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Appalachian State football shines in national spotlight

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber
Published September 19, 2022 at 5:15 PM EDT
Appalachian State offensive lineman Bucky Williams, right, celebrates with Nate Noel, left, after the team's 17-14 win over No. 6 Texas A&M in an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, in College Station, Texas. (AP Photo/Sam Craft)

Appalachian State offensive lineman Bucky Williams, right, celebrates with Nate Noel, left, after the team's 17-14 win over No. 6 Texas A&M in an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, in College Station, Texas. (AP Photo/Sam Craft)

Appalachian State University’s football program is enjoying some time in the national spotlight.

It began with a win over Top Ten Texas A&M University September 10 — a victory so stunning that ESPN brought its traveling College GameDay show to Boone for Saturday’s game against Troy.

The Mountaineers didn’t disappoint, winning on the final play with a 53-yard Hail Mary pass. 

Adam Witten, who called the game for Learfield, says the Texas A&M win and the visit from College GameDay created momentum for Saturday’s home game.

“Then you add on to the fact that you’ve finished the game in a miraculous way, it’s one of the most unbelievable stretches of seven days that we’ve ever experienced on that campus,” he says.

Witten says this season is a reminder that winning against powerhouse Michigan in 2007 wasn’t just a fluke.

 
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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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