The NCAA is reportedly on the hunt for a replacement in the Independence Bowl.

The Army Black Knights won't be affected much - they are rather focused on their big game against Navy later Saturday.

However, it appears that they will have a new opponent in the Dec. 28 contest.

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Yahoo Sports reports that Marshall, amid over 25 players hitting the transfer portal, will be opting out of the game.

There are no other 6-6 teams remaining (six wins automatically qualifies teams for a bowl game), so the NCAA is currently working on finding a replacement through a ranking of academic progress rate scores among 5-7 teams.

A member of the Sun Belt Conference, Marshall went 10-3 this season and 7-1 against conference opponents.

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The portal opened earlier this week, and already 29 members of the Thundering Herd are looking elsewhere to play in 2025. This comes after head coach Charles Huff left for the same job at Southern Mississippi and hiring Tony Gibson to replace him.

The Independence Bowl would have been Marshall's 21st bowl game, having played in one in each of the last seven seasons, and 19 of them have come since 1997.

The Thundering Herd have lost four of their last five bowl games after winning their previous seven. Their last victory came in the 2022 Myrtle Beach Bowl against UConn. They lost, 35-17, in last year's Frisco Bowl to UTSA.

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The Marshall Thundering Herd picked up a close win over the Old Dominion Monarchs, 42-35, on Saturday night to maintain its lead over Georgia Southern in the Sun Belt Conference East.

Talk around the crucial win quickly shifted after the game when the ESPN broadcast caught one Thundering Herd player getting into a scuffle with a staffer in the end zone.

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Defensive back Josh Moten was identified as the player who was in the incident with the ball boy after the game. The ball boy appeared to try to knock a football out of Moten’s hands while the player was running off of the field.

The ball boy was then seen getting into a shoving contest with another Marshall player.

Moten issued an apology after the game.

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"I’m sorry for the incident after the game yesterday," he wrote on X on Sunday. "That’s not what I’m about. Intense game and, in that moment, emotions got the best of me. To ODU and to my team, I’m sorry it took attention away from a great game."

Moten had five total tackles in the game and intercepted a pass from Old Dominion quarterback Colton Joseph in the first quarter. It was the fourth interception for Moten this season.

The junior defensive back transferred to Marshall in 2023 following a short stint with Texas A&M.

Marshall is 8-3 overall this season. They are on a five-game winning streak following a loss to Georgia Southern earlier in the year. The loss is the only blemish on their conference record.

The Thundering Herd could wrap up a division title with a win against James Madison this weekend.

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