President Donald Trump signs an executive order declaring an exclusive television broadcast window for the annual Army-Navy football game during a ceremony to present the Commander-in-Chief Trophy to the Navy Midshipmen football team of the United States Naval Academy in the East Room of the White House in Washington on March 20, 2026. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday blocking college football playoff organizers from scheduling games during the four hours allotted for the Army–Navy game played on the second Saturday in December.
The order cites the expansion of college football playoffs, which added the number of games played, as the cause for the regulation because the schedule “threatens to encroach upon … a date traditionally reserved exclusively for ‘America’s Game.’”
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