CBSSports.com has Pirates playing Utah State in bowl game

by | Aug 16, 2025

Is it ever too early to talk bowl games? Pffft. As if.

CBSSPorts.com is among the many websites already looking to the college football postseason … and the season doesn’t start until Aug. 28. That’s when ECU and NC State square off in Raleigh, among other games.

CBS put out a list of every matchup in the bowl games. It has the Pirates squaring off against Utah State in the New Mexico Bowl on Dec. 27 in Albuquerque, NM. That bowl game pits a Mountain West Conference school against one from either Conference USA, American, Sun Belt or MAC.

There is no explanation about why the matchup exists, but there’s a whole list to explore and argue one way or another.

Photo credit: (ECU Sports Information photo)

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