Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Pirates Score Two Second-Half Goals, Draw North Texas, 2-2 ecupirates.com

Mid-Season Analysis for the 1-5 Pirates The East Carolinian

Pirates score two second-half goals, draw North Texas, …  WNCT 9

CFB Overtime: Winners, losers and more from a revealing Week 8 247 Sports

ECU football: Offense disappears as Pirates drop third straight with home loss to Charlotte Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Soccer Draws With East Carolina, 2-2 meangreensports.com

Around the American Athletic Conference

SMU, Wichita State Increase Winning Streaks American Athletic Conference

Is Memphis basketball calling its shot against FAU? Takeaways from AAC media day Palm Beach Post

USF never doubts ability to rally, tops former conference foe UConn Tampa Bay Times

This stat says Memphis football has top offense in nation in 21 games Memphis Commercial Appeal

Winning season for TU in jeopardy and more takeaways from losing to Rice Tulsa World

Temple shut out by nationally-ranked Memphis Temple News

Brett Vito: A moral victory for UNT may seem meh, but a tight loss to Tulane is exactly that Denton Record Chronicle

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• UNC’s nonsensical loss to Virginia actually also made perfect sense, given the history
• No. 17 North Carolina vs Georgia Tech: first look, betting odds, key matchup, TV
• Duke had a chance to beat FSU with a limping Riley Leonard, but not without him entirely
• First look: No. 20 Duke football travels to No. 18 Louisville in key ACC game
• UNC football’s upset loss to Virginia ‘disappointing,’ but not ‘crushing,’ QB says
• First look: NC State football hosts Clemson for homecoming, ACC contest

AP Top 25: UNC drops seven spots to No. 17, Duke falls four spots to No. 20 WRAL

Columbia The State

• What Shane Beamer said about Xavier Legette, injured Gamecocks going into Texas A&M
• Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney apologizes for ‘suicide watch’ comment

Charleston Post & Courier

• Dabo Swinney apologizes for ‘suicide watch’ joke about Clemson sports psychologist
• Clemson faces another 4-3 start: 5 takeaways from a bad loss at Miami
• Gamecock takeaways from a too-little, too-late showing at Missouri

Roanoke Times

• JMU breaks into AP Top 25 football poll
• What we learned from Virginia’s 31-27 road win over No. 10 North Carolina

The Associated Press

• AP Top 25: Georgia is No. 1 for 19th straight poll, 3rd-best streak ever; Alabama in top 10 again
• USC tumbles in the rankings as Lincoln Riley’s rebuilding projects stalls with back-to-back losses
• Dan Enos fired as Arkansas’ offensive coordinator; WR coach Kenny Guiton will be the play-caller
• Nick Saban enjoying his resilient Alabama team even if the ride has been bumpy
• Investigation of Michigan for sign-stealing stems from NCAA rules made to curb financial advantages
• Coastal QB McCall released from Arkansas hospital after scary scene at Arkansas State
• Michigan State suspends employee involved with allowing Hitler’s image to be shown on videoboards
• NCAA president shifts focus to employment status of college athletes during Senate hearing
• NCAA approves smaller transfer portal windows; removes caps on yearly football signings