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App State football super seniors: how the pandemic created a rare opportunity

Four bowl championships. Three Sun Belt titles. Wins at North Carolina and South Carolina, both in 2019. Ranked in the Top 25 for the first time. A combined 40-10 record.

It’s no secret that over the last four years, App State football has accomplished a great deal. The 2020 class of seniors would go down as one of the most influential and successful groups in program history. But thanks to an unprecedented rule change by the NCAA because of the pandemic, most of that group’s seniors aren’t part of App State’s history yet — because they’re still part of the present.