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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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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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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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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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