ECU, Charlotte To Start Football Series With Contests In 2024 & 2025…ECU Volleyball Opens Homestand Hosting AAC Foes USF And UCF…Women’s Basketball Prepares for the Season with Annual Media Day…Sirk will start as Pirates prep for Cougars…Cougars preparing for home game against ECU…Zay Jones nails Star Wars-themed celebration after first career TD…Tyrod Taylor calls Zay Jones a ‘warrior’ for returning after knee injury vs. Jets…Temple outlasts Navy as Frank Nutile throws 4 TD passes…No. 23 Memphis at TU: Tigers try to stay in front of AAC West as they visit Hurricane…What goes into deciding whether to change football coaches?…In Redskins’ recent history, clashes with Seahawks have come with high stakes…Texans QB Watson out for season with ACL tear

Pirate Press: East Carolina Headlines

View from the East: Win set tone for productive bye week Bonesville.net

ecupirates.com

• ECU Women’s Basketball Prepares for the Season with Annual Media Day
• Gameday: ECU Travels To Houston
• ECU, Charlotte To Start Football Series With Contests In 2024 & 2025
• Gameday: ECU Volleyball Opens Homestand Hosting AAC Foes USF And UCF

Charlotte 49ers, East Carolina announce football series  Charlotte Observer

WNCT 9

• ECU Women’s Basketball Prepares for the Season with Annual Media Day
• Pirates, 49’ers announce future football series

WITN 7

• ECU Women’s Basketball Prepares for the Season with Annual Media Day
• ECU set for Saturday’s conference test at Houston
• ECU & Charlotte to start football series

WCTI 12

• Sirk will start as Pirates prep for Cougars
• Former ECU star Zay Jones catches first TD as Bills fall to Jets

247 Sports

• Zay Jones scores first career NFL touchdown
• ECU @ Houston: Setting The Stage
• Pirates expecting Tim Irvin back for Houston
• ECU, Charlotte agree to home-and-home
• To slide or not to slide?

• Zay Jones celebrated the first TD of his career with a ‘Star Wars’ Jedi battle
• Bills WR Zay Jones suffers leg injury vs. Jets, returns to game

• Tyrod Taylor calls Zay Jones a ‘warrior’ for returning after knee injury vs. Jets
• WATCH: Bills WR Zay Jones nails Star Wars-themed celebration after first career TD

Zay Jones scores first career touchdown NBC Sports – PFT

Around the American Athletic Conference

Temple outlasts Navy as Frank Nutile throws 4 TD passes Philly.com

Navy fails to right the ship during its bye, suffers its third straight loss Washington Post

Navy’s conference hopes take another hit with 34-26 loss to Temple Annapolis Capital

Blind Squirrel Acorn Night templefootballforever.com

Owls Daily

• Temple Sinks Navy 34-26 to Keep Postseason Hopes Alive
• Back from the brink

theamerican.org

• Nutile’s 4 TDs Pace Temple Past Navy
• American Stories: It Was A Day Fit For A King For Houston
• Kilani, Okalova Earn Monthly Tennis Honors
• American Athletic Conference Announces SAAC Executive Board Members

Shocker film room: Why Landry Shamet is so good at the pick and roll Wichita Eagle

Tampa Bay Times

• Quinton Flowers a Unitas Award finalist
• For USF, Auggie Sanchez’s postgame speech may be one for the ages

Orlando Sentinel

• UCF defensive line ready for a test at SMU Saturday
• UCF coach Scott Frost prepared to travel to SMU

Dallas News

• ‘A great gauge for our program’: What beating No. 18 UCF would mean for SMU
• Tennessee a more realistic destination for SMU’s Chad Morris than Texas A&M
• AAC basketball preview: Top storylines and players, from Shockers to SMU’s Shake Milton

No. 23 Memphis at TU: Tigers try to stay in front of AAC West as they visit Hurricane Tulsa World

UConn Football Insider Podcast: Missouri Loss Leaves Huskies Reeling, Culture In Question Hartford Courant

New Orleans Advocate

• ‘We run the football’: Despite recent struggles, Tulane will stay committed to its ground game
• Tulane basketball sweeps Loyola

Bowl hopes in the balance as Cincinnati visits Tulane Saturday New Orleans Times Picayune

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News and Observer

• To be the most it can be, NC State needs to be what it was once already
• A Notre Dame rerun? NC State preps for Clemson’s ground game
• Saddiq Bey, four-star basketball recruit, commits to NC State
• Alim McNeill, 4-star NCSU football target, will announce his decision Saturday
• GOP tax bill hits college, pro sports
• Why NC State’s AD tweeted about Braxton Beverly’s eligibility fight

The Associated Press

• Week 10 preview: Bedlam at its best; Heisman RB rebounds
• What goes into deciding whether to change football coaches?
• Army’s Jeff Monken has built Black Knights into a winner
• New-look Gators ready for Missouri under Shannon’s watch
• Drama always possible when Wildcats, Huskers meet in Lincoln
• Arkansas expects to build on Ole Miss win out of SEC play

South Carolina has big opportunity, big obstacle Saturday against Georgia Charlotte Observer

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

• ODU’s woes continued against North Texas. Can the Monarchs turn it around against Charlotte?
• After an injury, he almost quit. Now the University of Virginia linebacker is back, “loving it.”
• Unbeaten and uninspiring: Tech should take care of 7-0 Miami on Saturday

Fennelly: I’ve got Florida’s next coach right here Tampa Bay Times

From Ryan Finley to Jaylen Samuels, Clemson defense has hands full at N.C. State Charleston Post and Courier