A few minutes later, he called the Trojans’ most recent road trip to Mobile to play South Alabama “the best Sun Belt atmosphere of a game that I can remember.”
“Both are accurate,” he smiled.
If rivalry games mean just a little more – and the “Battle for the Belt” certainly qualifies – the Troy-South Alabama series makes winning just a little sweeter and losing more bitter. Both schools have felt the highest high and lowest low in the past two meetings.
Troy executed an amazing fourth-quarter comeback in 2016, its most recent regular-season visit to Ladd-Peebles Stadium, and won 28-21.