Towson at Navy

Navy's offense produced more than 31 points a game last season on the way to a 10-2 finish, one of the most efficient option attacks in the country under Brian Newberry, and Towson's defense allowed just over 25 points a game itself in a middling FCS season. That gap favors Navy piling up scoring drives against a defense that wasn't stopping much a level down. Navy's own defense isn't the driving force behind this pick. It gave up 26 points a game a year ago, leaving room for Towson's offense, which put up nearly 27 points a game in 2025, to find its own scores rather than getting run off the field. A ball-control team like Navy tends to keep drives alive rather than end them, and against a defense already shown to leak points, those long drives are more likely to finish in the end zone than stall out. Two offenses capable of moving the chains against defenses that struggled to get stops give this total real room to climb, particularly with both sides breaking in new wrinkles in their first game of the year. Play the OVER this afternoon.