2015 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team
The 2015 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team represented Eastern Kentucky University during the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by eighth-year head coach Dean Hood and played their home games at Roy Kidd Stadium. The Colonels were a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. They finished the season 6–5, 5–3 in OVC play to finish in fourth place.
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Conference | Ohio Valley Conference |
2015 record | 6–5 (5–3 OVC) |
Head coach |
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Offensive coordinator | Dane Damron (5th season) |
Home stadium | Roy Kidd Stadium (Capacity: 20,000) |
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Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 2 Jacksonville State $^ | 8 | – | 0 | 13 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 25 Eastern Illinois ^ | 7 | – | 1 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UT Martin | 6 | – | 2 | 7 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eastern Kentucky | 5 | – | 3 | 6 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SE Missouri State | 3 | – | 4 | 4 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tennessee Tech | 3 | – | 5 | 4 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Murray State | 2 | – | 6 | 3 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tennessee State | 1 | – | 6 | 4 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Austin Peay | 0 | – | 8 | 0 | – | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Their game against Tennessee Tech originally scheduled for October 10 was played two days earlier at Toyota Stadium in Georgetown, Kentucky[1] due to campus safety concerns in the wake of threatening graffiti in a campus restroom and other threats allegedly made over social media.[2]
On November 23, Hood was fired.[3] He finished at Eastern Kentucky with an eight-year record of 55–38.
Schedule
Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
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September 3 | 7:00 pm | Valparaiso* | No. 17 | OVCDN | W 52–10 | 12,800 | |
September 12 | 6:00 pm | at NC State* | No. 19 | ESPN3 | L 0–35 | 57,600 | |
September 26 | 6:00 pm | Austin Peay | No. 18 |
| OVCDN | W 51–13 | 11,400 |
October 3 | 7:30 pm | at Kentucky* | No. 17 | SECN Alt. | L 27–34 OT | 63,380 | |
October 8 | 7:00 pm | vs. Tennessee Tech | No. 17 | OVCDN | W 48–17 | 3,700 | |
October 17 | 2:00 pm | at Southeast Missouri State | No. 14 | OVCDN | W 27–10 | 7,589 | |
October 24 | 3:00 pm | Tennessee State | No. 13 |
| OVCDN | W 45–21 | 9,400 |
October 31 | 2:00 pm | at No. 1 Jacksonville State | No. 13 | OVCDN | L 0–34 | 21,988 | |
November 7 | 1:00 pm | Tennessee–Martin | No. 18 |
| OVCDN | L 35–42 | 7,800 |
November 14 | 2:00 pm | at Murray State | No. 24 | OVCDN | W 41–34 2OT | 2,457 | |
November 21 | 2:00 pm | at Eastern Illinois | No. 23 | OVCDN | L 7–21 | 1,438 | |
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- Source: Schedule
Ranking movements
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Poll | Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Final | |||||||
STATS FCS | 17 | 19 | 21 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 18 | 24 | 23 | RV | NR | |||||||
Coaches | 17 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 20 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 19 | RV | RV | RV | NR |
References
- "EKU Rides Strong First Half to 48-17 Win Over Tennessee Tech". Eastern Kentucky University Department of Athletics. October 8, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
- Moody, Sean (October 7, 2015). "EKU Cancels Classes for the Rest of the Week to Further Investigate Threat Found Sunday". WKYT. Lexington. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
- http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/hood-out-as-eastern-kentucky-coach-112315