| Game Name: | Armed Forces Bowl |
| Game Link: | Armed Forces Bowl |
| Subheader: | 14th Armed Forces Bowl |
| Title Sponsor: | Lockheed Martin |
| Date Game Played: | December 23 |
| Year Game Played: | 2016 |
| Football Season: | 2016 |
| Stadium: | Amon G. Carter Stadium |
| City: | Fort Worth, Texas |
| Visitor Name Short: | Louisiana Tech |
| Visitor Nickname: | Bulldogs |
| Visitor Record: | 8–5 |
| Visitor Conference: | C-USA |
| Visitor Coach: | Skip Holtz |
| Visitor 1Q: | 17 |
| Visitor 2Q: | 14 |
| Visitor 3Q: | 0 |
| Visitor 4Q: | 17 |
| Home Name Short: | Navy |
| Home Nickname: | Midshipmen |
| Home Record: | 9–4 |
| Home Conference: | The American |
| Home Rank Cfp: | 25 |
| Home Coach: | Ken Niumatalolo |
| Home 1Q: | 7 |
| Home 2Q: | 17 |
| Home 3Q: | 7 |
| Home 4Q: | 14 |
| Odds: | Navy by 1[1] |
| Mvp: | Trent Taylor (La. Tech-WR) Zach Abey (Navy-QB) |
| Referee: | Larry Smith (MAC) |
| Attendance: | 40,542 |
| Payout: | 675,000[2] |
| Us Network: | ESPN RedVoice, LLC |
| Us Announcers: | Roy Philpott, Tom Ramsey, Kris Budden (ESPN) Brian Estridge, John Denton, Landry Burdine (RedVoice) |
| Different Previous: | 2015 |
The 2016 Armed Forces Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 23, 2016, at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. The fourteenth annual edition of the Armed Forces Bowl was one of the 2016–17 bowl games that concluded the 2016 FBS football season and was sponsored by aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin; it was officially known as the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl.
The game featured the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs against the Navy Midshipmen.
This was the third meeting between the schools, with Navy winning both previous ones. The most recent meeting was on September 18, 2010, where the Midshipmen defeated the Bulldogs by a score of 37–23.[3]
See also: 2016 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team and 2016 Conference USA football season.
See also: 2016 Navy Midshipmen football team and 2016 American Athletic Conference football season.
| Statistics | La. Tech | Navy |
|---|---|---|
| First Downs | 31 | 25 |
| Total offense, plays – yards | 73–497 | 61–459 |
| Rushes-yards (net) | 33–88 (2.7) | 49–300 (6.1) |
| Passing yards (net) | 409 | 159 |
| Passes, Comp-Att-Int | 29–40–0 | 7–12–0 |
| Time of Possession | 31:31 | 28:29 |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
|---|---|---|---|
| La. Tech | Passing | Ryan Higgins | 29/40, 409 yds, 4 TD |
| Rushing | Jarred Craft | 17 car, 63 yds | |
| Receiving | 12 rec, 233 yds, 2 TD | ||
| Navy | Passing | 7/12, 159 yds, 1 TD | |
| Rushing | Zach Abey | 25 car, 114 yds, 2 TD | |
| Receiving | Darryl Bonner | 2 rec, 79 yds, 1 TD |