For others, they will play only teams in their conference, but the American Athletic Conference will try to move forward as usual. Virginia Tech won the first meeting between the two in 1956, 37-2, but East Carolina's first win came the next time the teams met in 1987, 32-23. On December 5, 2009, they defeated Houston 38-32 to win their 2nd straight C-USA title. The project includes a four-story tower above the south side stands with over 1,000 new premium seats and boxes, a new press box, and a new field-level club section in the north end zone. Every year, several publications release lists of their ideal "team". From 2002 to 2009, the Pirates and the Mountaineers met annually. NC State leads the overall series 18–13 through the 2019 season.A rivalry that has recently become more intense has been ECU's rivalry with the The most notable matchup of the rivalry was the 2014 iteration, an ESPN primetime Thursday night game that saw East Carolina score 21 unanswered points in the 4th quarter to take the lead, only to fall to a 51-yard Hail Mary touchdown from Justin Holman to East Carolina and North Carolina is the 11th-most played series for ECU since 1978. The ECU-UNC football series is also political in nature. ECU has won the last three contests by large margins (55-31 in 2013, 70-41 in 2014, and 41-19 in 2018). South Carolina leads the series 14-5. ... American Athletic Conference Championship Dec 5 (Sat) TBA . The Pirates' most played opponent in their history has been the Southern Miss Golden Eagles, and this series was at one time considered to be one of the more consistent old southern series in college football.
1991 – Head Coach Bill Lewis was named the AFCA Division I-A Coach of the Year. Fans of both teams have generally viewed this rivalry as one of mutual respect, and the two teams tended to have extremely physical games taking place in the tough late summer conditions of Mississippi or Eastern North Carolina. The official 2020 Football schedule for the East Carolina University Pirates. South Carolina won the first 8 contests, however the intensity of this series ramped up considerably when ECU won 5 out of 7 games during the 1990s. After earlier opponents changed their schedules, the football game between Marshall and East Carolina was moved from Aug. 29 to Sept. 12. to No. West Virginia leads the series 18-3. 2010 – Wide receiver Dwayne Harris was named the Conference USA Most Valuable Player. Because both are large state schools, East Carolina being the third largest and North Carolina being the second largest, many fans and alumni live close to one another. Also on the first floor are meeting rooms for the football team.
The schools are approximately 85 miles (137 km) apart and are the largest (N.C. State) and third largest (East Carolina) universities in the state.
The college football season is set to begin on Aug. 29 when ECU takes on Marshall in a non-conference affair. an ESPN Network East Carolina has played Virginia Tech regularly since 2007, and the two schools signed a deal to play annually on an alternating home basis from 2013 until 2020.
an ESPN Network In 2007, the Pirates and the Hokies met on the field in Blacksburg in the first football game after the The Pirates have played West Virginia 21 times since 1970. The East Carolina Pirates are a college football team that represents East Carolina University (variously "East Carolina" or "ECU").The team is a member of the American Athletic Conference, which is in Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Overall, UNC officially leads the series 11-5-1 (12-5-1 including the vacated 2009 game). Strength and conditioning for the players occurs in the Murphy Center, a $13 million indoor training facility which was completed in June 2002 and which is located in the west end zone of Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium. The regularity of this series has certainly heated up the importance of the game between the two schools in recent years, and the competitiveness of the series has made it a game that could arguably be considered a regional rivalry. The eight rooms consist of one 107-seat team meeting room, one 55-seat unit room, and six 12 to 15 team positional rooms. James Speight wore jersey number 29. It has a maximum capacity of 50,000. The Pirates won the Southern Conference three times outright, and shared the championship once. On December 5, 2008 East Carolina Defeated Tulsa 27-24 to capture the 2008 Conference USA championship, their first conference title in 32 years. However, conferences cancelling non-conference play raises questions for any possible non-conference games for ECU’s football team. 1991 – Quarterback Jeff Blake was named ECAC Division I-A Player-of-the-Year after leading Pirates It began construction after the 2017 football season.The NFL-caliber Cliff Moore Practice Facility is located between Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium and The Murphy Center is located in the west endzone at Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium. The two schools met annually from 1987–1994. The teams first met in 1951, and played annually from 1983–2013.
The next time the two teams played was in the 1992 2007 brought the creation of the football rivalry's trophy, The Victory Barrel, created in a collaborative effort by both schools' Student Governments. The team were the champions in the North State Conference in 1953. 9 national ranking (Blake also finished seventh in the 1991 Heisman Trophy balloting). East Carolina began organized football in the fall of 1932. Two players died while on the team, Robert Farris and Norman Swindell, and the two other players, James Speight and Roger Thrift, set record while playing for the Pirates. 2013 – Quarterback Shane Carden was named the Conference USA Most Valuable Player.