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take Clemson off of troy's schedule and its pretty underwhelming. also troy hosts app st next Saturday in a game that is likely to determine who's 1st in conference. one of the best plays on the board today imo. g/l ie.
on the flip side of the sun belt, whats your take on tex st @ app st? 'eers with troy on deck, tex st st off a bye week. interesting side not, both tex st coach withers and d/c mcray are app st alums, both played for sparky woods. with the bye, you have to think they were focused on this game. asu with little incentive to run it up. +31- looks inviting, but I really like the under 54.
QB Tyler Jones not really having a good season being the experience he has.
ILB Bryan London has looked real good as a freshman.
Under scares me ....with the Bobcats allowing a staggering 499 yards of offense per game, which is 121st in the FBS. Their run defense (232.4 YPG) and pass defense (266.6 YPG) are also near the bottom of all FBS programs, while their scoring defense (40.7 PPG) ranks 122nd.
going to pass this game, but looking at couple of others.
ILB Bryan London has looked real good as a freshman.
Under scares me ....with the Bobcats allowing a staggering 499 yards of offense per game, which is 121st in the FBS. Their run defense (232.4 YPG) and pass defense (266.6 YPG) are also near the bottom of all FBS programs, while their scoring defense (40.7 PPG) ranks 122nd.
going to pass this game, but looking at couple of others.
After a month of long breaks between games and short weeks between other games, Appalachian State is finally back on schedule.
Up next for the Mountaineers is Texas State, who visits Kidd Brewer Stadium at 3:30 p.m. (ESPN3), Nov. 5 for the first time since 2004 when both teams were members of Division I-AA. App State won that game after backup Trey Elder, filling in for Richie Williams, led the Mountaineers to a 41-34 victory.
Appalachian State Scott Satterfield is happy the Mountaineers are back to playing just on Saturdays for two reasons. The first is it allows the team to get back to a regular routine for the final four games of the season.
The second is the players are also on a regular academic schedule for the rest of the season.
?You?ve got two mid-week games and they?re on the road,? Satterfield said. ?So, now you?ve got to miss the day before, the game day, and you get back and it?s 6 a.m. and it?s hard. They?re going to class and it?s hard to focus when you?re going to class. It does mess up the academics a bit, but these guys did a great job with it.?
Appalachian State (6-2, 4-0 Sun Belt) went 4-0 during the month of October, which started with a 17-3 over Georgia State at Kidd Brewer. Eleven days later, App State took to the road and shut out UL Lafayette 24-0 and then returned 10 days later to beat Idaho 37-19. The Mountaineers closed out the month with a 34-10 pasting of Georgia Southern on Oct. 27 in Statesboro, Ga.
App State's defense allowed just one touchdown, which Idaho scored in the final four seconds of the game, during that stretch.
?I?m glad that the last four games we?ll be on a normal schedule,? Satterfield said. ?Our kids did a great job handling the month of October. It?s good to be on schedule as far as normal days now, especially for academics more than everything so you don?t miss any school time.?
Appalachian State brings a defense into its showdown with Texas State that is the stingiest in the Sun Belt Conference. The Mountaineers are tops in scoring defense by allowing just 17.8 points and in total defense giving up 338.0 yards per game.
The Mountaineers have given up just 16 touchdowns in eight games this year.
Texas State (2-5, 0-3), led by former Mountaineer Everett Withers, runs a spread offense that averages 24.0 points and 345.9 yards per game.
?They?re a shotgun spread,? Satterfield said. ?They can tempo and like to go fast at times. The quarterback can run. They?ll utilize him in the running game, but they?re mainly trying to throw the football.?
Texas State quarterback Tyler Jones has completed 63.2 percent of his passes for 1,711 yards and 10 touchdowns with nine interceptions. His favorite target is running back Stedman Mayberry, who has 28 catches for 212 yards.
The Bobcats have to throw it since they average just 87.7 yards rushing. Mayberry leads the team with 429 yards on 108 carries with two touchdowns.
?They?ve got a lot more passing yards since their rushing yards are down,? Satterfield said. ?They like to go fast and keep you off-balance.?
Satterfield was the Mountaineers? quarterbacks coach the last time the teams met. Saturday is the first time the teams have met since 2004.
?It will be new for them to come here,? Satterfield said. ?Of course, they have about four coaches who went to school at App State, so they?re very familiar with it. It will be interesting for us to see their personnel and what they?re doing with it.?
Withers played at App State as a defensive back from 1981-84 and has been a head coach at both North Carolina and at James Madison.
Withers was recruited by coach Mike Working, who was replaced by Mack Brown in 1983. The Mountaineers, after going 3-7-1 in 1981 and 4-7 in 1982 under Working, but went 6-5 in 1984 under Brown.
?We beat Wake Forest when I was a junior we beat Wake Forest in Winston-Salem,? Withers said. ?That was probably the biggest memory I had. That first year when I was there with Mack Brown we went 6-5 and that was a big, big turnaround for that program from where it had been. There were several wins that year that were really associated with changing the culture and we would not have been able to do that before he got there. We learned how to win and there were a lot of memories that junior year when I was there that really, really kind of set me on the path of where I want to coach and want to be around good programs.?
Withers said he was impressed with how the Mountaineers have made the jump from the FCS into the Sun Belt Conference. App State finished third in the Sun Belt in its first year of competition in 2014 and second last season after going 11-2 overall, 7-1 in the Sun Belt.
?Their program has obviously taken a big jump from the FCS to the FBS and they?ve done it the right way,? Withers said. ?The culture has already been set as Satterfield takes over a good program that was good in the FCS and really, really has been good for a long time.?
Withers saw the Mountaineers play during their worst times in making the transition. He was able to get away from his day job, which was being an assistant at Ohio State in 2014, to come back to see App State fall 47-21 to South Alabama.
He said he gets back to Boone every now and then during the offseason, but it?s not always easy during the regular season.
?I?ve been to Boone several times in the offseason, taking my family up there,? he said. ?I had the opportunity to get back to one ballgame. When I was at Ohio State we had a bye week and I was able to sneak back up and see a homecoming game, I think for the first year that they were transitioned in. I think they played South Alabama. It wasn?t a good homecoming for them, but you can see from then to now what Scott has done for their program.?
Texas State is coming off a bye week, which gave the Bobcats a chance go back to the basics in practice and get some players healthy.
?The bye week probably hit us at the right time,? Withers said. ?We compiled some bumps and bruises that we were able to take care of, so we were able to get some guys a little healthier going into this last stretch of the season.?
Up next for the Mountaineers is Texas State, who visits Kidd Brewer Stadium at 3:30 p.m. (ESPN3), Nov. 5 for the first time since 2004 when both teams were members of Division I-AA. App State won that game after backup Trey Elder, filling in for Richie Williams, led the Mountaineers to a 41-34 victory.
Appalachian State Scott Satterfield is happy the Mountaineers are back to playing just on Saturdays for two reasons. The first is it allows the team to get back to a regular routine for the final four games of the season.
The second is the players are also on a regular academic schedule for the rest of the season.
?You?ve got two mid-week games and they?re on the road,? Satterfield said. ?So, now you?ve got to miss the day before, the game day, and you get back and it?s 6 a.m. and it?s hard. They?re going to class and it?s hard to focus when you?re going to class. It does mess up the academics a bit, but these guys did a great job with it.?
Appalachian State (6-2, 4-0 Sun Belt) went 4-0 during the month of October, which started with a 17-3 over Georgia State at Kidd Brewer. Eleven days later, App State took to the road and shut out UL Lafayette 24-0 and then returned 10 days later to beat Idaho 37-19. The Mountaineers closed out the month with a 34-10 pasting of Georgia Southern on Oct. 27 in Statesboro, Ga.
App State's defense allowed just one touchdown, which Idaho scored in the final four seconds of the game, during that stretch.
?I?m glad that the last four games we?ll be on a normal schedule,? Satterfield said. ?Our kids did a great job handling the month of October. It?s good to be on schedule as far as normal days now, especially for academics more than everything so you don?t miss any school time.?
Appalachian State brings a defense into its showdown with Texas State that is the stingiest in the Sun Belt Conference. The Mountaineers are tops in scoring defense by allowing just 17.8 points and in total defense giving up 338.0 yards per game.
The Mountaineers have given up just 16 touchdowns in eight games this year.
Texas State (2-5, 0-3), led by former Mountaineer Everett Withers, runs a spread offense that averages 24.0 points and 345.9 yards per game.
?They?re a shotgun spread,? Satterfield said. ?They can tempo and like to go fast at times. The quarterback can run. They?ll utilize him in the running game, but they?re mainly trying to throw the football.?
Texas State quarterback Tyler Jones has completed 63.2 percent of his passes for 1,711 yards and 10 touchdowns with nine interceptions. His favorite target is running back Stedman Mayberry, who has 28 catches for 212 yards.
The Bobcats have to throw it since they average just 87.7 yards rushing. Mayberry leads the team with 429 yards on 108 carries with two touchdowns.
?They?ve got a lot more passing yards since their rushing yards are down,? Satterfield said. ?They like to go fast and keep you off-balance.?
Satterfield was the Mountaineers? quarterbacks coach the last time the teams met. Saturday is the first time the teams have met since 2004.
?It will be new for them to come here,? Satterfield said. ?Of course, they have about four coaches who went to school at App State, so they?re very familiar with it. It will be interesting for us to see their personnel and what they?re doing with it.?
Withers played at App State as a defensive back from 1981-84 and has been a head coach at both North Carolina and at James Madison.
Withers was recruited by coach Mike Working, who was replaced by Mack Brown in 1983. The Mountaineers, after going 3-7-1 in 1981 and 4-7 in 1982 under Working, but went 6-5 in 1984 under Brown.
?We beat Wake Forest when I was a junior we beat Wake Forest in Winston-Salem,? Withers said. ?That was probably the biggest memory I had. That first year when I was there with Mack Brown we went 6-5 and that was a big, big turnaround for that program from where it had been. There were several wins that year that were really associated with changing the culture and we would not have been able to do that before he got there. We learned how to win and there were a lot of memories that junior year when I was there that really, really kind of set me on the path of where I want to coach and want to be around good programs.?
Withers said he was impressed with how the Mountaineers have made the jump from the FCS into the Sun Belt Conference. App State finished third in the Sun Belt in its first year of competition in 2014 and second last season after going 11-2 overall, 7-1 in the Sun Belt.
?Their program has obviously taken a big jump from the FCS to the FBS and they?ve done it the right way,? Withers said. ?The culture has already been set as Satterfield takes over a good program that was good in the FCS and really, really has been good for a long time.?
Withers saw the Mountaineers play during their worst times in making the transition. He was able to get away from his day job, which was being an assistant at Ohio State in 2014, to come back to see App State fall 47-21 to South Alabama.
He said he gets back to Boone every now and then during the offseason, but it?s not always easy during the regular season.
?I?ve been to Boone several times in the offseason, taking my family up there,? he said. ?I had the opportunity to get back to one ballgame. When I was at Ohio State we had a bye week and I was able to sneak back up and see a homecoming game, I think for the first year that they were transitioned in. I think they played South Alabama. It wasn?t a good homecoming for them, but you can see from then to now what Scott has done for their program.?
Texas State is coming off a bye week, which gave the Bobcats a chance go back to the basics in practice and get some players healthy.
?The bye week probably hit us at the right time,? Withers said. ?We compiled some bumps and bruises that we were able to take care of, so we were able to get some guys a little healthier going into this last stretch of the season.?
certainly have to hold your nose with the bobcat d. just thinking the bye week rest coupled with a little mercy for the homecoming alums keep this one below the number. but then again, I've been wrong before.
i see your point.
i am going to play one more game:
STRAIGHT BET Nov 05 [355] TEXAS SAN ANTONIO +19? -125
i am going to play one more game:
STRAIGHT BET Nov 05 [355] TEXAS SAN ANTONIO +19? -125
