College GameDay Returns to Army-Navy Game After Two-Year Absence

ESPN announced on November 14 that College GameDay will wrap up the 2026 regular-season schedule with the Army-Navy game. The show will air from MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, from 10 a.m. to noon Eastern time. The game is scheduled to kick off at 3 p.m. on CBS, with Army designated as the home team.

This will be the program’s 10th visit to the rivalry and its second broadcast from MetLife Stadium. GameDay last covered the matchup in 2023; it did not travel to the game in either of the past two seasons. In 2025, Navy beat Army 17-16 in Baltimore without the show on site.

Army enters the final stretch at 5-4 and needs one more win to become bowl eligible. The Black Knights have East Carolina and a road game at Rice remaining. Navy is 3-6 and must beat Memphis and Charlotte to finish the schedule at 6-6. The Midshipmen have claimed victory in each of their two most recent matchups, including last year’s one-point win.

Air Force has already secured the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy, so it will not be at stake in December. The 2027 Army-Navy game is expected to move one week earlier than its usual second-week-of-December slot to avoid competing with the expanded College Football Playoff. Navy coach Brian Newberry said he supports protecting the game’s standalone broadcast window.