Know your enemy 2017: Troy University edition

Here we are once again on the precipice of real, live Bronco football. ‘Round these parts, real live football means real live Know your enemy articles because how can one properly prepare for their foes unless they know useless factoids about them? How I ask?! Enough buildup, let’s just get to it.

Ten things you might not have known about Troy or their ‘Bama bungalow

10) The area now known as Troy, Alabama was settled in the early 1830s and was once known as Deer Stand Hill. Later on, the settlement became known as Zebulon—which sounds like a bad sci-fi planet, but was most likely named after Zebulon Pike, the American general and explorer (Pike's Peak ring a bell?