After Saturday’s matchup, East Carolina has two more games on the books with N.C. State and one more with North Carolina.
And after that?
You don’t need a flux capacitor to figure out that future games between the Pirates and either Wolfpack or Tar Heels will probably be scarce.
ECU will get UNC in Greenville in 2018, go to N.C. State in 2019 and the Wolfpack is scheduled to return to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium in 2022.
It might take another round of political maneuvering to get the Pirates back on the in-state ACC schools schedules in the future.