Bowling Green vs. Toledo

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Bowling Green’s biggest win1981: Bowling Green 38, Toledo 0by 38 points
2. Toledo’s biggest win2020: Toledo 38, Bowling Green 3by 35 points
3. Upset2022: Bowling Green 42, Toledo 35Bowling Green had a 20% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2019: Bowling Green 20, Toledo 7Bowling Green had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2024: Bowling Green 41, Toledo 26Bowling Green had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Bowling Green’s side (Gibson 2–⁠1 against Lauterbur). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1962 · Evening star, Oct 15, 1962

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Bowling Green vs. Kent State63 meetings, Bowling Green 47–⁠16
• Bowling Green vs. Ohio62 meetings, Bowling Green 33–⁠28–⁠1
• Bowling Green vs. Miami (OH)60 meetings, Bowling Green 22–⁠34–⁠4
• Bowling Green vs. Western Michigan50 meetings, Bowling Green 29–⁠19–⁠2
• Toledo vs. Western Michigan63 meetings, Toledo 39–⁠24
• Toledo vs. Northern Illinois53 meetings, Toledo 36–⁠17
• Toledo vs. Central Michigan52 meetings, Toledo 31–⁠18–⁠3
• Toledo vs. Ball State51 meetings, Toledo 29–⁠21–⁠1