2024 Army vs. Navy Game odds, picks: Best bets to make for 125th meeting between Black Knights, Midshipmen

The 125th edition of The Army vs. Navy Game takes center stage of the college football world this weekend, officially putting a cap on the 2024 regular season. While any college football fan worth their salt would watch the game regardless, there’s certainly no harm in some recreational entertainment!

So, whether you’re rooting for Army or Navy, you can also root for yourself to make money. Here are some of the best I’m looking at for Saturday’s game. 

The spread

By and large, the games between these two are close; when you consider that both are option teams, it’s understandable. Both teams put together long drives that chew clock, which makes it difficult for one to pull away from another unless things go seriously wrong for one side. Over the last 13 meetings, only three finished with a margin of two scores or more.

So when this is the case, you almost always want to lean toward the underdog. Not this year. Both teams had excellent seasons, but Army has been the best of the two all season, and I think the Knights have a serious edge here. One of the determining factors in every game between option teams is turnovers.

Again, possessions are limited, and there are so many moving parts on each play mistakes are bound to happen. Yet, for Army, they haven’t. Army has turned the ball over only five times this season, the lowest turnover rate in the nation, and making matters more difficult for opponents, teams have only scored seven points off those five turnovers. So even when Army has lost the ball, it hasn’t been punished for the error. 

The combination of Army’s ball security and the ceaseless battering ram that is Bryson Daily and Kanye Udoh should prove too much for the Midshipmen. Pick: Army -6.5 (-115)

The total

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Author : Tom Fornelli

Publish date : 2024-12-13 16:48:00

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