It's not often a mid-major school gets a second shot against the big boys.
"There was still some sorrow in their eyes," Beckman said about how his team looked a day after the 27-22 loss to the No. 17 Buckeyes....""...espn
1. how many of those 24 wins were MAC teams playing back to back games vs top 10 programs. those stats are irrelavant.
2. Once again I could care less about those stats. They are irrelavant to this situation. that game at the Shoe was the biggest game in most of those kids lives. I would venture to say that 75% of Toledo's team are from Ohio and Michigan. these kids grew up dreaming of playing in the Shoe or the Big House for OSU or UM. There was extra motivation for that game. These kids were passed over. Toledo left everything on the field last week. did you watch how they attacked the LOS last week? I think they blitzed 90% of the time on D.
3. Toledo isn't a trash team. they are a good MAC team that caught OSU looking ahead. Toledo had 2 big plays in the 1st Q that led to 15 points, after that they scored 7 points.
Toledo does not have a home field advantage at all. They have been in the bottum half of D-1a attendance both in total and % capacity for a long time. The Glass Bowl is one of the smallest D-1a stadiums in the country too (26000) They may have had a little HFA 10 years ago because of the AstroTurf. they went to FieldTurf years ago. A majority of the country plays on FieldTurf now or some similar other brand of artificial turf. Not many college teams played on Astro Turf. Grass was the norm.
Yep, they beat Pitt in 2003 at home. Pitt finished the season 8-5 and unranked.
Toledo is 4-2 @ home vs ranked teams at the time of the game.
1974 Miami (ohio) L
2001 Marshall W
2003 Pitt W Northern Illinois W
2004 Bowling Green W
2008 fresno state L
Only Miami(OH) and Marshall were ranked at the end of the year.
Toledo is 2-2 @ home vs year ending ranked teams.
Wins: 1997 Purdue, 2001 Marshall
Losses: 1964 tulsa, 1974 miami(oh)
Boise is the best team to play @Toledo by a long shot.
Boise will not be looking ahead like OSU was last week. I am sure they saw the game. They will be ready. Toledo will have a let down. They lost the game of their lives last week. Boise is far better than OSU at this point in the season anyway. Toledo will not be able to sell out vs the run like they did last week...... Moore will kill them. Boise will roll their coverage up unlike OSU to stop the quick passing game.
As a Toledo native and alum I hate to say it. Boise will decimate this team. not a good spot for Toledo at all.
I've got Boise -20 1/2 +110
Boise 52 Toledo 10
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