Here is the link to the fall sports streaming schedule.

https://appstatesports.com/news/2023/8/ ... edule.aspx

Top 25 Poll

AppStFan1
Posts: 5483
Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2018 10:37 am
School: Appalachian State
Has thanked: 530 times
Been thanked: 1331 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by AppStFan1 » Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:25 pm

bigdaddyg wrote:
Sun Oct 25, 2020 8:36 pm
AppStFan1 wrote:
Sun Oct 25, 2020 8:09 pm
ah59396 wrote:
Sun Oct 25, 2020 7:19 pm
AppStFan1 wrote:
Sun Oct 25, 2020 7:12 pm
ah59396 wrote:
Sun Oct 25, 2020 7:06 pm


Who exactly is “worried to death” about the polls? Is this not an App State football message board? Are the AP and Coaches Poll not relevant to that? What topics would you prefer we discuss on here?

Should the board sit dead until Gameday?

Good grief.
I think the point is that while we are getting votes that it really does not effect anything yet and the polls are so early anyway. You really don't see any benefits for marketing and TV until you make the top 25 anyway.
Nothing we do nor discuss on here, effects anything.

It’s an App State athletics/college football message board. It’s simply conversation about a topic of interest.
I think he meant, and several others as well, that he doesn't care about just receiving votes. We have received votes all but maybe 4 or 5 weeks over the last 3 years.

A few interesting notes on a potential matchup with CCU. Assuming we both win out, that will be historic if we beat CCU. It would be our first win over a ranked G5 team and ranked team since moving up. Louisiana and others have received votes when we beat them but we still don't have a win over a ranked team. Beating a ranked team and defending the first national ranking are two things that Louisiana and CCU did that we have not done. I don't care though as long as we win the SBC but still amazing. Took a long time for a SBC to be ranked and then the first two who do lose right after while the two this year both defended their ranking.
If things play out and we knock off a possible ranked CCU team you would need to hang an asterisk beside it obviously. COVID aided wins or losses are all crazy. A team that decides to play down a bunch of key players is on an unlevel playing field. While that potential matchup and win will be great it ain’t a “tear down the goalposts “ W.
Agreed but would still technically be that win I described. I'm just hoping both of our teams are healthy and no C19 positives so that game won't need the asterisk.

User avatar
ah59396
Posts: 1998
Joined: Sat Nov 22, 2014 3:28 pm
School: Appalachian State
Has thanked: 1281 times
Been thanked: 1634 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by ah59396 » Sun Nov 01, 2020 2:17 pm

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-colleg ... oll?week=9

Same amount of votes as last week and we got leapfrogged by someone. Appropriate given we’ve only beaten one team I’d consider decent (Arky State).

Liberty in the top 25 and UL right on the edge looking in.

As I said last week, if UL and Coastal take care of business like they should, we will have every opportunity to show everyone how good we are. Or aren’t.

Should be an exciting couple weeks in the Belt!
YNWA

appgrad95&97
Posts: 1120
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2016 1:07 pm
School: Appalachian State
Has thanked: 418 times
Been thanked: 521 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by appgrad95&97 » Sun Nov 01, 2020 2:50 pm

Gotta give Liberty, an independent, credit for putting that schedule together this year. Three ACC opponents. Wow.

User avatar
AtlAppMan
Posts: 2026
Joined: Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:23 pm
School: Appalachian State
Location: ATL
Has thanked: 95 times
Been thanked: 1261 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by AtlAppMan » Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:00 pm

It’s interesting that our team/players apparently mentions that App is out of the national conversation per announcers on last two weeks ESPN broadcasters. Well if they want the national media to pay more attention to them then they need to step up our game to be more “impressive” like other top 25 teams. That is how the system works.

User avatar
hapapp
Posts: 16523
Joined: Tue Jun 27, 2000 12:48 pm
School: Appalachian State
Location: Rocky Mount, VA
Has thanked: 2411 times
Been thanked: 2714 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by hapapp » Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:21 pm

Is that the highest ever ranking for a Sun Belt program?

Yosef84
Posts: 3738
Joined: Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:27 am
Has thanked: 1260 times
Been thanked: 2093 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by Yosef84 » Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:22 pm

appgrad95&97 wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 2:50 pm
Gotta give Liberty, an independent, credit for putting that schedule together this year. Three ACC opponents. Wow.
I agree. They're having an excellent season and have a couple of decent wins. I will still be surprised if they don't lose at least two games before the end of the season though. VT, NC State and Coastal are all likely "L" for the Flames. Should be interesting though.

AppStFan1
Posts: 5483
Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2018 10:37 am
School: Appalachian State
Has thanked: 530 times
Been thanked: 1331 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by AppStFan1 » Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:50 pm

ah59396 wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 2:17 pm
https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-colleg ... oll?week=9

Same amount of votes as last week and we got leapfrogged by someone. Appropriate given we’ve only beaten one team I’d consider decent (Arky State).

Liberty in the top 25 and UL right on the edge looking in.

As I said last week, if UL and Coastal take care of business like they should, we will have every opportunity to show everyone how good we are. Or aren’t.

Should be an exciting couple weeks in the Belt!
We should not be getting any votes but this vote shows you that we can't just beat teams but we have to beat them by more than spread. Voters will not watch our entire games, unless it is against a top 25 team, so we have to win by big margins.

Liberty is doing a great job. Glad to see them getting recognition they deserve after a phenomenal effort to put a schedule together as an independent.

We need to pull hard for UL and CCU now. Chadwell is trying to position himself for a P5 job and he understands that big wins will help get media attention for his team and himself. They just beat a record we set with the highest national ranking for a SBC team.

Let's hope that CCU is in the top 15, maybe even 11-13 range, when we play them so a win would really get us positioned where we need to be. We need to play a lot better though because I have yet to see our team play like a top 25 team this year. It is frustrating because we have the talent to be in the top 20. Maybe we will finally step it up in November.

AppStFan1
Posts: 5483
Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2018 10:37 am
School: Appalachian State
Has thanked: 530 times
Been thanked: 1331 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by AppStFan1 » Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:52 pm

AtlAppMan wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:00 pm
It’s interesting that our team/players apparently mentions that App is out of the national conversation per announcers on last two weeks ESPN broadcasters. Well if they want the national media to pay more attention to them then they need to step up our game to be more “impressive” like other top 25 teams. That is how the system works.
Most media don't watch the games and just see the scores. That is indeed how it works and if we want to get national respect we better win by big margins. The good news is that with UL and CCU being ranked we will just need to beat them but it would have been nice to beat ULM by 30-40, like our talent would tell you we should.

AppStFan1
Posts: 5483
Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2018 10:37 am
School: Appalachian State
Has thanked: 530 times
Been thanked: 1331 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by AppStFan1 » Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:53 pm

hapapp wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:21 pm
Is that the highest ever ranking for a Sun Belt program?
Yes. We had the highest ranking with 18 last season but that just got shattered by Coastal Carolina. Chadwell is a heck of a coach. He knows how to get media attention and I would imagine they will beat the spread in every game against SBC bottom dwellers.

ClimbTheMountian
Posts: 13
Joined: Mon Sep 21, 2020 7:07 pm
School: Appalachian State
Been thanked: 8 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by ClimbTheMountian » Sun Nov 01, 2020 4:23 pm

Have to admit, I like the Coastal offense. Keeps defenses off balance. It is in stark contrast to App offense, especially, when it comes to predictability. Chadwell has been successful at every school he has coached and used to beat a much better funded Coastal team when he was head coach at CSU. I predict Coastal will load the box and go man on us to force is to throw. We need some new wrinkles in passing game in coming weeks.

User avatar
Neer86
Posts: 501
Joined: Thu May 21, 2020 6:32 pm
School: Appalachian State
Has thanked: 732 times
Been thanked: 238 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by Neer86 » Sun Nov 01, 2020 4:52 pm

Cincy at 6, wow!


also seeing Coastal ranked above us is irritating. seeing Coastal ranked above UNC-CH is hilarious!

Saint3333
Posts: 12970
Joined: Tue Jun 27, 2000 8:42 am
Has thanked: 2966 times
Been thanked: 4562 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by Saint3333 » Sun Nov 01, 2020 6:02 pm

I’m surprised CCU climbed to 15th. That’s impressive for any SBC team.

bigdaddyg
Posts: 5832
Joined: Wed Sep 24, 2014 1:08 pm
School: Appalachian State
Has thanked: 15 times
Been thanked: 2474 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by bigdaddyg » Sun Nov 01, 2020 7:54 pm

Also impressive is Oregon at 0-0 up 2 spots and USC also at 0-0 up 1 spot. Coastal doing a great job but in a normal year they aren’t at 15 right now. Should be a good one when we play.

CVAPP
Posts: 1309
Joined: Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:45 am
School: Appalachian State
Location: Catawba Valley
Has thanked: 714 times
Been thanked: 306 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by CVAPP » Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:09 pm

Saint3333 wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 6:02 pm
I’m surprised CCU climbed to 15th. That’s impressive for any SBC team.
In any year but this one.

AppinATL
Posts: 1316
Joined: Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:10 pm
School: Appalachian State
Location: Duluth, GA
Has thanked: 18 times
Been thanked: 651 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by AppinATL » Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:10 pm

AppStFan1 wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:53 pm
hapapp wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:21 pm
Is that the highest ever ranking for a Sun Belt program?
Yes. We had the highest ranking with 18 last season but that just got shattered by Coastal Carolina. Chadwell is a heck of a coach. He knows how to get media attention and I would imagine they will beat the spread in every game against SBC bottom dwellers.
I believe I read somewhere that its the second highest. Marshall was higher at one point back in their ‘belt days.

Black Saturday
Posts: 10389
Joined: Mon Oct 14, 2002 11:22 am
School: Appalachian State
Has thanked: 910 times
Been thanked: 1030 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by Black Saturday » Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:25 pm

One week at a time, but we are better than Coastal or ULL from what I've watched. Better not kickoff to their returners though.
BLACK SATURDAY

AppOrange
Posts: 1339
Joined: Wed Sep 09, 2015 7:28 pm
School: Appalachian State
Location: Raleigh
Has thanked: 996 times
Been thanked: 645 times
Contact:

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by AppOrange » Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:30 pm

AppinATL wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:10 pm
AppStFan1 wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:53 pm
hapapp wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:21 pm
Is that the highest ever ranking for a Sun Belt program?
Yes. We had the highest ranking with 18 last season but that just got shattered by Coastal Carolina. Chadwell is a heck of a coach. He knows how to get media attention and I would imagine they will beat the spread in every game against SBC bottom dwellers.
I believe I read somewhere that its the second highest. Marshall was higher at one point back in their ‘belt days.
Marshall was never in the Sunbelt, they went from 1AA to the MAC, then to Conf USA.
1996

User avatar
NattyBumppo'sRevenge
Posts: 3169
Joined: Fri Nov 14, 2014 8:55 am
School: Appalachian State
Location: Charlotte, NC
Has thanked: 1677 times
Been thanked: 1750 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by NattyBumppo'sRevenge » Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:49 pm

AppOrange wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:30 pm
AppinATL wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:10 pm
AppStFan1 wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:53 pm
hapapp wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:21 pm
Is that the highest ever ranking for a Sun Belt program?
Yes. We had the highest ranking with 18 last season but that just got shattered by Coastal Carolina. Chadwell is a heck of a coach. He knows how to get media attention and I would imagine they will beat the spread in every game against SBC bottom dwellers.
I believe I read somewhere that its the second highest. Marshall was higher at one point back in their ‘belt days.
Marshall was never in the Sunbelt, they went from 1AA to the MAC, then to Conf USA.
It was before that, back when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

NoLongerLurking
Posts: 1396
Joined: Sun Sep 28, 2014 2:07 pm
School: Appalachian State
Location: Boone
Has thanked: 586 times
Been thanked: 515 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by NoLongerLurking » Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:54 pm

appgrad95&97 wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 2:50 pm
Gotta give Liberty, an independent, credit for putting that schedule together this year. Three ACC opponents. Wow.
Not sure if anyone responded, but $$$$$ + Global Pandemic = $$$$$ + Global Pandemic

spacemonkey
Posts: 1162
Joined: Thu Nov 23, 2017 12:01 pm
School: Appalachian State
Has thanked: 119 times
Been thanked: 497 times

Re: Top 25 Poll

Unread post by spacemonkey » Sun Nov 01, 2020 9:20 pm

ah59396 wrote:
Sun Oct 25, 2020 7:06 pm
bigdaddyg wrote:
Sun Oct 25, 2020 6:44 pm
NoLongerLurking wrote:
Sun Oct 25, 2020 4:29 pm
bigdaddyg wrote:
Sun Oct 25, 2020 3:35 pm
The AP poll is a joke. Ain’t no way that CCU is the 20th best team in the country. Compare their team to ours last year- player for player. We were legit top 20. Oregon at 0-0 dropped a spot. Indiana wins a game and vaults into the 17 spot. UNC wins over a top 25 (ranked) team big and they drop a spot.
Dude. Pandemic poll. Chill.
My point was really directed at the guys here who analyze the hell out of the poll and worry to death about votes that we get. I’ve always felt that nobody should be ranked until after 6 games. The top 10 (maybe) are usually legit then the next 10 are a crapshoot. I just find it funny that a team can be 0-0 and drop. I honestly couldn’t care less.
Who exactly is “worried to death” about the polls? Is this not an App State football message board? Are the AP and Coaches Poll not relevant to that? What topics would you prefer we discuss on here?

Should the board sit dead until Gameday?

Good grief.
I second the Good grief....It is a chat room. Discussion...Not changing the world.

Post Reply Previous topicNext topic

Return to “Appalachian Football”