What channel is Army football at Air Force? Time, TV for Black Knights vs. Falcons

As kicker Dawson Jones lined up for a potential game-winning field goal for Army football last Saturday at rival Air Force, teammate Gavin Shields couldn’t bear to look.

“Dude, I can’t watch,” Shields told close friend Anderson Britton, Army’s kickoff specialist. “I just bent down and I was looking down. And I heard the boot of the kick in the dead silence. And then all I hear is Anderson Britton starting yelling, ‘Ahhhhhhhh!’

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“I started screaming, I ran straight out into the field and A.B. turned around and jumped in my arms … I was hugging him and then you run to all your other boys. You try to get to the kicker but he’s getting mobbed. And then after that, we sing our song.”

The Black Knights belted out their alma mater, and then the celebration stretched into the locker room, out of TV camera view, with more song and chants and revelry.

“You want to treasure those moments,” Shields said. “A win’s a win, and especially in a rivalry game.”

The Army coaching staff – like many across the country – will allow for celebration on Saturday, but it’s back to work on Sunday. Defensive coordinator Nate Woody was asked if he started prepping for this week’s game with Temple on the long plane ride home from Colorado Springs – he just flashed a big grin and said, “I’ll be honest with you, I felt good about that win against Air Force on the flight home … I enjoyed that. The next morning, it was absolutely all Temple.”

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Army head coach Jeff Monken always states that any win in college football in hard to get, but some wins – like the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy series games with Air Force and Navy – have so much more added meaning.

“It’s a great feeling,” Monken said. “I mean, to go in and celebrate that win, with our team, it’s an awesome feeling, and everybody’s excited and yelling and hugging each other. It is a thrill. I don’t mean to discount (other wins) but it feels different winning those (CIC) games than it feels winning other games, just because of the emotional investment and just how badly we want to win.”

A win like Saturday was the culmination of two weeks of preparation time, often scheduled ahead of the Air Force and Navy games.

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“To win a rivalry game,” Woody said, “to put everything out on the line, everything that you’ve got … You work so hard during the week, in your meetings, to understand what’s going to happen in that game, what might happen, what you need to do, the checks that you need to make, the things that you need to look out for, and that’s consuming … it’s very much so. And then to go out there, to do it in practice and physically put it on the line, every day, as hard as you can go, just so that you might have the opportunity to win this ball game, it’s tremendous. So it takes an awful lot out of you.”

There is a lot at stake with the CIC games beyond simply winning and losing, like the weight it carries at each school and the edge that can be gained in recruiting.

“It’s thrilling for me because I put a lot into it, emotionally and just the time,” Monken said. “It’s the opportunity to play for the CIC Trophy, which is a huge goal for our program, so there’s a lot of things that really make that a thrill. But there’s also, just for me, as a coach, there’s also just some feeling of relief, like, ‘Thank goodness, I don’t have to feel what it would feel like had we lost the game.’ That’s an awful feeling. It hurts worse than any losses when we lose Academy games.”

Back at it

Woody admits it’s hard to be so “sky high” for such a game and have to snap back into routine, just to go at it again seven days later, but he believes Army’s players did so this week ahead of the Temple contest.

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Army is 743-551-51 all-time following a 12-2 season in 2024. Temple is 348-457-26 all time, since 1930.

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Temple hasn’t gained a lot of traction this season, winning its first two, losing its next pair, and going 3-2 since then. Since an Oct. 11 32-31 loss to Navy, Temple has beaten Charlotte 49-14 and Tulsa 38-37 in overtime but dropped a 45-14 home game to East Carolina on Nov. 1.

Here’s how to watch Army take on the Temple Owls at home, including time and TV information:

What channel is Army football vs. Temple?

• TV Channel: CBS Sports Network (streamed on CBSsports.com/cbs-sports-network)

• Sirius XM: Army broadcast on Ch. 145; Temple broadcast on Ch. 381

Army vs. Temple will air live on CBS Sports Network from Michie Stadium in West Point, N.Y.

The Black Knights and Owls will kick off at noon ET on Saturday, Nov. 8. Dave Ryan and Adam Breneman have the TV call with Tina Cervasio on the sidelines.

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The Army football radio network features WBNR (1260-AM, 96.5-FM), WLNA (1420-AM, 94.3-FM) and WGHQ (920-AM, 92.5-FM). The game can also be heard on The Varsity app, Knight Vision website and Sirius XM channel 145 (Army radio feed). Rich DeMarco, Dean Darling, sideline reporter Tony Morino and host Joe Beckerle have the radio call.

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Army football schedule

• Friday, Aug. 29 vs. Tarleton State, L 27-30 (2 OT)

• Saturday, Sept. 6 at Kansas State, W 24-21

• Saturday, Sept. 20 vs. North Texas, L 38-45 (OT)

• Thursday, Sept. 25 at East Carolina, L 6-28

• Saturday, Oct. 4 at Alabama Birmingham, W 31-13

• Saturday, Oct. 11 vs. Charlotte, W 24-7

• Saturday, Oct. 18 at Tulane, L 17-24

• Saturday, Nov. 1 at Air Force, W 20-17

• Saturday, Nov. 8 vs. Temple, noon ET (CBSSN)

• Saturday, Nov. 22 vs. Tulsa, noon ET (CBSSN)

• Saturday, Nov. 29 at Texas San Antonio, time TBD (ESPN network)

• Saturday, Dec. 13 vs. Navy, 3 p.m. ET (M&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore, Md.) (CBS)

Temple football schedule

• Saturday, Aug. 30 – at Massachusetts, W 42-10

• Saturday, Sept. 6 – vs. Howard, W 55-7

• Saturday, Sept. 13 – vs. Oklahoma, L 3-42

• Saturday, Sept. 20 – at Georgia Tech, L 24-45

• Saturday, Oct. 4 – vs. Texas San Antonio, W 27-21

• Saturday, Oct. 11 – vs. Navy, L 31-32

• Saturday, Oct. 18 – at Charlotte, W 49-14

• Saturday, Oct. 25 – at Tulsa, W 38-37 OT

• Saturday, Nov. 1 – vs. East Carolina, L 14-45

• Saturday, Nov. 8 – at Army, noon (CBSSN)

• Saturday, Nov. 22 – vs. Tulane, time TBD (ESPN network)

• Friday, Nov. 28 – at North Texas, 3:30 p.m. ESPN)

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