When the hometown U let out that it landed a home football game against The U, it may as well have announced free rides to Mars on the rocket outside the Glass Bowl.
Yeah, uh-huh.
The five-time national champion Miami Hurricanes were coming to little old Toledo? Good one.
“There was a lot of surprise,” Toledo athletic director Mike O’Brien said.
Then suspicion.
“Do you really think they’ll actually come here?” the nonbelievers asked him, wary the contract stipulated Miami could buy its way out of the trip for $750,000.
That was eight years ago.