BOONE, N.C. — When coach Jerry Moore took his Appalachian State University football to Michigan for a contest to open the 2007 season, he told his players and coaches to embrace it as a game of opportunity.
Nine years to the day of the Mountaineers’ earth-rattling 34-32 upset of the fifth-ranked Wolverines in front of 109,218 screaming fans at Michigan Stadium, ASU faces another propitious moment in the history of its program.
App State opens the 2016 campaign Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in historic Neyland Stadium — with more than 100,000 fans expected to attend — against the No.