In recent years, Cincinnati has brought the hammer down on the East Carolina Pirates, winning each of the last five meetings, including last year’s 19-16 escape act in Greenville, North Carolina. However, before those five meetings, ECU handled UC like nobody’s business, winning 12 of the first 14 meetings.
On Saturday, the two squads will meet up once again and with both still winless in league play, there will be desperation in the air. That much we know. What we can’t possibly know is the outcome of the game, just like we couldn’t have predicted that the top offense in the American Athletic Conference (UC) would need a last-second field goal to pull out a 19-16 win in the regular season finale against the Pirates in 2015.