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  Nate Noel and Camerun Peoples each gained more than 100 yards rushing, scoring a touchdown apiece, and Steven Jones tied school records with three interceptions, two returned for touchdowns and Appalachian State defeated Arkansas State 48-14 on Saturday. Malik Williams caught a lateral from Chase Brice and fired a 34-yard rainbow down the right sideline to Thomas Hennigan, who was so wide open he skipped into the end zone with the game's first score. Jones intercepted Arkansas State's Layne Hatcher three plays later, returning the pick 47 yards for a quick 14-0 Mountaineers lead. Jones also scored Appalachian State's final TD with a 34-yard interception return. The Red Wolves (1-8, 0-5 Sun Belt Conference) fought into a 14-14 tie on two Hatcher touchdown passes, but Appalachian State would score the next 34 points to win going away. The win keeps the Mountaineers (7-2) atop the Sun Belt's East Division standings at 4-1. Appalachian State gained 264 yards rushing and racked up 461 total yards to 193 for Arkansas State. Hatcher was 17-of-30 passing for 137 yards for the Red Wolves and was intercepted three times. - Appalachian State/AP College Football

(DS#48 CB) rSr/2023 CB Steven Jones Jr.Appalachian State
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  Chase Brice threw four touchdown passes and Appalachian State forced four turnovers in the first half to cruise past Louisiana-Monroe 59-28 on Saturday. Brice threw a pair of TD passes to Caleb Spurlin and one each to Corey Sutton and Malik Williams. Brice finished 20-of-30 passing for 256 yards, all in the first half, as Appalachian State (6-2, 3-1) built a 49-7 halftime lead. The Mountaineers' Ryan Huff and Trey Cobb each had an interception. TD Roof forced a fumble and made a career-high nine tackles.

Nate Noel had 132 yards rushing and a score for the Mountaineers, who had 521 yards of total offense. Camerun Peoples added 82 yards on the ground and two touchdowns. Thomas Hennigan made four catches to stretch his career total to 212 and surpass Andrew Peacock for the most at App State. Chandler Staton kicked a 31-yard field goal. He has made 56 career field goals and now leads the program, jumping past Bjorn Nittmo. Jiya Wright threw for 158 yards with a touchdown pass and two interceptions for UL Monroe (4-4, 2-3). He added 109 yards rushing on 20 carries with a 18-yard touchdown run. - Appalachian State/AP College Football


(DS#19 QB) rSr/2023 QB Chase BriceAppalachian State
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  Chase Brice is determined to make the most of what is left of his roller-coaster college career. He took a big step forward Wednesday night. Brice threw for 347 yards and two touchdowns, Chandler Staton kicked a 24-yard field goal as time expired and Appalachian State upset 14th-ranked Coastal Carolina 30-27 in front of a capacity crowd of 31,061 at Kidd Brewer Stadium. After spending three years at Clemson mostly backing up Trevor Lawrence and then going 2-9 last season as a starter at Duke, Brice transferred to Appalachian State looking for a new start and a chance to win big football games. "Right now I'm getting an opportunity to kind of flip the script on certain things about me that get talked about and written about," Brice said. "So that's kind of my goal." Malik Williams had a monster game catching some well-placed bombs from Brice, finishing with 10 catches for 206 yards and a touchdown.

Camerun Peoples ran for two touchdowns and Corey Sutton had 113 yards receiving and a score for the Mountaineers (5-2, 2-1 Sun Belt). They have never lost at home to the Chanticleers. The Mountaineers moved into the driver's seat in the conference's East division and the loss could prevent Coastal Carolina (6-1, 2-1) from reaching the championship game. "We're in control of our own destiny right now," said Appalachian State coach Shawn Clark, whose team bounced back from a 41-13 loss last week at Louisiana-Lafayette. "I'm so proud of this team and everyone involved in our organization." Coastal Carolina came in averaging 48.8 points, but the Chanticleers were outgained 575 to 376 and the offense struggled to protect QB Grayson McCall in the second half. - Appalachian State/AP College Football


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  Brady McBride scored on the first possession of the fourth overtime and Texas State held on to beat South Alabama 33-31 on Saturday night. Eric Sutton, a graduate transfer from SMU, deflected a pass from South Alabama's Jake Bentley in the end zone on the final play. South Alabama (3-2, 0-2 Sun Belt) led by 14 points before Marcell Barbee made a toe-tap catch as he fell out of the side of the end zone to make it 24-17 with 7:17 left in regulation. Then, on fourth-and-goal from the 1, Jahmyl Jeter waited patiently for a blocker and then powered over the goal line with 17 seconds left to force overtime. Jalen Tolbert scored on a 12-yard catch-and-run on the first possession of OT to give the Jaguars a 31-24 lead, but Brock Sturges answered with a short TD run for Texas State (2-3, 1-0) to force a second overtime, which - along with the third - was scoreless. - Texas State/AP College Football

(DS#999 QB) rSr/2024 QB Brady McBrideAppalachian State
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  OCT 4 SUN BELT DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: D'Marco Jackson, App State, (Sr., LB – Spartanburg, S.C.),...Mountaineers senior linebacker D'Marco Jackson filled up the stat sheet in App State's 45-16 win at Georgia State. The Spartanburg, S.C., product accumulated nine tackles, 2.0 tackles-for-loss, a sack, an interception, a pass breakup and a quarterback hurry—all in the first three quarters. Jackson, who had seven tackles resulting in a Panther gain of two yards or less, and the App State defense held the opposition to less than 30 points for the 18th-straight game. - Sun Belt Football

(DS#8 ILB) rSr/2022 ILB DMarco JacksonAppalachian State
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  Chase Brice threw three touchdown passes and Appalachian State dominated the second half in a 45-16 win over Georgia State in the Sun Belt Conference opener on Saturday. Brice was 20-for-28 passing for 326 yards, two big chunks when he hit Corey Sutton for 79 yards in the third quarter and Christian Wells for 80 in the fourth. Those one-play drives highlighted a string of five-straight scoring possessions that turned a 14-6 halftime lead into 45-9 after 31-straight points.

The Mountaineers (4-1) improved to 50-9 since joining the Sun Belt Conference and are 8-0 all-time against the Panthers (1-4). Appalachian State had 304 of its total 502 yards after the break, even with leading rusher Nate Noel not playing in the second half. Noel had 74 yards on 12 carries and a touchdown in the first half. Sutton caught four balls for 106 yards. Georgia State freshman Tailique Williams scored his first career touchdown on a 66-yard catch-and-run to close the scoring. The Panthers had 380 yards of offense but had three turnovers and lost two defenders on targeting calls in the second half. - Appalachian State/AP College Football


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  Camerun Peoples ran for three touchdowns and Nate Noel rushed for 87 of his 187 yards on a game-saving drive and Appalachian State defeated Marshall 31-30 on Thursday night. After Chandler Stanton's 45-yard field goal put the Mountaineers on top with 5:45 to play, the defense held but Robert Lefevre's 45-yard punt pinned Appalachian State on its 8-yard line with four minutes remaining. Noel then carried five-straight times, the last two 41-and 22-yard bursts that put the Mountaineers (3-1) on the Marshall 5. Quarterback Chase Brice then knelt down three times to run out the clock.

After the second of Brice's touchdowns, Rasheen Ali had a 97-yard kickoff return to give Marshall a 20-14 lead. But Brice capped a third long drive with a touchdown two seconds before halftime to put Appalachian State back on top 21-20. Ali's touchdown run gave Marshall (2-2) a 30-21 lead entering the fourth quarter. The former conference rivals from the FCS days were meeting for the second time as FBS schools with Marshall winning 17-7 last season. - Appalachian State/AP College Football


(DS#21 RB) rSr/2023 RB Camerun PeoplesAppalachian State
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  Chase Brice ran for one touchdown and passed for another to lead Appalachian State to a 44-10 win over in-state FCS foe Elon on Saturday. Brice opened the scoring on a 47-yard hookup with Malik Williams to open the scoring and his 1-yard plunge early in the third quarter pushed the lead to 20-3. Camerun Peoples had two touchdown runs in the second half, Anderson Castle added one in the closing minute and Chandler Stanton kicked his his third field goal as the Mountaineers (2-1) pulled away. Appalachian State finished with 528 yards of offense with Brice completing 19 of 25 passes for 293 yards. Corey Sutton had seven receptions for 128 yards and Williams four for 123. Peoples finished with 80 yards on 11 carries. Elon had 291 yards. Davis Cheek passed for 225 yards. - Appalachian State/AP College Football

(DS#19 QB) rSr/2023 QB Chase BriceAppalachian State
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  Standing underneath the new football facility, Demetrius Taylor made a vulnerable point. The Appalachian State defensive end could point to a handful of reasons for why he decided to stay in Boone for one more season. But a big one came to mind. "There's a lot of stuff piling on top of you," Taylor said. "I had gained weight. Mentally, I wasn't here." There were plenty of reasons why. Off the field ahead of the 2020 season, Taylor encountered major life moments, both good and bad: His mother died unexpectedly in April 2020, and two months later he welcomed twin sons into the world. Then a COVID-19 quarantine resulted in no type of football warmup, making him play catchup for the first half of the season.

So when the Mountaineers finished their 9-3 season, and Taylor considered which way to go with his life, he felt like he deserved a chance at one more college season with a healthy mind and body. "Learning about the process, going into the NFL, you've got training and this and that," Taylor said. "I just wouldn't have been able to do it. So I say they blessed us with the COVID year because it's a sign you could come back or if you think it's time to go, then go. But obviously for me, it was a sign for me to come back because I played all four years. I didn't have a redshirt year." - Winston-Salem Journal


(DS#21 DT) rSr/2022 DT Demetrius TaylorAppalachian State
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  Chase Brice threw for 259 yards and two touchdowns and Appalachian State ran for 226 yards to beat East Carolina 33-19 in a season opener on Thursday night. Holton Ahlers gave the Pirates the lead on a 63-yard touchdown pass to Keaton Mitchell early in the first quarter. Brice engineered a pair of scoring drives, hitting Thomas Hennigan from 34 yards out to cap a seven-play, 66-yard drive, and moving 78 yards in nine plays, with Camerun Peoples scoring on a 21-yard run.

Chandler Staton kicked two second-quarter field goals, from 21 and 43 yards, to put to put the Mountaineers up 20-6 at halftime. Brice was 20-of-27 passing and was picked off once. Nate Noel carried 15 times for 126 yards and People added 100 yards and two rushing touchdowns on 14 carries. Ahlers was 22 of 40 for 295 yards and two touchdowns and an interception. Mitchell led the Pirates with 50 yards on four carries and pulled in six passes for 80 yards and a score. - Appalachian State/AP College Football


(DS#19 QB) rSr/2023 QB Chase BriceAppalachian State
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  The favorite to replace Zac Thomas at quarterback is Chase Brice, formerly of Clemson and Duke. Brice looks to shake off a year with the Blue Devils that featured frequent turnovers, and start anew with a team that gives him talent to work with at every offensive position. "Will he be a starter? Time will tell," Clark said at the Sun Belt's media day. "Right now going into camp he will be our starter." To add more depth to the room and provide push, Jacob Huesman has returned for a sixth year with the program. - Winston-Salem Journal

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  Between an ACL tear near the end of the 2019 season and opting out in 2020, Corey Sutton hasn't played for App State in almost two years. Healthy and ready, the super-senior wide receiver will bring a lethal component back to the field. Sutton is fifth in App State history with 17 receiving touchdowns, a feat he has accomplished in just 22 games. Eight touchdown receptions this season would tie him for second with Bob Agle (who played from 1965 to 1968) at 25. Brian Quick holds the all-time career record with 31. - Winston-Salem Journal

(DS#54 WR) rSr/2022 WR Corey SuttonAppalachian State
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  Appalachian State's football team has been selected as the co-favorite to win its division in the Sun Belt Conference. Nine Mountaineers are predicted to land places on the All-Sun Belt team: six on the first team and three on the second team. App State and Coastal Carolina were picked as the likely East Division winners, earning 44 points each in voting by the 10 head coaches and a journalist who covers each of the schools. The Chanticleers garnered six first-place votes, while the Mountaineers had four. Coastal Carolina, which went 11-1 in 2020 and finished at No. 12 in the final College Football Playoff rankings, defeated App State 34-23 last season. The teams will meet in Boone on Oct. 20. - Winston-Salem Journal

(DS#19 QB) rSr/2023 QB Chase BriceAppalachian State
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  Madison Cone, an East Forsyth graduate and former defensive back at the University of Wisconsin, will finish his college football career closer to home. Cone announced on Twitter that he would join Appalachian State as a grad transfer on Tuesday. The 5-foot-9 safety played in 33 career games for the Badgers, spanning from the 2017 season to the 2020 season. He graduated in December. In February, Cone announced that he would join Buffalo as a grad transfer. Since then, the Bulls have gone through a coaching change. Former head coach Lance Leipold was hired at Kansas, replaced by former Michigan defensive backs coach Maurice Linguist. Cone becomes the fourth graduate transfer brought in by the Mountaineers. Quarterback Chase Brice (Duke), running back Jahmir Smith (Notre Dame) and safety Stu Head (Stanford) chose to join the App State program since the 2020 season ended. - Winston-Salem Journal

(DS#37 FS) rSr/2022 FS Madison ConeAppalachian State
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  On May 21, Appalachian State University announced its campus would return to pre-pandemic operations for the fall 2021 semester, with safety precautions in place. That announcement followed North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper's lifting of the state's capacity and gathering limits, social distancing requirements and most face covering mandates. App State will continue to follow all state and federal orders and directives of The University of North Carolina System, and will adhere to guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local public health in order to ensure the safest possible on-campus environment. The university will continue to set the standard for excellence with safety measures and cleaning procedures. - High County Press

(DS#19 QB) rSr/2023 QB Chase BriceAppalachian State
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