2015 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team

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.

2015 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football
ConferenceOhio Valley Conference
Record6–5 (5–3 OVC)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorDane Damron (5th season)
Home stadiumRoy Kidd Stadium
(Capacity: 20,000)
2015 Ohio Valley Conference football standings
ConfOverall
Team W L  W L 
No. 2 Jacksonville State $^  8 –0   13 –2  
No. 25 Eastern Illinois ^  7 –1   7 –5  
UT 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 Poll

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 23, Hood was fired.[3] He finished at Eastern Kentucky with an eight-year record of 55–38.

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendance
September 37:00 pmValparaiso*No. 17
OVCDNW 52–1012,800
September 126:00 pmat NC State*No. 19
ESPN3L 0–3557,600
September 266:00 pmAustin PeayNo. 18
  • Roy Kidd Stadium
  • Richmond, KY
OVCDNW 51–1311,400
October 37:30 pmat Kentucky*No. 17
SECN Alt.L 27–34 OT63,380
October 87:00 pmvs. Tennessee TechNo. 17
OVCDNW 48–173,700
October 172:00 pmat Southeast Missouri StateNo. 14
OVCDNW 27–107,589
October 243:00 pmTennessee StatedaggerNo. 13
  • Roy Kidd Stadium
  • Richmond, KY
OVCDNW 45–219,400
October 312:00 pmat No. 1 Jacksonville StateNo. 13
OVCDNL 0–3421,988
November 71:00 pmTennessee–MartinNo. 18
  • Roy Kidd Stadium
  • Richmond, KY
OVCDNL 35–427,800
November 142:00 pmat Murray StateNo. 24
OVCDNW 41–34 2OT2,457
November 212:00 pmat Eastern IllinoisNo. 23
OVCDNL 7–211,438
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time

Ranking movements
Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
— = Not ranked. RV = Received votes.
Week
PollPre123456789101112Final
STATS FCS171921181717141313182423RV—
Coaches17192221212015141419RVRVRV—

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. Archived from the original on October 9, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  3. "College Football News, Videos, Scores, Teams, Standings, Stats".


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