MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. — The last time Toledo was 10-1 and played one of the directional Michigan schools the day after Thanksgiving, it did not go so well.
In 2015, the Rockets turned in a Black Friday effort so marked down even your local big-box store wouldn’t have carried it, and coach Matt Campbell — perhaps with his mind elsewhere — left the next day for Iowa State.
This time was a little different.
In a game Friday that meant nothing and everything, the moment was neither too small nor too big for No. 23 Toledo.