Army travels to Temple. No market line yet; the model gives Army a 69% shot.
What’s at stake
Temple
- Temple hasn’t beaten a ranked opponent since 2019.
Army
- Army hasn’t beaten a ranked opponent since 2023.
The series
Army leads the series 8-7
15 meetings since 1943 · Army has won the last 4
- 2025Army 14–13
- 2024Army 42–14
- 2017Army 31–28
- 2016Army 28–13
- 2013Temple 33–14
Face-off
What each fanbase carries into this one.
Army
The chip · vs the national mediaBlack Knights fans say the sport treats Army as a quaint December novelty — a parade of cadets and a salute — and forgets that those same cadets went 12-2 and won the Trophy a year ago; they say the respect never arrives until the scoreboard forces it.
Temple
The chip · vs the national mediaFans are sick of being the program everyone treats as a coaching stepping-stone — the place a Rhule or an Addazio uses to get to the next job. They want Keeler's refusal to be realistic to mean Temple finally keeps a winner instead of exporting one.
What this game touches
The post-Rhule freefall. After Rhule's 2016 AAC title and the program's late-2010s peak, Temple fell apart — a string of two- and three-win seasons that gutted the roster and the relevance, until K.C. Keeler arrived in 2025, went 5-7 in year one, and notably lost zero starters to the transfer portal afterward.
Best players
Temple
- Curly Ordonez (LB) · 2025: 69 tackles
- Avery Powell (S) · 2025: 54 tackles
- Jevyon Ducker (RB) · 2025: 809 rushing yards
Army
- Andon Thomas (LB) · 2025: 112 tackles
- Kalib Fortner (LB) · 2025: 83 tackles
- Cale Hellums (QB) · 2025: 1,215 rushing yards
The line, and the room
Army fans are feeling it more than most fanbases this week (65th percentile) — the mood matches the numbers.
Conditions
Temple is 50% at home, 23% on the road since 2018 (24-24 home, 10-33 away).