2015 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team
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Conference | Ohio Valley Conference |
Record | 6–5 (5–3 OVC) |
Head coach |
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Offensive coordinator | Dane Damron (5th season) |
Home stadium | Roy Kidd Stadium |
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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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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.
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
[edit]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 | — |
Coaches | 17 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 20 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 19 | RV | RV | RV | — |
References
[edit]- ^ "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. Archived from the original on October 9, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
- ^ "College Football News, Videos, Scores, Teams, Standings, Stats".