Appalachian State 20, South Carolina 15
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Forty-four years after he helped App State improbably beat South Carolina for the first time, Tommy Sofield stood in Williams-Brice Stadium and called out for the Mountaineers to force a Gamecock turnover.
 
Moments later, true freshman Nicholas Ross returned a second-quarter interception for a tiebreaking touchdown.
 
Make that two dramatic wins against the SEC program. And a locker room celebration that included Sofield holding a commemorative game ball. 
 
Becoming just the seventh Group of Five conference team since the Sun Belt was formed in 2001 to post two Autonomy Five road wins in the same season, App State escaped Columbia with a 20-15 victory in front of 80,849 fans and an ESPN2 audience Saturday night.

It also marked the program's first win over an Southeastern Conference school.

NOTES
The Sun Belt has recorded four wins against Autonomy Five conference opponents in the same season for the first time in conference history:

- Georgia State’s win at Tennessee was its first over a Southeastern Conference opponent and first against an Autonomy Five opponent in the program’s 10-year history. 

- Coastal Carolina’s win at Kansas was its first over a Big 12 Conference opponent and first in eight tries against an Autonomy Five opponent in the program’s 17-year history. 

- Appalachian State's win at North Carolina was its first win against an Autonomy Five opponent since the victory at Michigan in 2007 when the Mountaineers were an NCAA Football Championship Subdivision program.

• Appalachian State's win at South Carolina marked the conference’s 12th win over an Autonomy Five opponent in the last 10 seasons (2011-19). Ten of the league’s 12 Autonomy Five wins during that span have been on the road.