COLORADO SPRINGS — By far the strangest Air Force-Navy football game of anyone’s lifetime will kick off at 6 p.m. Eastern at Falcon Stadium.
It’s the first weekend of October and this is the season opener for Air Force, which went from possibly not having any games during the fall semester to suddenly playing a nine-game schedule.
“It is quite, quite different that way," Falcons coach Troy Calhoun said about starting a college football season in October and against service academy rival Navy. "Hopefully, we’ll go another 130 years until it has to happen again.”
Calhoun acknowledged during a virtual news conference earlier this week he would have preferred a warmup game in late September.