APPALACHIAN STATE 37, GEORGIA STATE 3
OCTOBER 10, 2015 • ATLANTA, GA. (GEORGIA DOME)
POSTGAME NOTES
Team
• With the win in its 2015 Sun Belt Conference opener, Appalachian State moved to 4-1 overall. Georgia State fell to 1-4 (1-1 Sun Belt).
• The win was Appalachian State's seventh-straight Sun Belt Conference victory.
• Appalachian State won for the 10th time in its last 11 games overall.
• Appalachian State won for the fifth time in its last six road games.
• Appalachian State moved to 2-0 all-time against Georgia State. The Mountaineers beat the Panthers, 44-0, on Nov. 1, 2014 in Boone, N.C.
• In two games against Georgia State, Appalachian State has outscored GSU, 81-3, and outgained the Panthers, 1,065-287.
• Appalachian State's 291 passing yards were a season high (prev.: 287 vs. Howard, Sept. 5) and its most in its most in 11 games, dating back to its 397 passing yards vs. Liberty on Oct. 11, 2014.
• Appalachian State limited Georgia State, which came in to the game ranked among the nation's top 35 in both total offense (452.5 ypg – 32nd) and passing offense (345.8 ypg – 12th), to just 225 total yards and 166 passing yards (227.5 and 179.8 below its season averages, respectively).
Individual
• Sophomore cornerback Latrell Gibbs scored on an interception return for the second-straight week when he returned a fourth-quarter INT 53 yards for a touchdown. Gibbs' interception was his fifth in five games this season – he has one interception in each contest and was tied for second nationally with 1.0 INT/gm coming into Saturday's game.
• Senior wide receiver Malachi Jones caught three passes for 102 yards. The 100-yard receiving game was the second of his career and the first by a Mountaineer since he had 105 yards vs. Liberty on Oct. 11, 2014.
• Senior place kicker Zach Matics made a career-high three field goals (45, 22 and 39 yards). The three made field goals doubled the number of field goals that Matics had made in his entire career coming in to the game and were the most field goals made in a game by a Mountaineer since Sam Martin (now with the Detroit Lions) made four vs. Furman on Nov. 11, 2012.
• Sophomore tight end Levi Duffield's nine-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter came on the first catch of his career.
