A quick FAQ about Troy, the university and city that just beat LSU in football

The Sun Belt’s Troy Trojans upset No. 25 LSU in Baton Rouge on Saturday night, 24-21. LSU’s struggled lately and Troy’s solid, but it’s still a surprising result.

Let’s run through a couple of basics about Troy.

Troy University is in Troy, Ala. It’s the second-smallest FBS town behind West Point, N.Y., the home of the Army Black Knights. Troy’s population is about 19,000.

There are people named Troy, but this is a school, not a person.

Yeah. They’re a legitimate contender in the Sun Belt. Last year, then won 10 games for the first time ever. They shouldn’t be able to beat LSU, but they’re a solid program.

J. Richard Blankenship, a former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas, is from Troy.

Hank Williams Jr! Kid Rock! (They’re just on the “notable people” list on Wikipedia, apparently because they once filmed some kind of video there.)

Longtime NFL linebacker DeMarcus Ware went there.

Pro wrestler Bray Wyatt went there.

So did David G. Grimes, whom Wikipedia describes as an “insurance agent in Montgomery and Republican member of the Alabama House of Representratives (sic) from District 73 from 2003 to 2011.” Plus these others.

Its enrollment is about 14,000, per the U.S. News and World Report. So it’s not that big, but it’s definitely not small. People go there. Troy has a bunch of satellite campuses that make that number look bigger than it otherwise would be, I’ve been told.

No, according to SB Nation’s Steven Godfrey, who recently reported this big story about Trojans head coach Neal Brown. He says this one doesn’t count:

But there’s now a Panda Express.