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For Bowling Green, this is a tie.

The Falcons have met Defiance and Baldwin-Wallace 21 times each.

Bowling Green leads the Defiance series 10-5-1. This probably dates back to the Northwest Ohio Intercollegiate Athletic Association, which included Bowling Green 1921-31.

Baldwin-Wallace leads its series with Bowling Green 10-8-3. This series dates back to the Ohio Athletic Conference, of which Bowling Green was a member from 1933 to 1942. From what I understand this was considered a rivalry game back in the day.

The OAC, incidentally, is still going strong (as any Mount Union fan can tell you). Akron, Bowling Green, Cincinnati, Kent State, Miami, Ohio U., Ohio State and Toledo were all members at some point.

<a href='http://www.oac.org/' target='_blank'>http://www.oac.org/</a>

I read an amusing anecdote that said Ohio State continued to pay it's OAC dues long after it left the conference. For decades it was still considered a member.

I think the OAC elected to stop accepting Ohio State's payment after their 1968 football championship.

The Web site confirms that story. It is true.

Miami vs. Cinci 104 games strong!

The first time Toledo and BG ever met...

October 3, 1919 at Bowling Green... Toledo 6 BG 0 Funny, how history will reapeat itself again this year!!!

I'd research this for NIU, except I'm afraid I'd find it's Western Illinois, and I really don't want to know what our record is against them. :rolleyes:

KingBob Wrote:The first time Toledo and BG ever met...

October 3, 1919 at Bowling Green... Toledo 6 BG 0 Funny, how history will reapeat itself again this year!!!

I can see U[sic]Toledo being held to 6 points. I really can.

All your knowledgable "MACsters" know about Miami-UC's long -running (longest continuous series west of the Alleghenies and all that), but for "grins" I checked out the program we played the 2nd most times......anyone care to guess? Well, it's Dayton and then 3rd is Xavier. Brings back fond memories of the old unofficial "Miami Valley Championship" as the Cincy and Dayton papers used to call it. We played XU, Dayton and UC every year. Our winning percentage against UC is around .580, and vs. Dayton it's .726 (29-10-3) and vs. XU it's .655 (19-10-3). My Pee Wee football teams used to go the the Miami-XU game every year. (XU dropped football around 1974 due to costs).