He displayed his arm strength throwing for 113 yards and the winning touchdown in the second half.
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Playing in the Army-Navy Game for the fourth time in his exceptional college football career, Reynolds had been snubbed from the Heisman trophy conversation despite setting a new FBS record for rushing TDs. We’re an institution, and we’re certainly a football program, that’s steeped in team and not about ‘me.’ All of a sudden, it’s become about that.
According to oddsmakers at MyBookie.ag, Navy is the clear favorite in this game, as the Midshipmen are getting odds of -21.5 points against Army.
Not in minds of the Black Knights, who have come tantalizingly close to winning in three of the past four meetings with Navy: 27-21 in 2011, 17-13 the next year, and 17-10 last December. So that brings us to what will see this afternoon in Philadelphia in the 116 edition of Army-Navy.
The pressure of the game appeared to catch up to the plebe (the name given to freshmen at the Naval Academy and West Point) in the second half as Carter fumbled once and threw an interception allowing the Midshipmen to hold onto the victory.
Army had a lead. He scrambled for 35 yards on the drive.
He’s also, according to Bill Wagner at The (Annapolis) Capital, heading to Brigham Young University two days after the Army-Navy game to meet with school officials regarding their open head coaching position. Bell fired a pass to the goal line for Tyler Campbell, but Thomasson backed up and made a great play for the pick with 2 minutes, 3 seconds remaining.
The Black Knights will look to get running back Aaron Kemper plenty of carries early, as he leads the team with 506 rushing yards this season. The Cadets have played only three decent teams all year – Air Force, Duke and Penn State – and posted a minus-61 point differential in those games.
“As an offense, we knew it was coming, we just needed to execute better”, Carter said. He set a Division I record with his 85th career rushing touchdown and finished this season with 2,306 total yards and 28 total touchdowns. “To be able to come through here four years and never lose to Army, that’s huge”. Like we do every year, we will be tailgating with over 100 of our family members, friends, classmates and teammates. Army, as we all should have known, is not just going to lay down and die in Philly. “That’s all we want for those guys”.
Navy has a won themselves a Military Bowl slot against Pitt of the AAC. The Midshipmen are 55-4 during that same stretch when taking a lead into the fourth quarter.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo will visit BYU on Monday to talk about the program’s head coaching vacancy. “He feels strongly that he needs to hear what BYU has to say”. Army last beat Navy in 2001. “For now, I’m just anxious about the things I can control”.
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Niumatalolo’s son, Va’a, is now a sophomore linebacker for the Cougars.
