2005 East Carolina Pirates football team

2005 East Carolina Pirates football
Conference	Conference USA
Division	East
Record	5–6 (4–4 C-USA)
Head coach	Skip Holtz
Defensive coordinator	Greg Hudson
Home stadium	Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium (Capacity: 43,000)

2005 Conference USA football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
East Division
UCF x		7	–	1					8	–	5
Southern Miss		5	–	3					7	–	5
Memphis		5	–	3					7	–	5
East Carolina		4	–	4					5	–	6
Marshall		3	–	5					4	–	7
UAB		3	–	5					5	–	6
West Division
Tulsa x$		6	–	2					9	–	4
UTEP		5	–	3					8	–	4
Houston		4	–	4					6	–	6
SMU		4	–	4					5	–	6
Tulane		1	–	7					2	–	9
Rice		1	–	7					1	–	10
Championship: Tulsa 44, UCF 27
$ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

The 2005 East Carolina Pirates football team represented East Carolina University during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 3	1:00 pm	Duke*	Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium Greenville, North Carolina	CSTV	W 24–21	35,107
September 17	6:30 pm	at Wake Forest*	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, North Carolina		L 34–44	29,563
September 24	12:00 pm	at West Virginia	Mountaineer Field Morgantown, West Virginia	ESPN+	L 15–20	57,295
October 1	6:00 pm	Southern Miss	Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium Greenville, North Carolina		L 7–33	35,510
October 8	6:00 pm	Rice	Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium Greenville, North Carolina		W 41–28	33,213
October 15	3:00 pm	at SMU	Gerald J. Ford Stadium University Park, Texas		W 24–17	11,715
October 22	3:30 pm	at Memphis	Liberty Bowl Memphis, Tennessee	CSTV	L 24–27	31,710
October 29	2:00 pm	UCF	Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium Greenville, North Carolina		L 20–30	34,410
November 12	3:00 pm	at Tulsa	Skelly Stadium Tulsa, Oklahoma		L 13–45	21,996
November 19	4:30 pm	at Marshall	Joan C. Edwards Stadium Huntington, West Virginia (rivalry)		W 34–29	22,408
November 26	12:00 pm	UAB	Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium Greenville, North Carolina		W 31–23	26,990
*Non-conference game Homecoming All times are in Eastern time