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Troy loses Battle of the Belt, game to South Alabama

TROY – With the heat of the national spotlight on them, the Troy Trojans wilted again.

Troy could not avoid the letdown that many had discussed, falling to South Alabama 19-8 Wednesday at Veterans Memorial Stadium. The loss follows one of the program’s biggest wins, a victory over a ranked LSU team on Sept. 30, and occurred on a night when they played with the ESPN2 cameras in the house.

The defeat also replicated a similar stretch in 2016 when Arkansas State hammered Troy 35-3 on ESPN2 just days after the Trojans earned the program’s first Associated Press Top 25 ranking following a victory over Appalachian State.