Five things to know about Toledo, which comes to Columbus with former Buckeye linebacker Dallas Gant and a top-five defense in the country in several categories.
to hand the Rockets their first loss of the season after season-opening victories over Long Island and Massachusetts over the past couple of weeks. However, high-profile upsets haven’t been hard to come by in college football as of late.
In Candle’s second full year with the program in 2017, the new Toledo head coach led the Rockets to an 11-3 record and a MAC championship – their first in 13 years. Toledo ended up getting worked by Appalachian State in the Dollar General Bowl, but its win total was tied for its highest since the 1970s.
Gant has already been plenty impactful for the Rockets since the start of the season, as the 6-foot-3 linebacker’s 20 total tackles through two weeks are twice as many as he had in scarlet and gray last year. Gant finished with 11 tackles to lead the Toledo defense in the season opener against Long Island. He followed up his debut with a nine-tackle performance against Massachusetts this past weekend.
In total defense, Toledo ranks fourth best in FBS college football – 19 spots ahead of Ohio State’s own. If there’s a statistical weakness for the Rockets’ defense, it would be in the run game, where they rank just 64th in the country with an average of 125.5 yards given up to opposing offenses on the ground.
Playing in Cleveland two years prior, the Buckeyes blanked Toledo, 38-0, as Terrelle Pryor put up 372 total yards and four total touchdowns before all was said and done.
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