The move comes as the College Football Playoff officially expands to 24 teams, pushing conference championship weekend aside.
The Army-Navy game is getting an earlier date on the calendar. Starting in 2027, the rivalry matchup will be played on Saturday, Dec. 4, at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, a week earlier than its originally scheduled date of Dec. 11.
The change is a direct result of the CFP's expansion to 24 teams, officially announced Monday by ESPN and the CFP. With the playoff field growing, the sport's schedule needed rearranging, and Army-Navy ended up moving into the Saturday slot that conference championship games used to occupy. The game will now follow rivalry week, the last official week of the regular season, rather than trailing conference title weekend as it has in recent years.
The first Saturday in December was actually the traditional home for Army-Navy for decades before it got bumped to the second Saturday starting in 2009, when a crowded college football schedule and the rise of conference championship games crowded it out. Now it returns to that earlier slot.
CBS Sports will continue broadcasting the game, which remains a standalone event separate from any other Division I matchups that weekend.