Shane Carden

ECU alum | Realtor @ Keller Williams Sun Valley Southern Idaho | Head Football Coach @ Wood River High School

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Week 8 of the 2014 CFP Season. The First Year of the College Football Playoff.
One of the most controversial, yet exciting years the sport has ever season.

💥 Back when the State of Mississippi Dominated College Football for a few weeks.

⛰️ Back when the Iron Bowl was always a Top 25 matchup.

⚔️ Back when Michigan State was actually good at Football.

🔔 Back when Dak Prescott and Mississipi State were really like that. 2014 was the first time in program history they were ever ranked #1. They held on to the top spot until week 12, we don't need to talk about what happened next.

🐸 Back when Art Briles coached Baylor and the kept TCU out of the CFP. Coming back from being down 58-37 in the 4th to winning 61-58. TCU would've won it all if they were allowed in the CFP.

[Shane Carden @_Scarden5]

Class of 2027 lineman. Breaking school records!

[Kolten Marcroft @KoltenM_74]

5 0 0
45lb PR
New school record

[Kolten Marcroft @KoltenM_74]

5 0 0
45lb PR
New school record

[Scott Van Pelt @notthefakeSVP]

In the ‘91 throwbacks no less.

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[ECU Football @ECUPiratesFB]

BACK TO BACK MILITARY BOWL CHAMPS 🏴‍☠️

[ESPN @espn]

ECU adds another bowl win to its streak 🔥

The Pirates pick up their third straight bowl game victory, the longest streak in program history 👏

[The Boneyard Podcast @BoneyardPodcast]

EAST CAROLINA BEATS PITT 23-17 IN THE MILITARY BOWL!!! THE PIRATES FINISH THE SEASON 9-4!

[Shane Carden @_Scarden5]

@Coach_B_Harrell Great Season Coach!

[Shane Carden @_Scarden5]

@holtahlers12 @burn_the_boats_ #pirateforlife

[Shane Carden @_Scarden5]

Roll dam pirates!
@Coach_B_Harrell @Coach_B_Harrell

[ECU Football @ECUPiratesFB]

A Place Where Football Matters. 🏴‍☠️

[Titus @Titus_252]

@_Scarden5 Let’s go

[Shane Carden @_Scarden5]

@notCliffGodwin Got a good laugh out of that picture!

[Sup Dogs @SupDogsECU]

‼️‼️‼️ We are giving away $1,000 to a random student TODAY in The Boneyard, in the 4th Quarter💰💰

Plus @coach_b_harrell has a surprise for everyone (21+) in The Boneyard. All goes down at the beginning of the 4th Quarter. BIGGEST game in years!!!! See you at the game🥳🏈

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

East Carolina currently has a 0.6% chance to make the CFP according to ESPN analytics 🏴‍☠️

The Pirates sit at 6-3, but have just one loss in American play. Their losses are to NC State, #12 BYU, and Tulane.

All six of their wins have come by double digits:
• Beat Campbell by 53
• Beat Coastal by 38
• Beat Temple by 31
• Beat Charlotte by 26
• Beat Army by 22
• Beat Tulsa by 14

I got curious as to what it would take for the Pirates to get to the Playoff and make that 0.6% chance come to fruition.

Here’s ECU’s path to a CFP bid:

• Win out (Memphis, at UTSA, at FAU)

• Need Tulane to lose to one of FAU, at Temple, Charlotte (Tulane holds H2H tiebreaker over ECU)

• Need North Texas to lose to one of at UAB, at Rice, Temple (UNT would hold ranking/metrics tiebreaker over ECU).

• Need USF to keep winning/moving up in rankings (knock Navy out, provide a potential résumé win for ECU in American title game).

• Assuming all of that happens and East Carolina gets to the American Championship, the Pirates would need to beat USF (who has preferably cracked the CFP Top 20). Having USF be the team they beat for the American title would greatly help their résumé compared to other G5 conference champs.

• 10-3 American Champ ECU would be in contention for the 5th highest ranked conference champion autobid to the CFP. Their competition would likely be James Madison.

• Need JMU to lose to App State, Washington State, or at Coastal, or potentially get upset in the Sun Belt Championship by Southern Miss. In that case, as a contingency, ECU should be rooting for Southern Miss to lose to one of Texas State, South Alabama, or Troy (to make them 10-3 instead of 11-2 hypothetically as the Sun Belt Champion).

• 10-3 ECU with a Top 20 win over USF would probably get the nod over whoever the Mountain West Champ is, but San Diego State losing another game would make that virtually certain (UNLV/Hawaii/Boise wouldn’t have a better résumé).

• The MAC and CUSA won’t really be in the picture.

If all that happens 10-3 American Champion East Carolina would get the 5th highest ranked conference champion autobid to the College Football Playoff.

[East Carolina Pirates @ECUAthletics]

A 1-of-1 Hall of Fame Giveaway 🏴‍☠️

Win this custom water color painting of Saturdays Purple Haze done by @ECUSoc's own @madebymollythomas and signed by three of our newest Hall of Famers, @_Scarden5, @dwayneharris & @freakmagic2

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The Cap will live forever in ECU’s Hall of Fame 🏴‍☠️ @_Scarden5

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So who do I wear Friday or Saturday?
*Still one of our best jerseys.