CHICAGO – For the Navy football program, this season has come down to accomplishing two remaining goals: Winning season. Beating Army.
Actually, achieving the latter would clinch the former as a victory over the archrival on Dec. 9 in Philadelphia would guarantee the Midshipmen finish no worse than 7-6.
Head coach Ken Niumatalolo said before the season that Navy had two major goals with reclaiming the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy and capturing the American Athletic Conference championship ranking as 1 and 1A.
Memphis clinched the West Division of the American by beating SMU on Saturday, so that goal is gone.