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App State Football Ranked In Top 25 For The First Time

By Paul Garber
Published October 22, 2018 at 1:35 PM EDT
Appalachian State quarterback Zac Thomas (12) runs in for a touchdown against Penn State during the second half of an NCAA college football game in State College, Pa., Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018. Penn State won 45-38 in overtime. (AP Photo/Chris Knight)

Appalachian State is ranked in the AP poll for the first time in school history, coming in at number 25. The Mountaineers have not lost since opening the season with an overtime defeat at Penn State.

App State transitioned to the Football Bowl Subdivision, the highest level of Division I football, in 2014, after years as a powerhouse in the lower-tiered Football Championship Subdivision.

The team pulled off one of the biggest upsets in college football history when it defeated Michigan in 2007.

Since falling to Penn State in September, the Mountaineers have outscored their opponents 231-49. Clemson is currently number 2 in the poll, with Alabama retaining the top spot.  
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Paul Garber
Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.
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