2018 Armed Forces Bowl
The 2018 Armed Forces Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 22, 2018. It was the 16th edition of the Armed Forces Bowl, and one of the 2018–19 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin, the game was officially known as the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl. On December 18, it was announced that the game had officially sold out of tickets, the first such sellout in the Armed Forces Bowl's 16-year history.
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| 16th Armed Forces Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 22, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Amon G. Carter Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Fort Worth, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Kelvin Hopkins (QB, Army) & Romello Brooker (TE, Houston) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Army by 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Luke Richmond (MAC) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 44,738 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$900,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Chris Cotter, Emmanuel Acho, Jim Mora and Quint Kessenich | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ESPN Deportes | ||||||||||||||||||
Army's 70–14 victory tied the then largest margin of victory in a bowl game, 56, set by Tulsa in the 2008 GMAC Bowl when they defeated Bowling Green 63–7. Army's 70 points tied the record for most points in an FBS bowl game, set by West Virginia in the 2012 Orange Bowl, when they defeated Clemson 70–33. The then-tied record of largest margin of victory in a bowl game would go on to be broken in the 2023 National Championship game, where Georgia would defeat TCU by a final score of 65–7.