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Briggs: Don't look now, but Toledo the early MAC West favorite after big win

On a sun-splashed homecoming Saturday at the Glass Bowl, it wasn’t just Toledo’s alums and former players who returned to Old State U.

So did the Rockets of yesteryear.

How’s that for a response?

In a sport in which confidence and momentum are everything — and a week after the Rockets reached down to snare defeat from the stomach of victory — it was natural to wonder if a team of college students mostly not old enough to legally drink a beer might be hung over.

Instead, Toledo made sure a party that began before dawn — campus lots opened at 6 a.