Four Games Added To Pirates' Future Football Schedules
March 02, 2018 | Football
GREENVILLE, N.C. - ECU has extended its home-and-home football series with Marshall and added a pair of games against Georgia State according to a joint announcement Friday.
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While the Pirates and Thundering Herd already had an agreement in place for meetings in 2020 and 2021 to renew a 15-game series dating back 1967, the two programs formally extended the deal with two more contests.
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Marshall will return to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Sept. 9, 2023 and ECU will visit Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington on Sept. 13, 2025.
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Both teams were Conference USA East Division opponents for nine years before the Pirates accepted membership in the American Athletic Conference in 2014. The previously announced 2020 matchup in Greenville will also commemorate the 50th anniversary of the tragic Southern Airways charter plane crash which claimed 75 lives following the Herd's game at ECU on Nov. 14, 1970.
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In addition, the Pirates and Sun Belt Conference member Georgia State will open a two-game series with the inaugural meeting taking place at Georgia State Stadium, formerly known as Turner Field, in Atlanta on Sept. 2, 2023. The Panthers will make their first trip to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Sept. 16, 2028.
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GSU's program, which was founded in 2008, conducted its first season of competition in 2010 and played at the FCS level for three years prior to its acceptance as a football member of the SBC in 2013. Under the direction of head coach Shawn Elliott, the Panthers captured their initial FBS postseason victory last fall after downing Western Kentucky in the Cure Bowl.
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The 2023 trip will mark the Pirates' first visit to Atlanta since defeating NC State 37-34 in the Peach Bowl at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium on Jan. 1, 1992. Nearly 3,000 ECU alums currently reside in the state of Georgia, which includes approximately 2,160 in the greater metro Atlanta area.
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In another scheduling development, ECU also confirmed that its 2020 home contest against West Virginia has been pushed back to Sept. 19, 2026 to accommodate a request by the Mountaineers. Â
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MARSHALL
Sept. 9, 2023 @Greenville
Sept. 13, 2025 @Huntington
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GEORGIA STATE
Sept. 2, 2023 @Atlanta
Sept. 16, 2028 @Greenville
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WEST VIRGINIA
Sept. 19, 2026 @Greenville (moved from 2020)
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While the Pirates and Thundering Herd already had an agreement in place for meetings in 2020 and 2021 to renew a 15-game series dating back 1967, the two programs formally extended the deal with two more contests.
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Marshall will return to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Sept. 9, 2023 and ECU will visit Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington on Sept. 13, 2025.
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Both teams were Conference USA East Division opponents for nine years before the Pirates accepted membership in the American Athletic Conference in 2014. The previously announced 2020 matchup in Greenville will also commemorate the 50th anniversary of the tragic Southern Airways charter plane crash which claimed 75 lives following the Herd's game at ECU on Nov. 14, 1970.
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In addition, the Pirates and Sun Belt Conference member Georgia State will open a two-game series with the inaugural meeting taking place at Georgia State Stadium, formerly known as Turner Field, in Atlanta on Sept. 2, 2023. The Panthers will make their first trip to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Sept. 16, 2028.
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GSU's program, which was founded in 2008, conducted its first season of competition in 2010 and played at the FCS level for three years prior to its acceptance as a football member of the SBC in 2013. Under the direction of head coach Shawn Elliott, the Panthers captured their initial FBS postseason victory last fall after downing Western Kentucky in the Cure Bowl.
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The 2023 trip will mark the Pirates' first visit to Atlanta since defeating NC State 37-34 in the Peach Bowl at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium on Jan. 1, 1992. Nearly 3,000 ECU alums currently reside in the state of Georgia, which includes approximately 2,160 in the greater metro Atlanta area.
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In another scheduling development, ECU also confirmed that its 2020 home contest against West Virginia has been pushed back to Sept. 19, 2026 to accommodate a request by the Mountaineers. Â
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MARSHALL
Sept. 9, 2023 @Greenville
Sept. 13, 2025 @Huntington
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GEORGIA STATE
Sept. 2, 2023 @Atlanta
Sept. 16, 2028 @Greenville
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WEST VIRGINIA
Sept. 19, 2026 @Greenville (moved from 2020)
Saturday, April 18
Monday, April 13
Friday, April 10
Tuesday, April 07
