Out of the furnace and into the fire.
That’s pretty much the situation confronting the Navy football team, which is in the midst of a brutal stretch of the schedule.
Coming off consecutive lopsided losses, Navy now must travel to Orlando to take on a Central Florida team that has not lost in two seasons. The Knights are 8-0 and ranked No. 12 in the College Football Playoff poll despite undergoing a head coaching change and graduating considerable talent.
For Navy, which is stranded in a six-game losing streak, facing the team that owns the nation’s longest current winning streak at 21 straight games is a major challenge to say the least.