Playing with a skeleton crew due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantines, Appalachian State roared back from a second-quarter hole to rout winless Campbell University 52-21 Saturday at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone. It was Appalachian State’s last non-conference game.
The Mountaineers had 18 players quarantined for the game, along with three assistant coaches and a graduate assistant.
“We had three positions wiped out,” Appalachian State head coach Shawn Clark said. Clark had to resort to changing player positions during a team meeting on Wednesday in order to have enough depth at the depleted positions.
One of the positions hit hardest was wide receiver, so Appalachian State (2-1) relied heavily on its running game to beat the lower-level Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Camels.