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RE: *** Official BYU at Navy Game Thread ***
(09-07-2020 02:26 PM)Nameless Wrote: (09-05-2020 05:17 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote: BYU Cougars (0-0) at US Naval Academy Midshipmen (0-0, 0-0) #RV/#RV
Monday 7 September 2020
2000 ET
Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Annapolis, MD
ESPN (Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Allison Williams)
Navy Radio Network (Pete Medhurst, Joe Miller, Keith Mills)
WBAL 1090 AM / 101.5 FM (Baltimore)
WNAV 1430 AM, 99.9 FM (Annapolis)
WJXL 1010 AM, 92.5 FM (Jacksonville)
WXTG 102.1 FM / 1490 AM (Norfolk, Va.)
W270DA 101.9 FM (Norfolk, Va.)
WQBK 107.9 FM (Williamsburg / Yorktown, Va.)
KWFN 97.3 FM (San Diego, Calif.)
WFED 1500 AM (Washington, DC)
WFED 104.5 FM (Western Fairfax / Loudon, Va.)
WFED 820 AM, 94.3 FM (Frederick, Md.)
WBQH 1050 AM, 93.5 FM (Washington, D.C. / No. Virginia)
Sirius Ch. 84 / XM Ch. 84 / Internet Ch. 84
SETTING THE STAGE
• Navy and BYU will meet for the third time on the gridiron and for the first time since 1989 when they square off on Labor Day night (8:00 pm) at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (34,000). The game is presented by Navy Mutual.
• Per current rules in the state of Maryland, there will be no fans at the game. There is currently a Secretary’s Order from the
Maryland Department of Health outlining what is and is not permissible in terms of social gatherings and sporting events.
• Navy is 11-1 (.917) in home openers under head coach Ken Niumatalolo with its only loss a 31-24 decision against Rutgers in 2014. The Mids own wins over Towson, LA Tech, Georgia Southern, Delaware (twice), VMI, Colgate, Fordham, Tulane, Memphis and Holy Cross.
• Navy is 7-5 (.583) in season openers under Niumatalolo (home or away) with wins over Towson, Delaware, at Indiana, Colgate, Fordham, at Florida Atlantic and Holy Cross. Navy’s losses in season openers have all come either on the road or at neutral sites - Ohio State (twice), Maryland, Notre Dame and Hawai’i.
• This will be just the sixth time in Niumatalolo’s 13 years that Navy has opened at home. The Mids are 5-0 in those games with wins over Towson, Delaware, Colgate, Fordham and Holy Cross. Navy outscored their foes by a combined score of 226-53.
• Monday’s game will mark the first night game played at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium since 2005, when Navy lost to Stanford, 40-38. It will be Navy’s first appearance on ESPN at home since the 2017 Military Bowl, a game the Mids won 49-7 over Virginia.
THE SERIES
Navy - BYU Series Series Tied, 1-1
Streak BYU, 1 game
Last Meeting 9-16-1989, BYU 31-10
Niumatalolo vs. BYU 0-0
Sitake vs. Navy 0-0
Bolded kind of surprised me considering how hard you stomped Virginia in that game. Figured if you showed out they would want to show you off lol. Not like Navy was some flash in the pan that season, you've had some pretty sustained success with the exception of one down season since you joined the AAC.
Navy's prior, independent TV contract with CBSSN ran through 2018. So the AAC was peddling those rights a year before the primary rights package. Navy's membership agreement with the Big East/American stipulated that Navy's homegames have to be Saturdays; for that or other reasons, ESPN wasn't interested in adding the whole slate of NMCMS Saturday games, but CBSSN loves them some Navy. To bump up the value of the primary rights negotiations a year out, though, the AAC held out the ND at Navy games, and ONE NMCMS game (Air Force excluded) each year to roll into the primary rights package.
ND-Navy in Dublin was going to be the first Navy property in the new AAC-ESPN deal to go on the Mouse. Even after Dublin was scrubbed, when we were expecting ND in NMCMS, it was slated for ABC or ESPN. This BYU game replaced ND as AAC inventory going to the ESPN family of networks. AND they still get one Navy home game - looks like they chose Memphis at Navy 14 November - as part of the primary rights package.
So, yes, the first NMCMS game on ESPN since the 2017 Military Bowl, but the first of two this season, and there will be one each year on the ESPN family of networks.
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