Army Football: Jeff Monken Reflects on 2-4 Record After Week 7

The Army Black Knights dropped their fourth game of the year on Saturday. The 19-0 loss to the Troy Trojans had some extra sting for West Point faithful,

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The Army Black Knights dropped their fourth game of the year on Saturday. The 19-0 loss to the Troy Trojans had some extra sting for West Point faithful, considering it was the homecoming game.

Following the loss, head coach Jeff Monken reflected on what his team has accomplished in the first half of their 2023 season.

"Well, I mean, got to play better," Monken stated bluntly. "We're two and four. We are who we are. We're a 2-and-4 football team. We've had some chances in some other games to maybe have a different result, but didn't make the plays. Didn't play good enough. Got to make the plays. That's that. "

Monken's comments about having chances at other wins hold weight. In Week One, Army lost a road game at ULM 17-13. Army had chances to go ahead on their last two drives of the game, but instead turned the ball over twice. Army also lost a home game to Boston College last week when BC quarterback Thomas Castellanos scored the go-ahead touchdown after a bad Army punt.

The Black Knights have also turned the ball over 13 times this season, tied for fourth-most in FBS.

Army will return to Louisiana this week to face a ranked LSU team. Monken briefly mentioned the challenge that Brian Kelly's 5-2 team will present.

"We've got a great opponent we're playing this week," Monken said. "It's a great opportunity for our players to be able to square off against some of the best football players in America... People do the research and all that stuff all the time, and they say, who are the teams that really have a chance to win a National Championship, there's about 10 of them out of 133 schools. LSU is one of them. It'll be a great challenge for us, a great opportunity."

Army travels to Baton Rouge to face the Tigers on October 21 on SEC Network.