BOWLING GREEN — This has to be the Toledo football team’s year, right?
With the Rockets’ 66-37 demolition of Bowling Green on Wednesday, here we are again, the eternal bridesmaids on the doorstep of either their first Mid-American Conference championship since 2004 or more heartache.
The path has never been so clear. Toledo (9-2, 6-1 MAC) needs only to beat five-loss Western Michigan at home next Friday to clinch a trip to the league title game, where it likely will play Akron, which stunned MAC East favorite Ohio earlier this week. Yes, that’s the same five-loss Zips team the Rockets throttled by four touchdowns last month.
No doubt team Toledo is the prohibitive team to beat. Let’s see what it has got.
“If we [think] this is time for some speech or some ‘Win one for the Gipper’ talk or to go get the leadership book off your desk and look up the best quotes and start hanging them all over the wall, we’re already beaten, we’ve got a problem,” coach Jason Candle said. “This has been a 12-month process. It’s been a long time coming. This is about understanding what’s at stake. This is what you said you wanted to do. Go do it. Don’t talk about it. Just go do it.”
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First Published November 16, 2017, 2:00 p.m.
