PHILADELPHIA — Paul Johnson has Navy on the brink of a clean sweep.

If the Midshipmen (8-3) win the 107th Army-Navy game Saturday, they will capture the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy outright for the fourth straight year and make the senior class the first in school history to go 8-0 against Army and Air Force.

"I hope that's extra motivation. It should be," said Johnson, Navy's fifth-year coach. "But at the same time, I'm sure that Army's got some motivation because the senior class doesn't want to go out not having won, so you can twist that any way you want."

The annual patriotic rivalry game has turned into pure revelry for Navy, outscoring the Black Knights (3-8) by a 176-54 margin the last four years. The Midshipmen can equal their longest winning streak in the series with a victory at Lincoln Financial Field, matching a pair of five-game series winning streaks, most recently from 1959 through 1963.

"The past few years have been horrible," Army co-captain Cameron Craig said. "Navy has just come out and kicked our butts pretty good the last two years. The internal motivation for everybody throughout the entire offseason is to get that win," against Navy.

Navy has won at least eight games each of the last four seasons and will play in the Meineke Bowl on Dec. 30.