Head coach Kalani Sitake’s BYU football team will be well-rested and mostly healthy Saturday when it travels across the country for its third game of the 2025 season.

The Cougars’ opponent will be confident, hungry, and eager to prove that it can compete with and defeat a foe from a Power Four conference.

The East Carolina Pirates of the American Conference showed they will be ready for the 5:30 p.m. MDT nonconference showdown on ESPN2 by walloping Coastal Carolina 38-0 in Conway, South Carolina, on Saturday. But even before that, the Cougars (2-0) knew they would have their hands full against the Pirates (2-1) of Greenville, North Carolina.

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