It’s Appalachian State’s world, we’re all just watching college football in it. The same day that the school hosted ESPN’s College GameDay, they completed an astounding comeback with a Hail Mary touchdown to defeat the Troy Trojans and continue their magician season.
Troy was all set to pull off the huge upset and ruin App State’s big weekend as they clung to a 28-24 lead with 25 seconds remaining in the game. Stuck deep in their own territory, instead of punting, Troy decided to take an intentional safety, much to the surprise of just about everyone watching at home.
INTENTIONAL SAFETY ALERT 🚨 pic.twitter.com/BJxaRup3BT
— 🇸🇲 Sickos Committee 🇸🇲 (@SickosCommittee) September 17, 2022
With the score now 28-26, Troy kicked to App State, who could now try to set up a field goal to win the game. However, that didn’t work and the Mountaineers were left with a Hail Mary play as time expired as their only chance. And in keeping with the wildness of their season so far, they completed the pass and won the dang game.
APP STATE WON ON A HAIL MARY ON THE FINAL PLAY‼️ pic.twitter.com/yDlzYYtU19
— ESPN (@espn) September 17, 2022
It’s perhaps even better with the home radio call by Adam Witten.
AS CALLED BY @AdamBWitten AND HEARD ON THE @varsity APP: pic.twitter.com/QztnYi7T8k
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) September 17, 2022
It’s a storybook ending on a day when the entire college football world was watching Boone, North Carolina. That it also comes one week after their epic upset of Texas A&M in College Station just makes the whole thing so much sweeter for the Sun Belt school.
Of course, the reactions from around the college football world were off the charts.
https://twitter.com/NicoleAuerbach/status/1571269984684326920
In the last 20 years of college football, App State has to be one of the most fun teams you could possibly have rooted for.
-Multiple FCS titles
-Stunning upsets of top 10 teams on the road including The Big One
-Seamless/successful transition to FBS
-Chaos like, every week https://t.co/FvqTvDpA29— Andrew Gillis (@Andrew_Gillis70) September 17, 2022
They’ll ruin your life, it’s what they do https://t.co/MGMcCvoxsN
— Jane Coaston 🏔️ (@janecoaston) September 17, 2022
APP STATE!!! DEFLECTED HAIL MARY WIN!! ITS A MOUNTAIN MIRACLE!!!https://t.co/Ea2i4bmh4O
— 🇸🇲 Sickos Committee 🇸🇲 (@SickosCommittee) September 17, 2022
https://twitter.com/RobinMumford17/status/1571270722655223810
WHAT IS HAPPENING AT APP STATE! OMG!! https://t.co/PqrapV0mwI
— syd (@sydney_wicker) September 17, 2022
Here's the App State deflected Hail Mary TD.
Host College GameDay and win like this. They'll never forget this day. pic.twitter.com/IjonkpWejr
— Chris Vannini (@ChrisVannini) September 17, 2022
What wonders await App State and the college football world next?
[ESPN]
