College Football Date with destiny??? August 30th...

[Driven1]

The 3 time (back-to-back-to-back) FCS champion Appalachian State Mountaineers will be taking on the reigning BCS Champion LSU Tigers on August 30th.  You may remember App State upsetting then-ranked #5 Michigan last year AT MICHIGAN in front of 110,000 fans....first time a 1-aa team has ever beat a ranked 1-a team. 

ASU is my alma mater and we are looking into heading out to LSU for the Aug 30th game.  Btw....App State is the home-opening game for Florida for the 2009 season.

The Sporting News had this piece not too long ago (that mentions Florida quite a bit as well)...

Appalachian State Gets Another Shot at a Stunner
by Matt Hayes (Sporting News)

May 17, 2008 - Leave it to Margaret Moore, Jerry's bride of 46 years, to keep his feet firmly stuck in the rich mud of the Appalachians.

I asked her if she ever thought, in her wildest dreams, we would win three consecutive national championships," Jerry says. "She says, 'Jerry, you aren't in my wildest dreams.' "

Maybe he'll get there after Appalachian State, king of the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA), does the unthinkable again.

If last year's monumental upset of Michigan to kick-start an acid trip of a season wasn't enough, the Mountaineers get a chance to do it all again. This time, it's the season opener in Death Valley against defending BCS champion LSU.

And things got more intriguing when LSU coach Les Miles finally jettisoned talented but troubled quarterback Ryan Perrilloux and left his team with token snaps of experience at the most important position on the field.

Meanwhile, here comes Appalachian State, the three-time defending FCS national champion with an All-American quarterback so dynamic and so dangerous, he changed the archaic voting system in The Associated Press college football poll. After Armanti Edwards toyed with Michigan in last year's 34-32 win, the AP decided to allow FCS teams to be ranked. Just like that.

For those who think Edwards and the Mountaineers are flukes, consider this: Edwards played better against Michigan than Florida superhero and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow did and led his team to a victory -- something Tebow couldn't do. It's safe to say the talent discrepancy between Appalachian State and Florida is -- let's not undersell this -- gigantic.

That same Florida team came within a couple of botched plays of winning at Tiger Stadium last fall against an LSU program that will now be depleted from key losses on both sides of the ball and from the departure of fiery defensive coordinator Bo Pelini. You don't lose difference-makers Glenn Dorsey and Ali Highsmith and Jacob Hester and Early Doucet and simply plug and play.

And you sure as hell don't use a former walk-on quarterback from Harvard (Andrew Hatch), who threw two passes last fall, or a redshirt freshman (Jarrett Lee), who hasn't broken a sweat in a college game, and expect to beat a talented, big game-hardened team on national television right out of the box.

Forget wild dreams. It's another defining moment.

Matt Hayes is a writer for Sporting News. E-mail him at mhayes@sportingnews.com.

[Driven1]

tickets go on sale august 1st.

[reednavy]

Hmm, this could get interesting, they are my #3 team.