Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game

2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the TFAR nomination of the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add   to the top of the discussion and   at the bottom, then complete a new TFAR nom underneath.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/August 29, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 16:13, 17 August 2014 (UTC)



The 2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game was a regular season college football game between the Appalachian State Mountaineers and Michigan Wolverines. The Wolverines were ranked No. 5 in the upper-tier Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), while the Mountaineers were ranked No. 1 in the second-tier Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), of which they were the defending champions. Games between FBS and FCS teams typically result in lopsided victories for the FBS team, and the game was not expected to be an exception. However, in an upset hailed as one of the greatest in college football history, the Mountaineers won 34–32 (scoreboard pictured), blocking a potentially game-winning field goal attempt by Michigan in the waning seconds to secure their win. The Mountaineers became the first FCS team to defeat a ranked FBS team, while the Wolverines became the first top-five team to drop out of the polls as the result of a single game. The game received a large amount of coverage in American sports media, and both teams went on to have successful seasons, with Appalachian State winning the FCS championship and Michigan winning a bowl game.
 * Most recent similar article(s): None; no American football FAs have been a TFA this year.
 * Main editors: Toa Nidhiki05
 * Promoted: March 9, 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: September 1 marks the seventh anniversary of the game, and also comes one day after the August 30, 2014 rematch the two teams are scheduled to play. This would be my first article to appear on TFA.
 * Support as nominator.  Toa   Nidhiki05  19:59, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Welcome to TFAR. The blurb is currently 716 characters long, and ideally it would be about (but not exceeding) 1200 characters - any chance you could expand it? Thanks. BencherliteTalk 03:30, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Guess my word checker was wrong! Bumped to around 1150 characters now.  Toa   Nidhiki05  13:50, 5 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Scheduling for 29th August - 30th August was already taken, strong support for something else on 1st September... so this is the closest we can get. Enjoy TFA day! BencherliteTalk 16:13, 17 August 2014 (UTC)