Troy entered the bowl game with a 7–5 overall record and won a share of the Sun Belt Conference Championship.
This will also mark the third time in five seasons that Troy will be playing in the New Orleans Bowl.
They are currently 1–1 in New Orleans Bowl games with a win over Rice in 2006 and a loss to Southern Miss in 2008.
Last season Troy was defeated by Central Michigan by a score of 44–41 in the GMAC Bowl.
Source[2] The 2010 New Orleans Bowl marked the first time that the 2 schools played each other in the history of their programs.