After upsetting Texas A&M in College Station, Appalachian State was invited to appear on College Gameday. The game usually doesn't live up to the pre-game festivities when Kirk, Lee, and the crew are here.
Students from North Carolina showed up in large numbers to support their team. Despite the case for a trap game being made, the entire panel picked West Virginia to win the game.
Howard was booed when he mentioned the amount of food consumed on the mountain town campus since he beat the A&M's. College athletes who read their own press clippings are more likely to get run out of the building when they show up.
Troy was going to ruin the excitement of the 30,000 spectators as they watched the game. Even after forcing a Troy safety with 20 seconds left, the Mountaineers couldn't get in field goal range to steal a win.
App State coach Shawn Clark decided a Hail Mary from their own 47 was the only option. When you mix college sports with serendipity, things happen.
There are a lot of things that need to be perfect for a desperation heave. The quarterback needs to have enough time and space to make a throw. The mass of safeties has to be chaotic enough for a tip drill to happen. The quarterback needs a strong arm to get the ball to the endzone.
The quarterback for App State stepped up and threw the ball, but it was short of the goal line. Christian Horn had the ball in his hands after a favorable bounce and the only thing anyone could do was watch as he crossed the plain and utter pandemonium.
Tell me what you would do if you saw this and had no idea what was happening inside Kidd Brewer Stadium.
I don't know what happened. This was the simplest way to B-dubs, according to the maps company. I don't know how I was supposed to know about the riot.
College football is great.
Had I put together a preview of the non-ranked games this weekend, I wouldn't have known what the over-under of the Syracuse-Purdue game was. I predicted a track meet in my blurb.
I looked like a doofus for a long time. The two teams combined for 19 points and anyone who bet on the unders was wondering who to bet on in the late afternoon window.
Then madness took over. The Orangemen and Boilermakers scored six total touchdown, including a pick-six, en route to a 42 point quarter, and the Cuse quarterback found Oronde Gadsden for a 25-yard touchdown with seven ticks remaining to give the Cuse a lead they wouldn't relinquish.
The total was pushed to 60 by the touchdown and the extra point. Al Capone said in Two for the Money that he was gambling again.
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