1997 East Carolina Pirates football team

1997 East Carolina Pirates football
Conference	Conference USA
Record	5–6 (4–2 C-USA)
Head coach	Steve Logan
Home stadium	Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium (Capacity: 38,000)

1997 Conference USA football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
No. 19 Southern Miss $		6	–	0					9	–	3
Tulane		5	–	1					7	–	4
East Carolina		4	–	2					5	–	6
Cincinnati		2	–	4					8	–	4
Memphis		2	–	4					4	–	7
Houston		2	–	4					3	–	8
Louisville		0	–	6					1	–	10
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1997 East Carolina Pirates football team represented East Carolina University during the 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 6	12:30 PM	at West Virginia*	Mountaineer Field Morgantown, WV	ESPN	L 17–24	51,143
September 13	3:30 PM	Wake Forest*	Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium Greenville, NC	FSN	W 25–24	38,031
September 20	3:00 PM	South Carolina*	Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium Greenville, NC	FSN	L 0–26	38,902
October 4	12:30 PM	at Syracuse*	Carrier Dome Syracuse, NY		L 0–56	44,054
October 11	3:30 PM	Southern Miss	Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium Greenville, NC	FSN	L 13–23	33,904
October 18	8:00 PM	at Tulane	Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, LA	WNCT	L 16–33	23,340
October 25	3:30 PM	Memphis	Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium Greenville, NC	FSN	W 32–10	28,029
November 1	3:00 PM	at Louisville	Cardinal Stadium Louisville, KY	WNCT	W 45–31	12,850
November 8	3:30 PM	at Houston	Robertson Stadium Houston, TX	WNCT	W 28–27	17,051
November 13	8:00 PM	Cincinnati	Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium Greenville, NC	ESPN	W 14–7	25,509
November 22	1:00 PM	at NC State*	Carter–Finley Stadium Raleigh, NC (rivalry)		L 24–37	51,500
*Non-conference game Homecoming All times are in Eastern time