In addition to his head coaching duties Jones also served as the Troy University Athletic Director from 1972 to 1974.

In 1983, Chan Gailey took over the head coaching duties at Troy State, where he led the Trojans to a 12–1 record in 1984 en route to the Division II championship.

Gailey departed Troy State after two seasons to accept the position of tight ends coach and special teams coordinator with the NFL's Denver Broncos.

[10] Rick Rhoades, previously the Trojans' defensive coordinator, was the head coach at Troy State from 1985 to 1987.

At Troy State, head coach Robert Maddox inherited a team which the previous season had gone 12–1–1, winning the NCAA Division II Football Championship.

[12] Larry Blakeney became the twentieth head football coach at Troy State University[13] on December 3, 1990.

The first full year at Division I-AA, the Troy State Trojans made it to the semifinal game and finished 12–1–1, 10–0–1 in the regular season.

The transition makes Blakeney one of two coaches to ever take a football team from Division II to I-A (the other is UCF's Gene McDowell).

[15] Kentucky offensive coordinator Neal Brown, who had served in the same capacity at Troy from 2008 to 2009, was named the Trojans head coach in November 2014.

Buffalo featured future NFL Draft Picks in QB Tyree Jackson, WR Anthony Johnson, and LB Khalil Hodge.

[19] He was previously on staff at Kansas as offensive coordinator for less than two months before being hired by Troy to be its head coach.

Lindsey came to Troy with additional experience as an offensive coordinator for Auburn, Arizona State, and Southern Miss.

[24] Inspired to avenge the loss Sumrall would lead Troy to 9 straight wins to conclude the regular season and clinch the 2022 Sun Belt West title.

The Trojans went on to beat Coastal Carolina 45–26 on December 3, 2022, at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Troy, to win their seventh Sun Belt Conference Football championship.

[26] They accepted a bid to play against the #25 UTSA Roadrunners, Conference USA Champions, in the Cure Bowl on December 16, 2022.

[30] Unlike in 2022 Troy was on everybody's radar coming into the 2023 season and were ranked first in the SBC Preseason Poll for the West Division.

However, just as in 2022, Sumrall would lead Troy to win 9 straight games to finish the regular season 10–2 (7–1) and back-to-back SBC West Division Champions.

On December 2, 2023, at Veterans Memorial Stadium Sumrall and the Trojans would find revenge from the previous season's loss to Appalachian State with a 49–23 win in the Sun Belt Championship.

Sumrall had now led Troy to back-to-back conference championships for the time since Larry Blakeney's historic 2006–2010 run.

He has had other coaching stops at power five conference programs Penn State, West Virginia, Duke, and Purdue.

Troy beat North Dakota State in 1984 to win their first Division II national title.

† Co-champions *Greg Gasparato as interim head coach †non-Division I bowl game The Trojans made seven appearances in the NCAA Division I-AA/FCS playoffs from 1993 to 2000.

When Troy was a member of Division I-AA in football, they played Jacksonville State almost annually in the Battle for the Ol' School Bell rivalry.

The stadium was originally dedicated to the Troy State Teachers College students and Pike County residents who had died in World War II.

The stadium solely consisted of a small, 5,000-seat grandstand on the west side of a running track, and was built into the natural slope of the ground.

Before each Troy home football game, hundreds of Troy fans and students line University Avenue on campus to cheer on the team as they march with the Sound of the South band and cheerleaders from the Quad to Tailgate Terrace, surrounded by fans who pat them on the back and shake their hands as they walk toward Veterans Memorial Stadium.

Before each home game, the Sound of the South marching band performs a pre-game show on University Avenue in between all of the tailgating areas before the Trojan Walk begins.

One of the more popular traditions of gameday, during the pre-game show the band marches onto the field to prepare for the football team to run out of the gates.

in unison along with the announcer before the last line of the phrase: And so, with mighty warriors clad in strongest armorand well prepared to receive the lot dealt by fatethe contest is at hand.And the commander's spirit, ranging for revengeshall in a monarch's voice cry, 'Havoc!

After Troy wins a home game, the players will go to the corner of the stadium where the Sound of the South marching band is and will sing the fight song, alma mater, and sometimes do chants with them.