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Post-Game Notes - CMU

Toledo Post-Game Notes
Toledo vs. Central Michigan
Nov. 24, 2023
  • Toledo has 11 wins for the first time since going 11-3 in 2017. It is the sixth time in school history Toledo has won 11 or more games. The school record is 12 (1970 and 1971).
  • Toledo is 11-1 for the first time in Jason Candle’s eight years at Toledo and has won 11 of their first 12 games in a season for the first time since going 11-0-1 in 1995.
  • The Rockets have now won 11 straight games in a single season for the first time since 1971. That team went 12-0 in the third and final year of the famous 35-0 run from 1969-71 (Toledo won 12 straight games over two seasons in 2000 and 2001).
  • Toledo is 8-0 in MAC play for the first time in school history, though it was also undefeated in MAC play in 1969, 1970, and 1971 (5-0 each year) and 1995 (7-0-1).
  • Toledo is the first MAC school to undefeated in league play in a full season since WMU went 8-0 in 2016 (Buffalo went 5-0 in the COVID-shortened season in 2020.
  • Jason Candle became the second Toledo coach with 11 or more wins in multiple seasons. Candle also won 11 games in 2017. Frank Lauterbur won 11 games in 1969 and 12 in 1970.
  • Toledo held CMU to 335 yards of total offense, including just 64 in the first half.
  • Peny Boone rushed for 186 yards, the second-highest output of the season and his eighth 100-yard game of the season. He is the first Rocket to break the 100-yard mark eight times in a season since Kareem Hunt did it in 2016. The school record is 12 by Wasean Tait in 1995.
  • Boone now has 1,359 for the season, which ranks 11th for the most yards in a single season for a Rocket. He needs five yards to pass Terry Swanson (1,363 yards in 2017) for 10th place.
  • Junior quarterback Dequan Finn completed 9-of-17 passes, for 97 yards. He now has 6,704 career passing yards, the seventh-most in Toledo history.
  • Jaden Dottin caught his first touchdown pass of the season, a 23-yard grab in the second quarter that gave Toledo a 7-0 lead.
  • Senior defensive tackle Judge Culpepper had a career-high 2.5 sacks on his birthday.
 

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