On Sept. 1, 2007, nearly 10 years to the day that I sit down to write this piece, the Appalachian State Mountaineers walked fearlessly into ‘The Big House” in Ann Arbor, Michigan to face the Wolverines, ranked No. 5 in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
While the Mountaineers were ranked No. 1 in the Football Championship Subdivision after winning their second-straight FCS National title, they were virtually unheard of in the world of big time college football, and completely underestimated.
Quotes from “Remembering an Upset for the Ages,” an ESPN article from 2014, show that even Wolverine players were not taking the game seriously.