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RICHMOND, Ky. – Eastern Kentucky will play non-conference games against teams from the Southern Conference and Missouri Valley Conference, and play at West Virginia in 2020.
 
The Colonels will open the 2020 season at home on Saturday, Sept. 5 against Western Carolina of the Southern Conference.  EKU will play at West Virginia one week later on Sept. 12. The non-conference portion of the 2020 schedule concludes with a road game at Youngstown State on Sept. 19.
 
The 2020 schedule marks the first time EKU has played regular season games against a Southern Conference and a Missouri Valley Conference team in the same season since 2011.  Teams from one of these two conferences have won seven of the last eight, and 10 of the last 14, NCAA Football Championship Division (FCS) titles.
 
Eastern Kentucky has won two national championships, 21 conference titles and has made 21 playoff appearances.  No other FCS team has won at least two FCS national titles and 20 or more conference championships.  EKU has had 67 All-America selections and 33 NFL draft picks.
 
The Colonels and Western Carolina have met five times with EKU holding a 3-2 edge in the series.  The first meeting was in 1988.  The most recent match-up came in 2009 when the Catamounts beat EKU, 24-7, at Roy Kidd Stadium.
 
Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia will be meeting for the first time on the gridiron.  The Mountaineers were 5-7 overall in 2019 and had a 3-6 mark in the Big 12 Conference.  WVU closed out the season with a 20-17 win at Texas Christian.
 
Youngstown State and EKU will face each other for the 21st time, and the first time since YSU beat the Colonels 18-15 in the 1994 FCS Playoffs in Youngstown, Ohio.  EKU is 12-8 all-time against the Penguins.  The first meeting between the two programs was in 1953.
 
All game times will be announced at a later date.
 
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Eastern announced its 2020 conference schedule in December.  The Colonels will face Tennessee-Martin, Eastern Illinois, Murray State and Tennessee State at home.  EKU will go on the road to play Tennessee Tech, Austin Peay, Jacksonville State and Southeast Missouri.