Toledo won a football game Saturday.

Now comes the harder part — winning back the fans.

On a blue-sky autumn afternoon borrowed from midsummer, the only thing missing from Toledo’s 45-10 victory over Kent State was, well, Toledo.

This was one of those days where two very different truths can coexist.

After consecutive road meltdowns at Western Michigan and Bowling Green vacuumed the air out of a season of great expectations, the scene at the Glass Bowl said a lot.

But so did the Rockets’ response.

“Really proud of our football team,” head coach Jason Candle said.

Toledo brought its own energy to its half-empty stadium, flooring it past a worst-case start to show exactly the kind of resilience the fans who stayed away have been waiting for all year.

In an alternate world, the Rocket

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