Army coach Jeff Monken wins a game in which his team didn’t complete a pass. Again.

Army coach Jeff Monken is among the foremost practitioners of the option. That means that his teams don’t typically pass all that often because they don’t have to. They certainly didn’t in an evisceration of FCS opponent Fordham 64-6.

They can do stuff like this:

But there’s more context to that tweet, mainly, the words “without completing a pass” that jogs the memory back to a fateful day in 2013 when Georgia Southern beat Florida. The Eagles marched into The Swamp with Monken as head coach and handed the Gators their first loss to an FCS team in school history (GSU would make the FBS leap the next season).

Guess what they didn’t do that day either?

Yep, they didn’t complete a pass in that game either. They almost equaled the yardage total too, gaining 429. That was the last game of the 2013 season for the Eagles, and the last time a Monken-coached team didn’t complete a pass.

The option is, depending on who you ask: a harbinger of a bygone era or un-defensible, but there’s a certain brutal quality to it when it’s working to perfection. Teams like Army have to run it because of weight limitations among their personnel, mainly linemen.

But when you can damn the torpedoes and just run slap over an opponent to the tune of over 500 yards, it’s cool. Throwing’s for the fancy schools, Monken & Co. are content to run right over your ass.