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Your job is simple: Vote for the teams you think Navy will beat OR if you think Navy will beat none of them, only vote for the "Winless" option.

USNA fans, feel free to convince pollsters why or why not they should win every game on their schedule!

I'll post one poll a week until all 12 football teams are represented, in reverse order of conference finish. Each new post will link to the preceding ones, and polls will be open until the end of the 12 weeks.


For a more informed opinion, here's some reading material on their opponents:

Hawaii

Memphis

SMU

AIR FORCE

Temple

Houston

Notre Dame

Cincinnati

UCF

Tulsa

Tulane

ARMY

9-3 all losses to conference foes.

Hawaii and San Diego are virtual home games the sacrifical lamb in Lehigh. Army goes down.

Houston, Memphis, UCF and a tough game with Temple. Think Houston can get them with Big Ed and UCF is loaded again.

(05-21-2018 01:01 PM)TU4ever Wrote:  9-3 all losses to conference foes.

Hawaii and San Diego are virtual home games the sacrifical lamb in Lehigh. Army goes down.

Houston, Memphis, UCF and a tough game with Temple. Think Houston can get them with Big Ed and UCF is loaded again.

Lehigh is our Hawaii rule 13th game - so I assume you mean 10-3?

(05-21-2018 02:18 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:01 PM)TU4ever Wrote:  9-3 all losses to conference foes.

Hawaii and San Diego are virtual home games the sacrifical lamb in Lehigh. Army goes down.

Houston, Memphis, UCF and a tough game with Temple. Think Houston can get them with Big Ed and UCF is loaded again.

Lehigh is our Hawaii rule 13th game - so I assume you mean 10-3?

Well damn, need to go back to school lately. My counting has been terrible with navy. 10-3, probably 11-3 with a bowl win.

Kudos to your scheduler too. Nifty trick. The away game at Hawaii gives you the extra home game. Hawaii is going to damn near be a home game. Even by playing the ND home game on a nuetral field it's still really a home game.

So in reality you have
5 true home games
2 neutral/home game
1 away/neutral game

If you pull off a home AAC championship game that would be a crazy run of a good season with 9 games where you had the crowd.

I have them at 10-3 as well. Losses to Memphis (of course), Notre Dame and at UCF. I think Houston is a tossup, but I give Navy the benefit of the doubt b/c I'm a Navy vet.

(05-21-2018 02:23 PM)TU4ever Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 02:18 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:01 PM)TU4ever Wrote:  9-3 all losses to conference foes.

Hawaii and San Diego are virtual home games the sacrifical lamb in Lehigh. Army goes down.

Houston, Memphis, UCF and a tough game with Temple. Think Houston can get them with Big Ed and UCF is loaded again.

Lehigh is our Hawaii rule 13th game - so I assume you mean 10-3?

Well damn, need to go back to school lately. My counting has been terrible with navy. 10-3, probably 11-3 with a bowl win.

Kudos to your scheduler too. Nifty trick. The away game at Hawaii gives you the extra home game. Hawaii is going to damn near be a home game. Even by playing the ND home game on a nuetral field it's still really a home game.

So in reality you have
5 true home games
2 neutral/home game
1 away/neutral game

If you pull off a home AAC championship game that would be a crazy run of a good season with 9 games where you had the crowd.

I would love to play Navy at their home field in the American championship game again.

Lehigh Mountain Hawks win bigly.

(05-21-2018 06:01 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  Lehigh Mountain Hawks win bigly.

Lehigh knocked Navy out of the MLax tourney.
You maybe should cherish that through 15 Sep and beyond....

(05-21-2018 05:34 PM)vick mike Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 02:23 PM)TU4ever Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 02:18 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:01 PM)TU4ever Wrote:  9-3 all losses to conference foes.

Hawaii and San Diego are virtual home games the sacrifical lamb in Lehigh. Army goes down.

Houston, Memphis, UCF and a tough game with Temple. Think Houston can get them with Big Ed and UCF is loaded again.

Lehigh is our Hawaii rule 13th game - so I assume you mean 10-3?

Well damn, need to go back to school lately. My counting has been terrible with navy. 10-3, probably 11-3 with a bowl win.

Kudos to your scheduler too. Nifty trick. The away game at Hawaii gives you the extra home game. Hawaii is going to damn near be a home game. Even by playing the ND home game on a nuetral field it's still really a home game.

So in reality you have
5 true home games
2 neutral/home game
1 away/neutral game

If you pull off a home AAC championship game that would be a crazy run of a good season with 9 games where you had the crowd.

I would love to play Navy at their home field in the American championship game again.

I would like that for revenge purposes.
But I'm already not completely sold on the reg season game given how good Nutile looked against us last year.

7-5 or maybe 8-4. They're decent heading into this year. The schedule is nasty, though.

(05-21-2018 09:06 PM)oliveandblue Wrote:  7-5 or maybe 8-4. They're decent heading into this year. The schedule is nasty, though.

The nastiest part of the schedule is travel mileage - Navy will log more miles than any team other than Hawaii.
We get Memphis, Houston, Tulsa at home, and Memphis with a new quarterback in week 2. I''m not scared of going into Cincy or Orlando
ND in San Diego adds to the mileage, but that will be more home field than when we play ND in the Meadowlands (Jax was reportedly 60-40 Navy crowd, way better than when we get northeast US subway fans; I have already posted here that Navy outdrew SDSU in the Poinsettia Bowl).
I guess I'm asking what is nasty about this schedule? Other than total travel mileage, this is business as usual.

(05-21-2018 09:58 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 09:06 PM)oliveandblue Wrote:  7-5 or maybe 8-4. They're decent heading into this year. The schedule is nasty, though.

The nastiest part of the schedule is travel mileage - Navy will log more miles than any team other than Hawaii.
We get Memphis, Houston, Tulsa at home, and Memphis with a new quarterback in week 2. I''m not scared of going into Cincy or Orlando
ND in San Diego adds to the mileage, but that will be more home field than when we play ND in the Meadowlands (Jax was reportedly 60-40 Navy crowd, way better than when we get northeast US subway fans; I have already posted here that Navy outdrew SDSU in the Poinsettia Bowl).
I guess I'm asking what is nasty about this schedule? Other than total travel mileage, this is business as usual.

New face at QB + a bunch of games that while winnable, can very easily all be lost. Navy were in a bunch of close scraps with the AAC West last year - Coach Ken needs to pull more magic next season if you're expecting a run.

Hawaii and Lehigh are the automatics for Navy, but everything else has some level of worry attached. It was very hard to figure how good Navy was when just about everyone in the AAC played you tight (regardless of record).

(05-21-2018 10:29 PM)oliveandblue Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 09:58 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 09:06 PM)oliveandblue Wrote:  7-5 or maybe 8-4. They're decent heading into this year. The schedule is nasty, though.

The nastiest part of the schedule is travel mileage - Navy will log more miles than any team other than Hawaii.
We get Memphis, Houston, Tulsa at home, and Memphis with a new quarterback in week 2. I''m not scared of going into Cincy or Orlando
ND in San Diego adds to the mileage, but that will be more home field than when we play ND in the Meadowlands (Jax was reportedly 60-40 Navy crowd, way better than when we get northeast US subway fans; I have already posted here that Navy outdrew SDSU in the Poinsettia Bowl).
I guess I'm asking what is nasty about this schedule? Other than total travel mileage, this is business as usual.

New face at QB + a bunch of games that while winnable, can very easily all be lost. Navy were in a bunch of close scraps with the AAC West last year - Coach Ken needs to pull more magic next season if you're expecting a run.

Hawaii and Lehigh are the automatics for Navy, but everything else has some level of worry attached. It was very hard to figure how good Navy was when just about everyone in the AAC played you tight (regardless of record).

Coach Niumat isn't where the magic will come from. OC and QBs coach Jasper will not be distracted by his son's heart transplant concern. Last year's un Navy like penalties and turnovers will be gone. Along with the bad play calling with a lead that let blowouts like Cincy and AF turn into close games.