2016 Armed Forces Bowl
2016 Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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14th Armed Forces Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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Date | December 23, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
Season | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Amon G. Carter Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Fort Worth, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
MVP | Trent Taylor (La. Tech-WR) Zach Abey (Navy-QB) | ||||||||||||||||||
Favorite | Navy by 1[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
Referee | Larry Smith (MAC) [2] | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 40,542[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
Payout | US$675,000[3] | ||||||||||||||||||
United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
Network | ESPN RedVoice, LLC | ||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Roy Philpott, Tom Ramsey, Kris Budden (ESPN) Brian Estridge, John Denton, Landry Burdine (RedVoice) | ||||||||||||||||||
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The 2016 Armed Forces Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 23, 2016, at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. The fourteenth annual edition of the Armed Forces Bowl was one of the 2016–17 bowl games that concluded the 2016 FBS football season and was sponsored by aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin; it was officially known as the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl.
Team selection
The game featured the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs against the Navy Midshipmen.
This was the third meeting between the schools, with Navy winning both previous ones. The most recent meeting was on September 18, 2010, where the Midshipmen defeated the Bulldogs by a score of 37–23.[4]
Louisiana Tech
Navy
Game summary
Scoring summary
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Statistics
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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Bulldogs | 17 | 14 | 0 | 17 | 48 |
Midshipmen | 7 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 45 |
Statistics | La. Tech | Navy |
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First Downs | 31 | 25 |
Total offense, plays – yards | 73–497 | 61–459 |
Rushes-yards (net) | 33–88 (2.7) | 49–300 (6.1) |
Passing yards (net) | 409 | 159 |
Passes, Comp-Att-Int | 29–40–0 | 7–12–0 |
Time of Possession | 31:31 | 28:29 |
Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
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La. Tech | Passing | Ryan Higgins | 29/40, 409 yds, 4 TD |
Rushing | Jarred Craft | 17 car, 63 yds | |
Receiving | Trent Taylor | 12 rec, 233 yds, 2 TD | |
Navy | Passing | Zach Abey | 7/12, 159 yds, 1 TD |
Rushing | Zach Abey | 25 car, 114 yds, 2 TD | |
Receiving | Darryl Bonner | 2 rec, 79 yds, 1 TD |
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