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Appalachian State rolls over Delaware for third straight title (3 x's)
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| 12/14/07
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Posted on 12/14/2007 9:38:48 PM PST by personalaccts
Appalachian State rolls over Delaware for third straight title Chattanooga, TN (Sports Network) - Armanti Edwards threw for three touchdowns, and Appalachian State captured its unprecedented third straight national crown by routing Delaware, 49-21, in the Football Championship Subdivision title contest.
The Mountaineers (13-2), who pulled off a shocker by beating Big Ten powerhouse Michigan on the road in their season opener, and won the Southern Conference, culminated the season with their 12th consecutive playoff victory.
ASU became the first Division I squad since Army in 1946 to win three national championships in a row.
The Mountaineers are undefeated in all three trips to the national championship game. The Mountaineers topped Northern Iowa, 21-16, in 2005 and defeated Massachusetts, 28-17, last year.
Joe Flacco threw for one score for Delaware (11-4), which was trying for its seventh national title.
12/15 00:01:28 ET
TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: appalachian; appalachianstate; bcs; championship; collegefootball; dynasty; football; sports
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Dynasty! That sums it up.
To: GOP_Raider
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posted on
12/15/2007 5:09:49 AM PST
by
Roccus
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To: personalaccts
Appalachian State's shocking win over Michigan was essentially a preview of the shockingly wild state of college football this year at the Football Bowl Subdivision (Division 1-A) level.
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posted on
12/15/2007 10:47:03 AM PST
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GOP_Raider
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To: Roccus; personalaccts; RayChuang88; GOP_Raider
IAA (I refuse the new names) can do it, but the big boys in IA can't manage a play-off because; 1). it will hurt the students class time 2). it will hurt the traditional bowls 3). it will hurt the regular season 4). too much money will be lost
For supposed places of higher education, these are the dumbest arguments I have ever heard. We need a play-off. We need to know who the real national champion is!
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posted on
12/15/2007 11:27:55 AM PST
by
FreeAtlanta
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To: FreeAtlanta
For supposed places of higher education, these are the dumbest arguments I have ever heard. We need a play-off. We need to know who the real national champion is!
The BCS is a joke. It is done in other divisions and can be done in 1A.
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posted on
12/15/2007 11:32:09 AM PST
by
Man50D
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To: GOP_Raider
Alright for the Ridge-Runners!
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posted on
12/15/2007 1:06:47 PM PST
by
SmithL
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To: personalaccts
Three cheers for Appalachian State. Would be bad taste for me to buy my U of Michigan brother-in-law an App. St. t-shirt for Christmas? LOL!
To: personalaccts
How do colleges move up a level in sports? Appalachian State truly should move up to the highest level in college football IMHO.
To: Man50D
The BCS is a joke. It is done in other divisions and can be done in 1A. It's done because it's done for the atheletes, and because almost no one cares about the games. In 1A football, hundreds of thousands of people go on vacation for the exhibition games, generally in nice, sunny places. The Bowl games aren't really championship games at all, and they don't belong to the NCAA.
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posted on
12/15/2007 2:19:26 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: johnthebaptistmoore
How do colleges move up a level in sports? Appalachian State truly should move up to the highest level in college football IMHO. That'd likely make a mess of any other sports programs they have. As an example, the University of Dayton has a fair tradition of Div I basketball. Because of that and NCAA rule changes, their Div. III football team had to move up to Div I, where it doesn't have athletic scholarships.
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posted on
12/15/2007 2:23:07 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: lepton
It's done because it's done for the atheletes, and because almost no one cares about the games. In 1A football, hundreds of thousands of people go on vacation for the exhibition games, generally in nice, sunny places.
I understand. The 1AA playoff system considers the well being of the student athletes first because little money is involved but in 1A the money takes precedence over the student athlete because of the large sums involved. That reasoning only makes the BCS more of a joke.
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posted on
12/15/2007 2:29:51 PM PST
by
Man50D
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To: Man50D
The 1AA playoff system considers the well being of the student athletes Ummm. No. It's not the well being of the athelete that's considered. It's that they can run a playoff system because virtually no one cares about the games, thus holding games in out of the way places for several weeks in a row makes no real difference regarding attendance. Since there's little attendance, setting the format to meet the needs of the athletes while discounting the fans works.
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posted on
12/15/2007 2:38:55 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Man50D
That reasoning only makes the BCS more of a joke. The BCS is at best a compromise overlaid upon a collection of exhibition games - exhibition games which are set up by local organizations which have little interest in what anyone else is doing except regarding competition for their event.
A championship isn't "fixing" the BCS...it's doing something entirely different.
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posted on
12/15/2007 2:43:17 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: lepton
A championship isn't "fixing" the BCS...it's doing something entirely different.
Exactly. The BCS needs to be replaced with a playoff system.
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posted on
12/15/2007 4:29:32 PM PST
by
Man50D
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To: personalaccts
Oh, I thought they beat Michigan again, judging from the opponent’s helmets.
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posted on
12/15/2007 4:30:58 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(11+7+15=3 Heismans)
To: personalaccts
The Univ of Alaska has no football program and therefore does not exist. Got some serious hockey this year, but without football it can’t be an actual institution of higher education.
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posted on
12/15/2007 4:35:05 PM PST
by
RightWhale
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To: johnthebaptistmoore
I think it would be great if college football worked like the English Premiership in soccer.
If you suck, you get relegated to a lower division the next season, and the best teams from the lower levels get promoted up a level each year.
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posted on
12/15/2007 4:37:39 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(11+7+15=3 Heismans)
To: dfwgator
I would love if they could really do that in all of the college sports.
To: personalaccts
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posted on
12/15/2007 6:57:56 PM PST
by
Biggirl
(A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation, with 4 cats in my life as proof. =^..^=)
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