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WEEK 1 @ OSU - Columbus, OH | It was a slow start that did-in the Black Knights in their season opening game against a solid Buckeyes squad. Or was it a fast start by OSU?

Army's red-shirt freshman, Daniel Huff was welcomed to the NCAA on the first down played at the Horseshoe.....with a turnover (fumble) that the Buckeyes turned into a score just 5 plays later. OSU wasted no time in putting up their second score of the game on a 66yd TD pass from Osuna to Gonzalez to open the game with a 14-0 lead, just 4 1/2 minutes into the game.

Army didn't give up though. With 11:15 left in the game the Knights took a 20-19 lead on a 33y FG by Carl Lopp. OSU's Mike Nugent answered right back 3 minutes later and the Buckeyes never looked back, adding another TD on a Scott Townsend plunge just after the 2 minute warning. OSU 29 ARMY 20 F

WEEK 2 @ IOWA - Iowa City, IA | By the time the 53 thousand fans in Kinnick Stadium were giving their new traditional "wave" to the children at the University's Children's Hospital, the tone had been set as to where this game was headed.

All on the arm and feet of the true-freshman phenom, Frank White, the Hawkeyes put up 4 scores by half time. Iowa's defense did the rest, shutting out the Army offense in the second half while coasting to their first win of the season. IOWA 34 ARMY 14 F

Army starts the season 0-2 for the first time in the history of their existence and it doesn't get any easier, any time soon. Up next for the Black Knights: RUTGERS, @ NOTRE DAME, ARIZONA

RUTGERS AND NOTRE DAME POUND ARMY - WINLESS IN FIRST QUARTER OF THE SEASON

WEEK 3 vs RUTGERS - West Point, NY | It's a start that's unheard of at the Academy. "We just need to do basic things a lot better.", said first year head coach Michael Houston. "Ahmad {Bradshaw] is just not seeing the field the way he needs to." Bradshaw had his worst game as a starting QB, going 25/48 for 319y 0 TD's and 5 Interceptions.

The game, statistically was not bad for the Army side sans the QB play. The defense held Rutgers to under 300yds passing and just 76yds on the ground. It was the 6 turnovers that were the tail to this game. Five of those turnovers were in Plus-Territory, setting up the Scarlet Knights. RU 27 ARMY 9 F

WEEK 4 @ NOTRE DAME - South Bend, IN | Write - Up Pending, Time to go to bed. NOTRE DAME 49 ARMY 9 F

Army starts the season 0-4 for the first time in the history of their existence and it doesn't get any easier, any time soon. Up next for the Black Knights: ARIZONA, @ TEXAS, MARSHALL

Homecoming Week at WP! Knights welcome the Cowboys of Oklahoma St.!!

COLE MOVES ON FOR GRADUATE STUDIES AND POSSIBLE BONUS YEAR OF FOOTBALL



The Academy bids farewell to one of the fan-favorite players of all time. Cole Christiansen's final couple of years didn't end up where he wanted them to for himself but the 2017 2nd-Team All-American still finds the positive. "I will always cherish the time here at West Point, the injuries got the best of me these past couple of years but the experience as a leader is something you can't 'injure'." "I look forward to the future with hopes of a long military career and will always look back at the men I served with here on the Black Knights as one of my life's greatest experiences, I have no doubt!!"

Where Cole heads for graduate school next is not known at this time.

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