NO. 9/8 APPALACHIAN STATE 28, ELON 24
NOVEMBER 19, 2011 • ELON, N.C. (RHODES STADIUM)
POSTGAME NOTES

 Team

• Appalachian finishes the regular season at 8-3 overall and tied for second place in the Southern Conference at 6-2 in league play.
• ASU all but clinched a seventh-straight berth in the NCAA Division I Football championship and will likely receive a first-round bye and second-round home game when the field for the 20-team tournament is announced on Sunday at 10 a.m. (ESPNU).
• ASU won its 16th-straight game over Elon, dating back to 1965.
• ASU overcame a 21-0 first-quarter deficit in Saturday's win, tying the largest deficit that it has ever rallied from in a victory since joining the NCAA Division I ranks in 1972. The only other time that ASU ever trailed by 21 points and rallied to win in the Division I era was in the 2010 season opener at Chattanooga, when it was behind 35-14 in the fourth quarter and rallied for a 42-41 victory.
• ASU, which trailed 24-14 at halftime, overcame a halftime deficit to win for the second time this season. ASU rallied from down 3-0 at the half in a 14-12 win over Chattanooga on Sept. 24.
• ASU trailed 24-21 after three quarters, marking the first time since the 2010 season opener at Chattanooga that it rallied from being behind at the beginning of the fourth quarter.

Individual

• Senior wide receiver Brian Quick caught 11 passes for 150 yards to match an ASU single-season record with his seventh 100-yard game of the year. He tied the school record set by DaVon Fowlkes in 2004.
• Quick finished the regular season with 1,055 receiving yards on the campaign, good for the fifth 1,000-yard season in ASU history and first of his career.
• Quick's 11 receptions matched a career high and are tied for eighth in single-game school history.
• Sophomore quarterback Jamal Jackson threw a career-high four touchdown passes. He had previously thrown three touchdowns in a game twice this season. The four touchdown passes were the most by a Mountaineer since DeAndre Presley tied a school record with five touchdown passes versus The Citadel on Oct. 16, 2010.