Senior Zac Kerin has been named to the 2013 Rimington Trophy Watch List for the most outstanding center in the nation. A little more about the award: The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the Most Outstanding Center in NCAA Division I-A College Football. Since its inception, the Rimington Trophy has raised over $2 million. The fourteen-year old... read more...

Toledo defensive end Ben Pike may not have been an All American, but his name was on the radar of NFL scouts.  That’s what makes this story even more amazing. Cleveland.com is reporting that the Rockets star defensive end is walking away from football to take care of his Leukemia stricken fiancée’ Ashlee Barrett. Pike and Barrett first learned that she was battling Leukemi... read more...

Toledo defensive end Ben Pike may not have been an All American, but his name was on the radar of NFL scouts.  That’s what makes this story even more amazing. Cleveland.com is reporting that the Rockets star defensive end is walking away from football to take care of his Leukemia stricken fiancée’ Ashlee Barrett. Pike and Barrett first learned that she was battling ... read more...

Explosive Rockets should attract bowl attentionThe guys in the funny-colored sport coats that usually spend most of the game walking around in the press box, smiling and politicking, have to be giddy over the prospect of landing the Rockets for their bowl game.Toledo (8-4) made its case with a dominant 45-28 win over Ball State in its final game of the season. The Rockets ... read more...

It’s important to have priorities. Ben Pike, a defensive tackle at the University of Toledo,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] read more...

Cleveland.com Toledo defensive end Ben Pike may not have been an All-American, but his name was on the radar of NFL scouts. That’s what makes this story even more amazing. Cleveland.com is reporting that the Rockets star is walking away from football to take care of his Leukemia-stricken fiancée, Ashlee Barrett. Pike and Barrett first learned that she was battling Leukemia... read more...

The Rockets have been working hard this spring preparing for the 2013 season. Come out to the Glass Bowl on April 12 to get your first glimpse at this year’s Rockets! ... read more...

The improvement to date has been substantial, with the Rockets going through the 2011 portion of the schedule at 7-6, and seemingly primed to enter the Mid-American Conference season on a mission to win back some respect.Toledo went 4-28 last year and was dead last in the league at 1-15, so the room for growth was obvious. The rest of the MAC will soon learn that this is a... read more...

After the Rockets saw their window of opportunity slammed shut before they could possibly grab a piece of the Mid-American Conference West Division championship, a little bit of the life came out of the team. Toledo went into the final week of the season still in the mix for the title, but after Eastern Michigan slipped by Western Michigan in the final seconds on Feb. 29,... read more...

The OHSFCA annual North-South Classic will be held Saturday, April 27th, at Dayton’s Welcome Stadium. This year, the nation’s longest running high school all-star game will feature two separate games, one for DIV I-II-III (kick off at 4 PM) and one for DIV IV-V-VI (kickoff at 7 PM). Several future Rockets will be suiting up this weekend in both games:... read more...

Caught this video around the web. It is a video focusing on what it is like to be a Toledo Rocket. read more...

#MACtion is synonymous with shootouts in the college football world, and few teams in the country’s wildest conference have lived up to the offensive hype as consistently over the years as the Toledo Rockets. Stopping opponents, on the other hand, tends to present more of a challenge for the MACsters, Toledo included. At the end of the 2011 season, newly made 32-year-o... read more...

#MACtion is synonymous with shootouts in the college football world, and few teams in the country’s wildest conference have lived up to the offensive hype as consistently over the years as the Toledo Rockets. Stopping opponents, on the other hand, tends to present more of a challenge for the MACsters, Toledo included. At the end of the 2011 season, newly made 32-year-o... read more...

Terrance Owens, the quarterback of the Toledo Rockets, got a surprise the other day. It turns out he was drafted in the last round of the MLB draft. The weird thing is that he doesn’t play baseball. He was the 1,215 overall pick in the 40th round of the MLB draft. Owens isn’t planning on pursuing a Major League Baseball career and is returning to Toledo to continue being ... read more...

As the coming football season looms in the distance, we wanted to take at how much offensive production we have lost as players move on from the team. In this post, we will focus on rushing production and what the Rockets will return this season. Here’s the total rushing production from last year (non-returners in gold): ... read more...

It's been more than a decade since the Toledo Rockets have been in the Associated Press Top 25. They'd like to stay a while. But less than 60 hours after climbing to No. 23, the Rockets will be tested on Tuesday night when they host Ball State in a game full of risk and reward for both teams. "For us and our staff and our kids, the thing that has gotten us to this point is... read more...

A few days ago, we covered the rushing component of the offensive production that would be returning next year. This post is dedicated to the receiving production and what portion of that we can expect to return this season. Here’s the total receiving production from last year (non-returner... read more...

A couple things happened during the just-completed recruiting season that reminded Toledo head coach Matt Campbell of what he really already knew. One, that there's often a price to pay for success and forward thinking. Two, that there's a reason Mid-American Conference teams play games on Tuesday and Wednesday nights and would play on Monday mornings, too, if TV networ... read more...

It's been more than a decade since the Toledo Rockets have been in the Associated Press Top 25. They'd like to stay there a while. The nation's No. 23 team will be tested right away on Tuesday night when it hosts Ball State in a game that is full of risk and reward for both teams. The Rockets (8-1, 5-0 Mid-American Conference) are out to extend an eight-game winning str... read more...

If the Rockets are going to make the dramatic turnaround they are hoping for, they are going to need a little magic. If Toledo has any chance of recovering from back-to-back 4-28 seasons and becoming a MAC contender, some amazing things have to happen. Sophomore center Richard Wonnell might be one of the unexpected pieces in such an unlikely puzzle. The 6-foot-9 walk-on ... read more...