The 1970 East Carolina Pirates football team was an American football team that represented East Carolina University as a member of the Southern Conference during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their first season under head coach Mike McGee, the team compiled a 3–8 record. The team's game against the Marshall Thundering Herd preceded the crash of Southern Airways Flight 932, in which 37 members of the Thundering Herd football team were killed that night.