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The Navy Midshipmen (8-3) and Army Black Knights (11-1) meet on the gridiron for the 125th time when they clash Saturday in Landover, Md. The opening kickoff at Northwest Stadium will be at 3 p.m. ET (CBS). Let’s analyze FanDuel Sportsbook’s college football odds around the Navy vs. Army odds, and make our expert college football picks and predictions.
Navy, which has lost back-to-back games in this series, has had some offensive struggles over the back half of the season, but the Midshipmen head into this game off a 34-20 win over the East Carolina Pirates on Nov. 29, an against-the-spread (ATS) victory as +3 underdogs. Navy was a minus-2 in turnovers when it outgained Army 309 yards to 259 in a 17-11 loss in last year’s game.
Army, which is No. 18 in the US LBM Coaches Poll, suffered its only loss in a Nov. 23 contest vs. the No. 3 Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Since then, the Black Knights have 2 wins, the last of those a 35-14 win as a 5-point underdog vs. the Tulane Green Wave in the Dec. 6 American Athletic Conference title game. QB Bryson Daily ran in 4 scores in that game and has 29 rushing TDs this season.
Navy leads the all-time series with Army 62-55-7, including a 1-0 record in the only game previously played in Northwest Stadium (2011). Since breaking a 13-game losing streak to Navy in 2015, Army has won 6 of the last 8 meetings.
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Navy vs. Army odds
Provided by FanDuel Sportsbook; access USA TODAY Sports Scores and Sports Betting Odds hub for a full list of college football odds. Lines last updated Thursday at 1:46 p.m. ET.
- Moneyline: Navy +205 (bet $100 to win $205) | Army -255 (bet $255 to win $100)
- Against the spread (ATS): Navy +6.5 (-105) | Army -6.5 (-115)
- Over/Under (O/U): 39.5 (O: -110 | U: -110)
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Navy vs. Army picks and predictions
Prediction
Army 28, Navy 24
Moneyline
No interest: PASS.
Against the spread
Against the number, Army is 2-4 over its last 6 games.
Advanced analytics would point to the Black Knights’ 15.0 points per game as not being fully supportable. Some balance in success rate and explosiveness is in the Navy arsenal, and the value money is on the Midshipmen keeping this contest within 1 score.
Eight of the last 10 Army-Navy games have been 1-score triumphs. Consider a partial-unit play on NAVY +6.5 (-105).
Over/Under
The strongest play in this matchup involves betting the total. Both offenses excel in the red zone, cranking out 6s and not often settling for field goals. Both offenses do register slow pace numbers, but look for some strategic hurry-up at times and for the defenses to spend plenty of time in their own ends.
On a good-weather day in the Washington, D.C. area, expect more point spiral here than what this series has historically cranked out. TAKE THE OVER 39.5 (-110).
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