Appalachian State? Are you kidding me.....

I was away in Whistler, BC for the weekend, doing some R&R, and had no access to college football save for whatever games were on ABC and NBC. I had decided to TIVO the Penn State game, since I wasn't really worried about the game being ruined by someone telling me the score.

I had received a few texts and updates about the PSU game, when my good friend Mike Lagg sent me a text saying that Michigan was losing 28-14 to Apppalachian State!

This was actually better news than Penn State being up big at the half. A while later, I was on the phone with another good friend, Seth Holst, who as we were chatting informed me that Mike Hart just ripped off a 53 yard TD run to put the Wolverines up 32-31 with about 5 minutes left. As we chatted, he further informed me that the ASU QB had just thrown a pick. I figured that with the ball deep in ASU (that's Appalachian State, NOT Arizona State for you skim readers), it was game over.

A little while later, my phone rings again, with my friend Mike Lagg back on the phone. He informed me that ASU had just kicked a FG on 1st down (why did they do that instead of running the clock down.but I digress) to go up 34-32.

He was kind enough to stay on the phone with me, giving me the play by play as Mario Manningham hauled in a long bomb (how the hell did he get into single coverage?) with 6 seconds left. Looks like Michigan was going to pull out a BS victory.

But the cries of "BLOCKED, BLOCKED" came screaming through my phone, as on the other in, in disbelief, I found out that Michigan had choked and lost.

While the call that I heard on the phone was great, none was better than this young ASU fan's sheer joy from right in the big house:



In terms of sporting upsets, this surely must top the charts. I mean no professional sporting upset can compare to a 1AA team beating the #5 team in the polls. So what other giant killer games are out there? Feel free to leave a comment.