GAME THREAD: NCAAF: APPALACHIAN ST at MICHIGAN

NCAAF: APPALACHIAN ST at MICHIGAN

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MICHIGAN (5) 32 1:30 LEFT, 4TH QTR</div>

 

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MICHIGAN (5) 32 1:22 LEFT, 4TH QTR</div>

 

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MICHIGAN (5) 32 0:59 LEFT, 4TH QTR</div>

 

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MICHIGAN (5) 32 0:50 LEFT, 4TH QTR</div>

 

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MICHIGAN (5) 32 0:30 LEFT, 4TH QTR</div>

 

NCAAF: APPALACHIAN ST at MICHIGAN

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JULIAN RAUCH 24 YD

APPALACHIAN ST 34
MICHIGAN (5) 32 0:26 LEFT, 4TH QTR</div>

 

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MICHIGAN (5) 32 0:15 LEFT, 4TH QTR</div>

 

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MICHIGAN (5) 32 0:06 LEFT, 4TH QTR</div>

 

NCAAF: APPALACHIAN ST at MICHIGAN

<div class="pre">NCAAF FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
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APPALACHIAN ST 7 21 3 3 34
MICHIGAN (5) 14 3 9 6 32 FINAL

SCORING SUMMARY

1ST QUARTER: MICHIGAN - TD, MIKE HART 4 YD RUN (JASON
GINGELL KICK), 2:29. MICHIGAN
7-0
APPALACHIAN ST - TD, DEXTER JACKSON 68 YD PASS FROM
ARMANTI EDWARDS (JULIAN RAUCH
KICK), 4:05. APPALACHIAN ST
7-7
MICHIGAN - TD, GREG MATHEWS 10 YD PASS FROM
CHAD HENNE (JASON GINGELL
KICK), 11:44. MICHIGAN 14-7
2ND QUARTER: APPALACHIAN ST - TD, HANS BATICHON 9 YD PASS FROM
ARMANTI EDWARDS (JULIAN RAUCH
KICK), 1:25. APPALACHIAN ST
14-14
APPALACHIAN ST - TD, DEXTER JACKSON 20 YD PASS FROM
ARMANTI EDWARDS (JULIAN RAUCH
KICK), 5:13. APPALACHIAN ST
21-14
APPALACHIAN ST - TD, ARMANTI EDWARDS 6 YD RUN
(JULIAN RAUCH KICK), 12:45.
APPALACHIAN ST 28-14
MICHIGAN - FG, JASON GINGELL 22 YD, 14:44.
APPALACHIAN ST 28-17
3RD QUARTER: MICHIGAN - FG, JASON GINGELL 42 YD, 2:03.
APPALACHIAN ST 28-20
APPALACHIAN ST - FG, JULIAN RAUCH 31 YD, 6:43.
APPALACHIAN ST 31-20
MICHIGAN - TD, MIKE HART 4 YD RUN 14:36.
APPALACHIAN ST 31-26
4TH QUARTER: MICHIGAN - TD, MIKE HART 54 YD RUN 10:24.
MICHIGAN 32-31
APPALACHIAN ST - FG, JULIAN RAUCH 24 YD, 14:34.
APPALACHIAN ST 34-32</div>

 

Re: NCAAF: APPALACHIAN ST at MICHIGAN

So, how far is Michigan going to drop in the polls?

 

NCAAF: APPALACHIAN ST at MICHIGAN

<div class="pre">** CONFIRMED **
NCAAF
APPALACHIAN ST 34
MICHIGAN (5) 32 FINAL</div>

 

ANN ARBOR, Michigan (Ticker) -- Appalachian State pulled offone of the biggest upsets in the history of college footballwith a 34-32 victory at fifth-ranked Michigan on Saturday.

Leading for a considerable amount of the contest, theMountaineers (1-0) saw the Wolverines pull ahead at 32-31 on a54-yard touchdown jaunt by Mike Hart with 4:51 remaining in thefourth quarter.


However, Appalachian showed the defiant spirit it had all game,going 69 yards on six plays over 67 seconds to set up a 24-yardfield goal by Julian Rauch with 30 seconds to play.

Michigan (0-1) had one last gasp to avoid the monumental upset,closing to the Appalachian State 20 on a 46-yard pass play fromChad Henne to Mario Manningham with six seconds left.

The Wolverines quickly set up for a 37-yard field goal, but theMountaineers came up with the game-clinching block thatcompletely silenced the Michigan faithful.


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ANN ARBOR, Michigan (Ticker) -- Appalachian State pulled offone of the biggest upsets in the history of college footballwith a 34-32 victory at fifth-ranked Michigan on Saturday.

Leading for a considerable amount of the contest, theMountaineers (1-0) saw the Wolverines pull ahead at 32-31 on a54-yard touchdown jaunt by Mike Hart with 4:51 remaining in thefourth quarter.


However, Appalachian State of the Football ChampionshipSubdivision - formerly Division I-AA - showed the defiant spiritit had all game, preventing Michigan from adding to its leadwhen it blocked a 43-yard field goal by Jason Gingell with 1:47remaining.


The Mountaineers then went 69 yards on six plays over 67 secondsto set up a 24-yard field goal by Julian Rauch with 30 secondsto play.


Michigan (0-1) had one last gasp to avoid the monumental upset,moving to the Appalachian State 20 on a 46-yard pass play fromChad Henne to Mario Manningham with six seconds left.

The Wolverines quickly set up for a 37-yard field goal, butsenior defensive back Corey Lynch came up with thegame-clinching block that completely silenced the Michiganfaithful.


Lynch picked up the loose ball and raced down the field insidethe Michigan 10 before being tackled with no time remaining.

Armanti Edwards threw for 226 yards and three touchdowns andrushed for another for Appalachian State, which extended itswinning streak to 15 games - the longest streak in Division I.

"We just beat Michigan, plain and simple," Edwards said. "Inthe second half, we had a couple of mental mistakes but we gotback on it."

 

NCAAF: APPALACHIAN ST at MICHIGAN

<div class="pre">NCAAF FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
APPALACHIAN ST 7 21 3 3 34
MICHIGAN (5) 14 3 9 6 32 FINAL

MICHIGAN-TD, M Hart 4 YD RUN (J Gingell KICK) 2:29 1st Qtr
APPALACHIAN ST-TD, D Jackson 68 YD PASS FROM A Edwards (J Rauch
KICK) 4:05 1st Qtr
MICHIGAN-TD, G Mathews 10 YD PASS FROM C Henne (J Gingell
KICK) 11:44 1st Qtr
APPALACHIAN ST-TD, H Batichon 9 YD PASS FROM A Edwards (J Rauch
KICK) 1:25 2nd Qtr
APPALACHIAN ST-TD, D Jackson 20 YD PASS FROM A Edwards (J Rauch
KICK) 5:13 2nd Qtr
APPALACHIAN ST-TD, A Edwards 6 YD RUN (J Rauch KICK) 12:45 2nd
Qtr
MICHIGAN-FG, J Gingell 22 YD 14:44 2nd Qtr
MICHIGAN-FG, J Gingell 42 YD 2:03 3rd Qtr
APPALACHIAN ST-FG, J Rauch 31 YD 6:43 3rd Qtr
MICHIGAN-TD, M Hart 4 YD RUN 14:36 3rd Qtr
MICHIGAN-TD, M Hart 54 YD RUN 10:24 4th Qtr
APPALACHIAN ST-FG, J Rauch 24 YD 14:34 4th Qtr


APPALACHIAN ST MICHIGAN
First downs 19 23
Rushed-yards 44-160 40-246
Passing yards 227 233
Sacked-yards lost 4-16 1-10
Return yards 44 14
Passes 17-23-2 19-37-1
Punts 4-33 3-49
Fumbles-lost 1-1 2-1
Penalties-yards 7-45 7-56
Time of possession 31:12 28:48


Individual Statistics

RUSHING: APPALACHIAN ST-Kevin Richardson 24-88, Armanti Edwards 17-62,
Dexter Jackson 1-19, CoCo Hillary 1-MINUS 4, - Team 1-MINUS 5.
MICHIGAN-Mike Hart 23-188, Brandon Minor 13-50, Mario Manningham 2-9,
Chad Henne 2-MINUS 1.

PASSING: APPALACHIAN ST-Armanti Edwards 17-23-227- 2. MICHIGAN-Chad
Henne 19-37-233- 1.

RECEIVING: APPALACHIAN ST-Dexter Jackson 3-92, CoCo Hillary 4-63, T.J.
Courman 3-30, Hans Batichon 3-22, Josh Johnson 1-11, Matt Cline 1-6,
Kevin Richardson 2-3. MICHIGAN-Greg Mathews 7-68, Mario Manningham
3-66, Adrian Arrington 4-52, Mike Massey 3-36, Brandon Minor 1-10,
Mark Moundros 1-1.


Att: 109,218</div>

 

ANN ARBOR, Michigan (Ticker) -- Appalachian State did not takelong to make its latest season a memorable one.


Julian Rauch's second field goal of the game, a 24-yarder with26 seconds remaining, lifted two-time NCAA Division ISubdivision champion Appalachian State to a shocking 34-32 upsetover No. 5 Michigan on Saturday.


Michigan's Jason Gingell had a chance to avoid the monumentalupset with six seconds remaining, but his 37-yard field-goalattempt was blocked by the Mountaineers' Corey Lynch.

Lynch picked up the loose ball and raced down the field insidethe Michigan 10 before being tackled with no time remaining,completely silencing the faithful at Michigan Stadium.

Mike Hart, who did not play for most of the second and thirdquarters, scored his third touchdown of the game on a 54-yardrun with 4:36 remaining to give Michigan a 32-31 lead. Hartfinished with 23 carries for 188 yards.


Gingell, who replaced the graduated Garrett Rivas as Michigan'splace kicker, had a 33-yard field-goal attempt blocked with alittle over a minute and a half remaining. That set upAppalachian State's final scoring drive.


Key plays in the 69-yard drive were a 17-yard run by quarterbackArmanti Edwards, who also had passes of 20 yards to T.J.Courman and 24 yards to CoCo Hillary. That last one got theMountaineers down to the Michigan 5-yard line.


It was Appalachian State's seventh victory against a BCS schooland the first since the Mountaineers beat Wake Forest, 20-16, in2000.


Appalachian State, who built a 28-14 lead late in the secondquarter, had mistakes allow Michigan back into the game. MorganTrent's interception of a pass by Edwards at the Mountaineers'39-yard line led to Gingell's 43-yard field goal in the openingminutes of the third.


Rauch later kicked a 31-yard field goal to restore AppalachianState's 11-point advantage at 31-20.


Edwards then fumbled on a hit by Shawn Crable and John Thompsonrecovered it at the Mountaineers' 31 six plays before Hartscored on a four-yard run to cut the deficit to 31-26.

The Mountaineers, who won the last two NCAA Division ISubdivision championships - formerly known as Division I-AA,stunned the crowd of 109,218 at the "Big House" by scoring thefirst three touchdowns of the second quarter to take the 28-14lead.


Michigan led 14-7 on a 10-yard touchdown pass from Chad Henne toGreg Mathews with 3:16 left in the first quarter.


Appalachian State tied the game on a 65-yard drive that endedwith a nine-yard scoring pass to Hans Batichon. The scoringplay was set up by Dexter Jackson's 19-yard run on a reverse.

Jackson also figured in the Mountaineers' next scoring drive. Hereturned Zoltan Mesko's punt 18 yards and the Wolverines werecalled for a late hit, giving Appalachian State a first down atthe Michigan 37.


Five plays later, Jackson took a screen pass from Edwards andwent 20 yards for the score to put the Mountaineers ahead,21-14.


Michigan was stopped on downs at the Appalachian State 35 on itsnext possession, and the Mountaineers marched 65 yards in nineplays to take a 28-14 lead on Edwards' six-yard keeper with 2:15remaining in the half.


Edwards completed 17-of-23 passes for 227 yards and threetouchdowns.


Henne, who was off the mark on many of his throws, went 19-of-37passes for 233 yards, including a 46-yarder to Mario Manninghamto set up Gingell's final field-goal attempt.

 

ANN ARBOR, Michigan (Ticker) -- Appalachian State did not takelong to make its latest season a memorable one.


Julian Rauch's second field goal of the game, a 24-yarder with26 seconds remaining, lifted two-time NCAA Division ISubdivision champion Appalachian State to a shocking 34-32 upsetover No. 5 Michigan on Saturday.


"Obviously, we're still sort of shocked, but not really,"Mountaineers coach Jerry Moore said. "It's just been a greatafternoon for our team and our school to come up here and beat ateam like Michigan with its rich tradition. We tried not tomake more of this that it was but winning up here in one of themost elite places, not just in football but in all of sports.

"I don't mean this egotistically, but we were looking forward tothis to see what we could do. That's why I worked them hard inpractice. I was the only guy in Boone, N.C., that wanted it tobe hot. I wanted to work them."


Moore tried to keep the victory in perspective.


"You have to remember that these guys have won two nationalchampionships," he said. "This is not bigger than that. Butthey may never do anything better than what they did today."

Rauch said that he did not want to let his teammates down whenhe lined up for the winning field goal.


"The only thing that went through my head was, 'man, all thethings these guys did the whole game.' It wasn't a lot of workfor me but it was for the other guys on the team," he said.

Michigan's Jason Gingell had a chance to avoid the monumentalupset with six seconds remaining, but his 37-yard field-goalattempt was blocked by the Mountaineers' Corey Lynch.

Lynch picked up the loose ball and raced down the field insidethe Michigan 10 before being tackled with no time remaining,completely silencing the faithful at Michigan Stadium.

"We practiced a lot on blocking field goals," Lynch said."Julian gets mad at us a lot because we block a lot of hiskicks. On this one, I went inside and it (hit) my chest. Iwanted to score a touchdown in the 'Big House' but I just ranout of gas."


Rauch felt some sympathy for Gingell.


"First, he's probably jealous for my situation, and second, he'shurting for everyone in his locker room," Rauch said.

Mike Hart, who did not play for most of the second and thirdquarters because "he got a little dinged up", scored his thirdtouchdown of the game on a 54-yard run with 4:36 remaining togive Michigan a 32-31 lead. Hart finished with 23 carries for188 yards.


"It's a great win for them and a huge loss for us," Hart said."But it's better in Week 1 than in Week 12. It was quiet in thelocker room, but everyone's heads were held high."

Hart said that he didn't expect any finger-pointing after thedisappointing defeat.


"We have too much leadership and the team is too together tohave that happen," he said. "We all know that we have to workhard. We beat ourselves. We made too many mistakes, but thosethings are all correctible."


Linebacker Shawn Crable expected repercussions from theWolverines' fans.


"People will be down on us, but we're still in the fight for thechampionship," Crable said. "We have to be ready to play allthe time. In the second half, we came to play, but we dug ahole for ourselves in the first half."


Gingell, who replaced the graduated Garrett Rivas as Michigan'splace kicker, had a 33-yard field-goal attempt blocked with alittle over a minute and a half remaining. That set upAppalachian State's final scoring drive.


Key plays in the 69-yard drive were a 17-yard run by quarterbackArmanti Edwards, who also had passes of 20 yards to T.J.Courman and 24 yards to CoCo Hillary. That last one got theMountaineers down to the Michigan 5-yard line.


It was Appalachian State's seventh victory against a BCS schooland the first since the Mountaineers beat Wake Forest, 20-16, in2000.


It was also the 15th straight win for Appalachian State - thelongest winning streak in Division I.


Appalachian State, who built a 28-14 lead late in the secondquarter, had mistakes allow Michigan back into the game. MorganTrent's interception of a pass by Edwards at the Mountaineers'39-yard line led to Gingell's 43-yard field goal in the openingminutes of the third.


Rauch later kicked a 31-yard field goal to restore AppalachianState's 11-point advantage at 31-20.


Edwards then fumbled on a hit by Shawn Crable and John Thompsonrecovered it at the Mountaineers' 31 six plays before Hartscored on a four-yard run to cut the deficit to 31-26.

The Mountaineers, who won the last two NCAA Division ISubdivision championships - formerly known as Division I-AA,stunned the crowd of 109,218 at the "Big House" by scoring thefirst three touchdowns of the second quarter to take the 28-14lead.


"They came out ready to play and had a great game plan in thefirst half," Crable said. "Their quarterback was looking to thesidelines and checking off."


Edwards said the outcome was a result of hours of film study.

"We've been studying tape real hard all year and we saw somethings in their defense and we executed," Edwards said. "Onoffense, we knew that we could play with anyone."


Moore said that Edwards's quiet demeanor is a reason theMountaineers use a no-huddle offense much of the time.

"Edwards is a real leader, but he's quiet," Moore said. "That'sthe reason we go no-huddle - because he don't talk."

Michigan led 14-7 on a 10-yard touchdown pass from Chad Henne toGreg Mathews with 3:16 left in the first quarter.


Appalachian State tied the game on a 65-yard drive that endedwith a nine-yard scoring pass to Hans Batichon. The scoringplay was set up by Dexter Jackson's 19-yard run on a reverse.

Jackson also figured in the Mountaineers' next scoring drive. Hereturned Zoltan Mesko's punt 18 yards and the Wolverines werecalled for a late hit, giving Appalachian State a first down atthe Michigan 37.


Five plays later, Jackson took a screen pass from Edwards andwent 20 yards for the score to put the Mountaineers ahead,21-14.


Michigan was stopped on downs at the Appalachian State 35 on itsnext possession, and the Mountaineers marched 65 yards in nineplays to take a 28-14 lead on Edwards' six-yard keeper with 2:15remaining in the half.


Edwards completed 17-of-23 passes for 227 yards and threetouchdowns.


Henne, who was off the mark on many of his throws, went 19-of-37passes for 233 yards, including a 46-yarder to Mario Manninghamto set up Gingell's final field-goal attempt.


"As coaches and players, we all have to search and take a lookat ourselves, understanding that this is a disappointment,"Michigan coach Lloyd Carr said. "Not only losing, but to playthe way we did is an even greater disappointment. When you havedisappointment, you can lay down and feel sorry for yourself,but in our case, this schedule is about to get tougher. We willsee how we respond."


Michigan will look to rebound when it hosts unranked Oregon nextSaturday. Appalachian State will return to South Carolina toface former North State/Carolinas Conference rival Lenoir-Rhyne.