Appalachian State University is officially in the history books. Not that us true fans had any doubt! Commentators are calling Appalachian's 34-32 victory over the University of Michigan the biggest upset since Knute Rockney's Fighting Irish in 1929! Oh yes, it is great to be a Mountaineer!
Here's what others are saying about the game:
ESPN.com on sophomore quarterback Amanti Edwards:
"He opened his sophomore season by orchestrating perhaps the biggest upset in modern college football history. Playing in front of more than 109,000 fans at the Big House, Edwards completed 17 of 23 passes for 227 yards with three touchdowns and two interceptions. He also ran 17 times for 62 yards and one score."
My former editor Dave Osborn:
"The Appalachian win has huge ramifications for college football for years to come. I often said that Michigan won games before they entered the stadium, meaning, many teams lost to the Michigan mystique and therefore felt they couldn't beat them. Now all of that is blown out of the water. When teams line up against Michigan, they'll know that they're not unbeatable."
More from ESPN.com on App's saucy students:
"Shortly after Appalachian State pulled off perhaps the biggest upset in modern college football history by winning at Michigan on Saturday, the goalpost came crashing down.
More than 600 miles away. In Appalachian State's own stadium.
A few minutes after the Mountaineers stunned No. 5 Michigan 34-32 in the Big House, a group of Appalachian State students climbed a fence and tore down a goalpost in their own house. They carried the goalpost more than a mile from Kidd Brewer Stadium to the front yard of Chancellor Kenneth E. Peacock's home.
"It's all right," Peacock said, after celebrating with hundreds of Mountaineers fans in the parking lot outside the school's football stadium late Saturday night. "As good as today was for Appalachian State, they can take it up there and put it down. I can't wait to get there and see it."
Razing the goalposts was the just the beginning of a raucous celebration in this small college town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northwestern North Carolina.
A campus tradition is to jump in the duck pond behind the dining hall after the football team's big victories. Well, beating the mighty Wolverines in front of more than 110,000 fans certainly called for a quick swim.
In the nude, which is what more than a few students did."
2 comments:
Way to Go APP! Should make for a really great homecoming game this year. Aren't you glad you are going? Can't wait to see you next month! Me
Can I just say that Appalachian State is the best school ever?!?!?! How 'bout those Mountaineers! What an insane beginning! Hope the rest of the season leads to a 3-peat! Maybe your class should do a big story on this history of I-AA not beating a Div. 1 team until Michigan had to reckon with the mighty Mountaineers! Ha!
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