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So it seems like there’s some confusion about the difference between a college football team and a program. That’s one takeaway, probably the main one, from the reaction to what appeared in this space last week.

App State pulled off a miracle play!

Appalachian State wins on an incredible Hail Mary

A few Mountaineers fans were handsomely rewarded on Saturday.

Lee Corso isn't picking against Appalachian State.

Just because Texas A&M’s loss to Appalachian State was an upset doesn’t mean it was a shock. It shouldn’t have been, given coach Jimbo Fisher’s recent history.

Coaches are reportedly telling players not to "take the cheese" regarding media hype this week.

That's a bit of a problem...

Three games into the 2016 season, Appalachian State’s third after transitioning into the FBS, the Mountaineers hosted what was then considered to be the most significant football game in their history. Anticipation built for weeks. A capacity crowd of nearly 35,000, then a school record, filled Kidd Brewer Stadium in…

Appalachian State president Dr. John E. Thomas and athletic director Jim Garner grabbed coach Jerry Moore before his introductory press conference in 1989 and wanted to get one thing straight before he addressed the media.

The question now is not whether Appalachian State has North Carolina’s best college football program — which it clearly does — but how exactly the Mountaineers defied the odds to build it in such an enduring way. And also: why no other school in the state has come close to…