In relation to video games in opposition to fellow navy 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 excellent Saturday afternoon when it hosts Air Pressure in West Level, N.Y.
Military (7-0) is trying 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 lively streak within the FBS.
The three navy lecturers play an annual round-robin competitors. The profitable crew visits the White Home for a trophy presentation with the President of the US.
Air Pressure has gained the trophy 21 instances, Navy has 16 wins within the competitors and Military has achieved victory 10 instances.
“We have managed to have some success this 12 months,” Monken stated Tuesday at his weekly press convention. “That is all up to now. This sport this week would be the hardest sport we play all 12 months and the depth, the emotion that’s a part of these video games makes it totally different from the whole lot else.
“So making an attempt to focus by way of that and have our guys prepared and capable of do their job. That is an important factor, this sport, not something we have carried out earlier than or something that comes after. This can be 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 at the very least 40 factors in 4 straight video games for the primary time because the 1945 crew achieved the feat in 5 consecutive throughout its 9-0 season.
The most recent prolific displaying 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 instances 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 dashing) this 12 months, eclipsing the earlier Military mark of 23 shared by Leamon Corridor (1977) and Kelvin Hopkins Jr. (2018).
Moreover, Day by day additionally set the varsity file for dashing TDs, breaking the mark of Carlton Jones (2004), Trent Steelman (2012) and Hopkins (2018).
Air Pressure (1-6) seems headed to its first dropping season since ending 5-7 in 2018 and is 0-1 in opposition to fellow navy 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 dropping streak is 16.7 factors.
And now the Falcons must oppose an Military crew that averages 40.4 factors per sport whereas yielding simply 12.4 factors — with each figures rating among the many nation’s prime 10.
“I believe you look in every space, defensively they have been actually good in opposition to the run, given up only a few large performs,” Air Pressure coach Troy Calhoun stated at his weekly press convention. “Simply how properly they have been capable of hold the ball in entrance of them and the way properly they have been capable of get off the sphere on third down.
“Offensively they’re balanced. Definitely it begins with the quarterback, however a number of the inside runs by two guys which have (carried out) fairly good. You take a look at yards per carry, actually spectacular, after which with the ability to hit the throws down the sphere, 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 house 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 Pressure’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.
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