Program Profile: Bowling Green

Bowling Green State University
MAC since 1983
Mascot: Falcons
Colors: Orange and Brown

It’s a MAC program with an ok, record, but that’s about all. However, they do have a strong rivalry with the University of Toledo and the football meeting is deemed the “Battle of I-75” since the schools are just twenty miles apart on that stretch. And Urban Meyer used to coach here. That’s something.

They used to be called the Normals because it was a teaching school, but a wise journalist in 1927 realized how lame that was and started calling them the Falcons. And why the hideous Brown and Orange coloring? The first president sat behind a woman who had a hat in those colors and he liked it.