The 2023 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team represented

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as a member of the United Athletic Conference during the 2023 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Led by fourth-year head coach

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, the Colonels played home games at

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. After the 2022 season, the ASUN and the

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(WAC), which had been partners in a football-only alliance in the 2021 and 2022 seasons, jointly announced that they would merge their football leagues.

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Eastern Kentucky Colonels football seasons

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