Rockets and Rams will meet on gridiron

The University of Toledo and Colorado State University have agreed to play a home-and-home series in football beginning in 2019, according to UT vice-president and athletic director Mike O’Brien. The Rockets will play at Colorado State on Sept. 21, 2019 while the Rams will make the return trip to Toledo on Sept. 25, 2021.
 
“We are very pleased to add the series with Colorado State to our football schedule,” said O’Brien. “Colorado State has an excellent football tradition and adds another attractive opponent on our future home schedule. It also . . . 

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. . . helps bring our Toledo brand to new part of the country.”
 
Toledo and Colorado State have met twice before on the gridiron, with the Rockets claiming a 24-14 victory in 1970 and the Rams winning at home in 1973 by a score of 21-14.
 
Colorado State was 7-6 in 2015, 5-3 in the Mountain West Conference. The Rams played Nevada in the Arizona Bowl, falling 28-23.
 
FUTURE TOLEDO NON-CONFERENCE FOOTBALL SCHEDULES
 
2017
Aug. 31 - ELON
Sept. 9 - at Nevada
Sept. 16 - TULSA
Sept. 23 - at Miami (FL)
 
2018
Aug. 30 - VMI
Sept. 15 - MIAMI (FL)
Sept. 22 – NEVADA
Sept. 29 - at Fresno State
 
2019
Sept. 21 – at Colorado State
Sept. 28 – BYU
 
2020
Sept. 5 – at Tulsa
 
2021
Sept. 25- COLORADO STATE
 
Schedules as of April 11, 2016