Biggest upset: Appalachian St or Chaminade?

[Bravesfan]

Which one of these games would qualify as the biggest upset in NCAA history? Today's "stellar" performance by Michigan losing at home to Appalachian St, or then NAIA Chaminade beating then #1 Virginia (at Chaminade) in basketball back in 1982?

Tough call for me. Though it was a home game for Chaminade, and fluky things are more likely to occur over a 30 game basketball season than over a 12 game football season, the fact that Chaminade was three divisions lower than the #1 Division 1 team in the country was absolutely stunning. But for ASU to go into Ann Arbor and take out a Division #1-A championship "contender" was equally as amazing! I'll take today's game by a thread as the biggest upset over the Chaminade upset, but it's really, really close!

[SFP]

The game was at Michigan!!!!

What a great win for the little guy! Gotta love it.

[Bravesfan]

What a great win for the little guy! Gotta love it.

Boy you better believe it!

[MacabreMob]

Boy you better believe it!

Agreed.

I gladly eat crow anyone wants to throw at me for being a Wolverine fan. Note: I prefer my crow served grilled - fire 'em up.

[Braves4Life]

ASU is to college football what Winona St is to college basketball.

I figured ASU would give Michigan a game. But this!?

[bert notorius]

What about the Drake?

[dogsrus]

Not to make excuses for Virginia but didn't they fly in from Japan or China the night before the game and were suffering from some serious jet lag....I seem to recall something to that affect?

[tornado]

Yes, they had played in Japan earlier beating Houston & Utah, and then went to Chaminade and lost 12/23/82.

Virginia center Ralph Sampson missed the previous two games, in Japan, because of pneumonia and nearly did not play against Chaminade.

http://espn.go.com/ncb/s/2002/1125/1466317.html

[ser_solace]

I got to think that the football game is the biggest upset. I mean Appl. St. won on the road against a hostile crowd of tens of thousands or whatever Michigan fans.

[DoubleJayAlum]

I got to think that the football game is the biggest upset. I mean Appl. St. won on the road against a hostile crowd of tens of thousands or whatever Michigan fans.

Try over a hundred thousand fans! Appy St.'s win is more impressive in my book.

[Beninator]

Try over a hundred thousand fans! Appy St.'s win is more impressive in my book.

I agree Appy State is the more impressive win.

[VromanFan]

I think its tougher to score the HUGE upset in football...you got 11 guys going at each other...and in such a physical game I think its tougher for the underdog to hang in and prevail over a superior opponent.

I think its great. They expanded the schedule to 12 games and most of these national powerhouses just filled the slot with inferior opposition (on paper). I think its poetic justice.

Back a few years ago Stanford lost to a D3 school if I'm not mistaken. Not that Stanford was any good but that loss was to a school much less potent than App. St.

Correction: UC Davis was in transition from D2 to D1-AA at the time...but still...