In my preseason top ten, I warned Michigan fans of the fact that their head coach, Lloyd Carr, was a piece of shit. But I never would have expected this. In the biggest upset of the season history college football’s history, D-1AA Appalachain State rolled into the Big House (Yes, the 107,000 capacity Big House) and defeated Michigan, 34-32. It’s the first time a D-1AA team has ever defeated a ranked D-1A team. The fact that it’s Michigan, a preseason national championship contender, makes it a little more relevant.
Let me start this off by saying Appalachian State is a good team. They’ve won consecutive national championships at the 1AA level. Sure, it’s 1AA. But they’re still a confident group with tons of big game experience. That resume should have encouraged Lloyd Carr to try and give his team a sense of urgency. He didn’t. And unlike most early season scares, the Mountaineers didn’t hand the game back to them. Instead, they were the ones making plays down the stretch.
This, my friends, is why college football is so great. In a day that was supposed to be dominated by Virginia Tech and that big Cal-Tennessee clash, a previously unknown football school made a huge splash on the 2007 BCS picture. Where does this leave the Wolverines? If they’re smart, it’ll lead them to make a coaching change. In 60 minutes, Lloyd Carr turned one of college football’s most hallowed stadiums into a laughingstock.
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YEAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thats what buckeye’s talkin about!!!
BEING A BUCKEYE FAN, YESTERDAY WAS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE. MICHIGAN LOSING IN PERHAPS THE BIGGEST UPSET IN THE HISTORY OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =]
GO BUCKS!
Michigan fans can take comfort in the fact that this definitely isn’t the biggest egg ever laid. Oklahoma has their fingers all over that claim from multiple angles. #2 ranked OU lost an opener in 1959 to lowly Northwestern by letting them score 45 points and then popped right out of the polls on Monday just like Michigan did. As for shocking upsets, late season in 1975 Oklahoma was ranked #1, the defending national champions, and hadn’t lost a game since 1972 when they suddenly lost at HOME to perennial doormat Kansas 23-3. Since OU was voted AP National Champs in 1975 anyway, this is forever on record as a lowly team beating a great team.