Team of the Week: Toledo, Blast Off

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MACtion is back as of this week, and the Toledo Rockets are once again right there in the mix to win the conference. How did the most consistent program in the Mid-American get that way? And what challenges has it needed to overcome to stay there? There are a lot of them. Inside this episode:

• 4:20: The Cignettification of Toledo

• 6:38: Mike Jacobs and the small-college coaching pipeline

• 15:38: Remembering Toledo coaches, from Nick Saban to Jason Candle

• 20:04: Giant-killing and the Glass Bowl

• 24:38: The university, the city, and the challenges of MACtion

• 34:07: Can anybody else in the MAC do this?

Producer: Anthony Vito

TEAM OF THE WEEK is a subscriber series where Rodger Sherman and SZD hosts talk about a college football team doing something no one else is doing

We’ve already covered the following:

• Week 1: North Dakota State

• Week 2: UMass

• Week 3: Oklahoma State

• Week 4: Arkansas

• Week 5: Mississippi State

• Week 6: Charlotte

• Week 7: Oregon State

• Week 8: Utah

• Week 9: New Mexico

This series will continue all season.