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BOONE, N.C. (AP) JC French IV threw for a season-high 352 yards and Georgia Southern<\/a> held off Appalachian State<\/a> 25-23 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n Appalachian State trailed 22-3 midway through the third quarter before AJ Swan threw a short-yardage TD pass, and then Jaquari Lewis broke loose on a 27-yard touchdown run early in the fourth that made it 22-16.<\/p>\n Swan’s 16-yard touchdown pass to Jaden Barnes capped an 11-play, 66-yard drive that ended the scoring with 1:56 remaining. The Eagles later converted on second-and-6 to help run out the clock.<\/p>\n French was 25-of-37 passing and surpassed 2,000 yards for the season. He threw a 47-yard touchdown pass to Marcus Sanders Jr. on the third play from scrimmage and scored on a 3-yard run that gave the Eagles a 16-0 lead midway through the second quarter. Sanders finished with six catches for 127 yards.<\/p>\n OJ Arnold had 105 yards rushing on 20 carries for Georgia Southern (4-5, 2-3 Sun Belt Conference). Camden Brown had six receptions for 97 yards. Tripp Bryant made a career-high 4 of 5 field goals for the Eagles.<\/p>\n Swann completed 34 of 51 passes for 348 yards and threw an interception for Appalachian State (4-5, 1-4). Barnes caught 13 passes for 160 yards.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college football: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-football<\/p>\n \n Copyright 2025 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOONE, N.C. (AP) JC French IV threw for a season-high 352 yards and Georgia Southern held off Appalachian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21161,331,7,21190,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-506139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-appalachian-state-mountaineers","9":"tag-college-football","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-georgia-southern-eagles","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115506705114551951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}