ANNAPOLIS, Md.—The Navy football team improved to 6-1 on the year and became bowl eligible for the 15^th time in the last 17 years thanks to a 41-38 victory over Tulane on Saturday afternoon at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.  Navy won the game on a 48-yard field goal by Bijan Nichols with no time remaining.
 
Navy will not know which bowl game it will go to until bowl announcements are made on Sunday, Dec. 8.
 
The American Athletic Conference has agreements with seven bowl games and secondary agreements with two others.  The highest ranked champion from the AAC, Mountain West, Conference USA, Sun Belt and MAC, as voted on by the College Football Playoff Committee, will play in the Cotton Bowl on Dec. 28.
 
AAC Bowl Tie-Ins
Date       Name                                                                                Location                              Opponent
Dec. 20  Tropical Smoothie Café Frisco Bowl                                Frisco, Texas                          Conference USA/MAC
Dec. 21  AutoNation Cure Bowl                                                     Orlando, Fla.                           Sun Belt
Dec. 21  Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl                                           Boca Raton, Fla.                     Conference USA/MAC
Dec. 23  Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl                                    Tampa, Fla.                             Conference USA
Dec. 24  SoFi Hawai'i Bowl                                                             Honolulu, Hawai'i                    BYU/Mountain West
Dec. 27  Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman                Annapolis, Md.                        Notre Dame/ACC
Jan. 2     Birmingham Bowl                                                              Birmingham, Ala.                    SEC
 
Secondary Tie-Ins (if one conference does not fill all of its bowl slots)
Date       Name                                                                                Location                              Opponent
Dec. 26  Walk-On's Independence Bowl                                          Shreveport, La.                   SEC/ACC or Notre Dame
Dec. 31  AutoZone Liberty Bowl                                                       Memphis, Tenn.                   Big 12/SEC
 
Highest Ranked Champion from the AAC, Mountain West, Conference USA, Sun Belt and MAC
Date       Name                                                                                Location                              Opponent
Dec. 28  Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic                                          Arlington, Texas                    At-Large
 
Navy fans can log on now to navysports.com and make a request for tickets to any bowl game they are interested in and you won't be charged unless Navy goes to that bowl game.  Fans can also donate tickets to send a midshipman or service member to any bowl game that Navy is selected to: https://tinyurl.com/yyzyzc5u