[2] Bowling Green State University first fielded a men's soccer team in 1965.

The Falcons won the first three MAC Tournament championships in 1985–87, and have advanced to the title game more than five times since then.

The team played in BGSU's full-time home of the Mid-American Conference through the 2022 season, after which the MAC dropped that sport.

[4] Bowling Green joined the Missouri Valley Conference as a single-sport member effective in 2023.

In 1914, Professor Leon Winslow of the industrial arts department reportedly saw the color combination on a woman's hat while riding the interurban trolley to Toledo and recommended to the board of trustees that those colors be adopted.