The App players/units in the Clemson game

[Apple@chin1]

The Our DL didn’t create any havoc. It gave Clubnik time to pick apart our secondary. No push up front from the DL, no offensive punch back in the 1st quarter, and their team speed made for some lopsided stats.

[MrCraig]

In my opinion...there is no worse game to get into the specifics with player performance. This was the most humiliating loss in App State History. Much worae than the VA Tech loss as we had enormous amoujts of injuries and less scholarships and that team was our 3rd least talented team since 2005. Clemson could easily have put 100 on us if they didnt go to 4th and 5th string players. If Dabo wanted it could have been 130-10. It looked like NFL vs high school and thats no exaggeration.

I obviously feel like we dont have the talent to be successful...but i think the best thing to do is hope and pray that was a freak thing that happened. I doubt any football team in college football history has had a succesful year when losing 66-20...and shawn clark has lead us to consecutive 4, 6 and 5 loss seasons with 0 conference titles. But we have to be hopeful that this is a come to jesus moment for our boys and that they start a new season vs ECU on saturday. CFB playoff is gone even if we win out every game by 20...so take it 1 game at a time. A win vs ECU is mandatory to salvage the season and give us hope for the future.

Go Apps

Appalachian State had a successful year after losing to Clemson 41-10 in 2015. App had a successful year after losing to Va Tech 66-13. In 2007, Michigan lost to App state and unranked Oregon in back-to-back weeks and still finished the season #18 with a Citrus Bowl win over Florida.

Also, the CFP isn't out of the question. It's unlikely, but if App wins out, wins the conference championship, and a few other teams lose, they could very well be the highest ranked 5th conference championship.

No one likes what happened last Saturday, but it was one game early in the season. There a LOT of football left to be played. It is just as likely that we look back at this loss as an outlier as it is that the team gives up and loses 7-8 games.