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Appalachian State 34, Michigan 32, final.
#5-ranked Michigan felled in the Big House by a Division I-AA team! The biggest upset in college football history?
P.S. Jay sorta kinda called it.
UPDATE: Appalachian is HOT! HOT! HOT!
SMQ writes:
“The upset of the year!” suggests one of my friends on the phone. “This reminds me of Miami Ohio’s upset over LSU in 1986,” texts another. No. No. They lack understanding. A I-AA team beat Michigan. This shakes the foundation of my comprehension of the world to such a vastly greater extent than any upset, sighting, conspiracy theory, apparition, miracle or act of nature I could possibly cite. This is frogs raining from heaven. This is physically impossible.
MGOblog says only: “Please Stand By.”
P.P.S. Here’s a photo of App. St.’s coach being carried off the field at the Big House:
P.P.P.S. Stewart Mandel offers some perspective:
In the 29 years since the NCAA formally split Division I into two separate entities, no I-AA team had ever defeated a team ranked in the AP poll. When it finally happened, it wasn’t the No. 24 team that went down. Or the No. 19 team. It wasn’t a Hawaii or a Rutgers or some other marginally respected program that just happened to be ranked.
The victim was the winningest program in the history of the sport. The No. 5 team in the country according the pollsters. Winner of 11 games just a season ago. A squad with at least four future NFL draft picks on its offense alone. Participant in three of the past four Rose Bowls. Consensus favorite to win the 2007 Big Ten title.
All of those things may still come true for the Wolverines, but one game into its season, this Michigan team has already etched itself into history for the most embarrassing possible reason — by becoming the first ranked team ever to lose to a I-AA squad.
For everything that Boise State’s historic Fiesta Bowl win over Oklahoma said about the new era of college football, Appalachian State just trumped it ten-fold. What every coach tries to tell his players and the media every week only to be met by perennial skepticism has now been confirmed as true. No one is unbeatable in college football anymore. Anything can happen.
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Appalachian State is beating Michigan in the third quarter! And we're opening lots of presents. :)
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At 5am, Tropical Depression Six became Tropical Storm Felix… and as of 11am, it already has 65 mph winds! Felix is expected to continue strengthening as it treks westward across the southern Caribbean, and is forecast to be a major hurricane in four days as it approaches Belize or thereabouts.
Eric Berger asks: “Can we be confident it’s going to Belize? Probably. Felix is being steered due westward by a high pressure system that is unlikely to relent in the next four or five days. All of the important models bring the system into the southern Yucatan Peninsula, or points south. … In short, I do not think Felix is a threat in any way to the United States. That could change in the next couple of days, but I wouldn’t expect it to.”
However, Berger adds, “there is another wave out in the Atlantic, located about halfway between the Lesser Antilles and Africa, that could pose something more of a threat. It’s a bit further north than Felix, and could swing northwest toward Florida or the Gulf in the next week. … This wave could be a tropical depression in a couple of days as it moves through favorable conditions, or it could dissipate. Such are the vagaries of hurricane season. My guess, however, is that we’ll need to keep watching the wave closely during the next week.” Here’s a look at the two systems in question:
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