FWAA East Carolina News

Each week during the 2025 season, we will highlight the notable performances of first-year players and head coaches leading up to the selection of our annual Freshman All-America Team and the Steve Spurrier First-Year Coach of the Year Award presented by Chris Doering Mortgage.

East Carolina is the winner of the Cheez-It Crunch Time Play of the Week for Week 12 for Payton Magrum's 31-yard touchdown grab from Katin Houser with 1:08 left that gave the Pirates the 31-27 comeback win over Memphis, as selected by the All-America Commitee of the Football Writers Association of America.

The 2024 Football Writers Association of America All-America Team , presented in partnership with the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, has five repeat All-Americans and 16 players on teams competing in the College Football Playoff at the front of players from 40 different schools. Players from the expanded Big Ten and Southeastern Conferences make up 27, or half, of the 54-member team with nine of the Football Bowl Subdivision conferences represented plus an Independent.

The Football Writers Association of America has selected its sixth "Super 11" group of sports information departments deemed the best in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision for the 2014 season.

The Football Writers Association of America has announced its first "Super 11" field of sports information departments, which were deemed the best in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision during the 2009 season.

Pirates ring up third straight win vs. ranked foe