COULSON: Power Rushing Closes Out Appalachian State’s 35-20 Win Over Charlotte
As Clark manned the sidelines at Kidd Brewer Stadium Saturday for the first time as the Mountaineers’ head coach, he drew from his football DNA...
COULSON: Former Lineman Shawn Clark Returns To Appalachian State As Head Coach
Clark’s incredible journey came full-circle on Friday afternoon when he was introduced as the 22nd head football coach at Appalachian State....
COULSON: App State Runs Past Louisiana-Lafayette In Sun Belt Championship Game 45-38
Evans scampered 58 yards with a screen pass from quarterback Zac Thomas on a third-and-15 play less than two minutes into the game and Appalachian...
COULSON: App State’s Evans Unleashed, Mountaineers Defeat Texas State 35-13
The Bobcats may have been 30-point underdogs against one of the elite teams in the Group of Five, but TSU trailed just 14-13 midway through...
COULSON: App State’s Slow Start Reversed By Sutton’s Speed, Mountaineers Jet Past Georgia State 56-28
It is hard to believe that 24th-ranked Appalachian State could play so badly early in its Sun Belt Conference football showdown Saturday night at historic...
COULSON: Appalachian State Hangs On, Survives Last-Minute South Carolina Scare For 20-15 Win
It seems like nothing ever comes easy for Appalachian State when it is playing a Power-5 Conference football team. So why would Saturday night before...
COULSON: Once Again, Georgia Southern Haunts Appalachian State, In 24-21 Halloween Victory
BOONE, N.C. — In the wind, the cold and the snow of Kidd Brewer Stadium on Thursday, 20th-ranked Appalachian State seemingly watched the cotton boll...
Undefeated Appalachian State Continuing To Write Their Own History With 52-7 Thrashing of Louisiana-Monroe
There was no doubt that No. 24-ranked Appalachian State had a couple of extra helpings of motivation heading into Saturday afternoon’s homecoming football game at...
Lightning Can’t Slow Down Appalachian State In 56-37 Win Over Coastal Carolina
One of the longest days in Appalachian State football history gravitated well into the evening as the Mountaineers opened their Sun Belt Conference opener against...
It’s No Upset: Appalachian State Beats North Carolina 34-31
When Akeem Gaither-Davis partially blocked Noah Ruggles’ 56-yard field goal attempt on the final play of the game, the Mountaineers completed their first win over...
Appalachian State Sprints Past Charlotte, 56-41
As sprinters, Darrynton Evans and Jalen Virgil would make a fine start to building a successful track relay team. And at Kidd Brewer Stadium on Saturday...
East Tennessee State Defense Plays App State Tough, But Mountaineers Prevail 42-7
Eliah Drinkwitz wasn’t shy about savoring the benefits of his first victory as a college football head coach following Appalachian State’s hard-fought, 42-7 win over...
A Curtain Call For Appalachian State’s Lady Mountaineers
National championships are hard to come by at any level, particularly team titles. Stop and reflect for a few seconds that it has been nearly...
Virginia Leaves No Doubt About Their No. 1 Seed With Dominating 63-51 NCAA Tournament Victory over Oklahoma
The Cavaliers delivered a huge statement to the rest of the field in Sunday night’s second round with their 63-51 dismantling of No. 9 Oklahoma....
Battle Between Tacko and Zion Defines One of the Most Memorable Second Round Contests in NCAA Tournament History
The Blue Devils survived two tantalizing UCF shots at the end for their incredible 77-76 victory in one of the most memorable second-round contests in...
Appalachian State Misses Opportunity In 82-72 Loss to Texas-Arlington
Already 0-2 after the first week of Sun Belt Conference play and facing the daunting stretch of a contest against one of the league’s best...
App State’s New Head Coach Drinkwitz Hopes to ‘Enhance the Winning Culture’
“We’re not coming here to shock the system, but to enhance the culture,” Drinkwitz said. “This is not a stepping-stone job. This is a top-25...
Mountaineers Clinch Share of Sun Belt Title with 30-19 Win Over Louisiana-Lafayette
BOONE, N.C. — There was a sense of symmetry for Darrynton Evans on Saturday afternoon as Appalachian State played in the first Sun Belt Conference...
Mountaineers Use Special Teams, Jalin Moore Power To Overwhelm Gardner-Webb 72-7
Gardner-Webb probably couldn’t have picked a worse time to roll into Kidd Brewer Stadium than Saturday afternoon as the opponent in Appalachian State’s hurricane-delayed, football...
Appalachian State Nearly Stuns The World Again, Battles Bravely But Falls In Overtime to Penn State, 45-38
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA. — The one thing that Appalachian State needed from redshirt sophomore quarterback Zac Thomas in his first college start was a performance...
Appalachian State Blanks Rockets 34-0 In Dollar General Bowl
MOBILE, Ala. — Nate Woody was genuinely worried about the health of his defense when he met a group Mountaineer fans Saturday morning at the...
Bearkats Turn Into Pumpkins In FCS Semifinals Once Again
FARGO, N.D. — It might have been a few weeks past Halloween on Friday night at the Fargo Dome, but for the third time in...
Ethan Radke Is the Toast of Harrisonburg After FG Beats Weber State, 31-28
HARRISONBURG, VA. — James Madison knew the road to the defending its Football Championship Subdivision title would be arduous, but the top-seeded Dukes didn’t just...
It Was A Senior Day To Remember For App State’s Curtis Fitch
BOONE, N.C. — For any college football player, it is the ultimate fantasy — scoring a touchdown on your senior day. But for rarely-used Appalachian...
ULL Scorched by App State, 63-14 As Mountaineers Clinch Share Of Sun Belt Conference Title
BOONE, N.C. — For the first two plays Saturday afternoon, things couldn’t have gone better for the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns in their battle for football...
App State Torches Georgia State 31-10 In Sun Belt Showdown
ATLANTA – Appalachian State was rested and motivated on Saturday afternoon at the former Turner Field and it showed as the Mountaineers torched Georgia State...
The FCS Committee This Year Nailed It – With One Exception
BOONE, N.C. — The task facing the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision committee this weekend may have been the most difficult that any committee...
San Diego’s Hard Work Pays Off With Pioneer Football League Title And 63-7 Win Over Davidson
DAVIDSON, N.C. — For University of San Diego coach Dale Lindsey, Saturday’s 63-7 victory over Davidson that clinched the Toreros’ third automatic playoff berth in...
Appalachian State Resoundingly Becomes Bowl-Eligible After Near-Perfect 27-6 Win Over Georgia Southern
BOONE, N.C. — Just like Elle Woods in the movie “Legally Blonde,” the Appalachian State football team was looking forward to a perfect day Thursday...
Warhawks’ 50 Yard Bomb With 52 Seconds Left Helps Down Appalachian State, 52-45
MONROE, La. — Appalachian State has made a habit of poor starts during the 2017 college football season, but an even worse finish sent the...
UMass Stuns Appalachian State In Double OT, 30-27
After playing just well enough to win several football games earlier this season, Appalachian State performed just poorly enough to lose 30-27 in double overtime...
Nothing Is Easy For Mountaineers, But Appalachian State Holds Off Coastal Carolina 37-29
As Ian Anderson sang in Jethro Tull’s first hit single, “Nothing is Easy,” and Appalachian State proved that again Saturday by scratching and clawing its...
600th Win In Appalachian State History Doesn’t Come Easy In Come-From Behind 23-20 Win
Things had come with only a modicum of difficulty last season as Appalachian State marched to its share of the Sun Belt Conference football championship,...
Appalachian State Bends, Doesn’t Break in Holding Off Texas State 20-13
SAN MARCOS, Texas — It isn’t uncommon for a college football team to overlook weaker opponents as it peaks ahead to more important games. But...
Little Things Cost Appalachian State In 31-10 Loss to Georgia
ATHENS, Ga. — The neglect to execute the little things cost Appalachian State in a big way Saturday evening before 92,46 fans at Sanford Stadium...
James Madison’s 2017 FCS National Championship Was Five Years In the Making
FRISCO, TX. — There is little doubt that James Madison University has been one of the special programs through the history of the Football Championship...
Pleasant “Groundhogs’ Day” For App State In Camellia Bowl, Score 31 Points Again, This time In 31-28 Win Over Toledo
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Excuse Appalachian State’s football team for feeling like it was reliving Groundhogs’ Day all week in preparation for the Raycom-Camellia Bowl. But...
Pelini’s Penguins Freeze Out Terriers In Double Overtime Playoff Thriller, 30-23
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — In a game between two unseeded teams that had more twists and turns than the blustery wind that howled through the Ice...
Roof Caves In On Sam Houston State In 65-7 Playoff Drubbing By James Madison
HARRISONBURG, Va. — For one play, everything seemed to be going Sam Houston State’s way in its quarterfinal-round, Football Championship Subdivision playoff game at James...
App State Closes Out Regular Season At New Mexico State
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — From the beginning to an end of the regular season in college football seems to pass like the soft whisper of...
RB Marcus Cox Smashes School Record In Appy’s 42-17 Win over Louisiana-Monroe
BOONE, N.C. — The wind was howling through Kidd Brewer Stadium, the temperature had plummeted from the 70s on Friday to near freezing by game-time...
Louisiana-Lafayette Looking To Mend Broken Hearts at Kidd Brewer
BOONE, N.C. — The last time Louisiana-Monroe coach Matt Viator showed up at Kidd Brewer Stadium, he and his team left Appalachian State with broken...
Record-Breaking Performance Gives App State Men First Win In Basketball
BOONE, N.C. — If there was one thing that the Appalachian State men’s basketball team needed on Thursday night after a pair of competitive, but...
Troy Remains Undefeated, Convert Two Key Plays In Dramatic 28-24 Win
TROY, Ala. — Victory and a likely Sun Belt Conference football championship were one play away from Appalachian State on Saturday afternoon at Veterans Memorial...
Appalachian State Hopes To Continue As Road Warriors Vs Troy
TROY, Ala. — It was probably the most important game of the Scott Satterfield coaching era, two years ago when Appalachian State played Troy at...
Mountaineers Score Workmanlike 35-10 Win Over Texas State
BOONE, N.C. — Earlier this week, Appalachian State quarterback Taylor Lamb reflected on the lessons that the Mountaineer football team had learned from last year’s...
Texas State Head Coach Everett Withers Returns To Kidd Brewer This Saturday
BOONE, N.C. — The coaching profession has taken Everett Withers a lot of places, but it will bring this former Appalachian State football star back...
Statesboro Blues Continue For Georgia Southern Against Appalachian Stae, Fall 34-10
STATESBORO, GA. — A local D.J. spun the Allman Brothers tune “Statesboro Blues” for tailgaters before Thursday night’s Sun Belt Conference football showdown between Appalachian...
Appalachian State and Georgia Southern Bring Their Rivalry To ESPNU This Thursday
STATESBORO, Ga. — The modern history of the Appalachian State-Georgia Southern football rivalry started on one of the coldest days in Kidd Brewer Stadium...
Mountaineers’ Answer To Idaho Was Blowing In the Wind, 37-19
BOONE, N.C. — The answer for some Appalachian State football friends was blowing in the wind as the Mountaineers treated a homecoming crowd of...