The "Little" Guys
Today is a special day that will live in college football infamy. It's 2007: First iphone unveiled. Google introduces Android. Appalachian State Beats #5 Michigan in Ann Arbor. This was to be another blowout. Another lopsided FBS school rolling over an FCS school. So confident were Las Vegas sportsbooks in Michigan's chances that no betting line was issued for the game. The game was also the first to be broadcast on the then-new Big Ten Network. And then, Appalachian State won. On September 1st, 2007 Appalachian State became the first FCS team EVER to defeat a ranked FBS team, and as a result of that game Michigan dropped out of the top 25 of the AP Poll entirely, marking the first time a team had fallen from the top five to out of the poll entirely as the result of a single game. In the aftermath of the game, the Associated Press amended its polling policy to make FCS teams eligible for the AP Poll, which had previously been l...