Two wins away from just the 2nd 12-0 season I have had at Troy University as head coach in seven tries. In fact, in 18 years of coaching, this would be just my 2nd 12-0 season. Only if the Trojans finish out strong aginst a couple of Florida schools.
The fourth ranked Trojans close out our very successful three game homestand with a game aginst my old team, the team I got my start with, FAU. (Check out History of Coach Burck, for more information)
This is just my second time coaching aginst FAU as they made the made the jump to Conerence USA two seasons ago. Since I left the Owls back in 2018, they have been the dominate team in the Sun Belt winning no fewer then 8 games over the last nine seasons, and 10 games more than half of the time. So they were looking for an upgrade and much like Troy was a few years before, FAU made the Conference USA jump.
I had coached aginst Troy before when I was at FAU and the games were always blowouts from Troy...Now I was Troy coach and the more things change, the more they stay the same.
You can see going into this game how we were ranked miles ahed of the Owls.
FAU would hold strong in the first few minutes of the game even forcing two interceptions on our star and heisman canadate quarterback Alonzo Roberts. The defense played even better and the owls scored no points off of thoese turnovers.
Troy bounced back with two first quarter touchdowns. FAU would add a field goal in the second quarter to cut the Troy lead down to 11, but after that, it all broke lose.
Even school passing records held by Troy legend Josiah Higdon fell on this day.
In four minutes we scored three passing touchdowns of no less then 37 yards a touchdown pass. Roberts to Kyle Kidd for a 38 yard TD pass and Roberts to Adam Rogers for TD passes of 47 and 37 yards.
We would add on to that lead with a 36 yard touchdown pass in the third quarter to Shaun Castillo and then the starters came out of the game.
Alonzo is the man, 534 yards passing and 7 Touchdowns.
You can see how much Troy overpowered FAU here.
When he got back into the locker room following the FAU win, we got this huge news.
The last remaining unbeaten team in our way had been defeated by Iowa. Troy now had a chance to sneak into the National Championship picture.
Who can say no to the Trojans as the #2 team in the nation with these crazy numbers? 63 Touchdowns breaks Higdon's school record for passing touchdowns in a single season. He had 60 in his senior year for the Trojans, Roberts has 63 with three games still to go.
Even better, Alonzo has moved into 1st place for Heisman consideration following his huge game vs FAU and Wisconsin's loss to Iowa. Roberts looks to be Troy's second Heisman Trophy winner.
Not national players of the week, but the Conference will recognize a few Trojans as Player of the Week.
The entire Troy University football team gathered around the TV to watch ESPN's top 25 countdown show on Sunday night and it was soon made official. For the second time in Troy University history, the Trojans were ranked as the #2 team in the entire nation.
Bowl projections also showed us going back to the big game, this time in the Superdome. Troy vs. TCU. The Horned Frogs still had two games left and so did we. Could both teams finish out unbeaten?
There is a lot of talk about playoffs in college football. Well for this season, for the Troy University Trojans, we had the playoffs laid out right in front of us. Three little wins away from being crowned the best team in all of college football.
The playoffs begin for the Trojans with a road game at the Swamp in Florida, a Conference Championship game vs. a nine win UTEP team that took us to Double OT a few weeks ago. That game in Jerry World at Cowboys Stadium. If we get though both of those games with wins...It is on to the SuperDome and a BCS National Championship game.
Three final games, all on the road, in three massive stadiums, The Swamp, Cowboys Stadium & The Superdome....we begin here.
#2 Troy Trojans 2027 Season - (11-0), (9-0)
W - vs MTSU - 72 -6
W - vs Rice* - 51-24
W - at Tulane*- 42-13
W - at UTEP*- 44-41 (OT 2)
W - vs Houston* - 50-18
W - at Memphis* - 59-31
W - vs Southern Miss* - 24-19
W - at ECU* - 49-28
W - vs UCF* - 45-28
W - vs Notre Dame - 66-13
W - vs FAU* - 59-10
Week 13 - at #13 Florida
Week 14 - BYE
Week 15 - Conference USA Championship Game
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