Thursday night brings us an underrated showdown between two of the better Group of 5 teams in the nation as the Marshall Thundering Herd travel to take on the Appalachian State Mountaineers.
A model of consistency, App State has not had a single losing season since joining the FBS ranks in 2014. Marshall has also been a steady, winning program, as their last losing record came back in 2017. Both teams have suffered coaching turnover of late, with App State having their head coach poached by bigger-name programs in back-to-back seasons (Scott Satterfield after 2018 and Eli Drinkwitz after 2019) and Marshall parting ways with longtime coach Doc Holliday after an odd intervention by Governor Jim Justice and the school’s Board of Governors.