Fast forward to the 2019 season. Appalachian State is playing BCS ball. 5 consecutive Bowl wins and no losses. 3 consecutive Conference Championships , 13-1 and #19 in both final polls. Over 100 major college teams woukd like to trade for that. " Upset wins over North Carolina and South Carolina on their home fields. 'Nuff said !

Lou Holtz gave them a little respect... "App state beat em today, and i want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, it won't no fluke, they just flat out got after them., and got after them good."

I went to school at Appalachian State in the early 90s. Jerry Moore was just starting to build the program when I got there in 1990. That program has nothing but go up ever since. From the team to the facilities it's definitely a top notch program and continuing to improve.

3:01 Lou Holtz gave no shits

My favorite line- "If he thought that seat was hot before now he's sitting on the sun" LOL

My cousin Trey Elder was backup quarterback to Armanti Edwards that year and his brother Blake was on the team too. I was so happy for them I honestly had tears rolling down my face afterwards.

I love seeing that these videos are still getting comments up to this day. :) I'm an Appstate grad and every year right around this time I go back and watch the game and the highlights.

This is a game that I will never forget. It serves as a reminder of never underestimating your opponent and always being humble when confronting the biggest and smallest of opponents. Michigan didn't have respect for App. St. that day and thought they were just going to walk all over them.

Best line in the video... "If he thought the seat was warm before, now he is sitting on the sun."

Lou Holtz is the only one who actually showed Appalachian State any respect. Thankyou Lou Holtz!! While the other two, especially the guy on the right, couldn't and wouldn't realize we were the better team. And the thing that pissed me off the most, say the name right. Its appaLACHian, not appaLAICHan. Get it right

Whenever I want to shut up my Wolverine buddies, I say: Appalachian State. Endeth the argument.

15 years and nine days later, they do it again. This time, #6 Texas A&M on the road.

Live outside of Boone. Northeast Tennessee and Western North Carolina went crazy. Appy Stare is such a great time and always has been.

Michigan has had 3 losing seasons after this game. This sent that program into a downward spiral that has been 8 years and counting.

App State is a really program and this may always be their signature win. When I was little I put them into what I called my big 3 along with grand valley state in D2 and Mt Union in D3. These teams always seemed to be national champions again and again in the early part of the 2000s. I actually was a Michigan fan after at this time and feared something like this would happen because of Michigan's arrogance and they got a knuckle sandwich. 13 months later it happened again vs Toledo October 11 2008. It nearly happened a 3rd time vs army in 2019. Bottom line because of this nobody fears Michigan stadium or Michigan football anymore and the world especially teams roughly app states size have this group to thank for that.

Wow, I got a kick out of Lou Holtz saying "bitchin'" at 3:00. He looked PISSED, I mean if it was Notre Dame who did that I could understand (although ND doesn't play FCS teams). I don't understand why Holtz looked so mad.

thank you App. state for beating Michigan what a game that was i watched it from start to finish

This wasn't an upset based on what I saw of those 2 teams. Appalachian State was the better team today! - Lou Holtz

this was a great analysis of the game. thanks for keeping this posted all this time :D

I turned on the new-fangled Big Ten network that afternoon just to see what it was about. I watched Michigan score right away and thought this game would be a rout. Then I saw Dexter Jackson convert a 6-yard pass into a 68-yard TD, saw that Michigan's safeties lacked the speed to stop the slants and Armani Edwards, and I settled in to watch. The rest of the first half was one-sided: Appl. State was a LOT better - faster on both sides of the ball. In the second half, Michigan finally took off the blinders, forgot who they were playing, and recovered. Still, Appl. State's speed led to the go-ahead drive. Only a miracle pitch-and-catch by Henne to Willingham gave Michigan a shot. Holtz was right about Appl. State - ignore who was wearing which uniform and just watch the game - was NOT an upset.

We’ve come full circle in just a bit over a decade, huh? App State’s back to serious relevance. People are taking this team seriously for the first time since this huge upset! I’m tellin y’all now... something big’s aboutta happen with App!

10 years My goodness how time just flows by. Appalachian State believed in themselves that very day that they can handle and hang with Michigan. If I thought the game was shocking to watch, the ESPN post game Analysis was crazy to watch. Lou Holtz went off script when he mentioned what happens to a team after they lose a game like this. Bitching and moaning I know its cold hard facts, but DAMMMMMMN!!!!!!

Granted, that was the best App St team ever. Armanti Edwards, Dexter Jackson, Coco Hillary... they had a bunch of guys especially on offense who could have started for I-A schools. But still... a GOOD Michigan team. Not the joke version perpetrated by RichRod and Brady Choke. A team that had an 8 game winning streak, held Ohio St to 14 points and less than 150 yards of total offense and beat defending national champion Florida in their bowl game. And yet they lost to Appalachian State.

big win for my App......we went fuckin nuts on campus that day - goal post taken from the stadium and to the Chancellors's House

Love how Holtz was the only one keeping it real and giving App State their props

Amazing storyline.

I'm from California and a huge fan of college football. There's no question that the SEC is the best conference or at least tied for first with the Pac-10. But the SEC, they showcased a lot of depth in their bowls and since the BCS was implemented, the SEC has won 3 National Titles with three different teams. That's a lot of depth there.

I am a huge Michigan fan but I give App. State a TON of credit. They were very impressive but in defense for my team they did make something out of a lost season in the end.

Michigan went through a weird stretch of games over that 2-year stretch [2006 & 2007]. First 11 games of 2006: 11-0. Next 4 games: loss to Ohio St [42 points allowed], loss to Southern Cal [32 points allowed], loss to Appalachian State [34 points allowed], loss to Oregon [39 points allowed. Next 8 games: 8-0. It's like they forgot how to play defense for the 4 games in between the two winning streaks. What happened? And you can't say it was with different players. The same players who produced the 11-game winning streak gave up 74 points in their final 2 games of 2006. The same players who gave up 73 points in the first 2 games of 2007 produced an 8-game winning streak immediately afterwards.

They were pissed, Lou Holtz was the only one that kept it real lol. FCS is not a joke division and the only reason why the FBS versus FCS games be so lopsided is because FBS rarely schedule the good FCS schools because they don't want what happened on this day to happen. They often schedule lower-rated teams they know they're superior to, and definitely not trying to schedule a defending champion like Michigan did lol. The top schools in FCS are serious and it only shows that the only real difference between the two subdivisions is money.

App state was a good team so I dont blame Michigan for losing this one legit this app state team had some nfl talent.

Appalachian State: Nothing like this will ever happen again. 12 years later… Georgia State: hold my beer…

At the time, they were the two-time DEFENDING 1-AA champs...I can't believe Michigan was favored as much as they were...

I still think this is the greatest upset in college football history. I'll never stop watching them upset Michigan and Texas A&M.

Lou Holtz pretty much sums it up. ASU took it to Michigan's ass from the first play from scrimmage, all the way to the last blocked field goal. The score was close, but Michigan was soundly beaten in just about every category. Their guys were roughed up because ASU was lean and mean up front.....Henne heard footsteps all game long because he kept getting the shit knocked out of him....lousy blocking. Michigan played in panic mode for the better of 3 quarters, and for that they lost.

Lou Holtz saying that locker room is gonna be bitchin n moanin about the loss was worth clicking on this video lmao

Story-line of the "day?!" DAY? *DAY?!* Like saying Buster Douglas was a "bit of a surprise in a close match-up." Pfft..

This game still shocks me, the Michigan players must have got drunk the night before this game and the hangover was too much.

ESPN showed no respect to App State when... Michigan didn't just lose the game... App State BEAT them. With two blocked FGs in the 4th, that usually means a WIN

I miss this college football final show. Also since this game Michigan hasn’t recovered on a national level: haven’t won a big ten championship, only beaten Ohio state once, won only one big five bowl game.

I go to App State, and let me just say something. People from Boone/App State cringe when people say app-uh-lay-chun. APP-UH-LATCH-EN

Incidentally, Michigan would have an 8-game winning streak and beat defending nat'l champion Florida in a bowl game after suffering the haymaker from App St. That was a darn good team the Mountaineers beat, not the joke Michigan became under RR.

App state > Michigan

Strangely enough, considering how 2007 turned out, had Michigan won out after losing to App State, they probably would have won the national championship.

What's really weird about that season: Michigan held Ohio St. to 14 points and under 150 yds. of total offense. But they gave up 34 points and 400+ yds of total offense to Appalachian St. I have *no* explanation for that. Michigan had an 8-game winning streak after they got over the shock of the App St loss and beat defending national champion Florida in a bowl game. So I can only conclude that App St was a lot better than everyone thought...

The fact that we are three years removed from Michigan's loss to App. St. and UM's inability to rebound from that loss is almost sad................almost. : )

great game go app state!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

App State has been a massive, big winning football program for years. The team they put on the field that day was probably like an upper trier MAC team. This wasn't the biggest upset in the college football history.

That was the biggest choke of all time. It was great

that was awesome; he should do it more often

APPALACHIA STATE WAS RUNNING AROUND MICHIGAN ALL DAY. ALSO FACTOR IN THE BIG TEN THAT YEAR WAS FULL OF BIG BACKS. APPALACHIA STATE SPREAD THEM OUT AND MICHIGAN NEVER MADE ADJUSTMENTS TILL 5 MINUTES IN THE 4TH QUARTER

The SEC and the Pac-10 are the two best conferences in college football. Sure, the Pac-10 had a great non-conference resume going 7-7 against bowl teams, but the SEC has the toughest in-conference schedule in the nation.

Lou Dolt talks about Michigan "regrouping". Fat chance of that. 2008 was over before it began.

Appalachian St would be them now 2018

Lou Holtz said "bitchin" on national television....WIN!!

@jbmasongator LOL, im a michigan fan(just sayin) but when holtz said Bitchen and Moanin on ESPN LOL!!! classic ESPN Moment there !!!

Craziest thing about this is that WVU was ranked number 3 lmao

FCS teams are actually very good in 2022 all those top 5 schools are definitely scared to play any top 5 in fcs!

Hey what kind of battery does it take to beat Michigan? 1-AA battery

today we salute u app. st thank u for shuting up the wolverines OH...IO

I think so - and I don't blame him for it. If ever there was a time and place that even someone in his position could use it, this is it, after the biggest upset in college football history.

Hahahaha. At 3:00 Lou says bitchin... classic

What did he say that makes him an idiot? Did you not hear his analysis? He was spot-on. You must be a Michigan fan.

He DID!!! @ 3:02!!!

Dynamic nothing personal, your missing one game on the roster, (App St-34 Michigan-32). There no way around it, the game did occur, it was seen on t.v, newspaper, txt msg, Internet, on the jumbo screen of (Ohio St,)

The Michigan football program still hasn’t recovered from that loss.

I like how they say how embarrass michigan should be. But what if the 1-AA team Is better?

Do they play them again?

i know it!!!! your so right!

I never saw this...because I didn't turn on ESPN for a few weeks

How'd that go again?

Go Big Blue!!! Way to represent the Big Ten... Go Gators!!!

I thought Lou Holtz was going at 100 MPH with that rant.

*DOES ANYBODY HAVE THE FULL GAME OF THIS TO UL???? I NEVER SAW THIS GAME LIVE B/C STUPID FUCKING COMCAST HAD A BLAZING ROW WITH BTN AND THEREFORE DIDN'T HAVE THE NETWORK THE VERY FIRST YEAR IT WAS ON!!!!* (BTW, it was on here at one point by thornsx2, but it was deleted. ;-()

@unvstan12 lol that was funny as hell....everybody is bitchin and moanin! Gotta love Lou

you know the BCS rankings are a joke when this michigan team somehow made it back to #13 in the rankings

A great victory for App state

He did! He did!

lmao lou said bitchin and moanin lmao lou is the shit

It's actually dubbed 'The Hidden 11'

“Everybody’s bitchin’…”

lee corso said ahhh fuck it

even though they blew balls in recent years this was the only time i heard mark may say anything semi-decent about ND usually he just insults and says whatver bad thing he can about Notre Dame. This was a terrific game though.

@TheChucky4664 add virginia tech losing to james madison to this discussion if you wish ;)

@Gookin52 Haha yeah, that was hilarious.

And Jim Tressel has been involved in three of those nine losses.

Coming off of a DARK Summer in the WWE.

Michigan also lost to Toledo yesterday.

they play in 2014?

wow even the reporters are mad lol

GOD BLess YOU ALL!!!!!!!

Like you guys were going to start a streak on us LOL

Now, Appalachian State football is in ESPN. Listen to the ESPN announcer (not Lou Holtz) make excuses for Michigan!

I think I felt Lou Holtz spit on me.

Think Michigan will be ready to play in that one? Nothig will ever erase what happened, of course, but perhaps a win over ASU would provide some small measure of solace for UM. And if App St should happen to win AGAIN... well, it will be a cold day in he!! before a team from a power conference schedules them again.

In my opinion this is the case of how At any time at during any game Anything can happen. I think it's the case of taking the other team not to serious and have it bite u on the ass.

Give some credit to app st. Back to back national champs and had one hell of a team. Mark may doesn't get it.

Wolverine tears taste so sweet.

2007 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON OF HELL

"Well, maybe scheduling those teams from the lower division may not be such a bad idea after all." North Dakota State would like to have a say about that.