DETROIT — For three months, the Toledo football team did nothing but win, capturing the imagination of the city as it forayed into territory last charted more than a half century earlier.
Then it rolled into Motown.
And, finally, a mountain proved high enough.
The way the Rockets beat themselves, it might as well have been Kilimanjaro.
What is there to say after they thudded back to earth with a 23-14 loss to Miami (Ohio) in Saturday’s Mid-American Conference championship game at Ford Field?
If there was a thought No. 23 Toledo could breeze to victory as a touchdown favorite facing the backup quarterback of a team it already beat, that was never the reality.