The
2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game was a
college football game held on September 1 at
Michigan Stadium on the campus of the
University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor, Michigan. It pitted the No. 5 ranked
Michigan Wolverines against the two-time
defending champions of the
Division I FCS, the
Appalachian State Mountaineers. In what was hailed as one of the biggest
upsets in the history of American sports,
the Mountaineers shocked the
fifth-ranked Wolverines 34–32. It was the first win ever by a team in Division I FCS over a "ranked" team in
Division I FBS since the
NCAA split its
Division I into two football subdivisions in 1978.
The game has been referred to by one sports writer as the
Miracle in Michigan.
This was also one of the very first football games broadcast by the
Big Ten Network, two days after its launch, but most of the country could not see it because most major providers did not yet carry the channel.