2026: 2–⁠4 (1–⁠3 American Athletic). Last: lost at UTSA 38–⁠34. Next: North Texas, Saturday, Oct 24, 3:30 p.m. ET.

  1. W 42–⁠15Towson
  2. L 30–⁠38at Florida Atlantic
  3. L 20–⁠24at UAB
  4. L 9–⁠14at Air Force
  5. W 34–⁠26Tulsa
  6. L 34–⁠38at UTSA
  7. Oct 24North Texas
  8. Oct 31vs. Notre Dame
  9. Nov 7Temple
  10. Nov 21Memphis
  11. Nov 28at Charlotte
  12. Dec 12vs. Army
  • T-No. 3 oldest program
  • Outfitted by Under Armour

Navy has played football since 1879 and is 731–⁠597–⁠53 in the 1,381 games on record here, which start in 1888. Navy claims one national championship (1926). Their best finish in the final AP poll is No. 2, in 1963. The Heisman Trophy has been won here twice, most recently by Roger Staubach in 1963. Since 1959, the NFL Draft has taken 11 players from here in its first seven rounds, 0 of them in the first round. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 20 players and 5 coaches from Navy. Ken Niumatalolo (2007–⁠2022) won more games here than any other coach: 109. The most-played rival is Army: 126 meetings, Navy leads 64–⁠55–⁠7. This season, under Brian Newberry, they’re 2–⁠4.

Résumé

All-time record
758–⁠605–⁠57 official; 731–⁠597–⁠53 on file; how we count
Postseason
14–⁠11 bowls, title games, playoff
AP No. 1 finishes
0
Weeks at No. 1
0 of 129 ranked
Elo now
1533 67th of 138 FBS
Computer rankings
Massey No. 104 · Composite No. 98 in FBS, Oct 17; up 1 since Oct 11. From Massey Ratings
Best season by Elo
1945 rated 1735
Bowl record
14–⁠11–⁠1 official, bowls only
Seasons
139 since 1888, 1,381 games

Identity

Fight song
Anchors Aweigh

2026 season 2–⁠4

RosterFull 2026 season
DateOpponentResultElo
Sep 5vsTowsonW 42–⁠1589%
Sep 12atFlorida AtlanticL 30–⁠3872%
Sep 25atUABL 20–⁠2467%
Oct 3atAir ForceL 9–⁠1454%
Oct 10vsTulsaW 34–⁠2674%
Oct 17atUTSAL 34–⁠3834%
Oct 24vsNorth TexasPreview50%
Oct 31vsNotre DamePreview22%
Nov 7vsTemplePreview76%
Nov 21vsMemphisPreview53%
Nov 28atCharlottePreview74%
Dec 12vsArmyPreview43%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

This season, game by game

Navy’s Elo through 2026: 1603 going into the opener, 1533 after the latest game.15251550157516001625Elo 1603 going in; beat Towson 42–15Elo 1609 going in; lost to Florida Atlantic 38–30Elo 1575 going in; lost to UAB 24–20Elo 1552 going in; lost to Air Force 14–9Elo 1533 going in; beat Tulsa 34–26Elo 1543 going in; lost to UTSA 38–34Now: Elo 1533 after the latest game1533
Elo going into each game, then after the latest. Filled dots: wins; open: losses.

Future schedule

2027–⁠31
20273 games: 2 home, 1 away, non-conference only
20283 games: 1 home, 1 away, 1 neutral, non-conference only
20293 games: 1 home, 2 away, non-conference only
20303 games: 1 home, 1 away, 1 neutral, non-conference only
20313 games: 1 home, 2 away, non-conference only

Navy’s announced games beyond the seasons on our schedule, as its Wikipedia article lists them (announced schedules as of June 4, 2025). Schedules change; a season shows only the games named so far, and many articles list non-conference games only. Future schedules: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

On the 2026 team

Program greats See all

Heisman finalists, College Football Hall of Famers, consensus All-Americans, national award winners and first-round picks, for what they did at Navy.

Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.

Around the program

Apparel
Under Armour · Official source
Mascot
Bill the Goat · Official source
Student section
The Brigade of Midshipmen · Independently corroborated
Defensive coordinator
Eric Lewis · Single source
Radio flagship
WBAL · Official source

Found by several AI researchers searching the web, then kept only where the page loads and says so in words naming the program; every quote is checked again each time the data is rebuilt. Official source: the school’s own page. All of them.

The apparel deal

Under Armour, from 2014. Multiyear extension signed in 2024. Under Armour has outfitted Navy since 2014. Extended in December 2024.

  • Navy Athletics, Dec 11, 2024: Multiyear extension; Under Armour official outfitter since 2014
  • Under Armour, Dec 11, 2024: Multiyear extension of the partnership with the Naval Academy Athletic Association

Apparel deals: Field Drip. Terms as the outlets reported them; checked Oct 3, 2026.

Program strength since 1888

Best seasons ever
Navy end-of-season Elo from 1888 to 2026, best in 1945 at 1735.130015001700190019001920194019601980200020201945 peak: Elo 1735
End-of-season Elo. Dashed line: 1500, an average FBS team.

More coverage

Found through the GDELT Project, which indexes news sites worldwide. Each link opens the story on the outlet’s own site; each picture is that outlet’s own preview of its story, shown from its site and credited to it.

Head coaches

CoachYearsRecord
Brian Newberry2023–⁠202628–⁠16
Ken Niumatalolo2007–⁠2022109–⁠83
Paul Johnson2002–⁠200745–⁠29
Rick Lantz20010–⁠3
Charlie Weatherbie1995–⁠200130–⁠45
George Chaump1990–⁠199414–⁠41
Elliot Uzelac1987–⁠19898–⁠25
Gary Tranquill1982–⁠198620–⁠34–⁠1
George Welsh1973–⁠198155–⁠46–⁠1
Rick Forzano1969–⁠197210–⁠33
William Elias1965–⁠196815–⁠22–⁠3
Wayne Hardin1959–⁠196438–⁠22–⁠2
Eddie Erdelatz1950–⁠195850–⁠26–⁠8
George Sauer1948–⁠19493–⁠13–⁠2
Thomas Hamilton1934–⁠194721–⁠23–⁠1
Oscar Hagberg1944–⁠194513–⁠4–⁠1
John Whelchel1942–⁠194313–⁠5
Swede Larson1939–⁠194116–⁠8–⁠3
Hank Hardwick1937–⁠19388–⁠7–⁠3
Rip Miller1931–⁠193312–⁠15–⁠2
William Ingram1926–⁠193032–⁠13–⁠4
Jack Owsley19255–⁠2–⁠1
Bob Folwell1920–⁠192424–⁠12–⁠3
Gilmour Dobie1917–⁠191918–⁠3
Jonas Ingram1915–⁠19169–⁠8–⁠2
Douglas Legate Howard1911–⁠191425–⁠7–⁠4
Frank Berrien1908–⁠191021–⁠5–⁠3
Joe Reeves19079–⁠2–⁠1
Paul Dashiell1904–⁠190625–⁠5–⁠4
Burr Chamberlain19034–⁠7–⁠1
Art Hillebrand1901–⁠19028–⁠11–⁠2
Garrett Cochran19006–⁠3
Bill Armstrong1897–⁠189919–⁠5
Johnny Poe18965–⁠3
Matthew McClung18950–⁠1
William Wurtenburg18941–⁠1
John A. Hartwell18931–⁠2
Ben Crosby18925–⁠2

Most-played series

All rivalries
OpponentGamesNAVY record
Army12664–⁠55–⁠7 ‡
Notre Dame9813–⁠82–⁠1 †
Air Force5924–⁠35
Pennsylvania4721–⁠22–⁠4
William & Mary4235–⁠6–⁠1
Duke4020–⁠15–⁠5
Pittsburgh4015–⁠22–⁠3
Penn State3717–⁠19–⁠1

Official records. † Without wins the NCAA vacated. ‡ The rivalry’s own count, where it differs from the games on file. Each series page gives both.

Rivals the program names: Army, Air Force, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, Maryland, SMU.

Every opponent (161)

Every program Navy has played, A to Z, with Navy’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.

Official records. † Without wins the NCAA vacated, or with forfeits counted. ‡ The rivalry’s own count, where it differs from the games on file.

Conference titles

AAC West 3
2015 (tied), 2016, 2019 (tied)

As the program counts them in its Wikipedia article, shared titles included, and listed under each conference’s current name (a Western Conference title of the 1900s counts as a Big Ten title); season pages use the name the conference had that year. A title the article files under a conference the team wasn’t in that season is listed under the one it was. Division titles include years the team tied for its division.

Conferences

  1. Independent 1879–⁠2014
  2. American Athletic Conference since 2015
  • 2015Joined the American Athletic Conference from independence in football. Source

Navy’s football conferences by season, from CollegeFootballData.com’s memberships (renamed conferences keep the name of the time). The moves and their announcement dates from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the year is the first season in the new conference. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

National award winners

All awards
2004Paul Johnson coachBobby Dodd Award
1963Roger Staubach QBHeisman, Maxwell
1960Joe Bellino RBHeisman, Maxwell
1957Bob Reifsnyder OTMaxwell
1954Ron Beagle EMaxwell

Consensus All-Americans 22

1985Napoleon McCallum RB
1983Napoleon McCallum RB
1975Chet Moeller S
1963Roger Staubach QB
1960Joe Bellino RB
1955Ron Beagle E
1954Ron Beagle E
1945Dick Duden E
1944Ben Chase OG
1944Don Whitmire OT
1943Don Whitmire OT
1934Buzz Borries RB
1928Edward Burke OG
1926Frank Wickhorst OT
1922Wendell Taylor E
1918Lyman Perry OG
1918Wolcott Roberts RB
1913John Brown OG
1911Jack Dalton FB
1908Ed Lange QB
1908Percy Northcroft OT
1907Bill Dague E

Led the nation 4

2019Jamale Carothers points per game (16.0)
2013Keenan Reynolds rushing touchdowns (31 TD), points (188 pts)
2008Shun White yards per carry (8.3)
1955George Welsh passing yards (1,319 yds), passer rating (146.1), total offense (1,348 yds)

The NCAA’s official national leaders since 1937, from Wikipedia’s yearly leader lists.

Heisman runners-up and finalists

The votes
2015Keenan Reynolds QB5th
1957Tom Forrestal QB5th
1955George Welsh QB3rd
1944Don Whitmire OT4th

Second to fifth in the vote, from each season’s Wikipedia article.

In the Hall of Fame

Every inductee
Players
20
Coaches
5
2023Paul Johnson coach here, 2002–⁠2007
2013Wayne Hardin coach here, 1959–⁠1964
2010Chet Moeller S
2004George Welsh coach here, 1973–⁠1981
2002Napoleon McCallum RB
2001Dick Duden E
1997Bob Reifsnyder OT
1994Steve Eisenhauer OT/OG
1987Dick Scott C
1986Ron Beagle E
1985George Brown OG
1985Skip Minisi RB
1981Roger Staubach QB
1977Joe Bellino RB
1973Bill Ingram coach, career 1922–⁠1934
1971Clyde Scott FB
1970Frank Wickhorst OT
1970Jack Dalton RB
1968Jonas Ingram FB
1967Slade Cutter OT
1965Tom Hamilton RB
1960Buzz Borries RB
1956Don Whitmire OT
1955John Brown OG
1951Gil Dobie coach, career 1906–⁠1938

In the NFL Draft

By college
Drafted, rounds 1–⁠7
11 since 1959
First-round picks
0

Who came and went in the 2026 transfer portal, and every portal year.

Official accounts

Football
X @NavyFBInstagram @navyfbFacebook NavyFootball

Official accounts: the schools’ athletics websites: the ones navysports.com lists for its football program, as of Oct 12, 2026.

Voices

play-by-play
  1. 1997–⁠2008Bob Socci

From the announcers’ Wikipedia articles (CC BY-SA), with the years as each article gives them: those in Wikipedia’s Navy football announcers category, and any whose article names them the program’s play-by-play voice. Television network crews and announcers whose articles give no years are left out.

Old photographs

From the Library of Congress’s Prints & Photographs Division, with no known restrictions on publication. The records don’t give these a season; those they date are on their seasons’ pages.

On the newsreel

And 84 more

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Films

Films: Wikidata (CC0) and Wikipedia’s lists and categories (CC BY-SA), about the program, its seasons, games and rivalries.

Season by season

National champions

Shaded: national title seasons, No. 1 in the final AP poll or claimed by Navy (1 claimed).

SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
20262–⁠41–⁠3Brian Newberry1533-0.2
202511–⁠28–⁠123Brian Newberry16546.2
202410–⁠37–⁠2Brian Newberry16023.5
20235–⁠74–⁠4Brian Newberry1420-13.7
20224–⁠84–⁠4Ken Niumatalolo1439-7.2
20214–⁠83–⁠5Ken Niumatalolo1448-8.5
20203–⁠73–⁠4Ken Niumatalolo1444-9.3
201911–⁠27–⁠120Ken Niumatalolo16399.9
20183–⁠102–⁠6Ken Niumatalolo1409-10.2
20177–⁠64–⁠4Ken Niumatalolo1556-0.7
20169–⁠57–⁠1Ken Niumatalolo15936.8
201511–⁠27–⁠118Ken Niumatalolo167312.1
20148–⁠5Ken Niumatalolo15563.4
20139–⁠4Ken Niumatalolo1572-0.3
20128–⁠5Ken Niumatalolo1500-8.1
20115–⁠7Ken Niumatalolo1530-9.4
20109–⁠4Ken Niumatalolo1608-4.2
200910–⁠4Ken Niumatalolo1615-2.9
20088–⁠5Ken Niumatalolo1534-3.5
20078–⁠5Paul Johnson, Ken Niumatalolo1542-9.8
20069–⁠4Paul Johnson1587-1.9
20058–⁠4Paul Johnson1578-2.1
200410–⁠224Paul Johnson1556-3.4
20038–⁠5Paul Johnson1438-3.8
20022–⁠10Paul Johnson1251-16.8
Every season back to 1888 (114 more)
SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
20010–⁠10Charlie Weatherbie, Rick Lantz1223-24.0
20001–⁠10Charlie Weatherbie1277-17.5
19995–⁠7Charlie Weatherbie1447-2.0
19983–⁠8Charlie Weatherbie1382-15.0
19977–⁠4Charlie Weatherbie15644.4
19969–⁠3Charlie Weatherbie15445.7
19955–⁠6Charlie Weatherbie1414-6.1
19943–⁠8George Chaump1323-20.2
19934–⁠7George Chaump1307-20.2
19921–⁠10George Chaump1244-16.9
19911–⁠10George Chaump1275-19.7
19905–⁠6George Chaump1363-13.3
19893–⁠8Elliot Uzelac1339-11.5
19883–⁠8Elliot Uzelac1337-10.2
19872–⁠9Elliot Uzelac1314-15.9
19863–⁠8Gary Tranquill1355-22.2
19854–⁠7Gary Tranquill14822.1
19844–⁠6–⁠1Gary Tranquill14481.2
19833–⁠8Gary Tranquill1425-15.0
19826–⁠5Gary Tranquill1540-2.4
19817–⁠4–⁠1George Welsh157110.5
19808–⁠4George Welsh156910.3
19797–⁠4George Welsh1526-4.2
19789–⁠3George Welsh16037.5
19775–⁠6George Welsh14659.0
19764–⁠7George Welsh14874.8
19757–⁠4George Welsh15397.6
19744–⁠7George Welsh1404-1.6
19734–⁠7George Welsh14525.3
19724–⁠7Rick Forzano1403-1.6
19713–⁠8Rick Forzano1354-6.1
19702–⁠9Rick Forzano1328-10.3
19691–⁠9Rick Forzano1325
19682–⁠8William Elias1392
19675–⁠4–⁠1William Elias1489
19664–⁠6William Elias1503
19654–⁠4–⁠2William Elias1530
19643–⁠6–⁠110Wayne Hardin1515
19639–⁠292Wayne Hardin1679
19625–⁠5Wayne Hardin1576
19617–⁠3Wayne Hardin1620
19609–⁠24Wayne Hardin1654
19595–⁠4–⁠1Wayne Hardin1597
19586–⁠37Eddie Erdelatz1629
19579–⁠1–⁠1125Eddie Erdelatz1730
19566–⁠1–⁠216Eddie Erdelatz1657
19556–⁠2–⁠1818Eddie Erdelatz1684
19548–⁠25Eddie Erdelatz1730
19534–⁠3–⁠213Eddie Erdelatz1606
19526–⁠2–⁠1Eddie Erdelatz1618
19512–⁠6–⁠1Eddie Erdelatz1502
19503–⁠6Eddie Erdelatz1489
19493–⁠5–⁠1George Sauer1439
19480–⁠8–⁠1George Sauer1357
19471–⁠7–⁠1Thomas Hamilton1435
19461–⁠8Thomas Hamilton1490
19457–⁠1–⁠123Oscar Hagberg1735
19446–⁠364Oscar Hagberg1701
19438–⁠144John Whelchel1689
19425–⁠4John Whelchel1582
19417–⁠1–⁠1710Swede Larson1652
19406–⁠2–⁠1Swede Larson1545
19393–⁠5–⁠1Swede Larson1477
19384–⁠3–⁠2Hank Hardwick1529
19374–⁠4–⁠1Hank Hardwick1521
19366–⁠318Thomas Hamilton1583
19355–⁠4Thomas Hamilton1560
19348–⁠1Thomas Hamilton1610
19335–⁠4Rip Miller1496
19322–⁠6–⁠1Rip Miller1426
19315–⁠5–⁠1Rip Miller1505
19306–⁠5William Ingram1534
19296–⁠2–⁠2William Ingram1594
19285–⁠3–⁠1William Ingram1570
19276–⁠3William Ingram1589
19269–⁠0–⁠1William Ingram1637
19255–⁠2–⁠1Jack Owsley1495
19242–⁠6Bob Folwell1427
19235–⁠1–⁠3Bob Folwell1599
19225–⁠2Bob Folwell1620
19216–⁠1Bob Folwell1635
19206–⁠2Bob Folwell1609
19197–⁠1Gilmour Dobie1611
19184–⁠1Gilmour Dobie1595
19177–⁠1Gilmour Dobie1635
19166–⁠3–⁠1Jonas Ingram1554
19153–⁠5–⁠1Jonas Ingram1453
19146–⁠3Douglas Legate Howard1554
19137–⁠1–⁠1Douglas Legate Howard1607
19126–⁠3Douglas Legate Howard1549
19116–⁠0–⁠3Douglas Legate Howard1639
19108–⁠0–⁠1Frank Berrien1619
19094–⁠3–⁠1Frank Berrien1571
19089–⁠2–⁠1Frank Berrien1644
19079–⁠2–⁠1Joe Reeves1630
19068–⁠2–⁠2Paul Dashiell1624
190510–⁠1–⁠1Paul Dashiell1634
19047–⁠2–⁠1Paul Dashiell1474
19034–⁠7–⁠1Burr Chamberlain1305
19022–⁠7–⁠1Art Hillebrand1373
19016–⁠4–⁠1Art Hillebrand1501
19006–⁠3Garrett Cochran1518
18995–⁠3Bill Armstrong1534
18987–⁠1Bill Armstrong1576
18977–⁠1Bill Armstrong1511
18965–⁠3Johnny Poe1458
1895few games on file0–⁠1Matthew McClung1465
1894few games on file1–⁠1William Wurtenburg1478
1893few games on file1–⁠2John A. Hartwell1472
18925–⁠2Ben Crosby1538
18915–⁠21445
1890few games on file1–⁠11431
1889few games on file0–⁠1–⁠11437
1888few games on file0–⁠11470

Officially 758–⁠605–⁠57 since 1879 (per Wikipedia, through the 2025 season); game by game here, 731–⁠597–⁠53 (−27 wins, −8 losses, −4 ties). Our file starts in 1888; the program began in 1879. Some games are missing from our source.

Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.