Supplement to Barking Wake Forest Bet...Navy's not so good

by Barking Carnival Staff on Dec 19, 2008 10:27 PM CST in Texas Longhorns and Other Football

Navy is sneaky bad --I admire a team that finds ways to win and be competitive and navy has done that but lets not kid ourselves …. This team has caught every break this season imaginable. Lets look over their schedule.

*They beat towson --nice job.

*They lose at ball st by 12 … out gained and out first downed by ball st

*They lose at duke by 10 --- out gained and out first downed by duke

*They beat Rutgers by 2 points -- Rutgers had a first down edge and navy had a yardage edge. Terrible gameplan by schiano in this one but with the lead 14-6 just before halftime Rutgers was going into the end zone but fumbled the ball at the navy four yard line and navy escaped. Plus 2 in turnovers for navy. I would bet Rutgers at navy right now at anything under a td. This was also the bad Rutgers team from earlier in the year and not the Rutgers playing quality football right now.

*they beat wake forest by 7 -- they benefited from an uncharacteristic 6 turnovers by wake forest. Despite getting 6 turnovers they were still out first downed in the game. Wake is not what we thought they were when the year started either. Very lucky win in my opinion … as was the Rutgers win … it is a theme that will continue.

*navy beat air force by 6 -- they were out first downed 20-13 and out gained 411 - 244 in the game. They blocked two punts for td. Yeah.

*they lost by 21 to Pittsburgh -- the score wasn’t even that close. Out first downed 22 - 12 and out gained 499 - 251. Pitt passed at will and ran at will on the navy defense and just had the dominant athletes that navy can’t match up with.

*navy beat smu 34-7 -- it wasn’t even that close . Navy held smu to negative yards rushing while rushing for over 400 themselves. Impressive win but a lesser opponent.

*navy beat temple 33-27 in overtime -- temple outplayed navy badly for a majority of this game and recovered a fumble by temple while temple was running out the clock and returned it for a td with 37 seconds left , capping a 20 point fourth quarter for navy. With all the momentum navy won in overtime. Fluke win without question.

* They were dominated by Notre Dame , again with a deceiving score.

* They shut out NIU in dominating fashion.

* They shut out Army in dominating fashion.

Sneaky bad folks.

You're a lousy f'ing softball player, Jack.

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some teams just seem to keep getting turnovers and block kicks, at some point you have to not mark it up to luck. wow, wake is really bad at rushing the ball, that’s surprising. i kinda don’t expect that to change for this game. this is a tossup game but i’m gonna disagree with you. i’m not too sold on wake having that much more athletes than navy. both teams get by on scheme and coaching.

by dick on Dec 19, 2008 11:28 PM CST reply actions

Notre Dame shouldn’t have won that game, but I have to give credit to Navy for almost making it happen in the final minutes – but again, that’s just an example of lots of things falling in their favor (including the extra timeout).

by TXinDC on Dec 20, 2008 7:54 AM CST reply actions

Ha – as if to prove Dick’s point, Navy promptly recovers a fumble and returns it for a touchdown… not good times.

by Ojnab Bob on Dec 20, 2008 10:31 AM CST reply actions

13-0 Navy. Go Shippies!

by Kriess on Dec 20, 2008 11:03 AM CST reply actions

Game is going as capped so far , other than Swank missing the FG.

Wake has a 194 – 139 yardage edge and has out first downed navy 9-8.

Obviously the defensive score has us in a bad position at half.

Still an outside chance but we are big dogs at this point.

This is why nothing is a lock in betting football games. Drive ending turnovers that are returned for TD are 10 point swings and as a handicapper you can’t account for that often unless scheme is involved. And in the case of fumbles , you can never account for them.