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2025 SUN BELT SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE YEAR (COACHES): Evan Crenshaw, Troy (RS Jr., P - Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.),...Crenshaw averaged 46.70 yards per punt to lead the Sun Belt and rank sixth in the country. The Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., product posted 20 punts of 50-or-more yards on the season, with 25 of his punts being downed inside the 20-yard line. Behind redshirt junior punter Crenshaw, Troy paces the Sun Belt and ranks third in the nation in net punting at 43.75 net yards per punt. - Sun Belt Football

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P Evan Crenshaw, Troy
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11/29/25 - Goose Crowder, rSr/2026, Troy, 6-2, 215 (DS#68 QB) + More +

Goose Crowder threw three touchdown passes to lead Troy to a 28-18 victory over Southern Miss on Saturday night in a Sun Belt Conference regular-season finale. Crowder's 7-yard touchdown pass to RaRa Thomas capped an 11-play, 85 yard drive that chewed up about five minutes and stretched the Trojans' lead to 21-10 with 6:58 remaining in the fourth quarter. The pair also connected on a 75-yard touchdown with 3:16 to play.

Crowder completed 24 of 34 passes for 285 yards. He also had a 16-yard touchdown pass to Peyton Higgins just before halftime. Thomas finished with five catches for 118 yards. Tae Meadows added 94 yards rushing on 21 carries that included a short-yardage TD run in the first quarter. Braylon Braxton was 20-of-35 passing for 209 yards with a touchdown pass and interception for Southern Miss. Carl Chester had four receptions for 76 yards and a 10-yard touchdown catch. Tight end Kadinn Morris recovered Jeffery Pittman's fumbled ball in the end zone late in the third quarter that pulled the Golden Eagles to 14-10. Troy (8-4, 6-2) ends the regular season with consecutive wins while Southern Miss (7-5, 5-3) ends its with three straight losses. - Troy/AP College Football

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QB Goose Crowder, Troy
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11/22/25 - Goose Crowder, rSr/2026, Troy, 6-2, 215 (DS#68 QB) + More +

Goose Crowder was 27-of-43 passing for 361 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions on Saturday night to help Troy beat Georgia State 31-19. Troy (7-4, 5-2 Sun Belt Conference) plays at Southern Miss next Saturday and the winner will advance to the conference championship game on Dec. 5. DJ Epps had eight receptions for 103 yards and two touchdowns and Ethan Conner added 85 yards receiving and two TDs on three catches for the Trojans. Conner caught a 26-yard scoring strike from Crowder that made it 10-3 late in the first quarter and added a 39-yard touchdown in the third quarter that gave Troy a 17-6 lead.

Georgia State responded with a 12-play, 75-yard drive that took nearly six minutes off the clock and culminated when Branson Robinson ran it in from the 4 to trim its deficit to 17-12 after a failed 2-point try. Epps had touchdown receptions of 10 and 35 yards in the fourth quarter. Christian Veilleux was 19-of-38 passing for 307 yards with a touchdown and an interception for the Panthers. Javon Robinson had seven receptions for 146 yards, which included a 17-yard touchdown. Georgia State (1-10, 0-7) has lost eight in a row. - Troy/AP College Football

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QB Goose Crowder, Troy
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10/25/25 - Tucker Kilcrease, rJr/2027, Troy, 6-0, 205 (DS#999 QB) + More +

Tucker Kilcrease and Jordan Lovett each had a pair of touchdown runs to lead Troy past Louisiana-Lafayette 35-23 on Saturday night for its fifth straight win. Tony Sterner kicked a 31-yard field goal late in the third quarter and a 32-yarder with 7:08 to play in the fourth to get Louisiana-Lafayette within 28-23. On the ensuing drive, Lovett broke loose on 19-yard run with 2:55 remaining for his second touchdown that capped a seven-play, 75-yard drive.

Kilcrease was 16-of-24 passing for 180 yards with one interception for Troy (6-2, 4-0 Sun Belt Conference). He added 25 yards on the ground and scored on runs from 8 and 2 yards in the first half. Lovett finished with 113 yards rushing on 21 carries that included a short-yardage touchdown run midway through the third. Jaquez White had a 30-yard interception return for a touchdown for the Trojans that knotted it 14-all midway through the second. Lunch Winfield completed 12 of 22 passes for 187 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions for Louisiana-Lafayette (2-6, 1-3). He also ran 23 times for 139 of the Ragin' Cajuns 184 yards rushing. Shelton Sampson Jr. had five receptions for 74 yards with a 36-yard TD catch. - Troy/AP College Football

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QB Tucker Kilcrease, Troy
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10/18/25 - Tray Taylor, Sr/2026, Troy, 5-06, 140 (DS#999 WR) + More +

Tray Taylor accounted for two touchdowns, and Troy scored the final 20 points to beat Louisiana-Monroe 37-14 on Saturday for its third straight win. UL Monroe pulled to 17-14 with 9:40 left in the third quarter. Taylor answered with an 11-yard touchdown run sandwiched between a pair of Scott Taylor Renfroe 41- and 26-yard field goals. Joe Lott's 53-yard pick-6 for Troy (5-2, 3-0 Sun Belt Conference) ended the scoring with 7:30 remaining. Taylor also caught a 60-yard touchdown pass from Tucker Kilcrease late in the second quarter. Taylor finished with two catches for 89 yards and added 20 yards rushing. Kilcrease was 13-of-21 passing for 223 yards for the Trojans. Aidan Armenta completed 19 of 33 passes for 171 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions for UL Monroe (3-4, 1-2). - Troy/AP College Football

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WR Tray Taylor, Troy
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10/13/25 - Paddy McAteer, rJr/2027, Troy, 6-2, 207 (DS#999 K) + More +

WEEK 7 SUN BELT SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Paddy McAteer, Troy,(Jr., K - Mullaghbawn, Ireland),...Trojans junior kicker Paddy McAteer booted a program-record 53-yard field goal in the closing seconds of the first half to spark a 13-point Troy run in an eventual 48-41 win over Texas Sate in overtime. Following Troy's seven-play, 75-yard scoring drive to open the second half, McAteer executed a perfect onside kick with a ball that caromed off a Texas State player and back into the hands of a Trojan. The onside kick recovery following the kick from the Mullaghbawn, Ireland, product, led to another Troy field goal to cut the Texas State lead to four. - Sun Belt football

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K Paddy McAteer, Troy
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10/13/25 - Tucker Kilcrease, rJr/2027, Troy, 6-0, 205 (DS#999 QB) + More +

WEEK 7 SUN BELT OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Tucker Kilcrease, Troy,(Jr., QB - Brantley, Ala.),...Trojans junior quarterback Tucker Kilcrease completed 30-of-39 passes for 415 yards and five touchdowns in a come-from-behind 48-41 victory over Texas State in overtime. The Brantley, Ala., native's five touchdown passes are tied for the second-most in Trojans program history, while his 415 passing yards were the seventh-most in a single game for Troy. Kilcrease led Troy back from a 21-0 first quarter deficit en route to its second-straight overtime win. The comeback is the second of 17-or-more points engineered by Kilcrease this season. - Sun Belt football

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QB Tucker Kilcrease, Troy
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10/12/25 - Tucker Kilcrease, rJr/2027, Troy, 6-0, 205 (DS#999 QB) + More +

Tucker Kilcrease passed for 415 yards and five touchdowns and Troy rallied to beat Texas State 48-41 in overtime on Saturday night. Kilcrease tossed a 2-yard touchdown pass to Trae Swartz early in the fourth quarter to pull Troy to 41-33 and then threw an 18-yard TD pass to DJ Epps that tied it 41-all with 1:13 remaining in regulation. Texas State's Tyler Robles missed a 42-yard field-goal attempt to force overtime. Kilcrease and Epps connected on a 6-yard touchdown to open the extra period. Texas State's Brad Jackson was stuffed for no gain on fourth-and-1 from the 16 to end it.

Troy (3-2, 1-0 Sun Belt Conference) trailed 31-14 late in the second quarter before Paddy McAteer's 53-yard field goal pulled the Trojans to 31-17 at the break. Kilcrease finished 30-of-39 passing and Epps had 10 catches for 148 yards. RaRa Thomas added 81 yards receiving with a touchdown for the Trojans. Jackson Worley also had a TD catch. Jackson completed 19 of 22 passes for 248 yards and had 77 yards rushing on 18 carries with a touchdown. Burrell added 136 yards rushing and a touchdown for Texas State (3-3, 0-2). Lincoln Pare scored three times on the ground and finished with 113 yards on 22 caries. - Troy/AP College Football

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QB Tucker Kilcrease, Troy
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10/08/25 - Devin Lafayette, rSr/2026, Troy, 6-2, 210 (DS#51 OLB) + More +

WEEK 6 SUN BELT DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Devin Lafayette, Troy, (Sr., DB - Brunswick, Ga.),...Trojans senior defensive back Devin Lafayette registered a game-high 19 tackles in Troy's 31-24 overtime victory over in-state rival South Alabama in the Battle for the Belt rivalry game. The Brunswick, Ga., product's 19 tackles are the most by a Troy player not named Carlton Martial—the NCAA's all-time tackle leader—since 2012. The single-game total is tied for the 16th-most in conference history. Lafayette helped the Trojan defensive unit hold South Alabama to just 104 passing yards in the rivalry matchup—the eighth-fewest in Jaguar program history. - Sun Belt Football

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OLB Devin Lafayette, Troy
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09/22/25 - Evan Crenshaw, rJr/2027, Troy, 6-4, 192 (DS#6 P) + More +

WEEK 4 SUN BELT FOOTBALL SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Evan Crenshaw, Troy,(Jr., P - Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.),...Trojans junior punter Evan Crenshaw averaged 52.2 yards per punt to aid a 21-point fourth-quarter comeback for Troy in a 21-17 win over Buffalo. The Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., native had three punts of 50-or-more yards and three punts land inside the 20-yard line. With Troy trailing 17-14 with 4:07 to play, Crenshaw boomed a 53-yard punt out of bounds at the 10-yard line, setting up a 3-and-out from the Trojans defense and Troy's game-winning touchdown on the ensuing possession. - Sun Belt Football

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P Evan Crenshaw, Troy
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09/20/25 - Tae Meadows, rJr/2027, Troy, 5-10, 200 (DS#52 RB) + More +

Tae Meadows rushed up the middle for a 20-yard touchdown with 45 seconds remaining and Troy scored all its points in the fourth quarter to beat Buffalo 21-17 on Saturday. Tucker Kilcrease rushed for a 6-yard TD to complete a 14-play, 75-yard drive to get the Trojans (2-2) on the scoreboard then threw a 10-yard scoring pass to RaRa Thomas to trail 17-13 with six minutes to go. Troy went three-and-out on its next possession but got the ball back with 2:33 remaining on the 50. Nine plays later Meadows scored the go-ahead points.

Buffalo (2-2) reached the Troy 28 with eight seconds left but a fourth-and-1 pass into the end zone by Gunnar Gray was batted down. Gray played the rest of the way for starting quarterback Ta'Quan Roberson who left with a lower-leg injury in the third quarter after Al-Jay Henderson had put the Bulls up 14-0 with a 22-yard run. James McNeil finished a 71-yard drive with a 1-yard score in the first quarter and a 7-0 halftime lead. Jack Howes' 39-yard field goal made it 17-0 at the start of the fourth quarter. Kilcrease was 14-of-24 passing for 148 yards and he rushed for 50 more. RaRa Thomas had five catches for 78 yards. Roberson was 9-of-15 passing for 104 yards and Gray 5 of 13 for 49. Henderson rushed for 76 yards on 22 carries. - Troy/AP College Football

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RB Tae Meadows, Troy
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09/15/25 - Luke Hodge, rJr/2027, Troy, 6-1, 225 (DS#999 ILB) + More +

WEEK 2 SUN BELT FOOTBALL DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Luke Hodge, Troy,(So., LB - Oneonta, Ala.),...Troy sophomore linebacker Luke Hodge was involved in the two momentum-shifting plays for Troy in a 27-16 loss at No. 8/8 Clemson. The Oneonta, Ala., product forced a fumble on a 4th-and-2 attempt deep in Trojan territory to set up a Troy field goal. Hodge also deflected a pass at the line of scrimmage that was intercepted and returned four yards for a pick six to give the Trojans a 16-0 lead. He finished with a career-high four tackles, as Troy held the Tigers to just 316 yards of total offense—the fewest by a non-autonomy opponent since 2010 (South Florida, 296 yards) and the fewest by a non-autonomy foe at home since 2001 (UCF, 292 yards). - Sun Belt football

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ILB Luke Hodge, Troy
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08/30/25 - Goose Crowder, rSr/2026, Troy, 6-2, 215 (DS#68 QB) + More +

Goose Crowder threw two touchdowns and rushed for another in the fourth quarter as Troy pulled away late to beat Nicholls 38-20 on Saturday evening in a season opener for both teams. Troy poured on 272 rushing yards as a team, as Tae Meadows led the pack with 186 yards and a touchdown on 23 touches. Crowder tied the game with a 16-yard rushing score, then hit Tray Taylor for a 28-yard touchdown to give the Trojans their first lead in the fourth quarter.

Meadows broke free for a 47-yard run on the next possession, and Crowder capped the surge with a 5-yard scoring strike to Ethan Conner. The Trojans scored 21 unanswered. Crowder went 14 of 24 for the Trojans, accounting for 144 yards and three touchdowns. He added 43 yards and a score on the ground as well. Deuce Hogan went 21 of 27 with 184 yards, a touchdown and an interception as the Colonels put up only 249 yards of total offense. The Troy defense racked up four sacks and eight tackles for loss, holding Nicholls to 4 of 11 on third-down conversions. - Troy/AP College Football

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QB Goose Crowder, Troy
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11/30/23 - Kimani Vidal, rJr/2024, Troy, 5-08, 213 (DS#23 RB) + More +

2023 SUN BELT OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Kimani Vidal, Troy (Jr., RB - Marietta, Ga.),...Vidal ranked second in the Sun Belt and seventh in the nation with 1,349 rushing yards and added nine rushing touchdowns on the year. The Marietta, Ga., product became Troy's single-game, single-season and career rushing yards leader during the 2023 campaign-while matching the Troy single-season record with six 100-yard outings. The junior running back led the Trojans to a 10-2 record and the Sun Belt West Division title, earning the right to host the Hercules Tires Sun Belt Football Championship Game for the second-straight season. - Sun Belt Football

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RB Kimani Vidal, Troy
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11/27/23 - Brendan Jackson, Sr/2025, Troy, 6-1, 230 (DS#97 OLB) + More +

2023 ALL-BIG SOUTH-OVC FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION SECOND TEAM: LB - Brendan Jackson, Jr., Gardner-Webb,...Jackson earned his first career All-Conference accolade. Jackson finished the 2023 regular season with 66 tackles, the second-most on the team, with 11.5 tackles-for-loss, four sacks, and one interception. The Statesboro, Ga. native also flexed his muscle on the offensive side of the ball, recording two rushing touchdowns, including the first touchdown of the day, on just two carries against Charleston Southern. For the season, Jackson has scored four rushing touchdowns, the most offensive touchdowns in a season by a defensive player since defensive end Harold Wells scored eight rushing touchdowns in 2004. Jackson helped anchor a defense that has allowed less than 100 yards rushing in three straight games and tallied a school record 18 tackles-for-loss against Tennessee Tech. - Gardner-Webb Football

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OLB Brendan Jackson, Troy
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