Immediately hailed as one of the greatest upsets in college football history, the game served as the lead story of "SportsCenter" and was the cover story for the following week's edition of "Sports Illustrated". Appalachian State became the first FCS team to defeat a ranked FBS team, and as a result of the game Michigan dropped out of the top 25 of the AP Poll entirely, marking the first time a team had fallen from the top five to out of the poll entirely as the result of a single game. In the aftermath of the game, the Associated Press amended its polling policy to make FCS teams eligible for the AP Poll, which had previously been limited to FBS teams.