Eastern Kentucky Colonels football
Season Coach Bowl Opponent Result
1954 Glenn Presnell Tangerine Bowl Omaha L 7-6
1967 Roy Kidd Grantland Rice Bowl Ball State W 27-13
1980 Roy Kidd Camellia Bowl Boise State L 29-31
1981 Roy Kidd Pioneer Bowl Idaho State L 23-34
1982 Roy Kidd Pioneer Bowl Delaware W 17-14
Bowl games
Eastern Kentucky has participated in five bowl games . Four of these bowl games served as a sort of championship game , whether as a regional championship game or as the NCAA Division I Football Championship .
The Eastern Kentucky Colonels football program represents Eastern Kentucky University in college football as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC), and competes at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level. The school has traditionally had much success on the football field, having won 21 OVC conference titles and two Division I FCS National Championships (then called Division I-AA) in 1979 and 1982, and reaching the finals in 1980 and 1981. Much of the success came during the long tenure of head coach Roy Kidd from 1964 to 2002. In 1990, Eastern honored Kidd by naming the school's football stadium Roy Kidd Stadium. Eastern Kentucky's football team was able to secure 31 consecutive winning seasons before finally posting a losing season record in 2009. In September 2013, the Lexington Herald-Leader, the daily newspaper of nearby Lexington, reported that EKU was considering moving its program to the top-level Football Bowl Subdivision. However, under NCAA rules, such a move would require that EKU receive an invitation from an existing FBS conference.