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Bowling Green State University's sports teams are called the Falcons. The Falcons participate in NCAA Division I (Division I FBS for football) and in the Mid-American Conference and the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. BGSU is one of only 13 universities in the country offering NCAA Division I FBS football, Division I men's and women's basketball, and Division I hockey. The Falcons have won three consecutive conference championships in women's basketball in 2005, 2006, and 2007. The women's soccer team captured the conference crown. The Falcons' main rivals are the Rockets of the University of Toledo. Separated by just 20 miles on Interstate 75, the two schools celebrate a heated rivalry in several sports. The most well-known of these games is the Battle of I-75, a football game held each year in which the winner takes home the Peace Pipe, an American Indian peace pipe placed upon a wood tablet.
Bowling Green Falcons | |
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University | Bowling Green State University |
Conference | Mid-American Conference, CCHA (Hockey) |
NCAA | Division I (Division I FBS in Football) |
Athletic director | Greg Christopher |
Location | Bowling Green, OH |
Varsity teams | 7 men and 10 women |
Football stadium | Doyt Perry Stadium |
Basketball arena | Anderson Arena |
Other venues | BGSU Ice Arena |
Mascot | Freddie and Frieda Falcon |
Nickname | Falcons |
Fight song | "Forward Falcons" & "Ay Ziggy Zoomba" |
Colors | Orange and Brown |
Website | bgsufalcons |
The 1984 Falcons hockey team defeated the University of Minnesota-Duluth, in the longest college hockey championship game in history, to win the NCAA National Championship, Bowling Green's first and only Division I National Championship.