From the corridors of The Pentagon to the fields of strife in the Middle East, there is one question that has been posed repeatedly this week by service members with a rooting interest in the only major college football game played the second Saturday in December.
If Army can't beat Navy this year, when will it?
It would indeed seem like a perfect storm of events has given the Black Knights an advantage going into Saturday's 117th meeting at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.
Army has been off since blowing out Morgan State, 60-3, on Nov.