The Military-Navy sport Saturday was watched by an unprecedented variety of viewers.
The Midshipmen pulled off the upset in Landover, Maryland, 31-13, to extend their all-time sequence lead, 63-55-7, and finish a two-game dropping streak to the Black Knights.
For the primary time since 2020, Donald Trump attended the sport, this time as president-elect.
President Biden has not attended the rivalry sport since being elected, however he did take within the contest in 2011 and 2012.
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President-elect Trump gestures to the gang at a sport between Military and Navy at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Md., Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024. (AP Picture/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Trump took within the sport with Vice President-elect JD Vance, Elon Musk, Pete Hegseth, Daniel Penny and others from a luxurious suite. And it might be truthful to say that many tuned in to get a glimpse of the soon-to-be forty seventh president.
In truth, with Trump in attendance, the sport had its highest viewership on document.
The sport drew a median of 9.4 million viewers, essentially the most since no less than 1990. Its earlier excessive was 8.45 million in 1992, and this 12 months’s determine is a 31% improve over final 12 months’s viewers of seven.2 million.Â
It is undoubtedly the most-watched Military-Navy sport since CBS took over airing rights in 1996. In truth, it was the most-watched sport on CBS this 12 months, behind solely the Large Ten title sport.
It now ranks because the eleventh most-watched school soccer sport this season, rating forward of three convention championship video games, together with the Large 12, and is the most-watched sport that didn’t contain the Large Ten or SEC.
Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson, R-La.; President-elect Trump; Tesla CEO Elon Musk; and Vice President-elect JD Vance attend the a hundred and twenty fifth Military-Navy soccer sport at Northwest Stadium Dec. 14, 2024, in Landover, Md. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photographs)
Viewers of the sport have elevated for the reason that sport moved to the week after convention championship weekend in 2009. It’s now the lone school sport of the day. This 12 months, each groups had been ranked for the primary time since 1960. This 12 months’s sport was additionally the highest-scoring Military-Navy affair since 2011.
Navy received out to a 14-0 lead, and regardless of Military slicing its deficit to 4, the Midshipmen by no means regarded again, scoring a 52-yard landing after which discovering the top zone once more shortly after a pretend punt. With the victory, Navy earned the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy, having additionally crushed Air Pressure earlier this 12 months.
Military had gained six of the earlier eight conferences after Navy rode a sizzling streak of profitable 16 of 17 conferences. The Midshipmen are 9-3 on the season, whereas Military fell to 11-2.Â
Operating again Brandon Chatman (24) of the Navy Midshipmen scores a landing in opposition to the Military Black Knights in the course of the first half of the a hundred and twenty fifth assembly between the groups at Northwest Stadium Dec. 14, 2024, in Landover, Md. Â (Patrick Smith/Getty Photographs)
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Each groups now concentrate on their respective bowl video games. Navy will face Oklahoma within the Armed Forces Bowl, and Military will face Louisiana Tech within the Independence Bowl.
