Paterno coached at Penn State for 46 seasons, becoming college football’s winningest coach.
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It was do or die time for Appalachian State. Though both teams had opportunities to drive to win, a missed Appalachian State field goal and empty drives forced overtime. The Volunteers were lucky beyond belief to beat Appalachian State in overtime Thursday night, not that Appy is any appetizer.
“We knew coming into the game that we were facing a top-10 defense”, Dobbs said. It remains to be seen whether the close escape will hinder the Volunteers’ playoff prospects. (The lone victory was over Georgia on the day Nick Chubb got hurt.) I picked them again this year because I thought they’d begun to sort things out.
The Mountaineers traveled to Knoxville to start the season on a Thursday night with an upset on their mind.
We’re back with our Tennessee Football Smokey Points.
He completed 17 of 23 passes for 286 yards and rushed 11 times for 119 yards, including a 36-yard TD run on Louisville’s opening drive.
Well, if that’s going to happen Josh Dobbs must play like a totally different quarterback than we saw Thursday. Dobbs finished with 192 passing yards with a touchdown and a bad interception near the end of the first half that kept the Volunteers from getting a field goal attempt. “I think the next thing in our evolution of our program is our players understanding is every team is going to play their best against the University of Tennessee”, said Jones. To be fair, we’ll better be able to answer that a month from now.
Cam Sutton muffed his first punt return of the game, which led to an Appalachian State touchdown on a Taylor Lamb quarterback keeper.
Tennessee’s march to fulfill lofty preseason expectations nearly got derailed as soon as it started.
MIAMI – Richard Lagow passed for one score and ran for another in the fourth quarter, and in returned two interceptions for touchdowns in its season-opening 34-13 victory over Florida International. Satterfield clearly wanted his team to move cautiously-the first play call was another run up the middle, and they ran the clock down in between snaps-but three nice passes put App State once again to the edge of field goal range.
When considering the coaching for this game it was the tale of two sides of the ball.
Appalachian State’s Michael Rubino, who earlier missed an extra point, was wide right on a 42-yard field goal with 5:24 left after Jaquil Capel’s 57-yard punt return gave Appalachian State the ball at the 28.
Winning the game was half the battle for Dobbs.
“I didn’t want to put the ball in jeopardy downfield, and they played good coverage”, Lamb said. “So I felt like that was a big turning point for us in the game, which we could have capitalized on more”.
Trailing 13-6 in the fourth quarter, Tennessee tied the game when Dobbs threw a 67-yard touchdown pass to Josh Malone with productive true freshman Clifton Duck defending in single coverage and 10:30 remaining in the game.
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“On a night where just about everything and anything went wrong, we found a way to win”, Tennessee coach Butch Jones said. Had no idea that the Vols planned to run two different longsnappers out there with Elijah Medford being used on kicks and Riley Lovingood on punts. It was something to watch because Tennessee was down 13-3 at the half. “We just scored it.’ A touchdown is a touchdown”.
