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  • 2026 anonymous sun belt football fan opinions poll, part one – who will win? overall thoughts? NIL thoughts? sun belt in five years?

    Earlier in August I did the now annual Google Survey poll on your thoughts for the 2026 Sun Belt season. Responses were …. unenthusiastic compared to recent years. As you can see below, a combo of NIL and free transfer fatigue negatively impacted college football fandom. The total number of responses were half of two…

    TK

  • just fix the damn subaru: appalachian state football 2026 preview

    Have you ever been so excited for the first Appalachian State Football game day of a season that you have trouble sleeping? Can’t wait to get up early, pop those tailgate tents, set up those chairs, wait until the sun rises over Boone before putting out the cornhole boards so they don’t get dew on…

    TK

  • purging a cfb roster in 16 months

    App State Spring Practice is ongoing. Did you know? It would be OK if you didn’t. Not many people did. And if you did, the program might be mad that you are aware? Why, because you could tell someone else, and then two people would know instead of one. And then others might know. Every…

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  • nfl man calls nfl plays, loses college bowl game to rival – birmingham bowl postmortem

    You hoped for something different. Despite all the disadvantages, you hoped for a bowl win. You wanted Vulcan Ass Man to be in the trophy case. Then, the most unique bowl game possible with new potential heroes was lost for the same reasons games were lost in September, October and November. Running the ball? It…

    TK

  • fubar – coastal postmortem

    If there was any doubt before, there shouldn’t be now. Coastal Carolina is a rivalry and App State needs to admit it. On Saturday, under the colorful leaves, one team got hyped while another didn’t. One team, which created an evil boogeyman to combat, overcame a two-touchdown hole, while another, which maybe was treating this…

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  • the app state qb debate should be over – georgia state postmortem

    41-20 makes this game seem closer than it was. For the first quarter, it was close and cagey. Georgia State drove, then had a field goal blocked. There was that weird muffed punt that wasn’t due to “active blocking.” Then it was an avalanche. 17-0 at halftime and 31-0 in the third quarter sealed the…

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  • winning when you’re staring down losing: oregon state postmortem

    It was going to go wrong, wasn’t it? But it didn’t. Then it went really wrong. But it was unwronged and oh awesome we won, this rules. That was the Oregon State game. Give all FBS Oregon State’s first five games and like 60% of them are starting 0-5. The combined record of those five…

    TK

  • miller hill — god’s last gift to appalachian state

    Right now, in 2025, the only way to get from the West Side to the East Side of Kidd Brewer Stadium is around the south side. There sits a man-made hill, cultivated from the mountain earth. Probably no more than 200 feet long and at a decent angle of probably 50 feet from the top…

    TK

  • we survived but we’re dead – lindenwood postmortem

    No one saw this coming. If you see that sentence and say, “No, I did,” you’re a liar. Lindenwood was supposed to be a routine rout of an FCS team. But for the third straight season, App State was in a competitive game with an FCS team in the third quarter. And the video and…

    TK

  • 0.49 percent chance of losing – charlotte postmortem

    I got to Bank of America Stadium an hour before Friday’s game as I wanted to see who looked like they were starting. When the offense came out, it was A.J. Swann leading J.J. Kohl, Noah Gillon and Billy Wiles and leading the cadences. Last we heard, there were “two and a half to three”…

    TK