BeatNavy

322K, 407K Estimates without providing a margin of error No reason not to think that actual viewers were basically the same From a person who works with uncertain numbers every day and who always provides a measure of uncertainty

Your D did an awesome job.

They won't wear OCP to a road game

Cadets in the stands will be recognizable by their uniforms

Navy will do its part to keep the game clock running, so if it goes long, blame USF (and the commercials, of course)

That's on you guys as the home team

I assumed the t-shirt was part of this week's uniform. Why else wear it in the reveal? 🙂

There are usually at least some cadets at away games -- usually cadet leadership and cadets from the general area of the game. The pep band also travels, but I don't know if they travel to all games. The Army team will go over to the visitor's seating area for the playing of Alma Mater after the game just as they do at home games.

Usually geography for road games. 1CAV, as you probably know, is at Fort Cavazos. Home games, that's clearly not the case. When we played ECU, 7ID was honored. Maybe a rotation based on units we won't play close to in the near future? And in case you or anyone is wondering, in the past we have based the Army-Navy uniform on a division that had been honored earlier in the same season.

Am I missing the joke here?

For the record, the Army camo uniform above is from 2010. Seems like only a few years ago to some of us, I know. Here's Army this week:

I always watch him on at least 1.25x playback speed 1.5 if I'm not multitasking But I do the same for any coach press conference.

Finally, someone thinks I'm normal!

Wasn't sure which thread to put this in, but since it's Daily-specific, I figured this was as good as any:

The question was "who has Army beaten that North Texas couldn't beat?" I merely changed the order of the teams in the question. The answer to both questions is "no one." I expect a hard-fought game on Saturday between two of the best teams in the conference.

One could ask the same question in the opposite direction: who has North Texas beat that Army couldn't beat? I expect a hard-fought game on Saturday between two of the best teams in the conference.

NOTE: I wasn't talking to myself with these three posts that seem to be consecutive. Someone deleted posts... 1) had a bye week before Air Force, so it's not like they're exhausted 2) free time? cadets who play an in-season varsity sport?

Oh, LOL, first I've ever heard that a bye week might make the game before the bye a trap game.

Army has a bye week between North Texas and Notre Dame

As I already pointed out, Army has a bye between North Texas and Notre Dame. You don't even know what his injury is, so thinking that rain increases the chance of making it worse is a leap. Regardless, if he's healthy, he'll play. Army controls its own destiny in the conference, so why in the world would we choose to put anything other than the best available players on the field for a conference game? MAYBE if it wasn't a conference game he'd be a healthy scratch. But that kind of decision doesn't sound at all like the Coach Monken I've seen & heard for the past decade.

If Daily is healthy, he will play. Army has a bye before Notre Dame, but even if we didn't, a healthy Daily would play against North Texas.

Bowl payouts are net of ticket sales requirements. If the payout is $10 and the team sells only $1 of its $2 allotment, then the payout to the team is $9. And if it's going to cost the school $10 to get the team, including support staff, cheerleaders, etc to & from the bowl and put them up in a hotel and feed them, then the school is losing $1. Schools often (perhaps usually) lose money on bowl games. It's not about how many FCS teams you play, it's about how many wins over FCS can count towards bowl eligibility. That number is 1. You can play more than one FCS school, but you're essentially making it more difficult for your team to be bowl-eligible because only one of the (expected) two wins matter in the quest for a bowl. I think the "pass" (waiver) you're thinking about for Army was for the 2015 game against Yale to count towards bowl eligibility. The game against Yale - a non-scholarship FCS school - was played at the Yale Bowl as part of the 100th anniversary of the stadium, so the waiver request was grounded in the historical nature of the game. Note that the waiver wasn't even used because we lost to Yale (and didn't come close to bowl eligibility).

I don't think either of these guys actually watches college football. First guy: "q - sa" Second guy: Team A outgained opponents by X last year, and by Y this year. They are ( Y - X ) better/worse than they were last year. These guys make their living giving betting advice and possibly betting themselves. Neither of those things mean that they actually watch games. In fact, watching games probably takes too much time. They can't watch even 50% of all FBS games in a given week, especially if they're also watching NFL (and possibly other sports).

Peter Loshak's hair & mustache are great.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2017/11/14/mountain-west-weighs-tv-money-versus-controlling-game-times/107671558/ If the MWC hadn't crapped on every other member's tv revenues to get Boise back, maybe they wouldn't mind mid-week games quite so much. Also, don't miss this gem from Wyoming's AD: "I don't want to say Boise's brand is different ... Boise still has a brand that's different"