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How Navy's Blake Horvath optimizes play on – and off – the field as Midshipmen's star QB

Fourth-and-1 with 47 seconds left. Down a touchdown. On the road.

This was the end-game situation that Navy faced on Oct. 11 at Temple. The Midshipmen took a timeout, but almost everybody – including Navy coach Brian Newberry – had to know where the ball was going.

Navy quarterback Blake Horvath was that guy against the Owls.

"Great players are at their best when their best is needed, and that's who he is," Newberry told The Sporting News. "When we need somebody to come up with a play – he seems to be the guy that can do that in those clutch moments. Not everybody can do that."

Horvath took a power run up the middle and into the open field for a 51-yard TD with 39 seconds r

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