No college football team wants to be home for the holidays. That usually means you failed to qualify for a bowl game.
Navy finds itself in the rare position of playing a postseason contest at its home facility, hosting Virginia in the Military Bowl on Dec. 28 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. So the Midshipmen are going to a bowl without really going anywhere.
Actually, that is not totally true as the Navy players and coaches are staying at the Renaissance Washington Hotel in downtown D.C. from Saturday through Wednesday. As with any bowl, the Midshipmen will participate in a variety of scheduled activities such as a bus tour of the national monuments, a visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture and a team dinner at Ben’s Chili Bowl.