On the subject of video games towards fellow army academies within the race for the Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy, previous achievements are irrelevant to Military coach Jeff Monken.
Unbeaten by way of seven video games for the third time since 1950, No. 21 Military makes an attempt to stay good Saturday afternoon when it hosts Air Drive in West Level, N.Y.
Military (7-0) is making an attempt to win its first eight contests since beginning the 1996 season with 9 straight victories. The Cadets are also on an 11-game profitable streak, the longest underneath Monken and the longest energetic streak within the FBS.
The three army teachers play an annual round-robin competitors. The profitable staff visits the White Home for a trophy presentation with the President of the US.
Air Drive has gained the trophy 21 occasions, Navy has 16 wins within the competitors and Military has achieved victory 10 occasions.
“We have managed to have some success this yr,” Monken mentioned Tuesday at his weekly press convention. “That is all up to now. This sport this week would be the hardest sport we play all yr and the depth, the emotion that’s a part of these video games makes it completely different from every part else.
“So attempting to focus by way of that and have our guys prepared and in a position to do their job. That is a very powerful factor, this sport, not something we have finished earlier than or something that comes after. It is a one-game season proper now.”
The Cadets and Indiana are the one groups but to fall behind in a sport this season. Military has scored no less than 40 factors in 4 straight video games for the primary time because the 1945 staff achieved the feat in 5 consecutive throughout its 9-0 season.
The newest prolific exhibiting occurred in a 45-28 win over East Carolina on Oct. 19, a sport that featured a record-setting efficiency by Bryson Day by day. The Military quarterback accounted for six touchdowns, together with 5 on the bottom.
Day by day carried 31 occasions for 171 yards for his sixth straight 100-yard sport whereas changing into the primary participant to account for six touchdowns for Military since Elmer Oliphant in 1916. Day by day has had a hand in 26 touchdowns (seven passing, 19 speeding) this yr, eclipsing the earlier Military mark of 23 shared by Leamon Corridor (1977) and Kelvin Hopkins Jr. (2018).
Moreover, Day by day additionally set the college file for speeding TDs, breaking the mark of Carlton Jones (2004), Trent Steelman (2012) and Hopkins (2018).
Air Drive (1-6) seems headed to its first shedding season since ending 5-7 in 2018 and is 0-1 towards fellow army academies after taking a 34-7 loss to Navy on Oct. 5. The Falcons have scored greater than 21 factors as soon as this season and the typical margin of defeat throughout their present six-game shedding streak is 16.7 factors.
And now the Falcons must oppose an Military staff that averages 40.4 factors per sport whereas yielding simply 12.4 factors — with each figures rating among the many nation’s high 10.
“I believe you look in every space, defensively they have been actually good towards the run, given up only a few huge performs,” Air Drive coach Troy Calhoun mentioned at his weekly press convention. “Simply how effectively they have been in a position to hold the ball in entrance of them and the way effectively they have been in a position to get off the sector on third down.
“Offensively they’re balanced. Definitely it begins with the quarterback, however among the inside runs by two guys which have (finished) fairly good. You take a look at yards per carry, actually spectacular, after which having the ability to hit the throws down the sector, too.”
Two weeks in the past, the Falcons took their closest lack of the skid after they scored two touchdowns within the fourth quarter of a 21-13 residence loss to Colorado State.
Josh Johnson made his first profession begin at quarterback however John Busha ran the offense for many of the sport and guided one in all Air Drive’s extra productive showings of this season. Busha accomplished 10 of 25 passes for a career-high 175 yards, and the Falcons additionally ran for 173 yards on 54 carries.
–Area Stage Media
