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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 State and Georgia Southern. And the GSU offense definitely had the blues after another dominating performance by the Mountaineer defense keyed ASU’s 34-10 victory before a Paulson Stadium crowd of.
STATESBORO, Ga. — The modern history of the Appalachian State-Georgia Southern football rivalry started on one of the coldest days in Kidd Brewer Stadium history, with a snow and ice-slicked field helping the top-ranked Mountaineers end the two-year I-AA championship run of the Eagles, 19-0, in the quarterfinals of the playoffs. There won’t be.
BOONE, N.C. — The answer for some Appalachian State football friends was blowing in the wind as the Mountaineers treated a homecoming crowd of 26,931 to a 37-19 victory over Idaho Saturday afternoon at Kidd Brewer Stadium. Struggling to finish drives in a contest peppered with exchanged field goals, a wind-blown pass from Idaho.
BOONE, N.C. — The subject at a recent Appalachian State football practice this week turned to weather forecasts and coach Scott Satterfield was quick to remember one of the most challenging of his Mountaineer playing career. “New Hampshire,” the ex-ASU quarterback exclaimed. “It was 20 degrees and the wind was blowing about 40 miles per.
LAFAYETTE, LA. — Appalachian State football players may have gotten a late start to the fall semester break, due to the first Wednesday night game in school history at Louisiana-Lafayette. But the Mountaineer offense was right on time in front of a national television audience on ESPN2, striking early and often on the way.
LAFAYETTE, La. — Appalachian State finds itself figuratively in the college football wasteland on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. when the Mountaineers meet Louisiana-Lafayette on the road in a Sun Belt Conference game that will be played on ESPN2. When App State (3-2 overall, 1-0 in league) moved from the Southern Conference and the.
BOONE, N.C. — It was like a blast from the past as Appalachian State opened Sun Belt Conference football play on Saturday afternoon with a 17-3 victory over Georgia State before 24,782 fans at Kidd Brewer Stadium. The last time that Appalachian State (3-2 overall, 1-0 in league) was embroiled in a scoreless tie.
BOONE, N.C. — Confidence can be an intriguing concept. Since the middle of the 2014 season, Appalachian State has gone 13-1 in Sun Belt Conference play and in the past two years, there hasn’t been a league team the Mountaineers have dominated so throughly as Georgia State. Two years ago, ASU played inhospitable hosts,.
AKRON, Ohio — Quarterback Taylor Lamb personally challenged himself this week to play at a higher level as Appalachian State faced a key road battle at Akron. And with his father Bobby watching from the stands, the heady junior directed the Mountaineers to a 45-38 victory over the explosive Zips before 15,381 spectators at.
BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State knew heading into the 2016 college football season that it would be facing the toughest non-conference schedule in its history. And while the Mountaineers have slogged through the most difficult part of that journey with differing levels of success — from the missed opportunity of an overtime loss at Tennessee,.
BOONE, N.C. — Another game of opportunity slipped through Appalachian State’s grasp on Saturday afternoon before a record-setting football crowd of 34,658 fans at Kidd Brewer Stadium and a national-television audience on ESPN. But this time, it was a pair of momentum-snuffing big plays at the beginning of both halves — instead.
BOONE, N.C. — When Appalachian State University made the move from the Football Championship Subdivision to the Football Bowl Subdivision, it was with Saturday’s matchup in mind. When the Mountaineers (1-1) entertain the No. 25-ranked Miami Hurricanes (2-0) on Saturday at noon in Kidd Brewer Stadium, it will mark the most anticipated regular season home.
BOONE, N.C. — For anyone who considered Appalachian State’s home-opening football game against Old Dominion the prelude to next Saturday’s main event versus Miami, there might have been disappointment even with a 31-7 victory before 23,374 spectators at Kidd Brewer Stadium. But after last week’s heartbreaking overtime loss at Tennessee, the Mountaineers were grateful to.
BOONE, N.C. — From a scheduling prospective, last week was nearly the perfect time for Appalachian State to face Tennessee. The Mountaineers may have finished one play short of victory in the 20-13 overtime loss to the ninth-ranked Volunteers, but ASU certainly grabbed Tennessee’s attention. Pardon the Vols if they may have been looking ahead.
KNOXVILLE, TN. — Appalachian State was one bounce away from the second biggest regular-season victory in its football history on Thursday night in the season-opening game against Tennessee. But enough breaks went the Volunteers way in the second half to allow ninth-ranked Tennessee to escape with a 20-13 overtime win before an announced crowd of.
KNOXVILLE, TN. — With rain gently pelting the Field Turf a couple of hours before game time at the football season opener between Appalachian State and Tennessee at Neyland Stadium, I was taken back to my first visit to this historic venue in 1990. It was a Friday afternoon, in between the NCAA Men’s Basketball.
BOONE, N.C. — When coach Jerry Moore took his Appalachian State University football to Michigan for a contest to open the 2007 season, he told his players and coaches to embrace it as a game of opportunity. Nine years to the day of the Mountaineers’ earth-rattling 34-32 upset of the fifth-ranked Wolverines in front of.
PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Last year’s Walter Payton Award winner Cooper Kupp and P.J. Hall of Sam Houston State are the centerpieces of the College Sports Journal preseason Football Championship Subdivision All-America team, which was announced on Friday as the 2016 FCS season is set to commence. Kupp, the record-breaking redshirt senior receiver from Eastern Washington,.
FARGO, N.D. — Most of the 18,881 fans attending Saturday night’s Football Championship Subdivision kickoff had their hearts in their throats in the final minutes as five-time defending national champion North Dakota State struggled to hold off the charge of surprising Charleston Southern. After the Bison faithful at the Fargodome exhaled collectively as a 50-yard,.
BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State seemed on the verge of a major men’s college basketball upset for most of Thursday night at the Holmes Convocation Center, but the struggling Mountaineers couldn’t close the deal in a demoralizing 71-67 Sun Belt Conference loss to UT-Arlington. Missed free throws, empty offensive possessions and turnovers in the final.
Editor’s note: This story is courtesy of New Hampshire athletics (www.unhwildcats.com). SCOTTSDALE, AZ. – University of New Hampshire football coaching legend Bill Bowes was named to the 2016 College Football Hall of Fame Class by the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame on Friday. He is the first member of the UNH program.
FRISCO, TX. — It is always a weird summary on the passage of time when you reach the end of the college football season. Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago when we were sitting down to watch North Dakota State and Montana battle on that August afternoon in what was arguably the best television.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It took only one play from scrimmage for Mississippi State to make its opening statement Friday afternoon against North Carolina State in the 14th annual Belk Bowl. And the Bulldogs continued their proclamations for the next three-and-a-half hours in thrashing the Wolfpack, 51-28, in the heave rain and mud at Bank of.
Editor’s note: This story is courtesy of Georgia Southern athletics. MOBILE, AL. — Quarterback Favian Upshaw ran for a career-high 199 yards and four touchdowns, and Georgia Southern scored 35 unanswered points and rushed for 452 yards to power past Bowling Green, 58-27, in the GoDaddy Bowl Wednesday night in Ladd-Peebles Stadium. It was the.
Editor’s note: David Coulson is bringing fans an insider’s look on Appalachian State’s first bowl-game experience. This is the last of five chapters on the experience. BOONE, N.C. — Sleep, precious sleep. After a jam-packed three days of activities at the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl, the one thing I craved more than any other was.
MONTGOMERY, AL. — As Zach Matics finished up his final practice at Kidd Brewer Stadium Monday evening, he contemplated a scenario where he would be called upon to make one more game-winning kick. Coming on the field with two seconds left in the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl on Saturday evening those dreams became reality when.
Special to College Sports Journal Editor’s note: This story is courtesy of Jacksonville State and Sam Houston State athletics. JACKSONVILLE, AL. — Twenty-three years after winning a national title in its last season in NCAA Division II, Jacksonville State will play for another championship, this time at the FCS level. The No..
Editor’s note: David Coulson is bringing fans an insider’s look throughout the weekend on Appalachian State’s first bowl-game experience, check often for updates and also follow his posts on Twitter @DavidCoulsonFCS. MONTGOMERY, AL. — It was Saturday morning — still nine hours before the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl was set for its afternoon kickoff —.
Editor’s note: David Coulson will be bringing fans an insider’s look throughout the weekend on Appalachian State’s first bowl-game experience, check often for updates and also follow his posts on Twitter @DavidCoulsonFCS. MONTGOMERY, Ala. — It is a brisk morning, with 30-degree temperatures in this city as the dawn breaks on Appalachian State’s first-ever Football.
Special to College Sports Journal from Raycom Media Camellia Bowl Senior Writer Tim Gayle MONTGOMERY, AL. — Quentin Poling was a force in the middle for the first six games of the Ohio Bobcats’ season before leaving early in the Western Michigan game with a knee injury. The Bobcats went on to lose the next.
Special to College Sports Journal from Raycom Media Camellia Bowl Senior Writer Tim Gayle MONTGOMERY, AL. — Daz’mond Patterson has a team-leading nine touchdowns for the Ohio University Bobcats, but there is so much more to Patterson’s game than a first glance at his 5-foot-6, 180-pound frame would reveal. On the field, Patterson has just 497 yards.
Special to College Sports Journal from Raycom Media Camellia Bowl Senior Writer Tim Gayle MONTGOMERY, AL. — In a few months, Ronald Blair will get the opportunity to live out his dream of playing football in the National Football League. Five years ago, the Appalachian State defensive end was a player that no one outside of.
Special to College Sports Journal by Raycom Media Camellia Bowl Senior Writer Tim Gayle MONTGOMERY, AL. — It seems a little strange to see Taylor Lamb setting all kinds of passing records at Appalachian State. Not too many years ago, Lamb stood on the sideline of one of the Mountaineers’ most hated rivals. It was.
FARGO, N.D. — Seven years ago, Richmond dethroned a three-time national titleist — Appalachian State — on the way to its first and only NCAA Division I Football Championship. On Friday night, the Spiders couldn’t repeat that feat against a four-time Football Championship powerhouse as North Dakota State advanced to its fifth straight title appearance.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal Editor’s note: David Coulson will be bringing fans an insider’s look throughout the weekend on Appalachian State’s first bowl-game experience, check often for updates and also follow his posts on Twitter @DavidCoulsonFCS. MONTGOMERY, AL. — After a grueling, eight-hour drive, complete with a couple of.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It was a gorgeous, sun-kissed day seven years ago on a Labor Day Saturday as I made a short trip from a hotel near the Detroit Metropolitan Airport to Michigan Stadium on the opening weekend of the 2007 college football season. None of the 109,218 fans that filled the largest sports.
University of Delaware By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal NEWARK, DE. — It was a few moments before Delaware’s opening kickoff with Jacksonville on Thursday night and suddenly, Dave Brock was the loneliest man on Tubby Raymond Field. It wasn’t like Daniel, heading into the Lion’s Den in some ancient, Medo-Persian prison, or.
A little rest and relaxation worked wonders for the Black Bears, who returned to form for a stunning 34-12 victory over Appalachian State Saturday in the second round of the NCAA Division I Football Championships before 15,291 fans at Kidd Brewer Stadium.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — A year ago, Appalachian State felt the sting of losing to Georgia Southern as the No. 1 ranked team in the Football Championship Subdivision. And on Saturday afternoon before 30,008 spectators at Kidd Brewer Stadium, it was No. 1 Georgia Southern experiencing.
