President Donald Trump issues executive order to establish 'exclusive window' for broadcast of Army-Navy game

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President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Friday to establish an “exclusive window” for the broadcast of the Army-Navy game.

The order gets ahead of potential College Football Playoff expansion that could conflict with "America's Game," a standalone matchup that annually gives the military academies national spotlight.

More specifically, there has been discussion about a 16-team CFP that would include two games, one between seeds No. 16 and No. 13 and one between seeds No. 15 and No. 14, on the day of Army-Navy, as previously reported by Yahoo’s Ross Dellenger.

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That said, the CFP is poised to remain at 12 teams for the 2026 season after college football’s conference commissioners failed to agree on an expanded format for the postseason ahead of the Jan. 23 deadline that ESPN set, per Dellenger.

Friday’s executive order arrives about two months after Trump teased it. In January, he released a statement on Truth Social about protecting the Army-Navy game.

“Under my Administration, the second Saturday in December belongs to Army-Navy, and ONLY Army-Navy!” he wrote at the time.

Trump added in that post: “On the field, they are rivals, but on the battlefield, they are America’s unstoppable Patriots, defending our Country with tremendous Strength and Heart. We must protect the Tradition, and the Players, who protect us. …”

This story is being updated.

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