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2021 Bahamas Bowl Preview: Toledo Rockets vs. MTSU Blue Raiders

Toledo

  • All-Time Bowl Record is 10-8.
  • Last Bowl: 2018 Bahamas Bowl, resulted in 35-32 loss to the FIU Panthers

Middle Tennessee

  • All-Time Bowl Record is 4-8.
  • Last Bowl: 2018 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, resulted in 45-13 loss to the Appalachian State Mountaineers

Season Summary

The Rockets (7-5, 5-3 Mid-American Conference) and Blue Raiders (6-6, 4-4 Conference USA) arrive at the Bahamas Bowls converging from different paths.

Toledo flirted with a 10+ win season in 2021, coming heartbreakingly-close in four contests that the Rockets’ lost by a combined nine points, including a three-point loss to fifth-ranked Notre Dame, two-point loss to MAC champion Northern Illinois, and a three-point loss to 2021 MAC West co-champs Central Michigan.