Score Predictions
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How Week 3 results changed ESPN FPI’s outlook for ECU’s 2026 season
- Pick/market: East Carolina's football team recorded its first victory of the 2026 campaign in Week 3, outlasting Old Dominion, 20-17, in a defensive slugfest inside SB Ballard Stadium in Norfolk, Va.
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FINAL: ECU 20, ODU 17
- Pick/market: I just wanna go to a bowl game, keep the streak alive and end this nightmare season.
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FINAL: ECU 20, ODU 17
- Pick/market: Williams looked better tonight but OC has got to figure something out.
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Injuries
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ECU finds a way to get first win, outlasting ODU, 20-17
- NORFOLK, Va. — It was far from pretty, but East Carolina has its first win of the 2026 season.
- The Pirates outlasted Old Dominion in a defensive slugfest, 20-17, getting a key, game-changing pick-six from safety Ayden Duncanson in the third quarter, and riding it to a tight victory inside SB Ballard Stadium in Norfolk.
- Comment: NORFOLK, Va.
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Quarterbacks
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NC Central this season so far
- QB: Optimistic view here is Williams looks like the better quarterback and gets number 1 reps moving forward.
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What NC Central coach Trei Oliver said about ECU
- Pick/market: East Carolina will host its lone FCS foe of the season on Saturday inside Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, when the Pirates welcome North Carolina Central to Greenville.
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Hoist The Colours VIP Chat (Sept. 21)
- QB/LB: Not Igoe, and I agree our O stinks but when we get both those players back we still need a QB that can accurately throw the ball to them.
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Hoist The Colours VIP Chat (Sept. 21)
- QB/LB: I can personally say that unless Williams comes in and becomes the second coming of Matt Leinart, I will personally be in front of Ward with a picket sign if we go into next...
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FINAL: ECU 20, ODU 17
- QB/OL: I don’t know who said we would run the air raid, but somebody lied!
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Offensive Updates
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Music is good at ODU
- OL: I feel like we'll never have the budget to fix things anymore with rev share.
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From the Film( Mainly Offense)
- QB/LB: Based on what I have seen, I think giving Emory a chance to play is warranted.
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FINAL: ECU 20, ODU 17
- KICKER: At this point I don’t expect this offense to gain another yard.
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Everything
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Attendance This Weekend
- Intel: What I'm hoping for is that eventually we'll see more games go to streaming nationwide for all schools so that we can all have more say in our kick-off times.
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WATCH: ODU cinematic recap
- Intel: Wish the refs would have had that camera angle on the ODU fumble recovery for a TD, elbow looked down.
Dowdy Ficklen
- Intel: Before we do that: Win the conference championship, go to the CFP Repeat Repeat Then we can entertain the idea of a major renovation that cost tens of millions of dollars
Reminded of Dominique Davis
- Intel: I agree with most of what you have to say, but I think there’s a ton of players getting bad info from predatory agents/ill-informed family members leading to them washing out of college football...
FINAL: ECU 20, ODU 17
- Norfolk, Va. -- East Carolina hits the road to take on Old Dominion on Saturday at 6 o'clock p.m.
- ET inside SB Ballard Stadium.
- The contest will be televised on ESPN+, with Scott Jackson on play by play and Andy Mashaw doing color commentary.
- For those on the road, or preferring radio, the game can also be heard on 107.9 WNCT, or 94.3 The Game locally, as well...
- Comment: Sobering stats according to ESPN: Mitch had 4 completions the entire game out of 12 attempts for a total of 58 yards.
FINAL: ECU 20, ODU 17
- Intel: Just run the ball for 1 yard and close this hideously ugly wretched football game out please for the love of god
FINAL: ECU 20, ODU 17
- Intel: If we don’t get it, im running out every second I have, timeout and punting it