Page 6 - Toledo Football Media Guide - 2012

6 THE UNIVERSITY

Did You Know?

Did you know that the Rockets....

• Have appeared on national TV 53 times, including 35 times in the last eight years? • Made 10 national or regional TV appearances in 2011?

• Were the frst MAC school ever to host a Pac-10 school (Arizona in 2010)? • Host Miami (FL), Missouri, Iowa State, Cincinnati and Navy in upcoming seasons?

• Have nine former players on NFL rosters, including Super Bowl XLIV hero Lance Moore of the New Orleans Saints?

• Made their sixth bowl appearance in the last 11 years at the 2011 Military Bowl? • Have a 9-3 record in bowl games?

• Have had 25 All-Americans, most recently Eric Page, a frst-team All-American at kickof returner in 2010? • Have ranked in the Top 25 in seven diferent seasons and were ranked 12th in the fnal AP poll in 1970? • Have won 10 MAC Championships and eight MACWest Division titles? • Defeated at least one opponent from a BCS automatic-berth conference in fve consecutive seasons from 2006-10?

• Had consecutive home wins against Big 12 teams in 2006 (Kansas), 2007 (Iowa State) and 2009 (Colorado)?

• Defeated BigTen opponents in 2000 (Penn State), 2001 (Minnesota), 2008 (Michigan) and 2010 (Purdue)? Are the only school in the country to be undefeated against both Michigan and Penn State?

• Broke the Mid-American Conference season attendance record with an average of 30,014 fans in 2001?

• Ranked No. 1 in the nation in attendance by capacity (114.4%) in 2001? • Have the frst player out of the Mid-American Conference to rush for 1,000 yards in an NFL season (Chester Taylor - 1,216 yards for the Vikings in 2006)?

• Had a 35-game winning streak from 1969-71, the second-longest in Divi-sion I-A college football history?

• Had a player fnish eighth in the Heisman voting in 1971, quarterback Chuck Ealey?

Former Rocket Lance Moore made one of the most spectacular catches in Super Bowl history on this two-point conversion against the Colts in 2010. Moore is one of nine Rockets currently on NFL rosters.

Toledo is 9-3 in bowl games, including a victory over Air Force in 2011.