be televised nationally by CBS.
Saturday's fly-over features 4 FA-18 Super Hornets from Carrier Air Wing One, based out of Naval Air Station Oceana, Va. Piloting the aircraft will be Lt. Cmdr. Matt "BONCERS" Burch, USNA Class of 2011, Lt. Cmdr. Jon "BG" Weissberg, Class of 2010, Lt. Miranda "Spunkey" Kosmides, Class of 2018, Lt. Katie "Pukasso" Arbuckle, Class of 2017, Lt. Cmdr. Matt "Magic Mutt" Buss, Class of 2012, Lt. Abby "TARA" Mesaros, Class of 2018, Lt. Jake "Smitten" Prickett, Class of 2017 and former Navy football player Lt. Patrick "KIDS BOP" Hoffman, Class of 2017.
Providing ground control and support will be Cmdr. Michael "Slayer" Farley, Commanding Officer of VFA-81 and Class of 2006, Lt. Travis "Medger" Smith, Class of 2016, and Lt. Samantha Williams, Class of 2019. Carrier Air Wing One is assigned to the USS Harry S. Truman and deployed from 2021-2022 in support of NATO Operations.
Following the game, the alma mater of the losing team will be played with both teams standing at attention, followed by the alma mater of the winning team. It is the greatest tradition in all of sports.
CBS Sports will televise the Army-Navy game nationally with Brad Nessler (play-by-play), Gary Danielson (analyst) and Jenny Dell (sideline) on the call. This will be Danielson's 15th Army-Navy game, a record for a national broadcaster for this game. This will be Nessler's 7th Army-Navy game (tied for 5th) and Dell's 2nd (tied for 32nd)
Westwood One will have the national radio call with John Sadak (play-by-play), Ross Tucker (analyst) and Tina Cervasio-McKearney (sideline). The game will air on over 300 Westwood One affiliates and on SIRIUSXM (Ch. 84).
ESPN's College GameDay will be live from outside Gillette Stadium (Lot 5B) from 10:00 am-12 noon with Rece Davis, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Pat McAfee, Jen Lada, Pete Thamel, Jess Sims and Steve Coughlin.
CBS Sports Network will air Inside College Football: Army-Navy March-On presented by USAA from 12:00-1:30 pm and Inside College Football: Army-Navy Tailgate presented by USAA from 1:30-2:30 pm. Hosts Brent Stover and Tina Cervasio-McKearney, along with analysts Randy Cross, Christian Fauria and Kevin Carter will cover all of the sights and sounds of the pregame festivities from Gillette Stadium.
CBS Sports will also air its studio pregame, halftime and postgame coverage live from inside the stadium. Coverage on CBS will begin at 2:30 pm with College Football Today. Adam Zucker, Brian Jones and Rick Neuheisel will count down to kickoff, previewing the action and setting the stage for America's Game.
The Navy Football Special Edition Army-Navy Insider Show with Scott Wykoff, Keith Mills, Joe Miller and Pete Medhurst will air on WBAL Radio (1090 AM, 101.5 FM) from 12:00-2:00 pm.
The Navy Football Pregame Show with Medhurst, Miller, Mills and Wykoff and special commentary from John Feinstein will get underway at 2:00 pm on the Navy Radio Network, followed by game action beginning at 3:00 pm with Medhurst, Miller and Mills on the call.
Following the contest, Medhurst, Miller, Mills and Wykoff will recap the day's events in a 30-minute postgame show.
5-6 Overall | 4-4 American
Head Coach: Brian Newberrry
This will be the 5th Army-Navy game for Brian Newberry, but his 1st as a head coach. Navy head coaches are 16-15-3 against Army in their first year.
Navy, picked 9th in the American Athletic Conference preseason poll, finished tied for 5th with a 4-4 record. Army will join the AAC next fall.
Navy's 738 wins all-time as a program are the 25th most in FBS history. Army stands 29th at 726.
Five of Navy's 6 losses came at the hands of a team that will be playing in a bowl game, including 2 teams ranked in the top 25 (#15 Notre Dame and #17 SMU). Navy's only loss to a team with a losing record was Temple.
Navy's 5 wins this year are the most since 2019.
Navy has played the longest regular-season schedule in the country this year. The Mids played the first regular-season college football game of the season on August 26 against Notre Dame at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland and will play the final regular-season game of the year against Army.
Navy is one of two schools to start 4 or more quarterbacks this fall (Arizona State has started 5): Tai Lavatai (Sr.), Blake Horvath (So.), Braxton Woodson (Fr.) and Xavier Arline (Sr.). Navy, Duke, Florida State and Utah are the only 4 schools in the FBS to win a game with 3 different starting quarterbacks (Lavatai vs. Wagner and Charlotte, Horvath vs. North Texas, Arline vs. UAB and ECU).
Navy's 12:44 scoring drive against UAB, capped off by a 2-yard touchdown run by Daba Fofana (Jr. / FB), that started in the 3rd quarter and ended in the 4th quarter was the longest scoring drive by a Navy team in terms of time since the Mids' epic 26-play, 94-yard, 14:26 drive that ended in a field goal against New Mexico in the 2004 Emerald Bowl.
Navy and Penn State are the only 2 schools in the FBS to record 3 shutouts this year. The 3 shutouts are the most by a Navy team in a single-season since 1978 when the Mids shut out 4 opponents. The shutout of East Carolina was the first time the Pirates had been shut out in 26 years (322 games). The Navy defense has not allowed a touchdown in 4 of its 11 games this year (UAB scored 6 points on 2 field goals).
Navy's defense is tied with Cal for #1 in the the nation in fumbles recovered with 14.
Navy is 3rd in the country in turnover margin at +1.18.
Navy's 4 interceptions thrown are tied for the 3rd fewest in the country.
Navy's red zone defense is 3rd in the country, allowing opponents to score just 71 percent of the time.
Navy has come up with 24 turnovers this fall, tied for the 7th most in the country.
Navy has 9 touchdown drives under 1:00 this year, tied for the 6th most in the country.
Luke Pirris (So. / Raider) and Justin Reed (Jr. / DE) are tied for 5th in the country in fumble recoveries with 3 apiece.
5-6 Overall | Independent
Head Coach: Jeff Monken
Army enters Saturday's contest having won three-consecutive games (Air Force 23-3, Holy Cross 17-14 and Coastal Carolina 28-21). The Black Knights also own victories over Delaware State (52-0) and a UTSA (37-29) team that did not have star quarterback Frank Harris.
Army lost to Louisiana Monroe (17-13), Syracuse (29-16), Boston College (27-24), Troy (19-0) and LSU (62-0).
Like Navy, Army was running a new offense in 2023, but head coach Jeff Monken decided to go back to the old offense against Coastal Carolina and it worked like a charm as the Black Knights scored 28 points behind junior quarterback Bryson Dailey (22 carries for 94 yards and 1 TD) and converted tight end, senior Tyson Riley (12 carries, 112 yards, 1 TD), returned to fullback.
Dailey is a very good option quarterback and an especially tough runner. He leads Army in rushing with 817 yards and 7 touchdowns on 188 carries. He has also completed 53 of his 106 pass attempts for 859 yards with 6 touchdowns and 6 interceptions.
Freshman running back Kanye Udoh is 2nd on the team in rushing with 436 yards and a touchdown on 86 carries. Army is 9th in the country in rushing, averaging 208.3 yards per game.
Fourth-year junior Isaiah Alston is a standout wide receiver for the Black Knights, averaging 29.6 yards per catch on 9 receptions. He also has 2 touchdown catches. Sophomore wide receiver Noah Short has 18 catches for 252 yards and 2 touchdowns to complement Alston. Army is 4th in the country in passing yards per completion (15.5) as a team.
The Army offensive line is once again stout, ranking 9th in the country in tackles for loss allowed (3.8) and 18th in sacks allowed (1.18). Army also likes to control the clock behind its offensive line, ranking 17th in time of possession (32:15).
The Army defense is led by two outstanding players in senior linebacker Leo Lowin (83 tackles. 4.5 TFL, 3 sacks, 2 fumble recoveries, which ranks 17th in the country, and 4 forced fumbles, which ranks 3rd) and fifth-year senior safety Quindrelin Hammonds (58 tackles, 4 TFL, 2.5 sacks, 3 interceptions and a fumble recovery).
The Army defense has been tough to move the ball against, ranking 15th in first downs allowed with 204. It also ranks 19th in the country in fumbles recovered with 9, 22nd in passing yards allowed (188.7) and 24th in red zone defense (.774).
Army's special teams have been outstanding, blocking 4 kicks, which ranks 3rd in the country. Last year, Army blocked a punt against Navy that proved to be the difference in the game.
Army's 2 blocked punts are also the second most in the country, while Army has not allowed a blocked kick of any kind.
Army also ranks No. 1 in the country in punt returns (22.0 yds per return) and 8th in kickoff return defense, giving up just 15.2 yards per return.
Senior kicker Quinn Maretzki ranks 23rd in the country in field goal percentage (.846).
The Black Knights have been a very disciplined club, ranking 7th in fewest penalties per game (3.9 per contest) and 10th in fewest penalty yards per game (37.7).
Army has 10 fifth-year seniors on its roster and 5 fourth-year juniors.
The Navy game uniform that will honor the Silent Service, the U.S. Submarine Force, its families and supporting personnel.
The entire uniform is flooded with Eclipse Navy (UA's darkest shade of navy blue) to mimic the covert design of a submarine hull. The uniform was purposefully designed to embody the Force's nickname: Silent Service. The overall design was intended to be simple and utilitarian to convey the stealth purposes of a submarine's design.
The design elements of the font are in contrasting white to mimic classification numbers of a submarine hull. These elements were strategically selected to only highlight elements that require on-field legibility like the player numbers, player names, the NAVY wordmark, the USMC globe and the Under Armour logo. On the pants, numbers are stacked vertically to mimic depth numbers of a submarine hull.
The sleeve patch was executed using the Naval Academy Athletics anchor locked-up with the Submarine Warfare insignia or "dolphins/fish". The design encompasses a historically inspired rendering of dolphins flanking a submarine in the middle. The Submarine Warfare insignia was created in 1923 by Captain Ernest J. King, who proposed that the Navy create a warfare insignia device for qualified submariners. The hard-earned badge distinguishes and identifies the members of the submarine community and has since become a source of pride for the silent service.
The back neck of the uniform features the slogan "Silent Service" and features the silhouette of a U.S. submarine on top of a sonar screen that is dotted with stars to indicate targets.
Each helmet is hand painted with the right side depicting a Virginia Class Submarine underwater and the left side depicting Navy's customary Navy anchor with the submariner pin integrated into it with color changing pragmatic paint. The front flex panel depicts a color changing radar which is used on submarines to find their target. The front decal of the helmet says Navy, while the back decal says Silent Service.
The 2023 Army uniform tells the story of the soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division during the opening phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Marne Division’s participation in the initiation of offensive operations in Iraq, the longest and most rapid armored advance since the Second World War.
The 3rd Infantry Division’s success hinged upon its ability to seize and maintain the initiative against a determined adversary in harsh and unforgiving terrain. The Dogface Soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division accomplished this feat through clear application of the U.S. Army’s characteristics of the offensive: surprise, concentration, audacity, and tempo.
This is the eighth season that Army Football and the United States Military Academy history department have collaborated with Nike on the specialty uniform for the Army-Navy Game.
On December 9, we are honored to represent the soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division and their tactical acumen on the field in Foxborough. In adopting their mottos, symbols, and ethos on the field of friendly strife, we seek to emulate their application of these characteristics to defeat our rivals.
To maintain pressure on the Iraqi regime and determine the strength of the Iraqi defenses in and around Baghdad, Major General (MG) Buford Blount, commanding general of the 3rd Infantry Division, ordered 2nd Brigade Combat Team, to conduct an armored thrust north along Highway 8 into central Baghdad before moving southwest to return to the Baghdad International Airport. This operation came to be known as the Thunder Run.
The Task Force (TF) 1-64 Armor Battalion, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Rick Schwartz, chose to use the battalion’s main combat power, consisting of 29 M1 Abrams tanks and 14 M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, along with numerous M113 armored personnel carriers to discover the enemy’s disposition, strength, and determination to fight.
On April 5, 2003, as the armored spearhead probed western Baghdad, LTC Schwartz’s soldiers received heavy fire from uncoordinated Iraqi paramilitary forces before moving to join other elements of the 3rd Infantry Division at the Baghdad airport. The first Thunder Run was an unqualified success that demonstrated the Army’s presence and freedom to maneuver in Baghdad.
Two days later 2nd Brigade Combat Team was tasked to attack central Baghdad to maintain the initiative, demonstrate American resolve, and counter Iraqi propaganda claiming American forces were not near Baghdad. This time, the entire 2nd Brigade Combat Team participated in what was named the second Thunder Run, resulting in the brigade occupying key infrastructure in the heart of Baghdad and ultimately breaking the will of the Iraqi regime.
The efforts of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, and those with them, during the Thunder Runs demonstrated their competence, selfless service, and “Send Me” attitude.