Missed Opportunities Haunt Troy at Louisiana

Saturday, October 17

Lafayette, La.

4 p.m.

Troy University

3-3 , 1-1

Louisiana

5-2 , 2-1

Team	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Final F
Troy	0	0	6	0	6
Louisiana	7	12	7	7	33

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Missed Opportunities Haunt Troy at Louisiana

10/17/2026 8:26:00 PM | Football

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By: Troy Athletics Communications

LAFAYETTE, La. – Missed opportunities and turnovers haunted Troy in a 33-6 loss at Louisiana on Saturday at Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium in Sun Belt Conference action.

Troy (3-3, 1-1 SBC) turned the ball over twice inside its own 28-yard line, leading to 10 Louisiana (5-2, 2-1) points; dropped two interceptions, and those drives resulted in touchdowns; missed a field goal and an extra-point, and was a combined 4-for-16 on third and fourth down.

The Trojans held Louisiana to a four-and-out on the opening possession, but Troy muffed the ensuing punt, and the Cajuns recovered on the 8-yard line. Three plays later, Lunch Winfield threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to KeDarius Wade, giving the Cajuns the game's first points.

Troy put together a 15-play drive to open the second quarter, consuming nearly seven minutes on the clock. The drive stalled at the 24-yard line, and the Trojans couldn't connect on the 42-yard field goal.

Louisiana answered with a touchdown on the ensuing drive and then kicked back-to-back field goals in the final 104 seconds of the opening half to take a 19-0 lead into the locker room.

Troy showed signs of life right out of the break, taking the opening possession 75 yards for a touchdown, capped by Tucker Kilcrease's 23-yard touchdown run after Goose Crowder was knocked out of the game rushing for nine yards on a fourth-and-8 the play before.

However, the Cajuns answered with a 16-play, 91-yard touchdown drive that took 8:22 off the clock. Louisiana converted three third downs on the drive, which was extended by a pass interference call in the end zone after a third-down stop.

Louisiana rushed for 243 yards and three touchdowns, led by Winfield's 65 yards on 15 carries. Winfield completed just 11-of-21 passes for 70 yards.

Crowder completed 9-of-16 passes for 65 yards before leaving the game, and Kilcrease completed 5-of-10 for 76 yards. Jordan Lovett led Troy's ground game, rushing for 50 yards on 10 carries.

Up Next
Troy returns home to host ULM on Saturday, Oct. 24, at 3 p.m. The Trojans are 3-0 at The Vet this season.

Quotable – Troy Head Coach Gerad Parker
I take full responsibility for this loss, as I always do. But now we are going to see what kind of football team and operation we are moving forward. I am very excited to get us back to work to see how we are going to react to this and if we can be proud of who we are week by week moving forward.

Notable
• Troy won the coin toss (5-1) and elected to defer to the second half; it marked the first time this season that Troy did not receive the opening kickoff. The Trojans are now 25-35 in the last five seasons on the coin toss.
• Tucker Kilcrease rushed for his sixth career touchdown after taking over for Goose Crowder in the third quarter. Kilcrease took a designed keeper 23 yards for his first
touchdown of the season.
• Tucker Kilcrease's six career rushing touchdowns are the fifth-most by a Troy quarterback since at least 1995.
• Jace Petty tied a career-high with four receptions, which went for a career-best 69 yards.
• Troy had just four offensive drives in the second half and a season-low 10 in the game.
• Donnie Smith recorded a career-best seven tackles, but failed to get a sack, snapping his streak of games with a sack at nine. In fact, Troy did not had a sack as a team in the game.
• Jordan Perry recorded a game-high and career-high 13 tackles to lead the Trojans; he also added a pass break up.
• Troy held Louisiana to just 108 passing yards in the game. It's the second time this season that the Trojans have held an opponent to that total; Missouri.
• Evan Crenshaw's first punt of the game traveled 67 yards and was downed at the 1-yard line; he tied his career long which he set against Georgia Southern in 2023, while playing for Coastal Carolina.
• Evan Crenshaw's second punt of the game traveled 73 yards, the longest of his career. It's the eighth-longest punt in the country this season and the longest by a Trojan since 2018 (79 yards).
• Evan Crenshaw finished with a 53.5 yards-per-punt average in the game, the sixth-highest by a Trojan punter (min. 4 attempts) since at least 1995.