Gameday: Pirates Host Cincinnati In First Conference Home Game…Who Will Pitt Look to for its Next Offensive Coordinator? …Two more Citadel football assistant coaches moving on…AP sources: West Virginia, Troy’s Neal Brown close to deal…Oklahoma hires Alex Grinch as defensive coordinator…‘Kegger’ fills Canes’ need, changes parents’ weekend travel plans

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

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• Gameday: Pirates Host Cincinnati In First Conference Home Game
• Pirates Begin Preseason Prep For 2019 Campaign
• Gameday: ECU Travels To Tulane For AAC Opener

Pirates set to host 12-2 Bearcats Greenville Daily Reflector

East Carolina Rings in the New Year on Jupiter (Beach) SwimSwam

247 Sports

• Pirates welcome Bearcats to Minges
• Five things to know about the Cincinnati Bearcats
• East Carolina Scout: Dooley’s Back In Town

Old Dominion hires defensive coordinator from ECU who impressed him when Pirates beat Monarchs this season Hampton Roads Daily Press

Around the American Athletic Conference

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• SMU Starts American Athletic Conference Play 2-0 for Fourth-Straight Season
• Memphis Wins First American Athletic Conference Game Under Hardaway

AAC Daily: It’s Hard Not To Be Excited About The American BCSNN

UC, ECU basketball live updates Cincinnati Enquirer

McMurray scores 25, SMU beats Tulane 74-65 Associated Press

Tulane women’s basketball hopes to bounce back from last year’s poor AAC season New Orleans Advocate

Tulane opens conference play with 32-point loss at Cincinnati New Orleans Times Picayune

3 takeaways from SMU’s 74-65 win over Tulane: Mustangs lead wire to wire in NOLA Dallas News

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Kelly Bryant, Jalen Hurts and a new age of player empowerment ESPN

Who Will Pitt Look to for its Next Offensive Coordinator? Pittsburgh Sports Now

Hokies’ dismal season beset by injuries, youth; they vow not to use those as future excuses Hampton Roads Daily Press

Raleigh News and Observer

• No. 1 Duke’s doing plenty of things well, with a couple of concerns, entering ACC play
• UNC’s Nassir Little is getting better at defense at the right time for the Tar Heels

Winston Salem Journal

• 5 things to watch in Saturday’s Wake Forest-Georgia Tech game
• UNC’s Cam Johnson playing his best basketball as he returns to where he began

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

• Hall of Fame Virginia, Navy coach George Welsh dies at 85
• Virginia’s George Welsh described as a giant and pioneer of game
• Cavaliers jump into the ACC fire with a top-10 matchup

Charleston Post Courier

• Two more Citadel football assistant coaches moving on
• The unlikely success story of Clemson’s Isaiah Simmons, the Tigers’ leading tackler
• South Carolina quarterback Jake Bentley returning for his senior season

The Associated Press

• AP sources: West Virginia, Troy’s Neal Brown close to deal
• Alabama QB Tagovailoa says sprained ankle feeling good
• Bama-Clemson loaded with NFL draft picks along D-line
• Alabama, Clemson arrive in NoCal for fourth playoff meeting
• Clemson-Alabama IV has precedents in other sports
• Oklahoma hires Alex Grinch as defensive coordinator
• QB Fields confirms transfer to Ohio State from Georgia
• South Carolina QB Jake Bentley returning to school
• NDSU goes for 7th FCS title in Eastern Washington’s return
• Louisville adds Dennison, Field, Scott to coaching staff
• Pitt revamps offense, fires coordinator Shawn Watson
• Penn State’s Chambers suspended 1 game for shoving player