Quarterback Zac Thomas and Appalachian State flirted with a season-opening upset over a top-10 team Saturday. [College football winners and losers Week 1: Oklahoma isn’t missing Baker Mayfield yet]Even in heat that bordered upon uninhabitable, college football came back Saturday and hurriedly dished out something delirious. That led to a 38-38 tie, precisely 11 years after Appalachian State won so famously at Michigan, and that led to a 5-foot-11, 180-pound redshirt sophomore kicker standing amid the masses, and that led to one of the world’s stranger phenomena. [Auburn holds off Washington for a big win to hang its hat on]So the “zone run” gave No. The great coach, Jim Harbaugh, can’t win the great games, a fourth season beginning with a 21-3 second-quarter deficit to Notre Dame.

Source: Washington Post September 02, 2018 12:56 UTC