“When you have that rivalry, when you have that week, it’s not so much as somebody grabbing your hand and saying, ‘Hey, look man, we don’t like this team,’” the redshirt junior center from Enterprise said last week.

“You see the difference in how they practice that week and the focus level and the effort people give and the preparation they give to try to get a win. It means a lot to our fans. It means a lot to us, too.”

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The Trojans and Jaguars meet tonight in prime time on national television for the eighth game of a fiercely contested series that Troy leads 4-3.