Oct 19, 2024; West Level, New York, USA; Military Black Knights quarterback Bryson Every day (13) evades a sort out from East Carolina Pirates defensive again Omar Rogers (12) through the second half at Michie Stadium. Necessary Credit score: Lucas Boland-Imagn Photos In terms of video games in opposition to fellow army academies within the race for the Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy, previous achievements are irrelevant to Military coach Jeff Monken.
Unbeaten by seven video games for the third time since 1950, No. 21 Military makes an attempt to stay good Saturday afternoon when it hosts Air Power 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 successful streak, the longest beneath Monken and the longest energetic streak within the FBS.
The three army lecturers play an annual round-robin competitors. The successful workforce visits the White Home for a trophy presentation with the President of america.
Air Power 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 previously. 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 completely different from every little thing else.
“So attempting to focus by that and have our guys prepared and in a position to do their job. That is crucial factor, this sport, not something we have performed 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 at the very least 40 factors in 4 straight video games for the primary time because the 1945 workforce 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 Every day. The Military quarterback accounted for six touchdowns, together with 5 on the bottom.
Every 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. Every day has had a hand in 26 touchdowns (seven passing, 19 speeding) this 12 months, eclipsing the earlier Military mark of 23 shared by Leamon Corridor (1977) and Kelvin Hopkins Jr. (2018).
Moreover, Every day additionally set the college document for speeding TDs, breaking the mark of Carlton Jones (2004), Trent Steelman (2012) and Hopkins (2018).
Air Power (1-6) seems headed to its first shedding season since ending 5-7 in 2018 and is 0-1 in opposition to 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 common margin of defeat throughout their present six-game shedding streak is 16.7 factors.
And now the Falcons must oppose an Military workforce 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 huge performs,” Air Power coach Troy Calhoun stated at his weekly press convention. “Simply how properly they have been in a position to preserve the ball in entrance of them and the way properly they have been in a position to get off the sector on third down.
“Offensively they’re balanced. Actually it begins with the quarterback, however a number of the inside runs by two guys which have (performed) 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 house loss to Colorado State.
Josh Johnson made his first profession begin at quarterback however John Busha ran the offense for a lot of the sport and guided one in every of Air Power’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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