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66,000 Fans Expected At Navy-Notre Dame Game In San Diego

By Priya Sridhar / General Assignment Reporter
Published October 26, 2018 at 2:34 PM PDT
This story was published more than 6 years ago.
A sign outside of SDCCU Stadium ahead of the Naval Academy and Notre Dame University football game on October 26, 2018.
Priya Sridhar
A sign outside of SDCCU Stadium ahead of the Naval Academy and Notre Dame University football game on October 26, 2018.

The Notre Dame versus Naval Academy football rivalry is the longest continuous intersectional rivalry in college football. Saturday's matchup is the 92nd consecutive time the two teams have played. Fifty-seven of their games have taken place at "neutral" sites, but this is the first time they have played in San Diego.

The Naval Academy has beat Notre Dame 13 times in their series. This year, Notre Dame comes into the matchup undefeated while the Naval Academy has a 2-5 record.

In San Diego, fans from both sides say they were excited about the game.

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"We've been watching Navy football for probably ten years, at least," one man said. "And even though I was in the Navy, I never really followed Navy football 'till our son went to the Naval Academy. No matter who they play, Air Force-Navy, Army-Navy, they're always big games."

The teams also announced that their 2020 game, which was scheduled to take place in New Jersey, has been relocated to Dublin, Ireland.

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Priya Sridhar
Priya Sridhar worked at KPBS as a general assignment reporter. She came to San Diego from San Antonio, Texas where she worked as a general assignment and investigative reporter for KENS5, a CBS affiliate. Priya began her journalism career as a multimedia journalist for the NBC affiliates in Maine. She went on to work as a Washington correspondent for RT, an international news channel. She went on to work as the South Asia bureau chief and correspondent based in New Delhi, India. After returning to the U.S., Priya worked as a video journalist for the Associated Press based in Chicago. She has also worked as a D.C. correspondent and morning show co-host for an international news channel, Arise, headquartered in Nigeria. Some of her most memorable stories in her ten year journalism career include covering the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, MO for the Associated Press and Nigeria’s historic 2015 presidential elections. Priya has a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s in international relations and history from Bowdoin College. Priya is also an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve and serves as an Advisory Board Member of Military Veterans in Journalism.
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