Navy Midshipmen NCAA Football News

Losses never lasted long when Ara Parseghian was in charge. Eleven years as head football coach at Notre Dame and the Irish icon never had a team lose back-to-back regular-season games.

That's the message Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo has been giving his Midshipmen all week as they prepare to play Delaware after their triumph over then-No. 19 Notre Dame.

On a day where we honor our nation's military -- heroes you all are -- we take the time to celebrate a group of America's future heroes, a group of men that did the college football world a big favor.

Notre Dame associate head coach Corwin Brown has criticized Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo for his postgame comments after the Midshipmen upset the Irish Saturday and for a ``malicious'' cut block by a Navy receiver.

At practice Tuesday, Blake Carter was not wearing one of the special green or red jerseys that signify limitations because of injuries.

It was beyond schematic deficiencies. It was beyond two uncharacteristic and costly fumbles.

Just about everybody except the higher-ups at Notre Dame has already figured it out: Charlie Weis isn't going to return the Fighting Irish to the top of college football anytime soon.

What looked entirely possible in September appears imminently probable in November.

Notre Dame Football 2009 Issue 9: Navy The good news is that Clausen , Allen , Parris , and yes, Michael Floyd are back.

Navy did it to Notre Dame again - and this loss to the Midshipmen is even more costly.

College football caps including Alabama-LSU, Notre Dame-Navy Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 19:34 LAST WEEK: Northwestern lost at home to Penn State, 34-13. Iowa beat Indiana, 42-24. SERIES HISTORY: Iowa leads, 46-21-3 .LAST MEETING: Northwestern won, 22-17, last year.

Notre Dame returns home to face the Midshipmen Saturday, one week after crushing the hapless Cougars in San Antonio and one week before an away showdown with the 14th ranked and 7-1 Pittsburgh Panthers.

Navy cornerback Blake Carter has come out of games lately feeling as though he's been involved with a traumatic incident.

For a brief moment, linebacker Ram Vela didn't know how to react after Navy ended more than four decades of frustration by beating Notre Dame on Nov.

The Navy Football Luncheon series continued yesterday with head coach Ken Niumatalolo candidly discussing various aspects of the team with Pete Medhurst of the Navy Radio Network then answering questions from the audience.

Record: 6-3. Last time out: Lost 27-24 to Temple. What to make of Navy? It opened the season with a 4-point loss at Ohio State and is bowl eligible, but just one of its victories came against a team with a winning record .

Posted by ESPN.com's Graham Watson Navy quarterback Ricky Dobbs entered the game against Temple with 2 minutes remaining to help the Midshipmen come from behind late.

Navy got beat at its own game yesterday by a vastly improved Temple team that came to Annapolis hungry to achieve some major program goals and highly motivated to avenge a devastating defeat in last year's matchup between the teams.

Freshman tailback Bernard Pierce ran wild, rushing for a career-high 267 yards and two touchdowns on 29 carries.

A year ago, Temple lost its best shot at a bowl game when it blew a 20-point lead and lost to Navy in overtime.