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Army won big on Saturday to kick off the 2020 college football season for the Service Academies. Navy opens its season Monday night in primetime on national television vs. BYU.
Here’s a few things you should check out and read until the Mids kick off at 8 p.m. EST.
From Army’s 42-0 win over MTSU
- Surreal Setting for Army Football Opener (Ken McMillan, Times Herald-Record via Military.com)
- Army Cadets show how to bring the energy for college football fans in 2020 (Keith Farner, Saturday Down South)
- Army coach’s optimistic message on college football season: ‘It can be done’ (Pete Thamel, Yahoo Sports)
- Sandon McCoy leads Army to big win over Middle Tennessee (AP via ESPN)
- Army dominates Blue Raiders 42-0 in season opener (Murfreesboro Post)
- Feinstein’s Findings: A Great Day of Football (John Feinstein, GoArmyWestPoint.com)
In 1907, a detachment of Buffalo Soldiers was assigned to #WestPoint to support cadet riding instruction.
— U.S. Military Academy at West Point (@WestPoint_USMA) September 4, 2020
The #Army Football team will honor the 10th Cavalry Regiment along with the @4thInfDiv by sporting a unit patch on the back of their helmets at the game tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/CzA6SLJK7M
Ahead of Navy’s opener vs. BYU
- College football comes to Annapolis as Navy hosts BYU on national television Monday night (Bill Wagner, Capital Gazette)
- BYU is the last remaining college football outpost in the west (Chuck Culpepper, Washington Post)
- ESPN announcer Rece Davis says Navy-BYU football broadcast will ‘look and sound different’ (Bill Wagner, Capital Gazette)
- How BYU scrambled to build a football schedule from scratch in under 2 months (Nicole Auerbach, The Athletic)
- After a summer plagued by death and gun violence, Navy slotback Myles Fells wants to save everyone (Katherine Fominykh, Capital Gazette)
- Navy’s Ken Niumatalolo, BYU’s Kalani Sitake draw on love when it comes to coaching young men (Dick Harmon, Deseret News)
- Football will be different this season, but Navy is still going to run the ball a lot (Kareem Copeland, Washington Post)
- Game Week: BYU (Mike James, The Mid Report)
- Navy’s class president is a football player who has eyes on another presidency (Kareem Copeland, Washington Post)
And here’s some recent Air Force related things of note…
- The Falcons have yet to commit 100 percent to playing Army and Navy this fall in the annual C.I.C. Trophy games. However, if you’re rooting for those games to happen, this piece from Chris Vannini at the Athletic seems promising. The AD’s at Army, Navy and Air Force meet via Google call every Monday.
“I’m thrilled their conference recognized the unique academy characteristics and allowed them the opportunity to play us,” Army athletic director Mike Buddie said of the Air Force game. “We’re thrilled they’re coming here in November.”
Still, Air Force AD Nathan Pine says that final answers are “a few weeks away.”
- Our friends at Mountain West Connection wrote about the C.I.C. Series being the last hope for MWC football this fall.
- An assistant coach for the Falcons in 2010 and 2011, Devin West is returning to Air Force’s track and field coaching staff to oversee sprinters and hurdlers.
Practice squad official ✍️#BoltBrotherhood @zanebron_5 pic.twitter.com/ud4kDVWscb
— Air Force Football (@AF_Football) September 6, 2020