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Briggs: Is the whole of Toledo football equal to the sum of its parts?

Bowling Green might not have beaten Toledo on the football field Wednesday night, but its coach did kill the Rockets with kindness off it.

Here was Scot Loeffler after what he called a physical mismatch — “wasn’t even close” — in Toledo’s 49-17 liquidation of the Falcons:

“We watch the tape,” he said. “[Toledo] is the best football team in this conference. It’s not even in the [same] hemisphere in terms of talent, speed size. ... This conference and us, we’re in a race to catch up with this team.”

Yes, a race to ... wait, what?