For Navy football fans, what happened last weekend in Colorado Springs was alarming.
Air Force absolutely hammered Navy, 35-7, in the first leg of the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy series. For the Falcons, it was their most lopsided defeat of the Midshipmen since 2002 when they won at home by a score of 48-7.
That result was not so surprising because Navy was terrible at the time, in the midst of a three-year stretch when it compiled a 3-30 record.
Frankly, most observers thought the Navy program was well past the point when it could possibly lose to a fellow service academy in such convincing fashion.