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Appalachian State Rides Streak To No. 24 Ranking

Appalachian State's Zac Thomas looks to pass against North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)

One area football team is in the latest top 25 college football rankings while another one falls out.

Unbeaten Appalachian State is ranked for just the second time in school history in the latest Associated Press poll.

The Mountaineers have the nation's third-longest winning streak behind powerhouses Clemson and Ohio State. It's a string of victories that includes a win over UNC last month.

Appalachian was ranked for the first time last year but it lasted only one week — the Mountaineers lost their next game and fell out of the poll. Their current ranking at number 24 is the highest in school history.

Wake Forest dropped out of the poll after a loss to Louisville Saturday. Virginia also fell out, leaving No. 3 Clemson as the only ranked team from the Atlantic Coast Conference. 

It marks the first poll since 2014 with only one ACC team ranked.

 

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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