The ESPN College football bowl schedule continues on Monday with the Armed Forces Bowl from Bell Helicopter with the Navy Midshipmen taking on the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders and both teams come into the game 8-4 on the season and the game will be at Amon Carter Stadium in Fort Worth Texas and will be streaming online from the WatchESPN website and starts up at 11:45 am ET.
This will be the 11th time the bowl game is being played and after having Army and Air Force play in the game, Navy and their potent rushing attack will be in the matchup and this time it will give the school a nice platform as they look to get a ninth win of the season and Mid Tennessee is a good team to go up against, as they have a former enlisted Mariner and quarterback Keenan Reynolds is ready to bring the option to Texas. Navy rushes better than nearly anyone in the nation and they ended the season with four straight wins and took the victory over Army in their rivalry game and Tennessee comes in having had a nice finish to the season as well, going 6-2 in league play and solid down the stretch to get into the bowl game. Against Army Reynolds had a nice game with three touchdowns and 136 yards and he now has the record for most rushing TDs by a QB.
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Reynolds had 1,038 yards and eight passing touchdowns this season and he had 1,260 rushing yards and nearly 30 touchdowns and now the Blue Raiders will have to find a way to stop the team from rushing the ball, as Navy averages over 300 yards on the ground per game and is scoring nearly 35 per contest. Navy started off the season 303, but has played much better down the stretch and they have four of five games coming into the bowl matchup after losing to Notre Dame and they got a win against Pitt before that and they also played a very exciting game against Toledo this season that went into double overtime.
Middle Tennessee is coming out of Conference USA and they went 6-2 in the conference and won their last five games and that included a nice win over UTEP to finish the season. The team had a nice win over Memphis earlier in the year and they lost to North Carolina and now they will have the chance to play against Navy. The matchup between the two teams continues Bowl week and will be at 11:45 am and on ESPN and the rest of the bowl week matchups come before the BCS games start up soon.