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- Pick/market: Despite an average third-down distance of 11.1 yards, App is 5-11 today.

- Pick/market: Appalachian State opened 1-0 with an overwhelming home win vs.

- GREENVILLE, N.C. — App State Football hits the road for its first away game of 2026, as the Mountaineers (1-0) will face East Carolina (0-1) on Saturday at noon in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.

- Pick/market: App goes 4-3 with Sloan at LB.

- Pick/market: Good so far...3-3 on fourth down Not good so far...1-5 on third down

- Pick/market: TE again, under 00:45

- BOONE, N.C. — App State Football opened the 2026 season with a dominant home win over Maine, recording a 55-3 victory in front of a sold-out crowd of 33,664 at Kidd Brewer Stadium on Saturday.

- Pick/market: That's an App State touchdown!

- Pick/market: That's an App State touchdown!

- App State can vary DJ Smith's base 4-2-5 with 4-3 looks on early downs and in the red zone, using Colton Phares' run-support and coverage versatility. The Maine game also showed the importance of rotation context: passing production rose from 5 of 13 for 44 yards in the first half to 13 of 19 for 154 after halftime as deeper reserves played; a tighter secondary rotation against ECU is the preview writer's expectation, not an announced snap plan. - In its 2026 opener, App State used quick throws and short rollouts, with Singleton's average completion traveling five yards before nearly nine yards after the catch. Lewis and Cross ran productively, and Kanye Roberts returned from his 2025 ACL injury on limited carries. ECU's quicker pressure will test whether the line and Singleton can repeat that efficiency against stronger opposition.

- Injury: I'll be speaking with Loggains after practice today, we'll talk mostly about the ECU matchup but I will catch-up on my Monday absence by asking about injuries.

- Injury: Mbake had been on the side working under injury protocl going back to the week before and though he was warming up normally to my eye before the game, he had not practiced much...

- QB/LB: Issue with the dump downs is that we've shown them in detaul and ECU can run with us better than Maine.

- QB: QB hit as he threw, wheel route to Loughlin down the sideline is picker by Phares.

- QB: Looking forward to having you guys visit for what, in my opinion, should become an annual home-and-home.

- QB: If there's anything nagging me about yesterday, it's this...

- Defense: Howse came from the backside there, was split out wide, zone coverage just lost him.

- Defense: Coverage sack, almost back to the line.

- Offense: Instead, ECU offense comes back out and converts the TD.

- Offense: That 47-yard completion is more than 20% of all Maine offense today.

- LB: Branch on jet sweep, LB just can't quite corral him and they were strung out at that point.

- Intel: Nate Branch up to nearly 100 total yards thanks to this 38-yard TD run!

- Intel: Sandman sack → Pitts pick 📺 Watch on ESPN+ #GoApp