2013 Armed Forces Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on December 30 , 2013 , at Amon G. Carter Stadium on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth , Texas . The eleventh edition of the Armed Forces Bowl ( which was originally known as the Fort Worth Bowl ) , it featured the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders of Conference USA against the Navy Midshipmen , an independent team . It began at 10:45 a.m. CST and aired on ESPN . It was one of the 2013 – 14 bowl games that concluded the 2013 FBS football season . The game was sponsored by Bell Helicopter and was officially known as the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl . Navy defeated Middle Tennessee by a score of 24 – 6
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2013 Armed Forces Bowl