The East Carolina football team is still damp from The Swamp, but seven days later must take on the complex triple option of Navy in its home shipyard in Annapolis, Md.
The fifth all-time meeting between the teams at 3:30 p.m. is different than those before it in that today it is an American Athletic Conference game.
The 1-1 Pirates fought valiantly but fell just short of an upset of the Florida Gators last Saturday in Gainesville, and with some of their early season questions answered must now solve Navy’s riddling offense, which has scored 56 and 76 points in two of the previous four meetings between the teams.