Another possible home-and-home football series is off the books, as the Army Black Knights enter the American Athletic Conference this fall.
In 2019, the Marshall Thundering Herd scheduled a home-and-home series with Army for August 30, 2025 at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia, and October 10, 2026 at Michie Stadium at West Point, New York.
Marshall University has informed FBSchedules.com that the series with the Army Black Knights will not be played and has been mutually cancelled.
Army has been busy clearing its football schedules since last fall’s news that the Black Knights would formally join the American Athletic Conference on July 1, 2024. Army, which has competed as an Independent in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for the past 19 seasons, was required to arrange 10 games per season in addition to its yearly Air Force and Navy games.
Despite the fact that the two schools will be in the same conference, the annual Army-Navy Game will remain a non-conference game, as previously announced. The Black Knights will also maintain Air Force on their non-conference schedule, and they will most likely continue to face an FCS opponent every season.
With the Marshall series scrapped, Army now has six games scheduled for 2025. That means two more games must be canceled among the quartet of Kansas State (away), Marist (home), Syracuse (away), and Lafayette (home).
Army now has five non-conference opponents in 2026, with the final one expected to be either Syracuse (home), Coastal Carolina (away), or Wake Forest (away).
Marshall will have to work the phones, as they now only have one known non-conference opponent in 2025 (at Middle Tennessee) and two in 2026 (at Penn State and against Middle Tennessee).