2013 East Carolina Pirates football team

Location: New Orleans, LA
Game start: 2:30 PM <a href="/piglix/Central_Daylight_Time_(North_America)" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Daylight Time (North America)">CDT
Elapsed time: 3:54
Game attendance: 15,157
Game weather: Indoors
Referee: James Jone
Television network: WHNO

2013 East Carolina Pirates football

Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl champion
Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, W 37–20 vs. Ohio
Conference	Conference USA
Division	East Division
2013 record	10–3 (6–2 C-USA)
Head coach	Ruffin McNeill (4th year)
Offensive coordinator	Lincoln Riley (4th year)
Offensive scheme	Air raid
Defensive coordinator	Rick Smith (1st year)
Home stadium	Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium (Capacity: 50,000)
Seasons ← 2012 2014 →

2013 Conference USA football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
East Division
Marshall x		7	–	1		10	–	4
East Carolina		6	–	2		10	–	3
Middle Tennessee		6	–	2		8	–	5
Florida Atlantic		4	–	4		6	–	6
UAB		1	–	7		2	–	10
Southern Miss		1	–	7		1	–	11
FIU		1	–	7		1	–	11
West Division
Rice x$		7	–	1		10	–	4
UTSA		6	–	2		7	–	5
North Texas		6	–	2		9	–	4
Tulane		5	–	3		7	–	6
Louisiana Tech		3	–	5		4	–	8
Tulsa		2	–	6		3	–	9
UTEP		1	–	7		2	–	10
Championship: Rice 41, Marshall 24
$ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

	1	2	3	4	OT	2OT	3OT	Total
Pirates	3	3	0	13	7	7	0	33
• Green Wave	3	3	10	3	7	7	3	36

The 2013 East Carolina Pirates football team represented East Carolina University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Ruffin McNeill and played their home games at Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium. They were a member of the East Division of Conference USA. This was their final season in C-USA before joining the American Athletic Conference in 2014.

This was the fifteenth time these two teams have faced each other. East Carolina leads the overall win-loss record 10–5.