Troy Trojans
2026: 3–3 (1–1 Sun Belt). Last: lost at Louisiana 33–6. Next: UL Monroe, Saturday, Oct 24, 4 p.m. ET.
- W 24–21Sam Houston
- W 34–17Alabama State
- L 17–27at No. 20 Missouri
- L 10–21at Utah State
- W 55–34Southern Miss
- L 6–33at Louisiana
- Oct 24UL Monroe
- Oct 29at James Madison
- Nov 7Louisiana Tech
- Nov 14at South Alabama
- Nov 21Georgia Southern
- Nov 28at Arkansas State
- Outfitted by Adidas
Troy has played football since 1909 and is officially 587–446–28; 327 of its 1,061 games are in our file. Their best finish in the final AP poll is No. 19, in 2022. They have won eight Sun Belt Conference titles (the last in 2023), plus six Gulf South Conference titles, six Alabama Collegiate Conference titles, three Southland Conference titles, counting shared titles. Since 1971, the NFL Draft has taken 27 players from here in its first seven rounds, 2 of them in the first round. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 1 coach from Troy. Larry Blakeney (2001–2014) won more games here than any other coach: 86. The most-played rival is Louisiana: 21 meetings, Troy leads 12–5 (four Louisiana wins vacated). This season, under Gerad Parker, they’re 3–3.
Résumé
- All-time record
- 587–446–28 official; 179–148 on file; how we count
- Postseason
- 6–5 bowls, title games, playoff
- AP No. 1 finishes
- 0
- Weeks at No. 1
- 0 of 2 ranked
- Elo now
- 1480 83rd of 138 FBS
- Computer rankings
- Massey No. 106 · Composite No. 95 in FBS, Oct 17; down 9 since Oct 11. From Massey Ratings
- Conference titles
- 23 last in 2023
- Bowl record
- 6–4 official, bowls only
- Seasons
- 35 since 1935, 327 games
Identity
- Fight song
- Trojans One & All
- Mascot
- T-Roy
- Apparel
- Adidas deal through 2028
- Band
- Sound of the South since 1939, 350 members
2026 season 3–3
RosterFull 2026 season| Date | Opponent | Result | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5 | vs Sam Houston | W 24–21 | 75% |
| Sep 12 | vs Alabama State | W 34–17 | 70% |
| Sep 19 | at 20Missouri | L 17–27 | 32% |
| Sep 26 | at Utah State | L 10–21 | 57% |
| Oct 6 | vs Southern Miss | W 55–34 | 70% |
| Oct 17 | at Louisiana | L 6–33 | 40% |
| Oct 24 | vs UL Monroe | Preview | 83% |
| Oct 29 | at James Madison | Preview | 15% |
| Nov 7 | vs Louisiana Tech | Preview | 55% |
| Nov 14 | at South Alabama | Preview | 39% |
| Nov 21 | vs Georgia Southern | Preview | 55% |
| Nov 28 | at Arkansas State | Preview | 45% |
Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.
This season, game by game
Future schedule
2027–34- 20274 games: 2 home, 2 away, non-conference only
- 20284 games: 2 home, 2 away, non-conference only
- 20294 games: 2 home, 2 away, non-conference only
- 20302 games: 2 away, non-conference only
- 20311 game: 1 away, non-conference only
- at Auburn
- 20321 game: 1 home, non-conference only
- 20332 games: 1 home, 1 away, non-conference only
- 20342 games: 1 home, 1 away, non-conference only
Troy’s announced games beyond the seasons on our schedule, the next 8 seasons (2 more listed), as its Wikipedia article lists them (announced schedules as of August 25, 2026). Schedules change; a season shows only the games named so far, and many articles list non-conference games only. Future schedules: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
On the 2026 team
- Will Crowder1,112 passing yards, 9 TD (leads Troy in passing yards)
- Gavin Griffin359 rushing yards, 1 TD (leads Troy in rushing yards)
- Jordan Lovett304 rushing yards, 1 TD
- Keno Jones41 tackles, 1.5 sacks
- Donnie Smith26 tackles, 4 sacks (leads Troy in sacks)
- Justin Powe38 tackles (leads Troy in tackles)
Program greats See all
Heisman finalists, College Football Hall of Famers, consensus All-Americans, national award winners and first-round picks, for what they did at Troy.
Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.
Around the program
- Apparel
- Adidas · Official source
- Troy University Athletics; read 2026-10-10
- Troy University Athletics; read 2026-10-10
- Mascot
- T-Roy · Official source
- Troy University Athletics; read 2026-10-10
- Wikipedia; read 2026-10-10
- Offensive coordinator
- Adam Austin · Official source
- troytrojans.com; read 2026-10-10
Found by several AI researchers searching the web, then kept only where the page loads and says so in words naming the program; every quote is checked again each time the data is rebuilt. Official source: the school’s own page. All of them.
The apparel deal
Adidas, through 2028. Five-year extension signed in 2023. Extended in May 2023 through the 2027-28 school year. Adidas has outfitted Troy for two decades.
- Troy Athletics, May 30, 2023: Five-year extension through the 2027-28 athletic year
Apparel deals: Field Drip. Terms as the outlets reported them; checked Oct 3, 2026.
Program strength since 1935
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Read on Bluesky
From reporters and writers who cover college football, linked to their posts on Bluesky.
More coverage
- Troy hosts UL Monroe in Sun Belt action, winnipegfreepress.com,
- Who is ESPN's emergency replacement for Troy Aikman if he leaves midseason?, awfulannouncing.com,
- ESPN's NFL Duo Joe Buck And Troy Aikman Face Noisy Start To Super Bowl Year, deadline.com,
- Troy loses again on the road, falling to Louisiana-Lafayette 33-7, waka.com,
- Boomer Esiason questions Troy Aikman's Super Bowl status, awfulannouncing.com,
- 2026 Week 7 Preview: Troy Trojans @ Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns, underdogdynasty.com,
- Troy Aikman discusses tension with Joe Buck, ESPN contract uncertainty, thebiglead.com,
- Sources predict Greg Olsen replaces Troy Aikman at ESPN, awfulannouncing.com,
Found through the GDELT Project, which indexes news sites worldwide. Each link opens the story on the outlet’s own site; each picture is that outlet’s own preview of its story, shown from its site and credited to it.
Podcasts
- Inside Troy Athletics - Oct. 16, Troy Trojans Athletics,
- Trojan Talk - Chanda Rigby, Troy Trojans Athletics,
Found through Podcast Index, the open podcast directory. Each link opens the episode’s page.
Head coaches
| Coach | Years | Record |
|---|---|---|
 Gerad Parker | 2024–2026 | 15–17 |
| Greg Gasparato | 2023 | 0–1 |
 Jon Sumrall | 2022–2023 | 23–4 |
| Brandon Hall | 2021 | 0–1 |
 Chip Lindsey | 2019–2021 | 15–19 |
 Neal Brown | 2015–2018 | 35–16 |
| Larry Blakeney | 2001–2014 | 86–84 |
Most-played series
All rivalries- Louisiana
12–5 † in 21
- 2014 L 23–42
- 2015 W 41–17
- 2018 W 26–16
- 2019 L 3–53
- 2021 L 21–35
- 2022 W 23–17
- 2023 W 31–24
- 2024 L 30–51
- 2025 W 35–23
- 2026 L 6–33
Lost the last one.
- Arkansas State
9–9 † in 20
- 2012 L 34–41
- 2013 L 34–41
- 2016 L 3–35
- 2017 W 32–25
- 2019 L 43–50
- 2020 W 38–10
- 2022 W 48–19
- 2023 W 37–3
- 2024 L 31–34
- 2025 L 10–23
Lost the last two.
Next: Nov 28
- UL Monroe
11–8 in 19
- 2011 L 10–38
- 2013 L 37–49
- 2014 L 20–22
- 2015 W 51–14
- 2018 W 35–27
- 2021 L 16–29
- 2022 W 34–16
- 2023 W 45–14
- 2024 L 9–13
- 2025 W 37–14
Won the last one.
Next: Oct 24
| Opponent | Games | TROY record |
|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 21 | 12–5 † |
| Arkansas State | 20 | 9–9 † |
| UL Monroe | 19 | 11–8 |
| South Alabama | 14 | 10–4 |
| Middle Tennessee | 14 | 9–5 |
| North Texas | 11 | 9–2 |
| Georgia State | 11 | 7–4 |
| Texas State | 11 | 10–1 |
Official records. † Without wins the NCAA vacated. ‡ The rivalry’s own count, where it differs from the games on file. Each series page gives both.
Rivals the program names: South Alabama, Jacksonville State, Middle Tennessee.
Trophies it holds: Ol’ School Bell (Jacksonville State), The Belt (South Alabama, since 2025). Who holds each comes from the games on file; the trophies from Wikipedia.
Every opponent (85)
Every program Troy has played, A to Z, with Troy’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.
- Abilene Christian 0–1
- Akron 2–0
- Alabama A&M 1–0
- Alabama State 3–0
- Alcorn State 1–0
- App State 2–7
- Arkansas 0–4
- Arkansas State 9–9 †
- Army 2–0
- Austin Peay 2–0
- Boise State 0–2
- Bowling Green 1–1
- Buffalo 2–0
- BYU 0–1
- Cal Poly 1–0
- Cal State Northridge 1–0
- Campbell 1–0
- Central Michigan 0–1
- Charleston Southern 1–0
- Cincinnati 1–1
- Clemson 0–3
- Coastal Carolina 4–3
- Duke 0–3
- Eastern Kentucky 1–0
- Florida 0–2
- Florida A&M 3–0
- Florida Atlantic 8–2
- Florida International 7–2
- Florida State 0–1
- Georgia 0–2
- Georgia Southern 5–4
- Georgia State 7–4
- Georgia Tech 0–1
- Idaho 4–1
- Iowa 0–1
- Iowa State 0–1
- Jacksonville State 1–1
- James Madison 0–2
- Kansas State 0–2
- Liberty 0–2
- Louisiana 12–5 †
- LSU 1–2
- Marshall 3–2
- Maryland 0–1
- Massachusetts 1–0
- Memphis 0–2
- Mercer 0–1
- Miami 0–1
- Middle Tennessee 9–5
- Minnesota 0–1
- Mississippi State 1–4
- Missouri 1–4
- Navy 1–1
- NC State 0–1
- Nebraska 1–4
- Nevada 0–1
- New Mexico State 4–1
- Nicholls 2–0
- North Texas 9–2
- Northern Illinois 0–1
- Ohio 2–0
- Ohio State 0–1
- Oklahoma State 1–2
- Old Dominion 0–1
- Ole Miss 0–1 †
- Rice 1–0
- Sam Houston 1–0
- Savannah State 1–0
- SE Louisiana 1–0
- South Alabama 10–4
- South Carolina 0–4
- South Florida 0–1
- Southern 1–0
- Southern Miss 7–3
- Southern Utah 2–0
- Stephen F. Austin 1–0
- Tennessee 0–1
- Texas State 10–1
- UAB 5–5
- UL Monroe 11–8
- Utah State 2–2
- UTSA 1–0
- Virginia 0–1
- Western Kentucky 7–2
- Wisconsin 0–1
Official records. † Without wins the NCAA vacated, or with forfeits counted. ‡ The rivalry’s own count, where it differs from the games on file.
Conference titles
23, counting shared titles- Sun Belt Conference 8
- 2006 (shared), 2007 (shared), 2008, 2009, 2010 (shared), 2017 (shared), 2022, 2023
- Gulf South Conference 6
- 1971, 1973, 1976, 1984, 1986, 1987
- Alabama Collegiate Conference 6
- 1939, 1941, 1942, 1967, 1968, 1969
- SBC East 1
- 2018 (tied)
As the program counts them in its Wikipedia article, shared titles included, and listed under each conference’s current name (a Western Conference title of the 1900s counts as a Big Ten title); season pages use the name the conference had that year. A title the article files under a conference the team wasn’t in that season is listed under the one it was. Division titles include years the team tied for its division.
Conferences
- Gulf South Conference 1970–1990
- Independent 1991–1995
- Southland Conference 1996–2000
- Independent 2001–2003
- Sun Belt Conference since 2004
- 2004Joined the Sun Belt Conference from independence in football. Source
Troy’s football conferences by season, from CollegeFootballData.com’s memberships (renamed conferences keep the name of the time). The moves and their announcement dates from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the year is the first season in the new conference. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
Led the nation 1
| 2023 | Chris Lewis yards per catch (23.0) |
The NCAA’s official national leaders since 1937, from Wikipedia’s yearly leader lists.
In the Hall of Fame
Every inductee- Players
- 0
- Coaches
- 1
| 2025 | Larry Blakeney coach here, 2001–2014 |
In the NFL Draft
By college- Drafted, rounds 1–7
- 27 since 1971
- First-round picks
- 2
| 2008 | Leodis McKelvin CB | No. 11, Buffalo Bills |
| 2005 | DeMarcus Ware DE | No. 11, Dallas Cowboys |
Who came and went in the 2026 transfer portal, and every portal year.
The school
Troy University- Enrollment
- 13,658 10,222 undergraduates, fall 2024
- Where
- Troy, Alabama
- Public or private
- Public
- Founded
- 1887
- Graduates’ median earnings
- $42,062 10 years after starting
Enrollment, place and Carnegie research tier from the National Center for Education Statistics (IPEDS, public domain). Earnings from the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard (CC BY 4.0): the median for students who received federal aid and were working, not in school. Founding year from Wikidata. Every school’s in the data.
Official accounts
- Football
- X @TroyTrojansFBInstagram @troytrojansfootballFacebook troytrojansfb
- Athletics department
- X @TroyAthleticsInstagram @TroyAthleticsFacebook troyathletics
Official accounts: the schools’ athletics websites: the ones troytrojans.com lists for its football program and athletics department, as of Oct 12, 2026.
Season by season
National champions| Season | Record | Conf. | AP pre | AP final | Coach | Elo | SP+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3–3 | 1–1 | Gerad Parker | 1480 | -6.6 | ||
| 2025 | 8–6 | 6–2 | Gerad Parker | 1514 | -4.8 | ||
| 2024 | 4–8 | 3–5 | Gerad Parker | 1516 | -6.6 | ||
| 2023 | 11–3 | 7–1 | Jon Sumrall, Greg Gasparato | 1697 | 9.8 | ||
| 2022 | 12–2 | 7–1 | 19 | Jon Sumrall | 1655 | 8.1 | |
| 2021 | 5–7 | 3–5 | Chip Lindsey, Brandon Hall | 1437 | -6.5 | ||
| 2020 | 5–6 | 3–4 | Chip Lindsey | 1508 | 2.3 | ||
| 2019 | 5–7 | 3–5 | Chip Lindsey | 1504 | -4.4 | ||
| 2018 | 10–3 | 7–1 | Neal Brown | 1631 | 2.6 | ||
| 2017 | 11–2 | 7–1 | Neal Brown | 1617 | 1.6 | ||
| 2016 | 10–3 | 6–2 | Neal Brown | 1524 | 1.1 | ||
| 2015 | 4–8 | 3–5 | Neal Brown | 1383 | -7.0 | ||
| 2014 | 3–9 | 3–5 | Larry Blakeney | 1305 | -15.9 | ||
| 2013 | 6–6 | 4–3 | Larry Blakeney | 1411 | -14.5 | ||
| 2012 | 5–7 | 3–5 | Larry Blakeney | 1402 | -3.5 | ||
| 2011 | 3–9 | 2–6 | Larry Blakeney | 1361 | -18.5 | ||
| 2010 | 8–5 | 6–2 | Larry Blakeney | 1566 | -4.4 | ||
| 2009 | 9–4 | 8–0 | Larry Blakeney | 1590 | 0.5 | ||
| 2008 | 8–5 | 6–1 | Larry Blakeney | 1573 | 5.0 | ||
| 2007 | 8–4 | 6–1 | Larry Blakeney | 1557 | -2.4 | ||
| 2006 | 8–5 | 6–1 | Larry Blakeney | 1477 | -11.5 | ||
| 2005 | 4–7 | 3–4 | Larry Blakeney | 1370 | -17.2 | ||
| 2004 | 7–5 | 4–2 | Larry Blakeney | 1509 | 4.6 | ||
| 2003 | 6–6 | Larry Blakeney | 1443 | -6.2 | |||
| 2002 | 4–8 | Larry Blakeney | 1401 | -18.9 |
Every season back to 1935 (10 more)
Officially 587–446–28 since 1909 (per Wikipedia, rechecked weekly); game by game here, 179–148 (327 of its 1,061 games are on file). Our file starts in 1935; the program began in 1909. Some games are missing from our source.
No season on file for 1936–76, 1978–90, 1993, 1996–97: the program may not have played, or our source may be missing them.
Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.