2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game

The 2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game was a regular season college football game between the Appalachian State Mountaineers and Michigan Wolverines. It was held at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on September 1, 2007. Appalachian State became the first FCS team to defeat a ranked FBS team, and as a result of the game Michigan dropped out of the top 25 of the AP Poll entirely. The game was also the first to be broadcast on the then-new Big Ten Network. A rematch in 2014 was won decisively by the Wolverines, 52–14. The 2014 rematch was the Mountaineer’s first game as an FBS school.

About 2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game in brief

The 2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game was a regular season college football game between the Appalachian State Mountaineers and Michigan Wolverines. It was held at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on September 1, 2007, and was the first game of the season for both teams. Appalachian State became the first FCS team to defeat a ranked FBS team, and as a result of the game Michigan dropped out of the top 25 of the AP Poll entirely. The game was also the first to be broadcast on the then-new Big Ten Network. A rematch in 2014 was won decisively by the Wolverines, 52–14. The 2014 rematch was the Mountaineer’s first game as an FBS school. The 2007 game was hailed as one of the greatest upsets in college football history. The Associated Press amended their polling policy to make FCS teams eligible for the AP poll, which had previously been limited to FBS teams. The Appalachian StateMountaineers finished the 2007 season with a 13–2 record and won a third consecutive FCS title. They also became thefirst F CS team to receive votes in the final AP Poll, tying South Florida for the 34th overall ranking. The AP Poll was amended after the 2007 game to allow FCS schools to be included in the poll. The FBS is considered the tier at which major Division I universities play, while the FCS is a tier in which smaller programs compete. FBS schools are paid upwards of USD 500,000 for participating in games against F CS teams, but the results in these games are generally lopsided for FCS Teams.

FCS Schools earn more money from playing FBS Teams than FBS Schools do from playing against them. The NCAA has a policy that allows FCS Programs to schedule FBS-level teams if they meet certain criteria, such as meeting certain bowl-status requirements and one win counts towards their bowl-eligible status. The 2006 game between Appalachian State and Wake Forest was the last FCS game played against a FBS School. The games against Wake Forest were played from 1979 to 1996, as well as 1998, 2000, and 2001. Appalachian State won all of these games, and all of them of these of them were all won by them. In 1999, Kansas State, Auburn, and LSU played FCS games against Appalachian State, and won the game. The teams played each other in 1999, 1999, 2005, 2005 and 2006, and 2006 in 2006 and 2007 in 2006 in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Division I game. In 2007, Appalachian State won all six of the games, including the game against Kansas State. The Mountaine State team won the national championship for the third consecutive time in a row, and the fourth time in the last five years in the FBS season. The team won their third consecutive national championship in the 2007 FCS season. Michigan won the Capital One Bowl, and finished their season 9–4, winning the Capital One Bowl.

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