APPALACHIAN ST vs CHARLOTTE
When: 6:00 PM ET, Saturday, September 8, 2018
Where: Jerry Richardson Stadium, Charlotte, North Carolina

TV: 12:00 PM
LINE:
PREDICTION: CHARLOTTE , APPALACHIAN ST

Oddsmakers currently have the CHARLOTTE listed as point favorites versus the APPALACHIAN ST, while the game’s total is sitting at .

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APPALACHIAN ST vs PENN ST
When: 3:30 PM ET, Saturday, September 1, 2018
Where: Beaver Stadium, University Park, Pennsylvania

TV: 3:30 PM
LINE: -23
PREDICTION: PENN ST , APPALACHIAN ST

Oddsmakers currently have the PENN ST listed as -23 point favorites versus the APPALACHIAN ST, while the game’s total is sitting at 54.

No. 9 Penn State said goodbye to perhaps the most dynamic player in college football but they have plenty in place to stay at or near the top of the Big Ten. The Nittany Lions begin another season with high expectations with a tricky opener when they play host to Appalachian State on Saturday.

Saquon Barkley, who electrified the Penn State program while scoring a school-record 51 touchdowns in three years, is now a rookie with the New York Giants, yielding the full glow of the limelight to senior quarterback Trace McSorley – the second-leading passer in program history. A late collapse and a one-point loss at Ohio State followed by a last-second defeat at Michigan State kept the Nittany Lions from a chance at a second straight Big Ten title last year, but they’ve won 14 straight at home. The Mountaineers are no pushover after picking up 30 wins – including a 3-0 bowl record – over the last three years and garnering six first-place votes in the Sun Belt Conference preseason coaches’ poll. They pulled off one of the biggest upsets in college football history exactly 11 years to the day with a 34-32 triumph at a highly-ranked Michigan team.

TV: 3:30 p.m. ET, Big Ten Network. LINE: Penn State -24

ABOUT APPALACHIAN STATE (2017: 9-4): Zac Thomas will take over under center and can lean heavily on senior running back Jalin Moore, who had 1,037 yards and 12 touchdowns on the ground last year. Thomas Hennigan hauled in seven TD catches as a freshman in 2017 and will lead a talented receiving corps. The defensive side features a standout in the secondary in Clifton Duck, who led the Sun Belt with six interceptions as a sophomore last year after winning league Freshman of the Year honors the prior season.

ABOUT PENN STATE (2017: 11-2): McSorley lost three of his top four targets and Barkley yields to Miles Sanders, who averaged 6.2 yards per carry as his backup a year ago. “I can’t wait,” Sanders told reporters of his chance to start. “I don’t like doing too much talking. That’s never been me. I’m just ready to show what I can do, show the Big Ten, show everybody.” Juwan Johnson (701 receiving yards) and DeAndre Thompkins (443) step into the spotlight in the passing game, while a committee of tight ends is expected to try to fill the void left behind by Mike Gesicki, the program’s all-time leader in catches, yards and TDs at the position.

EXTRA POINTS 

1. McSorley (7,369 career passing yards) needs 1,089 to pass Christian Hackenberg and become the school’s all-time leader.

2. Moore has 3,170 rushing yards, 688 behind the school’s all-time leader (Marcus Cox, 2014-16).

3. This will be the first meeting between the teams.

PREDICTION: Penn State 42, Appalachian State 16

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Toledo Rockets vs. Appalachian State Mountaineers
When: 5:30 PM ET, Saturday, December 17, 2016
Where: Cramton Bowl, Montgomery, Alabama

TV: 5:30 p.m. ET, ESPN.
LINE: Toledo -1
PREDICTION: Toledo 38, Appalachian State 31

Oddsmakers currently have the Mountaineers listed as 1-point favorites versus the Rockets, while the game’s total is sitting at 61.

Appalachian State and Toledo will meet for the first time when they clash in the Raymon Media Camellia Bowl on Saturday in Montgomery, Ala., but the two coaches are not strangers.

Mountaineers coach Scott Satterfield spent a season as Toledo’s passing game coordinator before moving on Florida International and then to Appalachian State. Toledo coach Jason Candle was the Rockets wide receivers coach while Satterfield was on the Toledo staff.

“I have a tremendous amount of respect for Toledo and how they play the game,” Satterfield said. “Having been there in 2009, it is a similar program to what we have at Appalachian State, a blue-collar program. Their guys play hard and physical.

“Jason has done an outstanding job taking over there.”

Candle reciprocated.

“I certainly have a lot of respect for Scott and what he has been able to do with that football program,” he said. “I think it’s really cool.”

The Rockets (9-3) and Mountaineers (9-3) will kick off at 5:30 p.m. ET at the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, with ESPN airing the action.

The Rockets will be making their 16th bowl appearance overall and sixth in the last seven years, but Candle considers the postseason anything but routine.

“At Toledo, we don’t take these opportunities very lightly,” he said. “In 2013, we were 7-5 and did not get invited to a bowl game.”

There wasn’t much in the way of doubt this time around. The Rockets reached bowl eligibility with their sixth win (31-17 over Central Michigan) on Oct. 22 and added three more wins before losing to undefeated Western Michigan 55-35 in the season finale.

Junior quarterback Logan Woodside led an offensive surge by throwing an FBS-high 43 touchdown passes and setting a school record in passing yardage with 3,882, completing 69.1 percent of his attempts.

“Logan has had a tremendous season,” Candle said, citing his quarterback’s work ethic. “He’s a gym rat in the old-school sense.”

Wide receivers Corey Jones and Cody Thompson combined for 119 catches and tight end Michael Roberts had 43. Running back Kareem Hunt topped off a 1,300-yard rushing season with 200 yards against Western Michigan, his 27th career triple-digit rushing game.

Appalachian State, which beat Ohio 31-29 in last year’s Camellia Bowl, will counter Toledo’s prolific passing game with a defense that has allowed only 10 touchdown passes and ranks No. 3 nationally in interceptions with 20, five by freshman cornerback Clifton Duck.

The Mountaineers have a two-pronged rushing game with Jalin Moore leading with 1,367 yards and veteran Marcus Cox, who missed four games to injury, adding 847. Cox is the nation’s No. 2 active rusher with 4,960 yards. No. 3 is Toledo’s Hunt with 4,825.

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