Dave Campbell it was put together very well, I love these type of videos. It feels like a time machine, which is great because I was too young to know what was going on at the time.
ŚparrowYT damn. I was 17 lol. Yo, the 2007 college football season was the craziest and best season ever no question there were upsets every week, the whole season was compelling from Boise state going undefeated beating Oklahoma, my Louisville cardinals barely missing out on a chance to go to the national championship game. Rutgers best is off a field goal. And the first game Kentucky hurt our best player for the year and we still had an amazing year. Man that season was WILD
I just noticed how App State opened the season defeating Michigan and ended the season winning the FCS Championship against Delaware. Both Michigan and Delaware have identical styled helmets
Deleware had that design first. It came from dyeing the pieces of the old leather helmets contrasting colors. Michigan actually copied the scheme from the Ducks YEARS ago...
Today, unranked App State beat #6 Texas A&M in College Station (first time beating a top-10 team since Michigan). As an alumni of Texas Tech, a resident of Austin, and a fan of college football in general...this is the school that just keeps on giving.
I'm a Marshall fan and an alum. The best rivalry we had in the Southern Conference was Appalachian State. Whether in Boone or in Huntington they were the toughest and classiest opponent we would face each season. I was thrilled when they beat Michigan. Now we're back together in the Sun Belt and App State is circled on the calendar again. Good times!
I’m not from Boone but live in NC and a Tarheels fan I’ve always liked APPs football program and tbh the Sun Belt is a solid conference I’ve always wanted to see Marshall have a resurgence like back to when they had Pennington and Moss
I’ll never forget this game... being a Michigan State fan, I was in spartan stadium and they kept showing the score on big screen. As sad as it sounds I’ve never heard that stadium louder than when the final score was announced😂
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I went to Appalachian State and Herbstreit pissed me off twice that day. 1. Bashing 1-AA schools and 2. LEARN HOW TO PRONOUNCE APPALACHIAN CORRECTLY!! That really makes ASU fans and alumni mad when you mispronounce it. I've seen guests invited to speak during halftime at games say it incorrectly and boy do they get booed big time.
@@ragingbull154 Herbstreit is an idiot. He always trashes the SEC as "not fast enough" and calls the Big 10 and Pac 12 "the dominant conferences" in the playoffs and in the BCS era- despite the SEC dominating the BCS (a full HALF and a near decade-long run on top) and how many Playoff titles?! He REALLY needs to learn to be impartial, respectfully objective or shut the hell up.
@@launchbase4944 He wasnt wrong! But some people feel entitled to being offended about something everyday! but what can we do, besides let them cry it out?
I gotta say this is probably the best video chronicling the game I've seen on RUclips, and I've seen a lot. The way you went into such detail to establish the context leading into the game, and then spent an almost equal amount of time detailing the fallout for Michigan and how the loss led to a downward spiral and a carousel of coaches and whatnot - excellent job.
Big buckeye fan here. I work with a lot of Michigan fans, they all just hate the Buckeyes. That's it, no logical reason for being a Michigan fan. So their hearts aren't it. I'm buying an App State t-shirt today just hit them where it hurts. Go App State!!!!
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“Biggest upset in College Football history” was Centre College vs Harvard in 1921 when Centre won at Harvard Stadium 6-0 in front of a capacity crowd of 43,000. The game is significant because it was the FIRST TIME a team outside the East beat one of the Big Three of Harvard, Princeton and Yale. However, like App St, this was no fluke. The previous season Centre was 8-2, losing at Harvard and at GA Tech, but beat TCU 63-7 in the Fort Worth Classic bowl game, and Centre was undefeated the year before that. In 1921 Centre outscored their opponents 282-6 in the regular season and was un-scored upon in 9 games which included AUB, CLEM, Kentucky, Tulane and AZ (all but AZ were in the Southern Conf). Of note in 1920 Center beat Howard (AL) 120-0 and blanked 7 total opponents that year and held most opponents scoreless over a 6 year period from 1917 to 1922. In 1919 undefeated Centre held 5 teams scoreless and outscored their opponents 485-23 while beating WVA, IND, KY and VA among others.
@Arrowhead Water yup 07. At one point we were ranked number 2 and that Saturday number 1 LSU lost to unranked Kentucky. All we had to do was beat unranked Oregon State and we'd of been number 1. But we lost... and apparently it killed all moral and we finished the season 6-6. I only remember so vividly cuz I was at that game. But anyways, hope you guys come up too, in fact I'm down for any pac12 team to come up at this point. We need a spot in that "playoff" yo.
Well they had been to the rose bowl and in the big ten title run for the past couple of years before 2007. They were ranked No.2 going in to the game in Ohio State.
@@joeraguso5376 not if costal Carolina has anything to say about it. I would say Louisiana as well but without Napier I don't know if they can continue their success. Ccu has dinner pretty well in their short time as an fbs school
1-AA (FCS today) had been catchingup to 1-A for a while before that time playing very tight games. Today it's actually not uncommon to see the top FCS schools beat FBS schools even occasionally ranked ones. UNI, NDSU, etc... It's also good to see App State make it in FBS as a really good Sun Belt team, same for Georgia Southern. That rivalry continues.
I went to Appalachian State in the early 90's. Jerry Moore had just started building the program to what it is today. Two coaching changes since and still winning. If you've never been to Boone for a game it really is worth the trip. Go Mountaineers!!!!!!!
@@Daniel-xp4yg they just got whooped by Wisconsin and barely survived unranked Army. The only way this season can be salvaged is by beating Ohio State (miracle #1) AND winning a so so bowl game (miracle #2).
@@Daniel-xp4yg 1-6 vs ranked opponents, 1-7 vs OSU and MSU combined (that one win being against a 3-9 MSU team), 1-3 in bowl games. That's very much underachieving by Michigan standards regardless of his overall win-loss record. Oddly enough, he's still the best they've had since this game happened.
I'm the same way as a WVU fan when we lost to Pitt in 2007. I watched it on TV and was one of my first football experiences and had fucking zero idea why everyone was upset.
This was the ONLY football game my daughter attended while at Michigan. Her friends asked her if she knew anything about Appalachian State (since she's from NC) and she told them she thought they were pretty good but were in a minor conference, but she'd like to go to the game since it was a team she'd heard of !
@@ScallywagBeowulf She was just never a big football fan. She did get Ohio State tickets every time they played in the Big House, but only so she could sell them!
@@ScallywagBeowulf Yeah, honestly was surprised to see this response pop up after 2 years but was glad to clear it up for you. I only regret that she never got me any tickets !
LMAO! Thats a funny story! That sounds like my mother when it came to sports! She couldnt care less! But she could tell you everything going on in "days of our lives" & "all my children"!
One of my closest friends was a freshman at App State in fall of 2007 and I remember him calling me that day with people cheering and chanting in the background from the campus. Watching these highlights always make me smile because this will forever be one of the greatest upsets in sports history! Great video!
I was a freshman there at the time and we took down the goalpost, threw it in duck pond, then carried it all the way through downtown and up the mountain to the Chancellors house. Epic weekend.
@@Jackplexico I was there too! Also freshman in 07. That was the craziest shit next to Obama getting elected and Osama getting killed lol. I thought when we beat Michigan the town was gonna explode. I remember for days after there were traffic cones and clothes in every tree on campus
I feel like this moment, this singularity, was one that the entire Division I-AA could celebrate as one, whether they didn't play Appalachian State all year or were a conference rival. This team just represented their level and singlehandedly raised their profile tenfold in front of the whole country. I'm glad we're starting to see more FCS teams get some wins on FBS teams now. The gap's closing, makes the sport more fun.
Nobody understood how good App State was. As a guy who roots for another FCS school (James Madison, which itself has two national championships), I knew. They dominated FCS for years in the 2000s almost as much as North Dakota State does now. Those guys could ball.
I am a Michigan fan that grew up in VA and followed all of the FCS programs (all my friends and family either went to JMU or ODU). I warned my family a few days before the game that this was a trap and should've never been scheduled. I remember everyone saying this is a 1AA school...this is a cupcake. I was like...dude you don't understand...these guys just won back to back natties.
@@drewsmith4452 And now we'll get to play them in the Fun Belt. Can't wait. I'm happy JMU finally is pulling the trigger and moving up to FBS. It may be a rough time, but the SBC is one hell of a good conference with a lot of natural geographic rivals for us.
I got introduced to them when they lit up SIU in the playoffs one year and said they were for real!Coincidentally enough, NDSU was a power at the same time as App State, but was ineligible for the playoffs because they were transitioning from D2.
I was at App State from 88'-92'. I wrestled, and lived in Justice Hall (athletic dorm) along with all the football players. Jerry had just started building up the football team, but was really struggling while I was there. I lost my mind in 2007. I was watching the game on t.v. , but had to leave and go somewhere before it ended. I was driving when they blocked the field goal, and was very lucky I didn't wreck my car. One of the best memories of my life.
Crazy how much this game changed the trajectory of the program as a whole. You could argue they haven't been able to get over this loss until this year, really.
This date represented the culmination of a 10 day nightmare for me as a sports fan. Besides being a Michigan fan I was also a Baltimore Orioles fan. Ten days before this happened on August 22, 2007 the Orioles began a 9 game losing streak when the Texas Rangers set the modern day record for runs in a game when they stomped the Orioles 30-6. The 9 game losing streak ended on Friday August 31 when they beat the Red Sox in Fenway. The next day September 1 2007 my Wolverines didnt just lay an egg but dropped it and it cracked. I thought to my self.......after a 10 day period like this it can't get any worse........well it did. You see......after the Appalachian State loss later on that same evening the Orioles were playing the Red Sox again after beating them the night before to end their losing streak.......well that night the Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz pitched a no hitter vs the Orioles 10-0........nice way to end a Saturday after your college football team become the victim in the biggest upset in sports history since the US hockey team Miracle on Ice vs the Soviet Union in 1980. Oh yeah......as a bonus footnote......although their season hadn't started yet I was also a Washington Redskins fan......nice huh? 😦
I just did a quick scan of the 2007 App State roster- no fewer than 5 played in the NFL is some capacity. It was an upset but we had some talent on this team. App State '86.
16 years later, on the same day, Appalachian State and Georgia Southern would both get major victories against Power 5 schools as a Sun Belt member. Weird how that turned out
This may be my favorite video Ive ever watched. Put together so well. Im a huge App St fan but this video truly puts the whole story together so well. Well done.
It’s funny how nobody mentions the time management by App State. Not running the clock down and kicking the FG on 1st down with 30 seconds left ended up resulting in the greatest upset moment in college football history.
Love the ending as it is, but had Michigan made the kick, not kneeing it, spiking it and then kicking it with :02 on the clock by ASU would have gone down as the most bone headed time mismanagement ever.
My uncle played quarterback for App St back in the 70s. He was at THE GAME in the Big House with a tiny contingent of App faithful. Too long to post but it has become the “everyone gather round” story every time I see him. And it never gets old….go ‘Neers. ❤
Though I respect Michigan, their and other big name schools entitlement attitude was the reason why I enjoyed their defeat. And the commentators were eating crow but were focused on the loss.
I remember this game, and exactly where I was when it happened. I was standing in Beaver Stadium after a Penn State game....it felt like no one had left. Everyone was crowded around the TV's, much like this video showed. Surreal moment.
The Michigan football program had been ignoring the termites eating away at the porch for a while and this was the weight that collapsed it. Complacency and arrogance within the athletic department was laid bare here and then over the course of the catastrophic RichRod era.
this dude got me hyped up for a game that was played almost 15 years ago LMAO remember seeing this on tv when i was a wee lad, it was such a crazy year for college ball doubt it will ever be replicated
Great video! Very well put together. I do wish that App St could have had a few clips at the end that show them moving up to the FBS level, joining the Sun Belt, making it to a bowl game and getting their first bowl win. They've really come along, and so has the Sun Belt Conference. Conference-USA used to be a stronger conference but then the Sun Belt went and ate their lunch. The whole Sun Belt thing probably deserves a separate video of its own, but it would have been nice to see App St move up at the end there.
There were so many different emotions in this video. Going from rooting Appalachian state and hoping Michigan looses to then feeling bad for the Michigan coach and hoping he goes out with a win. Great editing!
@@MarloSoBalJr Hawai'i peaked at #10; USF made it to #2 before falling victim to the #2 curse that year. The #1 spot was owned by USC, LSU, and Ohio State (except for week 13 when Missouri butted in). #2 was where all the movement was; LSU, USC, Cal, USF, Boston College, Oregon, Kansas, WVU and Georgia all made appearances at #2.
To get context of what this means for those that don’t get it. This upset is akin to a minor league baseball team beating the Yankees after just missing the world series the year before.Or Alabama beating the Chiefs with all their starters in.
That day was OSU Alumni Band Game in Columbus, and my dad is an alumnus of the band so we were in that Columbus crowd watching on one of the stadium TVs after the Buckeyes' game. It is still one of my favorite sports memories!
I was lucky enough to go to App State from 2004-2008. I was at all 3 national title games, sat with 5 buddies on the 10th row on the 35 yard line behind Michigans bench in the big house, and watched us play LSU with a hurricane on the way right after Katrina the year before. It was amazing to watch this team. It will always be a great day to be a Mountaineer!!!!!!
With that being said, programs like App St/Boise St are why I would like to see an 8 team playoff with a place for the little guy to be able to sneak in. If App could get themselves into the AAC they would have a shot, but I dont see a Sun Belt team ever being able to get put into the playoff. Unless they end up playing UNC/S. Carolina Non Con or some other similar Power 5 school. But with Covid who know what the heck will happen with re-alignment, it might speed things up creating 4 mega conferences
This is the first game that really got me hooked on FCS football. Realized that EWU played these guys pretty close in the playoffs that year and thought, why does no one ever talk about this little school down the road? So much fun to study these little schools and see the look on people's faces when they realize how damn good some of the top tier FCS teams really are.
That song is from a promotional video that was made by the University sometime around 2006 but was quickly canned. Despite that, it lived on because of the internet. Supposedly no one at the University ever took responsibility for its creation. Plenty of examples here on RUclips highlighting its infamy, just search "Appalachian Hot Hot Hot"
One thing in the lead up I would've included was the Michigan vs Ball State game where they nearly blew a 31-12 lead, stopping them on 4th down to prevail 34-26. Appalachian State watched a lot of game film on the game to figure out how to beat Michigan as an underdog. That really paid off as we got one of the greatest upsets in history.
Love that video showed State College, Ohio State, and others watch from the stadiums. I was at that Buckeyebgame waiting for kickoff and it was like the while college football world stopped. I think the Buckeye game started a few mins late due to everyone stopping what they wher doing to watch Xichigan get embarrassed!!!
Which is why when one of you fucksticks asks me "are you rooting for ohio state in the bowl game? You should root for fellow big ten schools" my answer is "fuuuuuuuuck no". I'll root for Alabama and Nick Satan before I'll ever root for Ohio State, Michigan State, or Penn State.
@@slimj091 Yeah. You should. If you're dumb enough to be a Xichigan fan you should never root for the Bucks/Sparty/State. Just like when the B10 was undefeated in bowl games and Xichigan was the one team to Fukk up the streak. Even though it made the B10 look worse, I still enjoyed greatly watch you dumpster fire of a team drag the rest of us down with you. There should be a vote and somehow the B10 should make a special division with MU/Rutgers/Illinois/Maryland/Northwestern/Purdue. Maybe then you could crack 2nd in your division....😁😁😁
This had some downsides for App. as well. I went there and was a freshman for this game-- the drive afterwards for us to move up in the division ultimately ended up with Roy Moore definitely "not" being fired because he resisted the division change and our ultimately mediocre subsequent seasons after him. We're nowhere near as good now as we were then, plus the school ended up killing a fucking shit ton of academic programs because all the sudden people wanted us to be a football school. It was and continues to be a bummer.
Yeah pretty much all of this is nonsense. Jerry (who is Roy?) Moore was basically pushed out because of the FBS change, but we started rolling again with Scott Satterfield and haven't looked back now. We have literally had the most successful transition to FBS football in history, winning 5 straight FBS bowl games. We have been ranked more than any other SunBelt team in history. Our football team is the goal for most other G5 schools. What academic programs can you list off that we stopped funding due to football?
Roy Moore is the crazy former Alabama court justice/one time US senate candidate who admitted to approaching 16 year old girls to ask them out…let’s not get Jerry mixed up with that name 😂😂😂
I graduated the year before. I was in Charlotte with my now wife. They didn't have the big 10 network (no one did really at the time) so like many we were reduced to watching the bottom ticker and in game updates. When I saw the 34-32 go final I flipped...didn't know how it happened, but I flipped. When they showed the highlights and HOW we won, that was a special moment.
@@Beardsandbars add Texas A&M to the kill list. Watching the live cam on King St from my house in Nevada and wishing more than anything that I was in Boone tonight.
Interesting to note that they began & ended their '07 season w/ a win over a team with the same helmet design. Different mascot names, but still. :) Crazy, crazy season in '07.
@@wjatube That game was nuts. Oregon handed Michigan their worst loss since 1968!! It got forgotten because of that App State game, and rightfully so I’d say.
You wonder if App St still moves up to FBS level if they didn't win this game. I know it took a few years before the jump up, but that win still gets attention today. They won two straight D-1AA titles before the upset, but everyone treated them like a dead skunk on the side of the road compared to Michigan. The win was truly an Earth-shattering moment for both programs.
I’m very late to this video but I didn’t see it referenced in the video but that game was seen on tv by almost no one. App State vs That Team Up North was the first game to air on the big ten network but it wasn’t carried by most of the cable providers and was blacked out in most markets nationwide.
Before that, they were the announcing team when Boise State upset Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl. After this, I'll bet any coach of a ranked FBS team would get nervous if those two announced a game where his team was favored.
16:20 weird how they got down to the 5 and then decided to kick a field goal right away even though they had 30 seconds on the clock still. Obviously it worked out but considering Michigan was able to get into field goal range after...that's some pretty bad coaching
Yeah, they could have tried for the TD to make Michigan have to get a TD or at least run the clock all the way down for the attempt. Didn't matter in the end though
If you try to run the clock down and then spike it. You automatically lose the game if any of your o-line flinch before the snap or an illegal formation because of the 10-second runoff rule. not worth the risk.
Jerry Moore said after the game they did it to guard against a bad snap. If something goes wrong and you have to fall on a fumbled snap, you still have just enough time to get off a second try.
I mortgaged the house on App state...I now own a couple countries....(actually vegas did not offer a betting line for this game, because they felt it was a mismatch).....
I know. I tried to bet as much as I could on that one. No one would take it that had real money to put up. One person said he would, but my boy out in Cali - who was the intermediary - backed out on me. Damn. Could have made a fortune that day.
For having no narrator or transitional dialogue this was oddly compelling to watch
Dave Campbell it was put together very well, I love these type of videos. It feels like a time machine, which is great because I was too young to know what was going on at the time.
That's good editing for you.
James Erickson same, I was only 3 years old
ŚparrowYT damn. I was 17 lol. Yo, the 2007 college football season was the craziest and best season ever no question there were upsets every week, the whole season was compelling from Boise state going undefeated beating Oklahoma, my Louisville cardinals barely missing out on a chance to go to the national championship game. Rutgers best is off a field goal. And the first game Kentucky hurt our best player for the year and we still had an amazing year. Man that season was WILD
I just noticed how App State opened the season defeating Michigan and ended the season winning the FCS Championship against Delaware. Both Michigan and Delaware have identical styled helmets
Alec Reyes OH damn...
The Delaware QB was Joe Flacco! The helmet similarities were not lost on us at the time.
Deleware had that design first. It came from dyeing the pieces of the old leather helmets contrasting colors. Michigan actually copied the scheme from the Ducks YEARS ago...
@@brucefisher4025 That's right...let's have a good ole fashion RUclips verbal fistfight over something REALLY important.
@@brucefisher4025 You have Delaware confused with Princeton. They started it in 1935, Delaware started in 51.
Today, unranked App State beat #6 Texas A&M in College Station (first time beating a top-10 team since Michigan). As an alumni of Texas Tech, a resident of Austin, and a fan of college football in general...this is the school that just keeps on giving.
Hell ya they did. Brought me to this video. AppSt Forever
I'm a Marshall fan and an alum. The best rivalry we had in the Southern Conference was Appalachian State. Whether in Boone or in Huntington they were the toughest and classiest opponent we would face each season. I was thrilled when they beat Michigan. Now we're back together in the Sun Belt and App State is circled on the calendar again. Good times!
Cheers to ya and same back from App class of 98
I’m not from Boone but live in NC and a Tarheels fan I’ve always liked APPs football program and tbh the Sun Belt is a solid conference I’ve always wanted to see Marshall have a resurgence like back to when they had Pennington and Moss
Thanks @gunsort for a classy mature comment
I’ll never forget this game... being a Michigan State fan, I was in spartan stadium and they kept showing the score on big screen. As sad as it sounds I’ve never heard that stadium louder than when the final score was announced😂
Same here, but at Notre Dame Stadium ! 🤣🤣
Yeah and somehow they beat MSU and closed it out beating number 12. 🤷🏼♂️
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Time to beat my dick once more
And squirt my sperm on the floor
Why is that sad? Michigan is Michigan State's biggest rival!
Loved seeing Herbstreit eat those words "they have no business playing a 1-AA school" and that disrespect!
I went to Appalachian State and Herbstreit pissed me off twice that day. 1. Bashing 1-AA schools and 2. LEARN HOW TO PRONOUNCE APPALACHIAN CORRECTLY!! That really makes ASU fans and alumni mad when you mispronounce it. I've seen guests invited to speak during halftime at games say it incorrectly and boy do they get booed big time.
@@ragingbull154 Herbstreit is an idiot. He always trashes the SEC as "not fast enough" and calls the Big 10 and Pac 12 "the dominant conferences" in the playoffs and in the BCS era- despite the SEC dominating the BCS (a full HALF and a near decade-long run on top) and how many Playoff titles?!
He REALLY needs to learn to be impartial, respectfully objective or shut the hell up.
@@ragingbull154 yeah, and I hate it when people pronounce Adidas wrong. Guess we'll just have to live with it.
it's not like he was wrong
@@launchbase4944 He wasnt wrong! But some people feel entitled to being offended about something everyday! but what can we do, besides let them cry it out?
I gotta say this is probably the best video chronicling the game I've seen on RUclips, and I've seen a lot. The way you went into such detail to establish the context leading into the game, and then spent an almost equal amount of time detailing the fallout for Michigan and how the loss led to a downward spiral and a carousel of coaches and whatnot - excellent job.
Big buckeye fan here. I work with a lot of Michigan fans, they all just hate the Buckeyes. That's it, no logical reason for being a Michigan fan. So their hearts aren't it. I'm buying an App State t-shirt today just hit them where it hurts. Go App State!!!!
@@tifosiman68 Lol thats so funny
@@Hokie4Life My super is a fan of the teak up north. When he saw my App State shirt he said " Screw you, I was just starting to like you" hehe.
App state gave PSU a scare
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The 2007 App State victory over Michigan was the greatest game of football ever played at any level of the sport
“Biggest upset in College Football history”, thumbnail is the Big House... oh, I know what game this is about! Always happy to hear this story ^^
Haven't watched it yet, but is it App State?
InfinityFire Ohio fan?
Hey, I’m an OU fan and I thought losing to Boise was bad, but at least we lost in a bowl game.
“Biggest upset in College Football history” was Centre College vs Harvard in 1921 when Centre won at Harvard Stadium 6-0 in front of a capacity crowd of 43,000. The game is significant because it was the FIRST TIME a team outside the East beat one of the Big Three of Harvard, Princeton and Yale. However, like App St, this was no fluke. The previous season Centre was 8-2, losing at Harvard and at GA Tech, but beat TCU 63-7 in the Fort Worth Classic bowl game, and Centre was undefeated the year before that. In 1921 Centre outscored their opponents 282-6 in the regular season and was un-scored upon in 9 games which included AUB, CLEM, Kentucky, Tulane and AZ (all but AZ were in the Southern Conf). Of note in 1920 Center beat Howard (AL) 120-0 and blanked 7 total opponents that year and held most opponents scoreless over a 6 year period from 1917 to 1922. In 1919 undefeated Centre held 5 teams scoreless and outscored their opponents 485-23 while beating WVA, IND, KY and VA among others.
"Big time games like cal and Tennessee" wow.... you dont hear that much these days
As a Cal fan it's crazy to think back to the mid to late 00's when we were able to crack the top 5 regularly and compete for pac 10 titles.
upside93 Aaron Rodgers and Marshawn Lynch. You guys had some talent run through back then
@Arrowhead Water yup 07. At one point we were ranked number 2 and that Saturday number 1 LSU lost to unranked Kentucky. All we had to do was beat unranked Oregon State and we'd of been number 1. But we lost... and apparently it killed all moral and we finished the season 6-6. I only remember so vividly cuz I was at that game. But anyways, hope you guys come up too, in fact I'm down for any pac12 team to come up at this point. We need a spot in that "playoff" yo.
As a vols fan, I can’t say that Tennessee has been in a sentence since then either
Arrowhead Water thanks! A bunch of my friends are on the team and I go there as well. We were doin gr8 till we lost our qb :(
Delaware's quarterback in that 2007 National Championship game was a fella named Joe Flacco.
Never heard of him
Elite!
Yeah, and get this, this Joe Flacco was known for throwing the ball 80 yards with ease and not just throwing 2 yard passes to his TEs.
Shit, gene Hackman knew of him lol
Even Michigan was playing with the Kansas City god of Chad Henne
This is why you play the game and don’t listen to speculation.
Geez, I knew Michigan was good when they got upset but I didn't know they had actual national type hype
Yeah, I was surprised as well
Well they had been to the rose bowl and in the big ten title run for the past couple of years before 2007. They were ranked No.2 going in to the game in Ohio State.
It’s funny that App State and Northern Iowa are both bigger now.
Same with Georgia Southern. Them and Appalachian State are probably the class of the Sun Belt Conference.
@@joeraguso5376 not if costal Carolina has anything to say about it. I would say Louisiana as well but without Napier I don't know if they can continue their success. Ccu has dinner pretty well in their short time as an fbs school
1-AA (FCS today) had been catchingup to 1-A for a while before that time playing very tight games. Today it's actually not uncommon to see the top FCS schools beat FBS schools even occasionally ranked ones. UNI, NDSU, etc...
It's also good to see App State make it in FBS as a really good Sun Belt team, same for Georgia Southern. That rivalry continues.
Roll neers baby!!
They are beating bad FBS programs.
@@tonycrabtree3416Yeah like #6 Texas AM ..
I went to Appalachian State in the early 90's. Jerry Moore had just started building the program to what it is today. Two coaching changes since and still winning. If you've never been to Boone for a game it really is worth the trip. Go Mountaineers!!!!!!!
To one Mountaineer team to another (WVU), Let's Go Mountaineers! Hope y'all have a great season this year!!!
Don't forget a side trip to Dan'l Boone Inn for a kickass meal.
@@badasshiker9637 Went to Daniel Boone Inn about two months ago. I still fill full. Lol
Why did Appalachian State fire Jerry Moore?!?
I did notice that Aop State rehired him.
@@mikewrasman5103 He retired!
Michigan still hasn't been the same. Still losing to Ohio State. No Big 10 titles. Harbaugh has underachieved big time.
bamabound no he hasn’t
@@Daniel-xp4yg they just got whooped by Wisconsin and barely survived unranked Army. The only way this season can be salvaged is by beating Ohio State (miracle #1) AND winning a so so bowl game (miracle #2).
@@Daniel-xp4yg 1-6 vs ranked opponents, 1-7 vs OSU and MSU combined (that one win being against a 3-9 MSU team), 1-3 in bowl games. That's very much underachieving by Michigan standards regardless of his overall win-loss record. Oddly enough, he's still the best they've had since this game happened.
Yea so overpaid the Michigan fans that say that say they are good should realize Harbaugh is 4-14 against top 15 teams
Kind of like Alabama’s loss to Louisiana Monroe... under saban.
This was my first college football game. I didn’t understand what it meant.
I feel for you
I'm the same way as a WVU fan when we lost to Pitt in 2007. I watched it on TV and was one of my first football experiences and had fucking zero idea why everyone was upset.
2012 BCS Championship was my first. My first game was the damn Alabama empire.
TEAM CLASSIC SONIC I’m crying 😭
@@xdgaming70 you're lucky lol
Cupcakes made of granite. They made the mistake of having their tune-up game be against a team that probably could have beaten most FBS teams.
This was the ONLY football game my daughter attended while at Michigan. Her friends asked her if she knew anything about Appalachian State (since she's from NC) and she told them she thought they were pretty good but were in a minor conference, but she'd like to go to the game since it was a team she'd heard of !
Why did she only attend one game at Michigan? Just never able to get a ticket?
@@ScallywagBeowulf She was just never a big football fan. She did get Ohio State tickets every time they played in the Big House, but only so she could sell them!
@@luisvelasco316 Ah, I gotcha, that makes sense. Appreciate the response after it being here two years.
@@ScallywagBeowulf Yeah, honestly was surprised to see this response pop up after 2 years but was glad to clear it up for you. I only regret that she never got me any tickets !
LMAO! Thats a funny story! That sounds like my mother when it came to sports! She couldnt care less! But she could tell you everything going on in "days of our lives" & "all my children"!
As a Delaware fan, it was just an honor to be able to even make the championship that year.
Is Flacco your QB in that years?
i am a delaware fan as well and it was an honor to make the Shampionship that year
One of my closest friends was a freshman at App State in fall of 2007 and I remember him calling me that day with people cheering and chanting in the background from the campus. Watching these highlights always make me smile because this will forever be one of the greatest upsets in sports history! Great video!
I was a freshman there at the time and we took down the goalpost, threw it in duck pond, then carried it all the way through downtown and up the mountain to the Chancellors house. Epic weekend.
I was actually watching the game in Legends bar where the footage is shown at around 17:07
@@Jackplexico I was there too! Also freshman in 07. That was the craziest shit next to Obama getting elected and Osama getting killed lol. I thought when we beat Michigan the town was gonna explode. I remember for days after there were traffic cones and clothes in every tree on campus
Hey! I was a freshman that year too’ GO APPS
@@smurfyx was a good time . Freshman in ‘07 myself
I feel like this moment, this singularity, was one that the entire Division I-AA could celebrate as one, whether they didn't play Appalachian State all year or were a conference rival. This team just represented their level and singlehandedly raised their profile tenfold in front of the whole country.
I'm glad we're starting to see more FCS teams get some wins on FBS teams now. The gap's closing, makes the sport more fun.
Just no respect at all. They refused to learn how to pronounce our name. Refused to see us as serious.
Nobody understood how good App State was. As a guy who roots for another FCS school (James Madison, which itself has two national championships), I knew. They dominated FCS for years in the 2000s almost as much as North Dakota State does now. Those guys could ball.
I am a Michigan fan that grew up in VA and followed all of the FCS programs (all my friends and family either went to JMU or ODU). I warned my family a few days before the game that this was a trap and should've never been scheduled. I remember everyone saying this is a 1AA school...this is a cupcake. I was like...dude you don't understand...these guys just won back to back natties.
Look how good they've been in the FBS too. Great program.
@@drewsmith4452 And now we'll get to play them in the Fun Belt. Can't wait. I'm happy JMU finally is pulling the trigger and moving up to FBS. It may be a rough time, but the SBC is one hell of a good conference with a lot of natural geographic rivals for us.
I got introduced to them when they lit up SIU in the playoffs one year and said they were for real!Coincidentally enough, NDSU was a power at the same time as App State, but was ineligible for the playoffs because they were transitioning from D2.
They were a small program in a state with big programs.
I was at App State from 88'-92'. I wrestled, and lived in Justice Hall (athletic dorm) along with all the football players. Jerry had just started building up the football team, but was really struggling while I was there. I lost my mind in 2007. I was watching the game on t.v. , but had to leave and go somewhere before it ended. I was driving when they blocked the field goal, and was very lucky I didn't wreck my car. One of the best memories of my life.
'88-'92*
Learn English.
Crazy how much this game changed the trajectory of the program as a whole. You could argue they haven't been able to get over this loss until this year, really.
This date represented the culmination of a 10 day nightmare for me as a sports fan. Besides being a Michigan fan I was also a Baltimore Orioles fan. Ten days before this happened on August 22, 2007 the Orioles began a 9 game losing streak when the Texas Rangers set the modern day record for runs in a game when they stomped the Orioles
30-6. The 9 game losing streak ended on Friday August 31 when they beat the Red Sox in Fenway. The next day September 1 2007 my Wolverines didnt just lay an egg but dropped it and it cracked.
I thought to my self.......after a 10 day period like this it can't get any worse........well it did. You see......after the Appalachian State loss later on that same evening the Orioles were playing the Red Sox again after beating them the night before to end their losing streak.......well that night the Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz pitched a no hitter vs the Orioles 10-0........nice way to end a Saturday after your college football team become the victim in the biggest upset in sports history since the US hockey team Miracle on Ice vs the Soviet Union in 1980.
Oh yeah......as a bonus footnote......although their season hadn't started yet I was also a Washington Redskins fan......nice huh? 😦
And you lost the Redskins name.
Poor soul
"The feel good story that is truly timeless."
-Iowa City, Lansing, South Bend, Los Angeles, and the entire state of Ohio
They were celebrating in Happy Valley as well!
*the rest of the world
I just did a quick scan of the 2007 App State roster- no fewer than 5 played in the NFL is some capacity. It was an upset but we had some talent on this team. App State '86.
Anybody else notice that at 6:57 Michigan is in red/white font while Ohio State is in white/blue font? I'm sure that won't piss off any fans lol.
Yes
16 years later, on the same day, Appalachian State and Georgia Southern would both get major victories against Power 5 schools as a Sun Belt member. Weird how that turned out
This may be my favorite video Ive ever watched. Put together so well. Im a huge App St fan but this video truly puts the whole story together so well. Well done.
Grew up a Michigan fan. I still get chills watching that. Go Mountaineers!!!
It’s funny how nobody mentions the time management by App State. Not running the clock down and kicking the FG on 1st down with 30 seconds left ended up resulting in the greatest upset moment in college football history.
Love the ending as it is, but had Michigan made the kick, not kneeing it, spiking it and then kicking it with :02 on the clock by ASU would have gone down as the most bone headed time mismanagement ever.
I always loved signing Armanti Edwards as a free agent in Madden 11, this upset is the reason why I do it
My uncle played quarterback for App St back in the 70s. He was at THE GAME in the Big House with a tiny contingent of App faithful. Too long to post but it has become the “everyone gather round” story every time I see him. And it never gets old….go ‘Neers. ❤
I admit I keep coming back to this primarily to rewatch the montage of the final blocked field goal and the reactions. That was masterfully edited.
Though I respect Michigan, their and other big name schools entitlement attitude was the reason why I enjoyed their defeat. And the commentators were eating crow but were focused on the loss.
I have no respect for Michigan after playing Iowa for the big 10 in 2021. go undefeated and play a cream puff.
@@whatthehellol1610 Iowa fan?
This is an amazing video. Thank you.
Really great video! You told a huge story spanning many years without evening talking!
What’s crazy is that Michigan still went on to beat Tom Tebow and the Gators this year
You did a great job putting this together!!!! Thank you!!!
I remember this game, and exactly where I was when it happened. I was standing in Beaver Stadium after a Penn State game....it felt like no one had left. Everyone was crowded around the TV's, much like this video showed. Surreal moment.
How a single game destroyed one of the best college football programs of all time.
It actually did it took their dignity and manhood away
How many batteries does it take to light up the Big House..??
1 AA. 😏😎😂🤣
@@brucefisher4025 🤣 i hate you(Michigan fan) that was kinda funny though... ngl
@@brucefisher4025
LMAO💯
The Michigan football program had been ignoring the termites eating away at the porch for a while and this was the weight that collapsed it. Complacency and arrogance within the athletic department was laid bare here and then over the course of the catastrophic RichRod era.
this dude got me hyped up for a game that was played almost 15 years ago LMAO
remember seeing this on tv when i was a wee lad, it was such a crazy year for college ball
doubt it will ever be replicated
Great video! Very well put together. I do wish that App St could have had a few clips at the end that show them moving up to the FBS level, joining the Sun Belt, making it to a bowl game and getting their first bowl win. They've really come along, and so has the Sun Belt Conference. Conference-USA used to be a stronger conference but then the Sun Belt went and ate their lunch.
The whole Sun Belt thing probably deserves a separate video of its own, but it would have been nice to see App St move up at the end there.
There were so many different emotions in this video. Going from rooting Appalachian state and hoping Michigan looses to then feeling bad for the Michigan coach and hoping he goes out with a win. Great editing!
What a time to be alive, the 2007 college football season was like no other.
Like watching a typhoon hit a coast. Nothing made sense. I think Hawai'i or USF were a #1 at some point?
@@MarloSoBalJr Hawai'i peaked at #10; USF made it to #2 before falling victim to the #2 curse that year. The #1 spot was owned by USC, LSU, and Ohio State (except for week 13 when Missouri butted in). #2 was where all the movement was; LSU, USC, Cal, USF, Boston College, Oregon, Kansas, WVU and Georgia all made appearances at #2.
This will never get old
As a Michigan fan now today I say thank you to app state for beating us and waking us up to what was wrong with our program as a whole
Still are you still only beat isu only 3 times in 21yrs??
@@anthonydidonato7692 I don't think Michigan had many chances to play ISU. ISU is in a different conference.
I believe he meant OSUck
To get context of what this means for those that don’t get it. This upset is akin to a minor league baseball team beating the Yankees after just missing the world series the year before.Or Alabama beating the Chiefs with all their starters in.
Man, I love college football...
Going to a game in Boone is amazing. Best fans ever!
That is a great video!!!! Good job man
As a german - you don't know stories like these. But it wows you big time ^^
This was recommended after we just beat A&M, go Mountaineers!!
That day was OSU Alumni Band Game in Columbus, and my dad is an alumnus of the band so we were in that Columbus crowd watching on one of the stadium TVs after the Buckeyes' game.
It is still one of my favorite sports memories!
I was lucky enough to go to App State from 2004-2008. I was at all 3 national title games, sat with 5 buddies on the 10th row on the 35 yard line behind Michigans bench in the big house, and watched us play LSU with a hurricane on the way right after Katrina the year before. It was amazing to watch this team. It will always be a great day to be a Mountaineer!!!!!!
I’m watching this after App State beat Texas A&M
loved the editing here !
Michigan: yeah just a little tune up game to get the fans going!
App State: *starts playing Giornos theme*
This video is baller. Y’all BROUGHT the receipts!
Really good video CPFin30. You put a lot of work into this.
With that being said, programs like App St/Boise St are why I would like to see an 8 team playoff with a place for the little guy to be able to sneak in. If App could get themselves into the AAC they would have a shot, but I dont see a Sun Belt team ever being able to get put into the playoff. Unless they end up playing UNC/S. Carolina Non Con or some other similar Power 5 school.
But with Covid who know what the heck will happen with re-alignment, it might speed things up creating 4 mega conferences
LOL, this never gets old.
This was well done!! Love your vids! Subscribed!
This is the first game that really got me hooked on FCS football. Realized that EWU played these guys pretty close in the playoffs that year and thought, why does no one ever talk about this little school down the road? So much fun to study these little schools and see the look on people's faces when they realize how damn good some of the top tier FCS teams really are.
That song at the beginning sounded like a 90’s sitcom theme
That song is from a promotional video that was made by the University sometime around 2006 but was quickly canned. Despite that, it lived on because of the internet. Supposedly no one at the University ever took responsibility for its creation. Plenty of examples here on RUclips highlighting its infamy, just search "Appalachian Hot Hot Hot"
Awesome video again!
I’m going to App State for football this year, watching this motivates me and the other players
As an OSU fan, i can never get enough of this.
I remember that "Hot Hot Hot" video when it made the rounds on CollegeConfidential. Couldn't stop laughing my ass off
You should do 16 seed UMBC over overall 1 seed Virginia! This was an amazing montage.
One thing in the lead up I would've included was the Michigan vs Ball State game where they nearly blew a 31-12 lead, stopping them on 4th down to prevail 34-26. Appalachian State watched a lot of game film on the game to figure out how to beat Michigan as an underdog. That really paid off as we got one of the greatest upsets in history.
May as well announce Harbaugh's firing in this video too because that boy is GOOONEEEE!!!
Excellent video.
now AP state is a top 25 Div 1 FBS team.
I'll never forget this game.
I would have love to hear the sport talk radio in Boone and Ann arbor before and after. Epic
I live in Chattanooga and watching games at that stadium is legendary.
Love that video showed State College, Ohio State, and others watch from the stadiums. I was at that Buckeyebgame waiting for kickoff and it was like the while college football world stopped. I think the Buckeye game started a few mins late due to everyone stopping what they wher doing to watch Xichigan get embarrassed!!!
Which is why when one of you fucksticks asks me "are you rooting for ohio state in the bowl game? You should root for fellow big ten schools" my answer is "fuuuuuuuuck no". I'll root for Alabama and Nick Satan before I'll ever root for Ohio State, Michigan State, or Penn State.
@@slimj091 Yeah. You should. If you're dumb enough to be a Xichigan fan you should never root for the Bucks/Sparty/State. Just like when the B10 was undefeated in bowl games and Xichigan was the one team to Fukk up the streak. Even though it made the B10 look worse, I still enjoyed greatly watch you dumpster fire of a team drag the rest of us down with you. There should be a vote and somehow the B10 should make a special division with MU/Rutgers/Illinois/Maryland/Northwestern/Purdue. Maybe then you could crack 2nd in your division....😁😁😁
This had some downsides for App. as well. I went there and was a freshman for this game-- the drive afterwards for us to move up in the division ultimately ended up with Roy Moore definitely "not" being fired because he resisted the division change and our ultimately mediocre subsequent seasons after him. We're nowhere near as good now as we were then, plus the school ended up killing a fucking shit ton of academic programs because all the sudden people wanted us to be a football school. It was and continues to be a bummer.
Yeah pretty much all of this is nonsense. Jerry (who is Roy?) Moore was basically pushed out because of the FBS change, but we started rolling again with Scott Satterfield and haven't looked back now. We have literally had the most successful transition to FBS football in history, winning 5 straight FBS bowl games. We have been ranked more than any other SunBelt team in history. Our football team is the goal for most other G5 schools.
What academic programs can you list off that we stopped funding due to football?
@@johnnybravo778 My man said "I'mma reply to this two year old comment and show this man what's what"
Roy Moore is the crazy former Alabama court justice/one time US senate candidate who admitted to approaching 16 year old girls to ask them out…let’s not get Jerry mixed up with that name 😂😂😂
This was my freshman year at App. We tore down our own goalpost after the Michigan game and left it in our chancellor’s driveway. He loved it.
I think there’s a video of that if I’m not mistaken.
I graduated the year before. I was in Charlotte with my now wife. They didn't have the big 10 network (no one did really at the time) so like many we were reduced to watching the bottom ticker and in game updates. When I saw the 34-32 go final I flipped...didn't know how it happened, but I flipped. When they showed the highlights and HOW we won, that was a special moment.
@@Beardsandbars add Texas A&M to the kill list. Watching the live cam on King St from my house in Nevada and wishing more than anything that I was in Boone tonight.
Interesting to note that they began & ended their '07 season w/ a win over a team with the same helmet design. Different mascot names, but still. :) Crazy, crazy season in '07.
This game still haunts me as a Wolverine fan!!
I recall a week later you then lost to a team that no one heard of....but hat team remained on the map for the next 13 years. That team is Oregon.
@@wjatube That game was nuts. Oregon handed Michigan their worst loss since 1968!! It got forgotten because of that App State game, and rightfully so I’d say.
Jim is in the hot seat now
Insane that this was the inaugural game on the Big Ten Network
You wonder if App St still moves up to FBS level if they didn't win this game. I know it took a few years before the jump up, but that win still gets attention today. They won two straight D-1AA titles before the upset, but everyone treated them like a dead skunk on the side of the road compared to Michigan. The win was truly an Earth-shattering moment for both programs.
Herbstreit and the rest of the ESPN goons had one job... be an expert on college football! Guess you guys blew it with this one.
Or the fact that college football experts didn't see this coming illustrates further how big of an upset this was
You think not predicting the biggest upset in college sports history makes them bad at their jobs??
@@spinblackcircles
Yes
@@boothguru807 I mean it’s cool you don’t watch football or understand what an upset is
@@spinblackcircles
Why thank you! You're a gentleman and a scholar of the highest regard
Kirk herbstreet, forever calling bad calls
I’m very late to this video but I didn’t see it referenced in the video but that game was seen on tv by almost no one. App State vs That Team Up North was the first game to air on the big ten network but it wasn’t carried by most of the cable providers and was blacked out in most markets nationwide.
Thom Brennaman and Charles Davis is a heck of an announcing team for a season opener between Michigan and a FCS team.
Before that, they were the announcing team when Boise State upset Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl. After this, I'll bet any coach of a ranked FBS team would get nervous if those two announced a game where his team was favored.
Great film
16:20 weird how they got down to the 5 and then decided to kick a field goal right away even though they had 30 seconds on the clock still. Obviously it worked out but considering Michigan was able to get into field goal range after...that's some pretty bad coaching
Yeah, they could have tried for the TD to make Michigan have to get a TD or at least run the clock all the way down for the attempt. Didn't matter in the end though
It was pretty awful, should have at the very least, run one play, then spike it with one second to go. Moore nearly cost his team the game.
If you try to run the clock down and then spike it. You automatically lose the game if any of your o-line flinch before the snap or an illegal formation because of the 10-second runoff rule. not worth the risk.
They just wanted to play it safe for having no timeouts didn’t want to risk a fumble
Jerry Moore said after the game they did it to guard against a bad snap. If something goes wrong and you have to fall on a fumbled snap, you still have just enough time to get off a second try.
This was my first football Saturday after I moved to Ann Arbor. It was brutal......
Appalachian state had speed all over Michigan.
Those were the days when you could watch college football on TV for free, now it’s highlights on You Tube.
I mortgaged the house on App state...I now own a couple countries....(actually vegas did not offer a betting line for this game, because they felt it was a mismatch).....
I know. I tried to bet as much as I could on that one. No one would take it that had real money to put up. One person said he would, but my boy out in Cali - who was the intermediary - backed out on me. Damn. Could have made a fortune that day.
The very first broadcast of the Big Ten Network. What a game to start on! lol
Wow, just.. Wow. Going to say this was pretty much a H-Bomb to Michigan's strength of schedule Stat for that season.
I was in Paris, France when this happened. Yes, news went around the world. The funny-thing, I was not the only one in the hotel lobby yelling, "O-H!"