Rarely is a sport shaded in gray so black and white, but this is no ordinary year for the University of Toledo.
The 100th season of Rockets football will end either in anguish or storm-the-field delirium, with the hometown team repeating history or making it.
Can UT at last slake its championship drought?
Fair or not, if there was a season with only one correct answer, it is this one.
The Rockets are the open-and-shut favorite to capture their first Mid-American Conference title since 2004 — and just maybe a whole lot more.
In other words, it is the kind of season to let the imagination run wild.