2015 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team

2015 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football
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)
2015 OVC football standings
Conf     Overall
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  
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – FCS playoff participant
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

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 23rd, head coach Dean Hood was fired.[3] He finished at EKU with an eight year record of 55–38.

Schedule

Date Time Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance
September 3 7:00 PM Valparaiso* #17 Roy Kidd Stadium • Richmond, KY OVCDN W 52–10   12,800
September 12 6:00 PM at NC State* #19 Carter–Finley Stadium • Raleigh, NC ESPN3 L 0–35   57,600
September 26 6:00 PM Austin Peay #18 Roy Kidd Stadium • Richmond, KY OVCDN W 51–13   11,400
October 3 7:30 PM at Kentucky* #17 Commonwealth Stadium • Lexington, KY SECN Alt. L 27–34 OT  63,380
October 8 7:00 PM vs. Tennessee Tech #17 Toyota Stadium • Georgetown, KY OVCDN W 48–17   3,700
October 17 2:00 PM at Southeast Missouri State #14 Houck Stadium • Cape Girardeau, MO OVCDN W 27–10   7,589
October 24 3:00 PM Tennessee Statedagger #13 Roy Kidd Stadium • Richmond, KY OVCDN W 45–21   9,400
October 31 2:00 PM at #1 Jacksonville State #13 JSU Stadium • Jacksonville, AL OVCDN L 0–34   21,988
November 7 1:00 PM Tennessee–Martin #18 Roy Kidd Stadium • Richmond, KY OVCDN L 35–42   7,800
November 14 2:00 PM at Murray State #24 Roy Stewart Stadium • Murray, KY OVCDN W 41–34 2OT  2,457
November 21 2:00 PM at Eastern Illinois #23 O'Brien Stadium • Charleston, IL OVCDN L 7–21   1,438
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from STATS FCS Poll released prior to game. All times are in Eastern Time.

Ranking movements

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. ( ) = First place votes.
Week
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

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/hood-out-as-eastern-kentucky-coach-112315
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