BOONE, N.C. — Needing a win to extend its season, App State Football came out on the heartbreaking end of a 30-29 thriller that instead enabled Arkansas State to become bowl eligible Saturday night.
The Red Wolves (6-6, 5-3) trailed 29-23 before capping a seven-play, 75-yard drive on Kenyon Clay's 1-yard touchdown run and Clune Van Andel's tiebreaking extra point with 42 seconds left.
Ahead 26-23 before that drive, App State (5-6, 2-6) had a chance to move in front by a two-score margin when JJ Kohl threw a touchdown pass to wide-open tight end Dillon Galloway on a fourth-and-1 play from the 6, but an illegal formation penalty backed up the Mountaineers and led to Dominic De Freitas kicking his fifth field goal of the game with 1:34 remaining.