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Briggs: Here's why Toledo football could be 'freaky' good this season

Faster. Higher. Stronger.

It is the time-honored motto of the Olympics, and, now that the Games are over, it’s officially time to pass the torch to … the Toledo football team.

What else to make of a prominent new ranking of, well, the fastest, highest-flying, and strongest college football players in the country?

OK, maybe that’s a bit of a jump.

But we’ve seen bigger ones, including in the Rockets’ weight room, where, for instance, 5-9, 175-pound rubber burner Jacquez Stuart (40-inch vertical leap) and 6-4, 310-pound people eater Darius Alexander (30 inches) alike have more hops than a brewery.