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Amazing. Thanks for the updates. I thought Troy had a chance, but nothing like this.

Hopefully they will hang on. One of the downsides of the spread offense is clock management. OSU will have plenty of possessions to make up these points b/c the clock continually stops with Troy's offense.

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In my opinion, troy is the only team that has a shot at being a ranked top 25 team in the next few years. If they didn't play 3 body bag games a year (which they can actually be competitive in) they could possibley be a TCU type squad.

Hats off to troy, not only for scheduling another BigXII team at home on national television, but for also chalking up another win against a BCS conference for the sun belt.

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In my opinion, troy is the only team that has a shot at being a ranked top 25 team in the next few years. If they didn't play 3 body bag games a year (which they can actually be competitive in) they could possibley be a TCU type squad.

Hats off to troy, not only for scheduling another BigXII team at home on national television, but for also chalking up another win against a BCS conference for the sun belt.

Since Day One in their (all but new) stadium Troy U has been going to another level that we (after all these years back in D1-A) still only talk about.

I know its not always about a new stadium, but Troy U's seems to have synergized their recruiting as to beat the kind of teams that if DD's teams had had some success would have gotten him (at least) some job interviews at the next level.

Don't many of us remember when Troy U debuted their new stadium on national ESPN TV with a win over #19 ranked Missouri? Last time UNT beat a Top 25 football program was in 1974. :(

To All the UNT Powers That Be, ie, Our Upper Echelon-Types: There is a moral to the Troy U story. Those of us who've seen and heard it all in Denton can only hope we don't gravitate back to the usual "North Texas" modus operendi we've most always gone to in the past. We do have a cycle that needs to be broken up in Denton and all of you who've been around the Mean Green scene for awhile know exactly what I'm talking about.

Congrats to the TU Trojans for doing the kind of things on the field of battle many of us wished our school would have been doing the past 1 or 2 decades. The law of averages has to catch up with our football program as to where we can start beating (much) higher profile OOC schools again.

PS: Look for Troy U to start positioning themselves to make an eventual move to another conference.............. and with their facilities and higher profiles successes in those facilities in such a brief time, CUSA may just be that conference. Wonder what we'd be talking about (or doing) if that were to happen? :sleeping:

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Since Day One in their (all but new) stadium Troy U has been going to another level that we (after all these years back in D1-A) still only talk about.

I know its not always about a new stadium, but Troy U's seems to have synergized their recruiting as to beat the kind of teams that if DD's teams had had some success would have gotten him (at least) some job interviews at the next level.

Don't many of us remember when Troy U debuted their new stadium on national ESPN TV with a win over #19 ranked Missouri? Last time UNT beat a Top 25 football program was in 1974. :(

To All the UNT Powers That Be, ie, Our Upper Echelon-Types: There is a moral to the Troy U story. Those of us who've seen and heard it all in Denton can only hope we don't gravitate back to the usual "North Texas" modus operendi we've most always gone to in the past. We do have a cycle that needs to be broken up in Denton and all of you who've been around the Mean Green scene for awhile know exactly what I'm talking about.

Congrats to the TU Trojans for doing the kind of things on the field of battle many of us wished our school would have been doing the past 1 or 2 decades. The law of averages has to catch up with our football program as to where we can start beating (much) higher profile OOC schools again.

PS: Look for Troy U to start positioning themselves to an eventual move to another conference and with their facilities and success in those facilities, CUSA may just be that conference.

We'll have our chance against Arkansas in a few weeks...

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