2019 Navy Football:  Navy (3-1, 1-1 AAC) at Tulsa (2-3, 0-1 AAC)
When	Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019 | 7:30 pm (ET) / 6:30 pm (CT)
Location	Tulsa, Okla. | H.A. Chapman Stadium | Clear Bag Policy
Television	ESPNU (Mike Corey and Rene Ingoglia)
Live Video Stream	WatchESPN
Listen	Navy Football Radio Network (Pete Medhurst, Joe Miller, Keith Mills, Scott Wykoff) WBAL 1090 AM / 101.5 FM (Baltimore) | WNAV 1430 AM, 99.9 FM (Annapolis) | WJXL 1010 AM, 92.5 FM (Jacksonville) | WXTG 102.1 FM / 1490 AM (Norfolk, Va.) | W270DA 101.9 FM (Norfolk, Va.) | WQBK 107.9 FM (Williamsburg / Yorktown, Va.) | KWFN 97.3 FM (San Diego, Calif.) | WFED 1500 AM | WFED 104.5 FM (Western Fairfax / Loudon, Va.) | WFED 820 AM, 94.3 FM (Frederick, Md.) | WBQH 1050 AM, 93.5 FM (Washington, DC / No. Virginia) | Sirius Ch. 108 / XM Ch. 210 / Internet Ch. 965
Live Stats	Navy Athletics
Game Notes	Navy | Tulsa | AAC
Season Statistics	Navy | Tulsa | AAC
Social Media	@NavyAthletics | @NavyFB | Facebook | Instagram

Setting the Stage
•    Navy and Tulsa will meet on the gridiron for the seventh time when they square off on Saturday night at H.A. Chapman Stadium (30,000). Kickoff is set for 7:30 pm (ET), 6:30 pm in Tulsa.
•    Navy has won four-straight against Tulsa and lead the all-time series, 5-1.
•    The Mids are looking for their first win away from home since Sept. 30, 2017, when Navy won at Tulsa, 31-21. The Mids have dropped 14 consecutive games played away from the friendly confines of Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
•    ESPNU will televise Saturday's game with Mike Corey and Rene Ingoglia on the call.
•    The Navy Football Insider Show with Joe Miller will air on Thursday night from 7:00-8:00 pm on WBAL Radio (1090 AM, 101.5 FM). Pete Medhurst, Keith Mills and Scott Wykoff will contribute to the show.
•    The Navy Football Tailgate Show on WNAV Radio 1430 AM / 99.9 FM will air from 5:30-6:30 pm with Wylie Baker and Bill Lusby serving as the hosts.
•    The Navy Football Pregame Show with Pete Medhurst, Joe Miller, Keith Mills and Scott Wykoff will get underway at 6:30 pm on the Navy Radio Network, followed by game action beginning at 7:30 pm with Medhurst, Miller and Mills on the call.   
•    Following the contest, Medhurst, Miller, Mills and Wykoff will recap the evening's events in a 30-minute postgame show.

Scouting Tulsa
•    Tulsa enters Saturday's game with a 2-3 record and coming off a heartbreaking 43-37 triple overtime loss at #24 SMU. The Golden Hurricane entered the fourth quarter up 30-9, but were outscored 21-0 by SMU in the fourth quarter to send the game into overtime. Tulsa went on to lose in the third overtime on a spectacular 25-yard touchdown catch by James Proche. The Hurricane missed a 43-yard field goal in the second overtime that would have given them the win.
•    Tulsa owns victories over San Jose State (34-16) and Wyoming (24-21) and has lost to Michigan State (28-7), Oklahoma State (40-21) and SMU. Navy will be the first team Tulsa has played that wasn't undefeated when Tulsa played them.
•    The Hurricane are ranked 110th nationally in rushing offense (115.6), 38th in passing offense (274.8), 82nd in total offense (390.4) and 95th in scoring offense (24.6).
•    Quarterback Zach Smith has been solid for Tulsa, completing 102 of his 176 pass attempts for 1,364 yards with nine touchdowns and four interceptions. Smith was 23-41 for 346 yards with four touchdowns and three interceptions against SMU. He is 20th in the country in passing yards per game (272.8).
•    Smith's favorite target is Sam Crawford Jr., who has 26 catches for 370 yards and two touchdowns, while Keylon Stokes is second on the team with 24 catches for 403 yards and four touchdowns.
•    Shamari Brooks has proved to be one of the better running backs in the American Athletic Conference, rushing for 409 yards and four touchdowns on 97 carries.
•    On defense, Tulsa ranks 84th in rushing defense (166.6), 67th in passing defense (224.2), 67th in total defense (390.8) and 89th in scoring defense (29.6). Tulsa is 17th in the country in third down defense (.301) and 18th in fumbles recovered (5).
•    Cooper Edmiston leads the Tulsa defense with 44 tackles and a forced fumble, while Brandon Johnson has 38 tackles and a team-high five pass break-ups. Trevis Gipson has been a disruptive force for Tulsa, recording a team-high 8.5 tackles for a loss and four sacks. Johnson is 23rd in the country in solo tackles per game (5.8), while Gipson is 10th in the country in tackles for a loss per game (1.7)
•    Tulsa has blocked two kicks this fall.

Oklahoma Mids
•    Second-team quarterback Perry Olsen (Yukon) is the only Navy player from the state of Oklahoma.

Notes from the Air Force Game
•    Navy threw for a season-high 162 yards in the game.
•    Navy was held to a season-low 214 yards on the ground.
•    Navy had five fumbles in the game and lost three of them. It was the most lost fumbles by Navy since the 2018 SMU game when the Mids lost three in an overtime loss.
•    Saturday's attendance of 37,957 was the fourth largest in Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium history and the third-highest Navy-Air Force game in stadium history.
•    Sophomore bandit Kevin Brennan recorded a career-high nine tackles.
•    Sophomore striker Tony Brown returned a Geraud Sanders fumble eight yards for a touchdown on the final play of the game. It was Brown's first career fumble recovery and touchdown and the first fumble return for a touchdown by a Navy player since Alohi Gilman vs. UConn in 2016 (two yard return). The Brown fumble recovery was created by a caused fumble by senior Nizaire Cromartie.
•    Senior linebacker Paul Carothers and sophomore linebacker Diego Fagot each recorded a career-high 12 tackles. Making his first start, Carothers also recorded his first-career sack in the game.
•    Sophomore wide receiver Mychal Cooper had a career-high 90 yards receiving on three catches.
•    Junior safety Evan Fochtman picked off his first career pass in the opening quarter.
•    Sophomore cornerback Michael McMorris entered the game with one career tackle for a loss and came up with two against the Falcons.
•    Junior striker Jacob Springer produced a season-high six tackles and had his second career sack.
•    Sophomore wide receiver Chance Warren threw and completed his first career pass that went for 18 yards to Tazh Maloy on Navy's game-winning drive.
•    Making his first career start, sophomore defensive tackle J'arius Warren recorded a career-high six tackles.
•    Senior Owen White had a season-long punt of 54 yards.

Creating Turnovers
•    The Navy defense has forced seven turnovers in the first four games (five fumbles and two interceptions).  
•    The defense has come up with at least one turnover in every game this year: 1 vs. Holy Cross, 2 vs. East Carolina, 1 vs. Memphis and 3 vs. Air Force.

Finding the Football
•    Navy senior outside linebacker Nizaire Cromartie has recovered two fumbles and forced two fumbles this season.
•    The two fumble recoveries are tied for the fifth most in the country.
•    Cromartie's average of 0.5 forced fumbles per game is tied for the 10th most in the FBS.

Dropped For A Loss
•    In just four games in 2019, the Navy defense has nearly surpassed its totals for tackles for a loss and sacks in 13 games in 2018.  
•    Last year, the Mids finished with 37 tackles for a loss and 10 sacks.
•    This season, Navy has already recorded 30 tackles for a loss and eight sacks.
•    The Navy defense has recorded at least seven tackles for a loss in every game this year (seven vs. Holy Cross and East Carolina, eight vs. Memphis and Air Force). Dating back to 2000, Navy has not had a season when it recorded seven or more tackles for loss more than four times.