There is not a team in the Sun Belt that has been more dominant than Appalachian State.
Since making the leap to FBS and joining the Sun Belt in 2014, the Mountaineers have been outright or co-conference champions four times. While the team from Boone, N.C., wasn’t eligible for a bowl bid in 2014 while making its transition, it’s received one every year since, winning its first six bowl games before losing to Western Kentucky in the Boca Raton Bowl in 2021.
You could say App State has had a couple of down years, but only because it didn’t bring home a title — the team still went 9-3 in 2020, finishing in second place in the Sun Belt’s East Division, then went 10-4 in 2021, losing to Louisiana in the league’s championship game.
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