2015 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team
| 2015 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football | |
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| Conference | Ohio Valley Conference |
| 2015 record | 6–5 (5–3 OVC) |
| Head coach | Dean Hood (8th year) |
| Offensive coordinator | Dane Damron |
| Home stadium |
Roy Kidd Stadium (Capacity: 20,000) |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #2 Jacksonville State $^ | 8 | – | 0 | 13 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #25 Eastern Illinois ^ | 7 | – | 1 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tennessee–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
| Date | Time | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | ||
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| September 3 | 7:00 PM | Valparaiso* | No. 17 | Roy Kidd Stadium • Richmond, KY | OVCDN | W 52–10 | 12,800 | ||
| September 12 | 6:00 PM | at NC State* | No. 19 | Carter–Finley Stadium • Raleigh, NC | ESPN3 | L 0–35 | 57,600 | ||
| September 26 | 6:00 PM | Austin Peay | No. 18 | Roy Kidd Stadium • Richmond, KY | OVCDN | W 51–13 | 11,400 | ||
| October 3 | 7:30 PM | at Kentucky* | No. 17 | Commonwealth Stadium • Lexington, KY | SECN Alt. | L 27–34 OT | 63,380 | ||
| October 8 | 7:00 PM | vs. Tennessee Tech | No. 17 | Toyota Stadium • Georgetown, KY | OVCDN | W 48–17 | 3,700 | ||
| October 17 | 2:00 PM | at Southeast Missouri State | No. 14 | Houck Stadium • Cape Girardeau, MO | OVCDN | W 27–10 | 7,589 | ||
| October 24 | 3:00 PM | Tennessee State |
No. 13 | Roy Kidd Stadium • Richmond, KY | OVCDN | W 45–21 | 9,400 | ||
| October 31 | 2:00 PM | at No. 1 Jacksonville State | No. 13 | JSU Stadium • Jacksonville, AL | OVCDN | L 0–34 | 21,988 | ||
| November 7 | 1:00 PM | Tennessee–Martin | No. 18 | Roy Kidd Stadium • Richmond, KY | OVCDN | L 35–42 | 7,800 | ||
| November 14 | 2:00 PM | at Murray State | No. 24 | Roy Stewart Stadium • Murray, KY | OVCDN | W 41–34 2OT | 2,457 | ||
| November 21 | 2:00 PM | at Eastern Illinois | No. 23 | O'Brien Stadium • Charleston, IL | OVCDN | L 7–21 | 1,438 | ||
| *Non-conference game. Homecoming. #Rankings from STATS FCS Poll released prior to game. All times are in Eastern Time. | |||||||||
- 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