Miami (Ohio) upsets Toledo en route to MAC title
DETROIT– Rashad Amos ran for 2 goals, Graham Nicholson kicked three basket and Miami (Ohio) upset No. 23 Toledo 23-14 in the Mid-American Championship game game Saturday.The RedHawks(
11-2) last won the MAC title in 2019, when they beat Central Michigan. It is the very first time Miami has won 11 games in a season since 2003, and it did so by annoying an appreciated Toledo running game that was held to 97 lawns on 29 attempts.
“Our rush defense is quite damn great,” Miami coach Chuck Martin said in his postgame, on-field interview. “It was a terrific challenge … but our offense did simply enough to get it done.”
The Rockets (11-2) were trying to become the very first Toledo team to win 12 straight games for the first time since 1971.
Following a 40-yard basket by Nicholson at the start of the 3rd quarter, Dequan Finn gave Toledo its only lead of the game with a 3-yard run. Nicholson put Toledo in front for excellent 16-14 at the start of the 4th quarter when he made another 40-yarder, and Amos sealed the win when he ran 10 lawns for a goal with 2:41 left.Editor’s Picks 2 Related Miami took a 10-0 lead on a 32-yard field goal by Nicholson and a 1-yard run by Amos. The scoring run was established by a targeting call versus Kiel Eldridge, who struck Smith on a third-and-13 play from the Toledo 16 with 1:25 seconds left in the very first quarter.Toledo scored 9 seconds before halftime on Finn’s 13-yard pass to Anthony Torres. The set likewise linked on the 2-point conversion to pull the Firecrackers within two. “The rhythm of the game never ever got going,”Toledo coach Jason Candle light stated.” We would get ourselves ahead of the sticks. We ‘d get a pricey penalty to press us back. When you lag the sticks and you remain in a long yardage circumstance, benefit defense.”
Nicholson, who has made a field goal in all 13 games this season, saw his streak of made kicks end when his 48-yarder was large left with 5:58 left in the 3rd quarter. The MAC Special Groups Gamer of the Year had made all 25 of his field goal efforts before the miss.Nicholson is a finalist for Lou Groza Award, which acknowledges the country’s top placekicker.The Rockets and RedHawks will find out their bowl locations Sunday.The Associated Press added to this report.