{"id":2196,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/2196","headline":"Army-Navy game shifts back to first Saturday in December for 2027","dek":"The move comes as the College Football Playoff officially expands to 24 teams, pushing conference championship weekend aside.","body":"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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nCBS Sports will continue broadcasting the game, which remains a standalone event separate from any other Division I matchups that weekend.","published_at":"2026-11-11T00:18:23.830842+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Awful Announcing","publisher":"Awful Announcing","title":"Army-Navy game moves up a week to accommodate expanded CFP","url":"https://awfulannouncing.com/college-football/army-navy-game-moves-up-week-expanded-cfp.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Army vs Navy 2027 football game shifted a week earlier due to new CFP format","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/army-vs-navy-2027-football-204233175.html"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Army vs. Navy Game moves to first Saturday in December beginning in 2027 amid CFP expansion to 24 teams","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/army-navy-game-schedule-2027-college-football-playoff-expansion-24-teams/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Army-Navy game moves up a week to accommodate expanded CFP","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/army-navy-game-moves-week-010006734.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"CFP Expansion Rightly Preserves Army-Navy Exclusive Broadcast Window","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/cfp-expansion-rightly-preserves-army-205335066.html"}],"image":null,"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}