Moments before kickoff at Saturday’s BYU-ECU battle in Greenville, North Carolina, a pair of F-15 pilots connected to BYU will deliver the first play of the game by zipping over Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium during the national anthem.

Captain Morgan Curriden, an F-15E instructor pilot, and Lieutenant Colonel Samuel B. Eliason, director of operations for the 4th Operations Support Squadron at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base near Goldsboro, will share the same fly path in their respective jets, but their journey to this moment couldn’t be more different.

“It is literally the fulfillment of a dream I’ve had since I was a little kid,” Curriden told the “Y’s Guys” livestream show this week. “I’ve always been a Cougar fan. My parents met at BYU, and I’ve always wanted to be a fighter pilot. For me, do

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