UMass Football Blog: UMass Football News--October 29th, 2017

Best FBS win. Best win since Montana.

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The Minutemen set a lot "bests" in their win over Appalachian State, IMHO.

Best defensive performance in FBS era. Yes, the wins UMass achieved so far have been mostly defensive grinds, but yesterday's performance was superb. The defense has two INT's. Two forced fumbles and 8 TFL. The Minutemen deserved to win on the defensive effort alone.
Best kicking performance in the FBS era. Logan Laurant went 3 for 3 including a 45-yarder with five seconds left to tie the game. He then kicked a 36 yard FG for the first game-wining kick in memory. He had a career day. Take a bow, Logan!
Best single offensive drive of the FBS era. With a minute fifty seconds left, Comis led the offense 53 yards to set up the game-saving field goal.

We beat a league-leading FBS team. It was sweet.

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UMass write-up.

Appalachian State write-up.

Kevin Dillon of MassLive says Logan Laurant won it in overtime.

Dillon reports UMass rallied together after Andrew Ford's injury.

Matty Vautour says Logan Laurant's clutch field goals gave UMass the victory.

He also reports Andrew Ford's trip to the hospital seemed to be precautionary.

The Boston Herald says UMass bounces Appalachian State in double overtime.

The Charlotte Observer says the Mountaineers gave UMass the break it needed.

The UMass Daily Collegians reports Andrew Ford's injury sparked the Minutemen to victory.

Rotoworld says "break up the Minutemen".