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Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:10 |
BOONE ÇƒÓ Defending national champion Appalachian State earned the top seed in the 16-team NCAA Division I Football Championship field for the second year in a row and will host Coastal Carolina in first-round action at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Kidd Brewer Stadium. The matchup will be televised live on ESNPU.
Appalachian State, Montana, Massachusetts and Youngstown State picked up the four playoff seeds.
The Mountaineers finished the season with a 10-1 record, including wins in their final 10 contests. They won the Southern Conference with a perfect 7-0 mark and held the No. 1 spot in The Sports Network top 25 for the last five weeks of the regular season.
ASU
is guaranteed homefield advantage, where it has won 24 games in a row,
if it continues to advance through the first three rounds of the
playoffs.
No. 13 Coastal
Carolina made the field for the first time in school history as an
at-large participant with a 9-2 record. The Mountaineers defeated
Coastal Carolina 30-3 in 2005.
The winner of
that ASU-CC matchup will face the winner of the Furman-Montana State
game in the quarterfinals. Both teams earned at-large bids, with the
Paladins finishing with an 8-3 record and the Bobcats ending the season
with a 7-4 mark. Montana State will host the first-round game.
The
quarterfinals will be played at campus sites on Dec. 2, with the
semifinals set for Dec. 8 and Dec. 9. The national championship game
will be played at 8 p.m. Dec. 15 at Finley Stadium in Chattanooga, Tenn.
As a result of
Saturdayës ASU football game being televised, tipoff for the
Mountaineersë womenës basketball contest versus Georgetown has been
changed from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Holmes Center. All fans with ticket
stubs from the football game will be granted free admission to womenës
contest.
ASU football tickets, which are still available, may be purchased by calling (828) 262-2079 or online at www.GOASU.com.
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