After Jason Candle left Toledo to go to UConn, the Rockets were looking for a head coach to help keep them competitive in the MAC. They believe they’ve done that.
Toledo has hired Mike Jacobs to be its next head coach. Jacobs is 94-23 as a head coach, which is the fourth-best winning percentage among active coaches in Divisions I and II.
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Jacobs led Mercer to a 20-6 record with two FCS playoff appearances. He was the SoCon Coach of the Year the past two seasons.
“My family and I are humbled and honored to lead the University of Toledo’s storied football program,” Jacobs said in a press release. “We are looking forward to being a part of Team Toledo and helping this program achieve new heights.”
Jacobs went 32-9 as the head coach at Division II Lenoir-Rhyne from 2020-23. He also went 42-8 from 2016-19 at Division II Notre Dame College, where he was a defensive coordinator (2015) and defensive line coach (2014). He also was a defensive line coach at California (Pennsylvania) from 2008-13, a grad assistant at Purdue from 2005-07, an offensive line coach at Wilmington in 2004, and a grad assistant at Eastern Michigan from 2002-03. He played at Ohio State as an offensive lineman from 1997-2000.
