I interrupt the regular blogging program for an important announcement:
Appalachian State rocks baby!!!!
Appalachian State 34, No. 5 Michigan 32.
You read that correctly. My undergrad school beat the Wolverines:
The team from Boone, N.C., took the lead with 26 seconds left when Julian Rauch kicked a 24-yard field goal. Corey Lynch blocked a 37-yard try on the final play, and the Mountaineers sealed a jaw-dropping upset that might have no equal.
This is the fist time that a 1-AA team has beaten a top-10 1-A. Of course, the fact that ASU is the defending 1-AA national champs might mean this is not quite as big a fluke as you would think at first. In any case, this will probably go down as the biggest win in ASU history.
In other ASU news, Caitlin Upton, of Miss Teen USA brain fart fame, will be doing her undergrad work at our fine school:
[W]ord via “The Today Show” of a recruiting coup for the little school in the North Carolina mountains. Caitlin Upton, the freshly famous Miss Teen South Carolina, whose dingbat answer to a beauty pageant question became an instant YouTube classic, told Matt Lauer she planned to attend Appalachian State. This might not have dazzled the academic folks on campus, but I guarantee the male students are stoked.
At my age, the football win has me more stoked.
Of course, this means we have to lose to VMI later this year; karma and all.
UPDATE: I just found out that Michigan paid ASU $400,000 for the privilege of losing to them. Perhaps President Roh has a soulmate in Ann Arbor.
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Being a crazy California Bear fan, we were so happy to see ASU beat Michigan. Amazing game, I must say. Cal vs. UT was a great game today too. My throat is so sore from all the screaming I did today! Congratulations.
Pizza at the Mellow Mushroom. Gold.
Well, U of Michigan was MY undergrad school (Go Blue!) so if i were in a feistier mood i’d have something nasty to say here…
Bo is spinning in his grave.
Do you mean THE Appalachia State?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pVENWl8uBeg
HOT! HOT! HOT!
That is indeed an interesting enough story to merit a special mention, even though I’m not enough of a college football fan to have known about it earlier.
“…Appalachian State’s win does seem to trump the game second-tier [football] programs [ie Division IAA schools] used to regard as their crowning achievement — The Citadel’s season-opening win in 1992 over Arkansas that led to the firing of Razorbacks coach Jack Crowe after the game…”
BTW, you might not know (I didn’t) that it’s no longer officially “Division I-A and I-AA”; they changed the official nomenclature to “Division I Football ‘Bowl’ Subdivision” and “Division I Football ‘Championship’ Subdivision”.
At least, if I’m reading the link correctly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_I
Another (admittedly trivial) example to add to the category of “fixings things that ain’t broke”. Like sending “drive-by” bands of Christian missionaries to 99% Moslim countries where a death sentence is normal for apostates to Islam.
Yeah, I know about the “Championship Subdivision” thing, but it is too stupid to worry with.
The name change implies that the only difference between a 1-A and a 1-AA school is that they are part of a different championship system. Of course, the difference between a 85 scholarship program and a 63 scholarship program can be huge so I will just stick with 1-AA.
It was a wild weekend for upsets. Sharapova at the US Open, that rookie who pitched a no-hitter for the Red Socks… and that which shall not be named in Ann Arbor.
I wholeheartedly second Sonagi’s sentiment in #4.