College football Week 16 watchability rankings: This Army-Navy game really is must-watch

Let’s be honest for a moment. There are years in which the Army-Navy game is contested between two teams who are not very good at football.

Take the 2022 contest, for example, which pitted a four-win Navy team against a then-five-win Army team. Or in 2011, when teams that would finish 3-9 and 5-7 met in 2011 — the last time it was played in Landover, Maryland.

But we as a collective college-football-watching people watch anyways for several reasons. There’s the pageantry of two service...