2005 Football Game Designations, Kickoff Times Announced
March 29, 2005 | Football
GREENVILLE, N.C. -- East Carolina's first-ever Conference USA meeting against Central Florida on Oct. 29 at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium has been selected as the Pirates' 2005 Homecoming contest according to a release of ECU's football game-day designations and kickoff times Tuesday.
The Pirates and Golden Knights will kickoff at 2:00 p.m., one of just two home afternoon tilts scheduled for the 2005 season. ECU will host UAB in the regular season finale during Thanksgiving Weekend on Nov. 26 beginning at 12 noon.
East Carolina will officially open the Skip Holtz Era Sept. 3 with a 7:00 p.m. matchup against Duke at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on a Pirate Club Weekend before returning home to welcome Southern Miss and Rice to Greenville in back-to-back 6:00 p.m. contests on Oct. 1 and 8, respectively. The Pirates will observe Military Appreciation Day and Band Day when facing the Golden Eagles while conducting Family Weekend and Hall of Fame/Letterwinners Weekend when the Owls made their initial visit to eastern North Carolina a week later.
ECU's popular Academic Success Day will make a return to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium when the Pirates and Blazers meet at the end of November.
In addition, tentative start times for four of the Pirates' six road games have also been established with a 6:30 p.m. kickoff at Wake Forest (Sept. 17), 3:00 p.m./EDT at SMU (Oct. 15), 2:00 p.m./EDT at Memphis (Oct. 22) and 3:00 p.m./EST at Tulsa (Nov. 12).
Although announced, game times are still subject to change to meet possible television scheduling needs at a later time.
09/03 - DUKE, 7:00 p.m.
(Pirate Club Weekend)
09/17 - at Wake Forest, 6:30 p.m.
09/24 - at West Virginia, TBA
10/01 - SOUTHERN MISS, 6:00 p.m.
(Military Appreciation Day, Band Day)
10/08 - RICE, 6:00 p.m.
(Family Weekend, Hall of Fame/Letterwinners Weekend)
10/15 - at SMU, 3:00 p.m.
10/22 - at Memphis, 2:00 p.m.
10/29 - UCF, 2:00 p.m.
(Homecoming)
11/12 - at Tulsa, 3:00 p.m.
11/19 - at Marshall, TBA
11/26 - UAB, 12 noon
(Academic Success Day)
all times Eastern
