PULLMAN, Wash. — With rolling hills and wheat-carpeted valleys that stretch to the horizon, the Palouse region is as fertile as it is uneven.
It was a fitting backdrop for Toledo’s 28-7 loss Saturday at Washington State, another dip in a season full of them.
An up-and-down Rockets team, as talented as they are temperamental continued to misplace its directions, remaining winless away from the Glass Bowl on a cold, wind-swept afternoon as gray as their outlook.
Like the road to the center of a Tootsie Pop, the distance to a Toledo road victory endures — like the team itself — as one of life’s great mysteries.