With the Hollywood writers still on strike, Toledo’s wild comeback win over Western Michigan last week resembled a rerun of the greatest hits.
“Welcome to MAC football,” coach Jason Candle said afterward, before helpfully volunteering a new league slogan. “Lots of turnovers and six billion penalties.”
If a measure of sanity returned to the script Saturday at the Glass Bowl, it was only a grain of it.
It’s never easy, is it?
The Rockets were in control of their 35-33 win over Northern Illinois, right up until that moment in the final seconds when you looked up and realized — holy freaking Toledo — Homecoming was actually about to turn into one of those wanna-get-away commercials.