Beating Appy would arguably be one of Doc's best wins of his tenure. I'm not even sure what would be comparable? Houston or ECU way, way back or LA Tech in 2014? He really doesn't have too many top 50 wins, let alone top 25.
A win would be huge. If the Rice game is replaced by UAB, there might be a pretty decent conference slate to go on a tear. It's far off but there might be some very top notch bowl games scrambling for teams, too.