Eddie George isn’t holding back.
The former Ohio State Heisman Trophy winner and Tennessee Titans’ all-time leading rusher is now the head football coach at Bowling Green State University, which competes in the Mid-American Conference.
And on Monday at his introductory press conference, George laid out his goals, according to the Toledo Blade: “The goals as of right now are to win the Battle of I-75 (against Toledo), win the MAC and then go play for a national championship.”
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A national championship. Even if he feels he’s supposed to say it, it’s quite something that George really said that.
Now to be fair to him, BGSU was the United Press International national champion in 1959, when college football was just a tad different.
These days, Bowling Green was turned into a solid program by previous coach Scot Loeffler. They’ve made a bowl game in each of the past three seasons.
But in college football’s modern world of have-a-lots and have-nots, Bowling Green and the rest of the MAC falls distinctly into that latter grouping.
Bowling Green’s most recent league title came in 2015, so maybe George should start there.
“I have every aspiration and intention of winning the MAC this year,” George said Monday. “That is the goal, and to continue the success of this program that coach Loeffler left. He left it in great condition. Now it’s time for me to take it from good to excellent.”
If George can lead the Falcons to the top of the MAC, maybe then it’s time to dream big. It’d take an absolute perfect storm.
A MAC team would need something like Northern Illinois’ upset of Notre Dame this season, only then add on running the table the rest of the way, and then also make it through an entire College Football Playoff gauntlet.
George knows success in Ohio from his days with the Buckeyes. And he did qualify for the lower-level FCS playoffs this past fall with Tennessee State.
But if he wins a national title at Bowling Green, he’ll go down as the best hire in sports history.
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