App. St. is usually good. Period. Especially after the Michigan upset , hardly no Power teams would schedule App. App fell off a tad for a bit, but they’d constantly be ranked in the top three or 4 programs in the state weekend and week out. Mind you, NC is not really a football state. But when NC State was extra, extra garbage and Duke was still its perpetual mediocre self and UNC remained in mediocrity and Wake not even on the radar, there’d be weeks where local sportscasters would rank App as the best team in the state.... say what you want, despite the mediocrity, you had experts still placing them over Power schools.
Here’s the deal with that PSU game and those like it (and this is partly why I said the B1G looks weak), many coaches will run vanilla offenses and defenses week 1 when playing “lesser comp.” However, the trenches and depth are supposed o make up for that and lead to the separation and score cushion happening at least by the 4th... a Power team that can’t bully an FCS team in the trenches and can’t get that separation and by 4th has some real issues ... definitely in terms of playoff aspirational type teams.
They lost to Georgia last year 31-10 but it was respectable due to what Georgia did last year
This thread gonna explode with comedy this season. 
