2025 Navy Football Predictions: Midshipmen Ranked 63rd in RJ Young's Ultimate 136
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Aug. 10, 2025 9:26 p.m. ET
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This isn't your average college football ranking.
My Ultimate 136 is a set of rankings that is fluid, but it's my job to look ahead and make a claim for all FBS teams based on what I know and why I know it. Here are the three pressing questions I started by asking when putting together this list:
Who do I think is good?
Why do I think they're good?
What are the chances they will finish above or below my expectations?
Here is a look at where Navy lands in my Ultimate 136.
Navy ranking: 63
Last year's ranking: 108
Top player: QB Blake Norvath: Had 1,246 rushing yards last season, the third-most of any FBS QB last season; had 17 rush TDs, tied for the fifth-most of all FBS QBs; the third QB in school history to rush and pass for more than 1,200 yards in the same season.
[Navy's 2025 schedule]
RJ's take: Midshipmen coach Brian Newberry has QB Blake Horvath back, and that could mean bad news once again for the American Conference. Navy, when it has a star QB — from Malcolm Perry to Keenan Reynolds — can win 10 games like it did last year and stamp an upset like it did against Oklahoma in the Armed Forces Bowl.
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The question for Navy to answer is simple: Was last year a fluke or a sign of dominance to come from an academy in the age of revenue-sharing, NIL-moneymaking and rampant transfer portal movement?
Let's find out if every bone in the Midshipmen program is a spar, and when it spits, it spits tar.
[Check out RJ Young's Ultimate 136 College Football Rankings here]
Navy Win Total Odds: Over 8.5 (-134) Under 8.5 (+110)
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RJ Young is a national college football writer and analyst for FOX Sports. Follow him at @RJ_Young.
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