{"id":9541,"date":"2017-08-02T20:49:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T00:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9541"},"modified":"2017-08-02T20:49:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T00:49:29","slug":"throwback-thursday-jmu-over-app-state-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9541","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: JMU Over App State in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AqmVrsteBhw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>JMU football officially kicked off 2017 today with the start of preseason camp. Which means that the season is so close that it&#8217;s perfectly acceptable for fans to spend 2 or 3 hours a day looking at highlight videos. May we suggest starting with this one featuring the Dukes 35-32 win over Appalachian State back in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>If you weren&#8217;t there for the game, we&#8217;re sorry. Hyperbole is the worst thing ever, but this game might have been the single greatest FCS regular season game ever. App State rolled into the &#8216;burg as the #1 team in the country and 3 time defending National Champion. The Dukes were ranked #5 in the country and eager to avenge a 2007 playoff defeat to App State. In that game, JMU was in position to win late, and then bad stuff happened. I don&#8217;t want to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>The 2008 game was easily the biggest home game in JMU history up to that time. With a full day of tailgating before the evening kickoff, fans had Bridgeforth absolutely rocking at kickoff. Then Armanti Edwards and the Mountaineers jumped out to a 21-0 lead and things looked pretty bleak. But Scotty McGee took the second half kick to the house so fast that some fans who were taking advantage of the leave\/re-enter policy to drown their sorrows in the parking lot (<em>cough, me &amp; Todd<\/em>) barely made it back into the stadium in time to see it explode. From that point the rally was on. Rodney Landers and the Dukes played about as good a half of football as you&#8217;ll ever see and JMU walked out with a 35-32 victory. It was quite simply, epic.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D9541&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JMU football officially kicked off 2017 today with the start of preseason camp. Which means that the season is so close that it&#8217;s perfectly acceptable for fans to spend 2 or 3 hours a day looking at highlight videos. May we suggest starting with this one featuring the Dukes 35-32 win over Appalachian State back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1779,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=1779","url_meta":{"origin":9541,"position":0},"title":"JMU Loses at the Buzzer and Technology Screws Me","date":"December 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Dukes' six game winning steak came to an abrupt halt today with a 64-63 loss to Georgia State. The loss was bad enough on its own . Coming at the hands of the lowly Georgia State Panthers on a buzzer beater made it worse. 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