ESPN Showing Classic BYU, Navy Games In Anticipation For Labor Day Night

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland – ESPN is pulling out all the stops to build up anticipation for the Labor Day night matchup between BYU and Navy.

On Sunday, ESPN’s college channel, ESPNU, is televising classic games from both the BYU and Navy programs as we inch closer to kickoff on Monday.

Can you contain your excitement?

☝️ day until @BYUfootball returns. #GoCougs 📹: @x_hems pic.twitter.com/PqYVb4Y03A

— KSL Sports (@kslsports) September 6, 2020

The lineup of games on ESPNU includes BYU’s memorable wins over Nebraska in 2015, No. 1 Miami in 1990, and last year’s victory at Tennessee.

ESPNU also televised the final game of Ty Detmer’s BYU career against Iowa in the 1991 Holiday Bowl. A game that ended up as a 13-13 tie.

For Navy, ESPNU is showing the Midshipmen’s victories against California in the 1996 Aloha Bowl and Kansas State in last year’s Liberty Bowl.

Schedule of classic BYU and Navy games

On ESPNU

8 a.m. MDT: 2015: BYU at Nebraska

10 a.m.: 1991: BYU vs. Iowa – Holiday Bowl

12 p.m.: 1990: Miami at BYU

2 p.m.: 1996: Navy vs. Cal – Aloha Bowl

4 p.m.: 2019: Navy vs. Kansas State – Liberty Bowl

7 p.m.: 2019: BYU at Tennessee

ESPN hyping up BYU-Navy matchup

The ESPN television slate for week one was ravaged by conferences altering their schedules due to the COVID-19 pandemic. BYU and Navy were able to piece together this game one month ago. Since the game has received a lot of promotion from ESPN.

“We’re gonna see him play on Sunday’s.”

-ESPN’s Andre Ware on #BYU QB Zach Wilson#BYUFOOTBALL @kslsports pic.twitter.com/CsjFGzfKvT

— Mitch Harper (@Mitch_Harper) September 5, 2020

Every week one telecast had broadcasters discussing BYU and Navy. ESPN analyst and former Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware gave high praise to junior quarterback Zach Wilson during the Marshall-Eastern Kentucky broadcast. Ware said Wilson would be a player that we end up seeing play in the NFL on Sundays.

Former NFL QB Dan Orlovsky said during the Memphis-Arkansas State telecast that Wilson is “one of the best quarterbacks that no one is talking about.”

Some of ESPN’s top analysts and voices will be on the call for BYU against Navy on Monday night. Reece Davis will be the play-by-play voice and Kirk Herbstreit will join him in the booth as the analyst with Alison Williams handling the sidelines.

For an inside look at what it’s like to be at a college football game during the COVID-19 pandemic, follow @kslsports on Instagram. Mitch Harper will be giving you an inside look all weekend leading up to the BYU vs. Navy game on Monday. Find Mitch on Twitter here.