The "Anti-Climactic" is in response to there not being anything on the line other than pride. Air Force always plays navy first in the season. "At least normally". With Navy having won the previous 7 years against air force, and air force having usually won against army, by the time the army/navy game came, the navy was in a no lose situation. They WIN, they get the trophy. They LOSE, they still get to keep the trophy. This year, should air force beat army, the trophy is out of the equation. I agree that most civilians have no relationship or tie with the CIC trophy. They couldn't care less. But the academies do.
Anyway, we look forward to playing army. Especially now that they appear to be getting better. But don't worry about air force JAM. Your team not being in a "Conference", you probably don't understand how conference play works. But should by chance Air Force lose to both TCU and Utah, that would simply fuel our desire for the trophy that much more. You should actually hope that we WIN both TCU/Utah games. Then we're most likely Conference champions and looking at a possible BCS bowl game. That would be very distracting to air force. But just like army has history with navy on the field, so does air force with our conference. We play these guys every year. They know us and we know them. We play 8 conference teams a year. A loss to TCU or Utah is different than a loss to Oklahoma or Florida State. No, if Air Force loses to TCU/Utah, it isn't because air force sucks, it's because TCU is #5 in the country and Utah is #10 in the country. And after play 4 nationally ranked teams this year, we understand playing high caliber teams. If we lose against TCU/Utah, I wouldn't want to be Army.