2024 Armed Forces Bowl
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| 2024 Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 22nd Armed Forces Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 27, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Amon G. Carter Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Fort Worth, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Blake Horvath (QB, Navy)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Oklahoma by 2.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Krystal Keith | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Mike McCabe (Big 12)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 50,754 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Courtney Lyle (play-by-play), Rene Ingoglia (analyst), and Morgan Uber (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2024 Armed Forces Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 27, 2024, at Amon G. Carter Stadium located in Fort Worth, Texas. The 22nd annual Armed Forces Bowl featured Oklahoma and Navy. The game began at approximately 11:00 a.m. CST and aired on ESPN.[3][4] The Armed Forces Bowl was one of the 2024–25 bowl games concluding the 2024 FBS football season. The game was officially named the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl after its corporate sponsor Lockheed Martin.
Oklahoma Sooners
Consistent with conference tie-ins, the game featured Navy from the American Athletic Conference (The American) and Oklahoma from the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The teams had met once previously, with Navy winning a regular-season matchup in Oklahoma in 1965.[5]
Oklahoma compiled a 6–6 overall record (2–6 in SEC play) during the regular season. They began with four wins in their first five games and were ranked as high as 15th. They finished the season with five losses in seven games. The Sooners faced five ranked teams, defeating Alabama while losing to Tennessee, Texas, Ole Miss, and Missouri.
Navy Midshipmen
Navy registered a regular-season record of 9–3 (6–2 in The American). They won their first six games and were ranked as high as 24th. They then lost three of their next four games, before finishing the season with back-to-back wins, including an upset win in the Army–Navy Game. The Midshipmen faced three ranked teams, defeating Army while losing to Notre Dame and Tulane.