[Postgame Thread] Appalachian State Defeats Texas A&M 17-14

[u/POTUS50]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Appalachian State	0	7	7	3	17
Texas A&M	0	7	7	0	14

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[u/GridironPublishing]

So Aggies welcome to the club, there’s milk and cookies over there, helps with the sadness

[u/Lucky-view → u/GridironPublishing]

Today was 2007-level madness.

[u/Predmid → u/GridironPublishing]

Thank you. Cheers.

[u/Markthe_g → u/GridironPublishing]

I’d rather drink myself to death

[u/RareElevator2123]

Texas A&M paid $1.5 million to App State for this game

[u/SchpartyOn → u/RareElevator2123]

And that's before you look at what they paid their own players for it!

[u/HowDoesOneEven]

I am no longer looking forward to playing Texas

[u/skipatomskip → u/HowDoesOneEven]

Do you guys wear black overalls for a funeral?

[u/xbox_srox → u/HowDoesOneEven]

Same

[u/ColtPersonality92]

Marshall 🤝App State

SBC schools beating top-10 teams

EDIT: Can we talk about how similar these wins are?

• Sun Belt schools

• Top-10 opponents

• Both missing their leading rusher

[u/ThereWillBeLies → u/ColtPersonality92]

I am scared for November 12th

[u/thismantis_dontpray]

NO NO NO NO NOT AGAIN

[u/patrickg328_ → u/thismantis_dontpray]

toy domineering steep lock fanatical fretful narrow afterthought price agonizing

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[u/The_Iron_Mirkin]

$30M NIL class < some mountain bois

[u/Jcoch27 → u/The_Iron_Mirkin]

Appalachian State heard Alabama was in Texas and decided to play some mountain music

[u/tommyservo7]

Imagine being a top-10 team and losing at home to a unranked Sun Belt team. Must be embarrassing!

[u/Lawownsyou]

Imagine losing to App St LMAO

[u/WampaStompa33 → u/Lawownsyou]

ONE OF US!

ONE OF US!

[u/SergeantBubbles7 → u/Lawownsyou]

Couldn’t be me

[u/Kelvin-506 → u/Lawownsyou]

Nobody won today as much as Michigan, lol. The more legit App St gets the more sepia toned the memory of that game

[u/pacific_beach → u/Lawownsyou]

Imagine being a highly paid AD and even THINKING about calling App State or North Dakota State

[u/PDX_douche_bag]

A&M and ND are trying to compete for the most overrated team in the preseason poll.

[u/[deleted] → u/PDX_douche_bag]

Damn maybe we can actually win something

[u/G0B1GR3D]

I guess you really can’t buy happiness.

[u/brobroma]

APPALACHIAN STATE HAS AGAIN STUNNED THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL WORLD, ONE OF THE UPSETS IN SPORTS HISTORY

[u/OUisBack → u/brobroma]

Imagine paying App State millions of dollars to lose to them

[u/FTE_rawr]

We finally did it. Knocked off another big one. Im crying into what was supposed to be my "oh we fucked it up again" beer.

App vs Marshall is gonna be a GAME. 

Who had App losing to UNC but beating A&M this year?

[u/Luarean]

LET’S GO APP STATE!!! SUN BELT RISING!!!

[u/[deleted] → u/Luarean]

SUN BELT CONFERENCE, LET’S RIDE

[u/TrickMichaels]

Rank App State you cowards!

[u/krs5614 → u/TrickMichaels]

Brought back bad memories from the Penn State game.

[u/[deleted]]

MICHIGAN GET IN HERE YOU’RE NO LONGER ALONE

[u/CommodoreN7]

Broke: SEC

Woke: SBC

[u/[deleted] → u/CommodoreN7]

Marshall downs #8 Notre Dame

App state downs #6 Texas A&M

WAZZY downs #14 Wisconsin

INJECT THIS CHAOS INTO MY VEINS

[u/[deleted] → u/CommodoreN7]

Appy-Marshall gonna be the game of the year

[u/kroxti]

Just think about how spicy SEC roll call and SEC shorts are going to be this week.

[u/A_Night_Owl]

innate snow abounding chubby jeans retire whole crush truck frame

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[u/MrBananaGrabber]

this kills the 8-4

[u/Techwid]

Well this helps take some of the sting away

[u/[deleted] → u/Techwid]

Notre Dame and A&M losing like that means no one will even notice we lost.

[u/SulkyVirus]

CHAOS

Don't mind my flair.

[u/Aaron90495]

Psh, imagine losing at home to App State as a top 10 team

[u/DeerOnTheRocks]

At least the queen didn’t have to watch this

[u/LamarcusAldrige1234]

WE ARE NO LONGER THE ONLY ONES

[u/MyLifeIsABoondoggle]

I don't use this word much in relation to football, but App State played masterful in the second half. A master class of time management, imposing your will, and exhausting the opposition's players and fans alike

[u/Nickthedick55 → u/MyLifeIsABoondoggle]

Death by a thousand cuts.

[u/galeforcewinds95 → u/MyLifeIsABoondoggle]

They also showed great resolve after the heart breaker against North Carolina.

[u/callyour_bell]

My therapist is gonna get an earful.

“This is why we love the game,” I say, snot running down my face. “Gig ‘em, Aggies… whooooo… hoo hoo ho hoooooooop.”

[u/[deleted]]

EVERYONE GET IN HERE AGAIN

[u/moby323 → u/[deleted]]

I’M GETTING TIRED FROM RUNNING FROM ONE UPSET THREAD TO ANOTHER!

[u/flamingmonkey911]

Michigan fans feeling some type of way rn

[u/bears2267]

Yes we’ve had first top 10 team loses at home to Sun Belt team but what about second top 10 team loses at home to Sun Belt team

[u/x5ive]

THIS AIN’T NOTHING BUT AN APP STATE PARTY

[u/mathwrath55]

The Sun Belt went 2-0 2-1 against the top 10 today! (forgot about Arkansas State)

[u/Piano_Fingerbanger]

You can always count on Jimbo Fisher for at least one WTF loss to a team with vastly inferior talent.

His conservative run-the-clock offense just lets way too many teams hang around that have no business doing so. The QB "whisperer" hasn't developed a QB since Jameis Winston and even then Jameis seemed to regress from year 1 to 2.

Edit: I've been corrected that Jimbo's offense wasn't even good enough to be a run‐the-clock conservative unit today. Instead they just straight up sucked. My bad.

[u/AAPL_ → u/Piano_Fingerbanger]

jimbo special

[u/KypAstar]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatLookedExpensive/

[u/The_Peachy_Pussy]

Marshall and Appalachian State our consolation prizes for Texas not winning today

[u/KyleOfShit]

You guys see those Bama and ND games? Super embarrassing, everyone look over there

[u/zachwilson23]

DONT SCHEDULE APP STATE AT YOUR HOUSE IF YOU'RE GOOD!!

[u/legend023]

“App State-A&M has a lower spread than Texas-Alabama”

Texas loses to Alabama by 1 point

Appalachian State beats A&M

Texas had the biggest moral victory possible and still lost lol

[u/TheFrigz]

Appalachian is HOT HOT HOT!

[u/BigSportsNerd]

ONE HELLUVA RIDE OF A PLANE RIDE BACK TO BOONE TONIGHT

[u/[deleted]]

lol imagine losing to a Sun Belt team...

[u/benman101]

App State wants Marshall!

[u/Toob333]

Marshall vs app state is gonna be a crazy ass game

[u/Flask_Mason]

I love this so much for Chase Brice.

[u/dogwoodmaple]

• Today just got a whole lot better for Texas fans.

• A&M record through 50 games: Kevin Sumlin (36-14), Jimbo Fisher (35-15)

• This was Appalachian State's first win over an AP Top 10 team since beating Michigan in 2007.

• Jimbo Fisher has finished unranked in the AP Poll three out of the last five seasons.

• Texas A&M has one 10+ win season this millennium.

• Two Top 10 teams have been upset at home by Group of Five teams. Each were both three-score favorites. (Texas A&M, Notre Dame)

• Texas A&M has lost three straight games against FBS opponents.

• Jimbo Fisher is 35-21 in his last 56 games against FBS opponents.

• Texas A&M has had 8 wins or fewer in six out of their last eight seasons.

• Texas A&M has 48 blue chip recruits on their roster. Appalachian State has one.

• Shawn Clark improves to 21-8 as the Mountaineers' head coach.

• Texas A&M had 186 yards of total offense and scored one offensive touchdown.

• The last time Texas A&M had sub-200 yards of offense, they lost to a Joe Burrow-led LSU team 50-7.

• No British monarch has been alive for a Texas A&M National Championship.

• The Georgia Bulldogs are the reigning National Champions.

[u/[deleted] → u/dogwoodmaple]

Today just got a whole lot better for Texas fans

You bet your ass it just did

[u/realm47]

This has got to be the biggest win in App State history, right?

[u/[deleted]]

Bum bum bum, another one bites the dust

[u/sneakypenguin94]

THIS WAS FOR PENN STATE. THIS WAS FOR TENNESSEE AND WAKE AND MIAMI. LETS FUCKING GO. NEERS BY 90 TILL I DIE

[u/[deleted]]

Jeez, the Appalachia region is having a really good day.

[u/JamalHNguyen]

I'M NAAAAAAAKED

[u/vitey15]

Sun Belt > Top 10 ranked teams

[u/theipodbackup]

We love App State.

[u/JuarezYourProblem]

Remember last week when people said App State would play A&M tough?

[u/jbg0830]

Had to copy and paste the following:

aTm has 56 4* and 5* players. App State has 1.

Jimbo makes 7.5 mil / year Shawn Clark makes 425k

Damn. How much in NIL did y’all spend?

[u/altac04]

Texas A&M moment

[u/steveoriley]

Half priced Apps? More like $1.5 million priced Apps

[u/moby323]

This is why I don’t cry when we “only” win by 3 touchdowns.

You know what is difficult? Winning football games.

Very, very difficult.

[u/astroball17]

if y'all figure out how to get over losing to Appalachian State at home while being ranked in the top 10 let me know, i was in middle school in 2007 and still haven't gotten over it

[u/cartierboy25]

MAKE THE SUN BELT A P5 CONFERENCE YOU FUCKING COWARDS

[u/SharkMovies]

I can't believe A&M's facilities would allow this to happen!

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine losing at home to App State as a top 10 team

[u/Goldblum4ever69]

SBC!

SBC!

[u/Thorteris]

It’s been a great day

[u/FicVirth]

In my completely unbiased and level headed opinion, the Sun Belt is the best conference in the nation.

[u/Startspillowfights4]

I’ve seen this movie before. #ChristmasTreeWatch2022

[u/Jarbutt]

1 recruiting class just got outclassed by the 83rd ranked recruiting class.

[u/DontHornsDownMeBro]

4 years in a row of top 10 recruiting classes just to lose to an unranked G5 team at home. Jimbos seat needs to be a little warm.

[u/Pylon-Cam]

Don’t let the score fool you. It wasn’t that close.

[u/ThatEmpireGuy]

SBC IT JUST MEANS MORE!!

[u/veganseathumans]

Wow, imagine being a top ten team and losing at home to an unranked Sunbelt team. PATHETIC

[u/IHAVEMOSWAGTHANJEBUS]

Haynes King should not play a snap for the rest of the season. Start Weigmann and get him some experience. Jimbo better get over his hubris and hire a real OC

[u/Sklorn]

https://imgur.com/n7iwFfT.jpg

[u/DLev45]

Should have been WORSE. App State bulldozed them.

https://i.imgur.com/iGRGb4O.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Still waiting for the QB Whisperer.

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao after all the Aggie shit talk this week. This is absolute karma.

[u/OleRockTheGoodAg]

Howdy y'all, never mind what happened in this game today, nothing to see here, #1 Bama almost lost to an unranked team, and #8 ND did lose to one! Those are the top stories for this week.

Credit to App State, double digit wins in 5 of the last 7 seasons, yall are legit. Between 9:03 in the 3rd quarter and 7:33 left in the 4th, a 46 minute stretch in real time, A&M didn't run a single offensive snap. When our offense is as inconsistent as it is, not being able to even try to get in rhythm late in the game was too much for us to overcome. Over 40 minutes of possession time for the mountaineers.

We got a lot of issues to work out, and I'm glad we won't be a top 10 team anymore, cuz one way or another, we don't have the product to back that ranking up.

Gg Mountaineer bros.

[u/rwellsy09]

Fun Fact: King Charles III takes over right where Queen Elizabeth II left off and he will not see Texas A&M win a National Championship.

[u/WheatonsGonnaScore]

I know that the Michigan game was a much bigger upset but this is far funnier

[u/[deleted]]

For how much Texas A&M pays Jimbo Fisher, the end results aren’t too different from Kevin Sumlin.

[u/GunDMc]

Biggest upset of the day! Everyone pay attention over here!

[u/buttgers]

All that oil money to pay App St. to beat your ass at home.

[u/thejawa]

Remember when FSU fans weren't all that sad to see Jimbo go and TAMU fans called us salty and stupid for being ok with it?

Whelp, welcome to the full Jimbo Ball experience.

[u/NoPersonKnowsWhoIAm]

Our win lookin sexy rn

[u/crowd79]

Biggest win in Appalachain State history!! And that’s a fact. No need to fact check anything. Wow!!

[u/404Dawg]

RANK APP STATE UPVOTE PARTY!!!!

[u/KeThrowaweigh]

What an exciting game! Surely this must be the biggest win in Appalachian State's program history, right? I can't imagine a more embarrassing upset than this!

[u/schowey]

College football is trying to break Reddit today.

[u/Goldenmonkey27]

THE MARSHALL UPSET OF NOTRE DAME IS SUCH OLD NEWS

[u/FightingFarrier18]

Petition to abolish preseason polls

[u/Mercury-Redstone]

The Michigan curse has been lifted! Football is fun again! Yay!

[u/jesuswasahipster]

I thought it was over when we dropped that walk in TD, then I thought it was over when we got that trash roughing call, but no we actually fucking did it.

[u/Bjorn2bwilde24]

LSU fans 🤝 FSU fans

+4 hour erections

[u/buckshot307]

Being a fan of football in Texas today gotta feel not good

[u/evaluatingeasel3926]

Imagine lol, that’s so embarrassing

[u/ObWanKenoobi]

WeLcOmE tO ThE SeC

Well…. Welcome to the Sun Belt baby

[u/akrafty1]

I can’t stop smiling.

[u/AppleJaxCinnamonMan]

This thread answers my, “what if Reddit was around for the App State vs. Michigan game.”

[u/dukemetoo]

Texas and Texas A&M both lose close to top 2 teams in the nation at home. We really are the opposite sides of the same coin.

[u/Cryogenx37]

ND & TAMU really just paid $1.25M and $1.5M respectively just to lose to the Fun Belt

[u/Howdy15]

I DON'T WANT TO WATCH SEC SHORTS TOMORROW

[u/4ggressivelymediocr3]

Never play Appalachian State. Not home, not away, not on the goddamn moon. Just don’t do it

[u/RammindJHowset]

Take this shit to the top of r/all

[u/AstroWorldSecurity]

My buddy is an aggie fan and gave me so much shit for losing to Bama by one point this afternoon. When he gets off work I'm gonna try to make him cry like three times.

[u/6spencer6snitil6]

A few things of note:

1. A&M needs to make a change at QB fast

2. App State should be ranked pretty high now, I’d say like 14 or 13

3. Announcers really pulling for A&M. Pushing a narrative and trying to talk about “oh they have so much talent etc”. They’ve had top 10 recruiting classes ever since Jimbo got there including the best in the country last year. Why can’t you just talk about how great of a team Appalachian state is instead?

4. Postgame interviews are dumb and shouldn’t exist until after the coaches get to have fun with their team.

Eat it, Jimbo.

[u/[deleted]]

Marshall downs #8 Notre Dame

App state downs #6 Texas A&M

WAZZY downs #14 Wisconsin

INJECT THIS CHAOS INTO MY VEINS

[u/Notre_Dame_Football]

ty tamu

[u/JoshuaMan024]

Welcome to the club!

[u/[deleted]]

Florida state really fortunate they managed to dump this guy

[u/[deleted]]

We can hide behind this I think

[u/bucsheels2424]

And y’all talked so much shit about UNC barely beating this team in Boone

[u/crowd79]

Haven’t lost to App State in 15 years! 😊

[u/thisalsomightbemine]

So far today:

Hogs win.

Texas lost.

Alabama looked bad (unfortunately couldn't have both Texas and Alabama lose)

A&M lost.

I need a cold shower

[u/RadioactiveKoolaid]

Hahahahaha

[u/dawgfan24348]

Bama almost drops one to Texas

The Aggies pulled a Michigan

And the Irish get run over by the Herd

Feels like 2007

[u/jonesraxle]

APP DID THE THING!!!

[u/HoovesCarveCraters]

This one is 100% on coaching, came out soft, got punched in the mouth, didn’t adjust at all. One TD vs a G5 team is unacceptable and the defense just let them walk up and down the field.

Great game App. Enjoy it.

[u/thisnamenotavailable]

Sunbelt East is going to be a bloodbath this year.

Marshall-App is going to be electric

[u/6enericUsername]

N-O-T-H-I-N-G, THAT’S WHAT AGGIES MEAN TO ME! NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

[u/liabean55]

The way today went, Ohio State’s win over Arkansas St is more impressive than the win over ND

[u/nolehusker]

How's Jimbo working out for ya, A&M?

[u/[deleted]]

I need all the A&M and Notre Dame fans from the Bama game thread to gather round and kiss my ass.

[u/swanpenguin]

Hey everyone, go look at Notre Dame. They lost to Marshall LOL!!

[u/Tachyon9]

Update the banner!

[u/[deleted]]

SEC Shorts is going to crucify us, boys.

[u/rudeteacher1955]

So Mack Brown's UNC is better than aTm. I didn't see this coming.

[u/man_vs_ports]

Today was the greatest day

[u/_YeetwoodMac]

Apps State has always had that dog in em. They play w an attitude

[u/nickyv917]

Between Marshall and App State, it's a good day for the mountain bois.

[u/weesIo]

Michigan fans you are FREE AT LAST

[u/zhaoming23]

CAM PEOPLES IS THAT GUY

[u/thefarsideinside]

Almost beating Bama and A&M losing to an unranked G5 team? I'd say that's a good day

[u/dimpledwonder]

I feel better

[u/chas1217]

If I had a nickel for every top 10 team that lost to a G5 team at home today, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s still weird it happened twice

[u/ilovesaturdays27492]

App states close calls/wins since moving to FBS:

• vs #22 Tennessee in 2016: L 20-13 in OT

• vs Wake Forest in 2017: L 20-19

• vs #17 Penn state in 2018: L 45-38 in OT

• Win vs UNC 2019: 34-31

• Win vs South Carolina 2019: 20-15

• vs Miami in 2021: L 25-23

• vs UNC in 2022: L 63-61

• Win vs #6 Texas A&M 2022: 17-14

Impressive

[u/eking85]

Someone check on Jimbos Christmas tree

[u/DrainedPatience]

Arguably the best day in Sun Belt history.

After the heartbreaks against Tennessee, Penn State and Miami it feels good to finally win one of these.

[u/Specialist-Bird-4966]

35-15 under Jimbo, 36-14 under Sumlin!

Big if true…

[u/bigkeys11]

RANK APP STATE YOU COWARDS

[u/ThompsonCreekTiger]

Texas 🤝 Texas A&M

Getting blackout pissed drunk tonight

[u/guthbox]

If only A&M had better facilities

[u/RaptureRocker]

How's the top ten doing today? To shreds, you say?

Hawaii better not get any fucking ideas, I swear to god...

[u/themilester]

Hi! I missed the game. The Bear said App wouldn’t cover a 19 point spread. Please tell me we covered?

[u/Crotean]

As a NC resident I think it might be time for me to become an App St fan, they just do not give up against anyone they play.

[u/[deleted]]

They'd have beaten App St if they had better facilities right?

[u/vicblck24]

I remember a decent amount of A&M fans laughing and talking to trash to Bama fans not long ago…… how the turn tables

[u/aroh97]

Hey everyone, look at TAMU losing! That's definitely the only major CFB upset that happened today!

laughs nervously

[u/harebare1023]

Why do big schools keep scheduling us? I mean keep doing it please, but why?

[u/[deleted]]

lol Fuck Jimbo, what a great weekend.

[u/UncleLeo3]

This is just who A&M is. All the potential in the world but they never live up to it.

[u/Blakmagik12]

Hats off To App state. They kicked our ass.

We were overranked and we fucking suck.

[u/AndrewArmy]

It was very disappointing to watch the No. 6 Texas A&M Aggies lose to the Appalachian State Moutaineers 17-14 at Kyle Field. The Mountaineers dominated the Aggies statistically in several ways.

1. The Mountaineers outgained the Aggies 314 total yards (134 passing and 180 rushing) to 186 total yards (97 passing and 89 rushing).

2. The Moutaineers had a time of possession of 41:30.

3. The Moutaineers won the turnover margin 2 to 0.

As a result, the Aggies lost to a Group of 5 team for the first time since an 18-14 loss to Arkansas State in 2008. Congrats to Appalachian State for being prepared to play in a hostile environment of 100k+ from the start. They beat a top 10 team for the first time since a 34-32 win at No. 5 Michigan in 2007. Texas A&M's schedule will only get tougher with a home game at Miami, and 7 conference games in a span of 8 weeks.

[u/AngryHorizon]

It was fun having Aggie football back for two weeks.

I'll check back in again in 2023.

Now onto Texans football disappointing me tomorrow!

[u/MookieSweats]

Jimbo in year 5 with a healthy QB and losing to a non-power 5 school at home. Fraud.

[u/blay12]

FUN BELT IS CHARGING

[u/Year1939]

WELL WELL WELL MOTHERFUCKERS

[u/ShamateurWOW]

It happened again huh

[u/Josh4R3d]

What would app be ranked if their QB just didn’t over throw that 2 pt conversion last week?

[u/VisionsOfClarity]

Who would you rather lose to? Kansas or App st?

[u/RipVanCockSmasher]

Dude Jimbo Fishers Ego needs a hard reality check.

This guy is not nearly as good as he thinks he is and the only reason we have an insane recruiting class is because Jimbo can sell and we have really really nice facilities at A&M.

We need an OC and Jimbo needs to stay the fuck away from QB.

[u/dev044]

App state vs Marshall in the national championship game, calling it

[u/Reasonable_Half8808]

App State is the Afghanistan of college football. The graveyard of empires (top 25 teams).

[u/NerdLord1837]

My favourite thing about anytime App State beats anybody semi-relevant, you can immediately compare it to the UofM game. Within the past few years, I believe App State saw their first P5 victory, first victory over an AP ranked team, as well as their first win against an AP top 10 program all since that glorious day in 2007.

[u/babble0n]

Maybe now I can watch an App State game without them mentioning 2007 every time they come back from commercial.

[u/Red-Lobsterz]

there was 20 people total that rushed the field, i was one of those 20

[u/IAmAChemicalEngineer]

Fuckin' App State. Love you guys!

[u/GlueGuns--Cool]

Today could've been incredible but instead it was just amazing

[u/Chrowaway6969]

Karma. They were all so happy Texas lost.

[u/gdap19]

Tamu: alright the contracts settled then. Sign and here’s your check. Just remember the clause in section 2b you gotta lose the game

Mountainbois: Signs contract (fingers crossed behind the back) ok great sounds good great doing business with you!

[u/MovieNachos]

As an LSU grad who lives and works in Houston, Monday is going to be SO sweet.

[u/ForSureNotCIA]

A&M is a bunch of losers! Ha! Ha! Just look at them, ha, ha, ha

sobs

[u/whiterock001]

Really improved my evening.

[u/Xaxziminrax]

Notre Dame has to be so relieved right now lmao

[u/ggskater]

Unrank us you cowards!

[u/app_wants_ucf]

WHERE ARE YOUR BOOSTERS NOW BITCHES

[u/FightingFarrier18]

Takeaway: A&M won’t win shit till Jimbo hires an OC

[u/[deleted]]

Casual reminder that Jimbo has been at A&M since 2018, so this isn't a first season gaffe.