#25/RV Navy (5-0, 3-0 AAC) vs. Charlotte (3-3, 2-0 AAC)
When	Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024 | 3:30 pm (ET)
Location	Annapolis, Md. | Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium | Parking & Fan Guide
Television	CBS Sports Network (Carter Blackburn, Adam Breneman, Sheehan Stanwick Burch)
Live Video Stream	CBS Sports Network
Listen	Navy Football Radio Network (Pete Medhurst, Joe Miller, Keith Mills, Scott Wykoff) WBAL 1090 AM / 101.5 FM (Baltimore) | WFED 820 AM, 94.3 FM (Frederick, Md.) | WFED 1500 AM (Washington, D.C.) | WFED 104.5 FM (Western Fairfax / Loudon, Va.) | WNAV 1430 AM (Annapolis) | KWFN 97.3 FM (San Diego) | WGH 1310 AM / 100.9 FM (Norfolk, Va.) | WJGM 105.7 GM (Jacksonville, Fla.) | KIKI 990 AM (Honolulu, Hawai'i) | Satellite: Sirius 83, SXM App 83 | Apps: Audacy (WNAV) and TuneIn (WBAL)
Live Stats	StatBroadcast
Game Notes	Navy | Charlotte | AAC
Season Statistics	Navy | Charlotte | AAC
Social Media	@NavyAthletics | @NavyFB | Facebook | Instagram

Opening Kick
•    #25 / RV Navy (5-0, 3-0 in the American Athletic Conference) and Charlotte (3-3, 2-0 in the AAC) meet for the second time on the gridiron when the two square off on Homecoming Saturday afternoon (3:30 pm) at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (34,000). Saturday's contest, televised on CBS Sports Network, is presented by Boeing. Navy is looking for its first 6-0 start to a season since 1979 and just its seventh in program history (1905, the national championship year of 1926, 1934, 1960, 1978 and 1979). 
•    Charlotte enters Saturday red hot, having won 3 of its last 4 games including a 55-24 beatdown of East Carolina on Oct. 5. Both Navy and Charlotte are coming off byes.
•    Navy and Charlotte are 2 of 5 teams that are still undefeated in the American Athletic Conference. Army, Tulane and North Texas are also undefeated. Navy is 1 of just 11 FBS teams who is undefeated overall. 
•    A win on Saturday would make Navy bowl eligible for the first time since 2019. The Mids have been to 24 bowl games in school history.     
•    Navy, picked 11th in the 14-team AAC preseason poll, is currently in second place with a 3-0 record and owns a win over preseason favorite Memphis. The Mids play 3 of the top-4 teams in the preseason poll.  
•    Navy is ranked 25th in the latest Associated Press college football poll. It is the first time Navy has been ranked since the final poll of the 2019 season when the Mids were 20th after finishing 11-2, winning the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy and defeating Kansas State in the Liberty Bowl. Saturday will mark the first time Navy has played at home as an AP Top 25 team since Oct. 22, 2016, when No. 24 Navy defeated Memphis 42-28.
•    Navy's 218 points in the first-5 games of the year are 6 more than it scored in all 12 games last year (212).
•    Navy has scored a touchdown on the 1st play of a drive an incredible 5 times this fall, which is the second most in the FBS.
•    Navy is averaging 295.6 rushing yards per game this fall, the second-best average in the FBS and the program's best since 2019 when it averaged a school-record 360.5 rushing yards per game.
•    Navy is 18-18 in the red zone this year with all 18 scores resulting in touchdowns. Last year, the Mids were tied for 130th in the country in red zone offense, scoring just 14 touchdowns on 29 attempts. Navy is the only team in the FBS that is perfect in the red zone with all scores resulting in a touchdown.
•    Navy is coming off a 34-7 win over Air Force, its first over the Falcons since 2019 and its first in Colorado Springs since 2012. The 34 points scored are the second-most points Navy has ever scored in Colorado Springs and the 7 points allowed are the fewest. The 27-point win was the largest by Navy in the series since 1978 when the Mids won 37-8 in Colorado Springs and the fourth largest ever.
•    Blake Horvath (Jr. / QB) has rushed for 565 yards and 10 touchdowns on just 65 carries (8.7 yds/carry) and has completed 39 of his 59 passes (.661 completion pct.) for 771 yards and 7 touchdowns this season.
•    Horvath had touchdown passes of 77 yards to Nathan Kent (Jr. / WR) and 74 yards to Eli Heidenreich (Jr. / Snipe) against UAB. He is the first player in the FBS this year to have 2 touchdown passes of 70 yards or more and it is the first time in Navy history that a quarterback had multiple 70-plus-yard touchdown passes in the same game. He has also thrown for over 100 yards in each of Navy's 5 games this fall. He is the first Navy quarterback since Ricky Dobbs to have 5-straight 100-yard passing games.
•    Heidenreich has 5 touchdown catches this season and 9 in his career. The school record for touchdown catches in a season is 6, while the career record is 13. Against Air Force, Heidenreich rushed for 100 yards on 6 carries and caught 5 passes for 101 yards in Navy's 34-7 rout of the Falcons. He is the 1st Navy player to have 100 yards rushing and receiver in the same game in school history.
•    Rayuan Lane III (Sr. / S) made his 35th-consecutive start at safety for the Mids against Air Force which is the longest active streak for a safety in the FBS and second longest by a player in the secondary. Lane III recorded a career-high 12 tackles and forced 2 fumbles against UAB. His 86-yard interception return for a touchdown with 23 seconds left in the game against Memphis clinched the victory for the Mids. It was the second pick-6 of his career. Lane's pair of pick-6's are tied for the second most in school history. Rashad Smith (1994-97) holds the Navy career record with 3.
•    Horvath is the No. 1-rated quarterback and the No. 4 overall runner, Heidenreich is the No. 2-rated receiver and No. 2 overall runner and Lane III is the No. 7-rated safety in the FBS according to Pro Football Focus.  

Game Day Timeline
•    1:15 pm - The Navy football team will arrive at the Blue Angel on the West (Blue) side of the stadium. The team will walk down the sidewalk and through NavyFest before walking to the tunnel. Fans are invited to stand on both sides of the sidewalk to cheer on the players.
•    3:10 pm - March-on of the Brigade of Midshipmen
•    3:21:30 pm - National Anthem, followed by a flyover
•    Saturday's fly-over will feature 2 F-35B Lightning II's from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 542 out of Cherry Point, N.C. and 2 F/A-18 Foxtrot Super Hornets from Navy Strike Fighter Squadron 32, the Fighting Swordsmen, out of NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va. Flying in the lead F-35 will be Maj. Scott "Humpty" Aquino, celebrating his 10-year reunion as a member of the Naval Academy Class of 2014. In the second F-35, flying in the "dash-2" position, will be Capt. Matthew "Low-T" Hundt, Class of 2018. Piloting the F/A-18 in the "Dash 3" position will be Lt. Isabelle "T-PAIN" Babb, Class of 2018, with the Commanding Officer of VFA-32, Cmdr. Jason "IAD…S" Hoch, in the back seat. Finally, in the F/A-18 in the "Dash 4" position will be Lt. Brittany "Hot Wheels" Kramer, Class of 2018 and Lt. Cmdr. Aaron Robinson. 
•    3:28:20 pm - Navy will take the field with Charlotte to follow.
•    3:32 pm - Kickoff / please note there is a chance the timeline, starting with the March-On, will be pushed back 5 minutes if the football game between Wake Forest and UConn on CBS Sports Network runs long. That decision will be made prior to the 60-minute clock starting. 
•    1st/2nd Quarter Break - The Navy men's and women's swimming & diving teams will be honored. The women's team won the Patriot League Championship for the 12th year in a row and increased its record for the most titles won by any league team in any sport to 22 (in 32 years as a league member). The men's team remained perfect at the league meet as the Mids have won 20 titles in their 20 years of vying for the championship. That extends the league record for the most consecutive titles won by any team in any league sport. The two teams also swept Army. The men have defeated Army in 32 of the last 33 years, while the women have defeated Army 35 years in a row.
•    Halftime - The Naval Academy Drum and Bugle Corps will perform.
•    3rd/4th Quarter Break - The pilots from the pregame flyover will be recognized.
•    Postgame - Navy's alma mater, Navy Blue & Gold, will be played as the team stands at attention in front of the Brigade of Midshipmen. It is one of the best traditions in all of sports.

Broadcast Coverage
•    CBS Sports Network will carry Saturday's game with Carter Blackburn (play-by-play), Adam Breneman (color) and Lacrosse Hall of Famer Sheehan Stanwick Burch (sidelines) on the call.
•    The Navy Football Pregame Show with Pete Medhurst, Joe Miller, Keith Mills, Scott Wykoff and special commentary from John Feinstein will get underway at 2:30 pm on the Navy Radio Network, followed by game action beginning at 3:30 pm with Medhurst, Miller and Mills on the call.
•    Following the contest, Medhurst, Miller, Mills and Wykoff will recap the day's events in a 30-minute postgame show.

And Then There Were 11
•    Heading into the week, Navy (5-0) is one of just 11 teams in the FBS that has not lost a game this year.
•    The other teams include Army (6-0), BYU (6-0), Indiana (6-0), Iowa State (6-0), Miami (6-0), Oregon (6-0), Penn State (6-0), Pitt (6-0), Texas (6-0), Liberty (5-0).

Dominating in the Red Zone
•    Navy leads the country in red zone offense (18-18) with all 18 scores resulting in touchdowns. Last year, Navy was tied for 130th in the country in red zone offense, scoring just 14 touchdowns on 29 attempts.
•    Navy is the only team in the FBS that is perfect in the red zone with all the scores resulting in touchdowns. 
•    Navy's defense has given up just 9 scores in 15 red zone opportunities this fall (.600) with only 6 resulting in touchdowns (all rush). 
•    The Mids rank 3rd nationally in red zone defense. 
•    Navy is 1 of just 3 teams (Texas and Memphis) not to have given up a red zone passing touchdown this year.

Piling Up the Points
•    Navy is averaging 43.6 points per game, which is the 5th-best scoring average in the country. 
•    Navy has scored at least 34 points in every game this year.  
•    Navy's 218 points in the first-5 games of the year are six points more than Navy scored in all 12 games last year (212).
•    A big reason for Navy's scoring outburst is the play of the offensive line. Navy is 1st in the country in tackles for loss allowed (1.8) and 7th in sacks allowed (0.60),
•    Navy is averaging 465.4 yards per game which ranks 17th nationally.