Video: #5 Michigan vs. Div. I-AA Appalachian State
posted at 5:30 pm on September 1, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Not quite as stunning as the legendary Chaminade upset of Virginia — App State is two-time defending Div. I-AA champs, after all — but to pull this in the Big House, with two opportunities in the final minute to blow the game, is amazing. Click the image to watch.
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Lloyd Carr sucks.
As a Michigan fan I can only thank him for choking early in the season and not giving me hope that this would be the year he’d actually take advantage of the talent he has on his team.
Benaiah on September 1, 2007 at 5:39 PM
I know a guy from Texas who use to fly the Wolverine flag infront of his house. I bet he has many things broken in his house right now!
Drtuddle on September 1, 2007 at 5:40 PM
Lloyd Carr should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail.
packsoldier on September 1, 2007 at 5:50 PM
the analysis video afterwards is funny.
the guys saying “michigan has no chance to win the championship” will be saying – later in the year – it was an early season game. it was good they got it out of the way..blah blah blah. espn analysis is always very irritating.
great win for the aa team though. i like michigan (no reason at all), but still, i like upsets more in ncaa football
lorien1973 on September 1, 2007 at 5:56 PM
As a Penn State fan, I say, Hah!
(Actually, I’m not sure the equivalent PSU cupcake that got crushed today, FIU, was even a real college. You gotta sked your early-season tomato cans carefully.)
albo on September 1, 2007 at 5:59 PM
What a great game! I just hope something like this doesn’t happen to the Patriots or to BC Eagles this season Yet, I’ve seen this all to often over the years.
Michigan will redeem themselves.
kiakjones on September 1, 2007 at 6:03 PM
As a Badger fan, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
2:20 left in the 3rd
Bucky 28 and driving
Kim Bauer Bait (Washington State Cougars) 21
(2nd shot; first one ended up in a Fred! thread)
steveegg on September 1, 2007 at 6:10 PM
It it ain’t Cal, I don’t care. :)
Bob's Kid on September 1, 2007 at 6:10 PM
Yeah, a few years ago Tennessee was playing for the National Championship. Before the game ESPN was all about “the Vols don’t have the skills to get it done” and after the game it was “I knew Tennessee would win.”
What a bunch of tools.
Go Vols!!!!!!
Tennessee Dave on September 1, 2007 at 6:11 PM
GO VOLS!!!
VolMagic on September 1, 2007 at 6:13 PM
Reminds me of PSU’s 2000 loss in first game to Toledo or Akron or whatever. Mind you, PSU knew going in to the season that it was rebuilding. U Mich had very high expectations for 07
BillLalor on September 1, 2007 at 6:14 PM
eh……some people like that kinda stuff I suppose……
NLCS and ALCS… then wait for spring.
Limerick on September 1, 2007 at 6:21 PM
Meh. Too much hype over a pre-season game.
Good thing we’ve got two more.
LagunaDave on September 1, 2007 at 6:26 PM
Preseason? This is what makes Wisconsin the BCS representative out of the Big 10.
steveegg on September 1, 2007 at 6:30 PM
As a Buckeye fan this makes me very, very, very, very, happy.
Lloyd is a classless jerk. He sent out two of his players to deal with the press after the game. He didn’t set foot in the press room for almost 45 minutes.
jeffshow on September 1, 2007 at 6:38 PM
Awesome. I love upsets, especially against teams like Michigan.
brak on September 1, 2007 at 6:41 PM
FINALLY! Michigan doesn’t pull a game out of their a$$.
wryteacher on September 1, 2007 at 6:50 PM
Nice to see ASU Coach Moore — a great coach and an outstanding man — getting some national attention, not to mention the kids who worked their asses off all summer and played great today. And, maybe now people will finally learn how to pronounce “Appalachian” correctly!
~Lee (ASU Class of ‘96)
Lee on September 1, 2007 at 7:04 PM
Reminds me of Michigan’s two season losing streak to Northwestern. Northwestern weathered the storm and beat Michgan at home the second year. Kustok was a beast. Northwestern were vampires, they, would, not die. Beat Michigan at the end of the game after a big offensive play by Michigan. The look on the Wolverines faces was priceless. They have that same look again. Good job ASU.
Theworldisnotenough on September 1, 2007 at 7:09 PM
Michigan last year, one of my top teams. After “SHAMNESTY” I hate all things blue. Even my state, the Illini (ILL as in sick). Now I root for all Red states, for their good, wise Senators, have saved our nation. And I feel I owe it to them.
Legions on September 1, 2007 at 7:17 PM
Sweet! Go Appy! Hey, and I married a Michigan girl, and her brother just graduated from U of M last year. I still hate that school – bunch of stuck up better than you types.
Small town low income folks just came up and whooped up on ya’ll Michigannies, good on ya.
Oh, and good job Ga. Tech.
GO VOLS!
Southern football rocks!
y2church on September 1, 2007 at 7:29 PM
As a bleed scarlet and gray every Saturday Buckeyes fan, this totally sucks. #five should go to #-1000, and the Eyes should get into the top 10. But this makes the last game, usually the best game mean zip.
Go Bucks
stephana on September 1, 2007 at 7:50 PM
It’s the end of the world.
Mark my words, dogs and cats will be living together now.
CyberCipher on September 1, 2007 at 7:56 PM
No, it doesn’t make it zip. The only place this loss counts is in the polls; if somehow OSU and Michigan survive Bucky Badger, it’ll still mean the conference.
Of course, that’s not going to happen ;-)
steveegg on September 1, 2007 at 7:57 PM
CyberCipher: LOL! That’s what I was saying January 8th of this year.
This definitely puts a damper on The Game, but it was a pleasure to watch anyway. Takes the disappointment from the National Title game away for me. GO BUCKS!
O-H…!
Tom Blogical on September 1, 2007 at 8:00 PM
I live in WNC and i am real happy that ASU got a real big win against a football giant like Michigan GO Mountaineers.
kathleen on September 1, 2007 at 8:15 PM
Well my only consolation is that the Whining Irish lost big too.
Benaiah on September 1, 2007 at 8:29 PM
Give ‘em hell, Apps! Tennessee sucks! Why did the Orange Pukes have to hijack a thread about my alma mater’s greatest football victory ever? NO FRUIT SUCKS LIKE A DAMN PUKE ORANGE!!!!!!!!!!!
Frank Nitti on September 1, 2007 at 8:37 PM
Everyone is talking about the Mountaineers’ 2 point upset. Meanwhile, the Wyoming Cowboys quietly thumped the Virginia Cavaliers 23-3.
My collie says:
Not that there’s anything WRONG with that. The founding of UVA is one of three things in his life that he was MOST proud of — it’s carved on his tombstone, if I’m not mistaken. Of course, if he was alive today, he’d probably be horrified by the influence that the NCAA has on “higher education”.
CyberCipher on September 1, 2007 at 9:10 PM
Finally Justice for a uber-liberal school that thinks they can run their own game concerning quotas despite SCOTUS rulings, can offer same-sex benefits despite the overwhelming referendum of the taxpayers of Michigan, and arrogantly believes that they are the best school in the state. A football defeat is probably more traumatic to the junkyard dogs than the court rulings they routinely ignore!
highhopes on September 1, 2007 at 9:36 PM
Appalachian State students tore down goal post at Kidd Brewer stadium and paraded it through streets of Boone. Photos here.
ganeshpuri89 on September 1, 2007 at 9:38 PM
Hey isn’t Meeeeeechigan one of the schools trying to fund muslim footbaths with public money?
Talk about divine justice.Gotta love it!
I guess alah doesn’t like football. Er…not or allah but the arabian moongod/quranic one.(HAHA)
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
paratisi
paratisi on September 1, 2007 at 10:07 PM
The BCS is a scam cooked up by the MSM.
The Big-Ten champion plays in the Rose Bowl, and that will be decided on the field (not by MSM popularity polls) in the last two weeks of the Big-Ten (i.e. regular) season.
That’s the way it oughtta be, and that’s the way it is.
Obviously, for Michigan to contend for the (real) championship and the Rose Bowl, they will need to play a lot better than they did today. But I would rather lose a tune-up with no Rose Bowl implications than a conference game that actually counts for something.
LagunaDave on September 1, 2007 at 10:25 PM
I’m in WNC too, GO MOUNTAINEERS!!!
This is the real deal, brother. Michigan is ovah.
And LOL, leave it up to some of you guys to bring politics into College Football.
SouthernDem on September 1, 2007 at 11:34 PM
Just like they were saying about Florida in January. But for me, any time that pompous Corso has to eat crow, it’s a good time.
Kowboy on September 1, 2007 at 11:51 PM
ESPN is usually unfairly brutal towards Nebraska at times. I’m not a huge fan anyways but it’s something I’ve noticed and it irks me just a bit. If they win, great. If not, oh well, better luck next time. ESPN seems to take pleasure when they lose at times. When they win it’s barely on their radar but when they lose, oh boy look out, they’re all over it then. Sometimes Nebraska fans are a pain. I think many are still getting used to the fact that our big championship days back in the 90’s are long gone. They’re still a good team and most fans are cool but the best they’ve managed to pull off the past few years is about a 70%-80% win rate which is still good, just not championsip good.
Useless fact, long ago the Nebraska Cornhuskers were actually called the BUGEATERS!!! I kid you not!
Yakko77 on September 2, 2007 at 1:13 AM
this is great. i used to root for michigan in their conference but i’m an SEC man all the way. in our SC, Chattanooga plays Appy State and i’m proud as hell for them Mountaineers to whoop Michigan at home.
As for the Vols, we shall see…as we have done every season. at least we got cutcliffe back. if the Volunteers ever strung together half a game’s worth of consistent plays, they would win from time to time on their own merit.
Go Vols! :)
JazzBass on September 2, 2007 at 4:31 AM
Hail to the Victors Valiant!!
Bwahahahahaha!
Dean Barnett on September 2, 2007 at 8:56 AM
May I say, as a former ASU Mountineer, myself (3 semesters in Boone)….
F-Yeah! Go ASU!!
tickleddragon on September 2, 2007 at 12:07 PM
Hmmm, let’s see… everyone take a deep breath and remember we are talking about the idiotic college football ranking system to determine championships. Which means it is not a matter of to whom you lose, but WHEN you lose that matters. If a team that wants to win the National Championship is going to lose a game, it is best to lose that game the first game of the season, no matter to whom.
Last year Michigan *dominated* the entire season and then their only loss was to the #1 team in the nation in the last game of the season, by a few points, at OSU. USC, on the other hand, lost to some schmuck Pac 10 team in the middle of the season. But what did the almighty computers and voters do? They put USC above Michigan in the polls.
Why you ask?
Because USC lost earlier in the season. That’s it. Period.
So, as a Purdue alumus who has had the brilliance of UM football shoved in his face by everyone I know ever since I moved to Michigan in 1999, I was extremely happy to see them finally lose a game like this instead of pulling it out of their *ss in the last minute as they have usually done in the past. HOWEVER, all the so-called sports geniuses who keep saying this eliminates UM from the national title either don’t have a clue or are trying to cover up for the fact that the stupid polling system the college game employs allows for early season losses to schmuck teams, but not for late season losses to Top 5 teams.
UM should be embarrassed, but if they use this to come together and run the table, they are right back in the national title chase.
Michael in MI on September 2, 2007 at 1:09 PM
So…..
Guess they weren’t kidding when they said “That’s why they play the games”.
Hawkins1701 on September 2, 2007 at 1:33 PM
What a great day that was. The Dantonio era at MSU starts off with a bang, and the Lloyd Carr era strats its farewell tour with a humiliating loss to a division 1-AA team. Oh happy days!! Sparty on folks!!
deadbackpacker on September 2, 2007 at 3:05 PM
SPARTANS! Tonight…we dine in hell!
Brian the sailor on September 2, 2007 at 7:53 PM
You had to bring up Chaminade, Allah.
And CyberCipher, there is no way that the Wyoming win over UVa compares to App. State’s win. Wyoming has been Bowl Division (I-A) for a long time, and a team getting better each year. While App. State is two-year reigning champs of the Championship Division (I-AA), they still are the very first I-AA level team to bring down a top-25, let alone top-5 team.
CR UVa on September 2, 2007 at 10:36 PM
Michael in MI,
Sorry but you are wrong. While you make excellent pints about the timing of a loss, this is different. Michigan can run the table but everyone will remember their loss was against a 1-AA school. That is quite different than losing to Oregon State. The only championship the Wolverines will play for is the 1-AA title against ASU.
The Opinionator on September 3, 2007 at 2:25 PM
Props to ASU. They won the last two 1-AA titles with Brian Stokes, a two-tour Marine veteran of Iraq, on the team.
http://www.collegesportingnews.com/article.asp?articleid=85996
The Opinionator on September 3, 2007 at 2:28 PM
Illini! They suck, but they haven’t lost to a Division 1AA team in a while…I think.
Jaibones on September 4, 2007 at 1:11 AM
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