Team

• ASU has now lost back-to-back games in a season for the first time since it dropped decisions to Hawaii and Eastern Kentucky to open the 2003 campaign.
• ASU moved to 58-19-2 (.747) all-time in home openers.
• Appalachian remains winless all-time against teams from the state of Louisiana. (0-8)
• ASU moved to 1-7 in eight all-time matchups versus current members of the Southland Conference.

Individual

• 2008 Walter Payton Award winner Armanti Edwards made his season debut after missing all of fall camp and last weekend's opener at East Carolina with a foot injury. Edwards tallied 298 yards of total offense and two touchdowns.
• With his 298 yards of total offense, Edwards moved up three spots into 16^th place in the NCAA Division I FCS history with 11,081 total yards in his career.
• Junior running back Devon Moore notched the second 100-yard rushing game of his career with a career-high 155 yards on 23 carries. His only previous 100-yard rushing game and previous career-high came with 100 yards versus Eastern Washington in the 2007 NCAA Division I quarterfinals.
• Sophomore Ed Gainey made a key interception on the first play of the fourth quarter that gave the ASU defense its first stop of the second half. The interception was the first of Gainey's career.