Navy is in the midst of the most difficult stretch of its football season, and it just got off to a very disappointing start.
A demoralizing defeat at the hands of service academy rival Air Force was not the way Navy wanted to begin a three-game swing that could very well determine the arc of this 2016 campaign.
Narrow victories over American Athletic Conference foes Connecticut and Tulane showed this squad has toughness, grit and heart. However, those two come-from-behind wins, which could very easily have been losses, shed little light on just how good the Midshipmen are this season.