ECU Claims Ironwood Collegiate Classic Team Title…  Pirates Finish Second At Pirate Collegiate Classic… Alabama-Georgia averages 12 million on ABC, most-watched regular-season prime-time game since 2017… Punchless Braves face elimination after Game 1 loss to Padres

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

ecupirates.com

• ECU Claims Ironwood Collegiate Classic Team Title
• Pirates Finish Second At Pirate Collegiate Classic

Pirate players out for some payback against in-state …  WNCT 9

YAHOO!

• ECU Football Head Coach Mike Houston beginning prep for Charlotte
• Charlotte football vs. ECU first look: Betting odds, key matchup, player to watch

Mike Houston: “We played with a different edge Saturday” WITN 7

247 Sports

• Opposing quarterbacks feeling the presence of ECU’s pass rush this season
• What Charlotte coach Biff Poggi said about ECU
• Everything Mike Houston said during his Charlotte week press conference

Column: Defense has been ECU’s crutch through first five weeks Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Charlotte football vs. ECU first look: Betting odds, key matchup, player to watch Raleigh News & Observer

Biff Poggi clears the air prior to facing East Carolina The Charlotte Post

East Carolina vs. Charlotte Football Prediction & Game Preview – Oct. 5 SFGate

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• Tulane Sweeps First Swimming and Diving Honors of the Season
• Rice Sweeps Cross Country Honors

Group of Five Spotlight: Ranking the best AAC commits YAHOO!

How Army and Navy crafted 4-0 starts: What could this mean for College Football Playoff? The New York Times

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• 3 things for Memphis football to work on during open week, including pass game consistency
• What’s been surprising about Memphis football’s 4-1 start to the 2024 season?

Bill Haisten: TU got trucked in Texas and now swings at the Army curveball Tulsa World

Tulane coach Jon Sumrall looking for more four quarters of flexing in the Sun Belt NOLA.com

Sports Illustrated

• Tulane Green Wave Takes Conference’s Top Spot in Recent Football Power Index
• Tulane Green Wave AD Reveals Reasons for Turning Down Pac-12 Offer
• Tulane Green Wave Seek Next Conference Victory Against UAB Blazers
• Tulane Green Wave’s Three Keys to Success to Beat UAB Blazers

Why Charlotte 49ers football coach Biff Poggi scolded the team’s defensive coordinator Charlotte Observer

Denton Record Chronicle

• UNT has made a significant jump defensively the last two weeks, here’s why
• UNT adds game against McNeese as men’s hoops slate continues to come together

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• ‘NIL for good’: NC State student-athletes pledge funds for NC storm relief
• Tar Heels keep football ‘in perspective’ post-Helene as UNC prepares to face Pittsburgh
• Triangle college football teams collecting supplies to help western NC storm victims

WRAL

• Here’s how NC State football’s Hurricane Helene supply drive came together
• NC State’s Davin Vann organizes Hurricane Helene relief supply drive

College Football Week 6 Schedule, Predictions, Game Previews, Scoreboard, and Betting Lines 2024 College Football News

SUN BELT NOTEBOOK: ODU gets elusive non-conference win Daily News-Record

Winston Salem Journal

Columbia The State

• What did Kentucky beating Ole Miss mean for South Carolina, if anything?
• Clemson criticized for hosting football game in SC after hurricane. Dabo reacts
• Shane Beamer shares encouraging updates on LaNorris Sellers, Rocket Sanders

Charleston Post & Courier

• The Citadel will face yet another team dealing with the negative impacts of Tropical Storm Helene
• He’s back: Juice Wells returns to Columbia after turbulent offseason
• Hamilton: No one hopping on the coaching carousel bandwagon … yet
• ‘One of my own’: Swinney, one of Bobby Bowden’s favorites, poised to claim ACC wins record
• Gamecocks’ Paul Mainieri on fall baseball practice: ‘Feel like I never left’

Roanoke Times

• Hokies’ Meadows on being ready to play on the offensive line
• Hokies’ Pry on those affected by Hurricane Helene

Mike Gundy lists Nick Saban, Mack Brown as possible college football commissioners on3

UTEP accepts invitation to the Mountain West; Gonzaga joins the Pac-12 Nevada Sportsnet

Gonzaga set to join Pac-12 as conference’s focus shifts to basketball The Seattle Times

What does Pac-12’s addition of Gonzaga mean for Sacramento State? ABC 10

A Data-Driven Look At Pac-12 And Mountain West Conference Expansion Forbes

The Associated Press

• College football Week 6: Missouri-Texas A&M is the only Top 25 matchup, but other games loom large
• Alabama-Georgia averages 12 million on ABC, most-watched regular-season prime-time game since 2017
• Surprising early-season losses may keep Big 12 from sending more than one team to CFP
• Injured QB Sellers and RB Sanders are practicing, South Carolina coach Beamer says
• John Calipari is cautious but excited heading into his first season coaching at Arkansas