Attend a game on a fall Saturday afternoon inside Dowdy-Ficklen, and good luck not getting goosebumps when East Carolina takes the field.

First, a siren blares, then Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." Next comes some purple smoke, a ripped Pirate, and - finally - a jacked-up Ruffin McNeill and the rest of his team to do battle through a blown up skull.

It's considered one of the best sights in college football, and Fox Sports agrees. It ranked ECU's the eighth most exciting entrance in college football, saying the following:

Many teams use smoke during their entrances, but ECU takes it to another level -- out of a purple cloud from a skull's head.

The Pirates are the only non "Power 5" program on the list.