The program won five MAC championships and four NCAA regional appearances as well as produced 49 Major League Baseball draft picks.

After 105 years, the sport was dropped at the varsity level effective immediately on May 15, 2020, as part of the budget cuts due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The Bowling Green Falcons football team plays at Doyt Perry Stadium on the east end of the BGSU campus.

The Falcons are a historical MAC powerhouse winning ten conference championships, second only to rival Miami (Ohio) (13).

The Falcons and Kent State also compete for the Anniversary Award which commemorates the two institutions' founding in 1910 with the passing of the Lowry bill.

The Bowling Green Gymnastics team trains and competes in Anderson Arena located within Memorial Hall on campus.

The team is to compete at the MAC Gymnastics Conference Championship in Kalamazoo, Michigan after the 2020 competition was cancelled due to COVID-19.

The Bowling Green Falcons men's ice hockey team is the only athletic program at Bowling Green State University to win a national title, coming during the 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament in Lake Placid, New York.

The stadium and MAC attendance record was set in 1983 when 33,527 fans saw Toledo defeat Bowling Green 6–3 in the annual Battle of I-75.

[20][21] The Stroh Center is also home to the largest falcon statue in the world, a gift from North Carolina philanthropist Irwin Belk.

[22] The university broke ground on the Stroh Center on September 3, 2009, a few hours prior to the football team's season opener at nearby Doyt Perry Stadium.

The stadium is located on the Bowling Green campus, next to Slater Family Ice Arena and across the street from Perry Field House.

Mickey Cochrane Stadium is home to the Bowling Green's men's and women's soccer teams and is located behind the Slater Family Ice Arena.

Cochrane Stadium is also home to the United States Youth Soccer Association's Olympic Development Program Region II camps.

Two of its players were on the "Miracle on Ice" U.S. hockey team that captured the 1980 Winter Olympics gold medal: Ken Morrow and Mark Wells.

Rob Blake also captured a gold medal for his country as Canada took up the top prize during the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Two Falcons have also won the Hobey Baker Award, given to the top collegiate men's hockey player each season: George McPhee (1982) and Brian Holzinger (1995).

He entered the 2005 season as a Heisman trophy candidate, but was unable to duplicate the success of 2004 and missed two starts due to injury.

Meyer, whose last coaching job was with the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, has won three college championships—two at Florida in 2006 and 2008, and one at Ohio State in 2014.

[29] BGSU RFC became the first Bowling Green athletic program (varsity or club) to compete outside of North America, touring England (1987, 1995, 2012, 2014), Wales (2000), South Africa (2002, 2007), and Ireland (2005).

Six Falcons have received All-American honors including: Chuck Tunnacliffe (1986), Tony Konczak (1988), Wes Harmon (1991), Scott Hogg (2003) and Rich Hines and Nick Viviani (2008).

Two Falcons have seen call ups to United States national rugby union team by Tunnacliffe in 1991 and Vince Staropoli in 1999.

Bowling Green finished ninth at the 2010 Collegiate Rugby Championship, a tournament broadcast live on NBC.

Bowling Green reached the 2014 D1-AA national playoffs, notching wins against Iowa State and Missouri, before losing to Arizona in the semifinals.

[30] Bowling Green finished second at the 2016 USA Rugby Fall National Championship losing to Notre Dame College (Ohio) 39–17.

Bowling Green's center Adam Regini and Scrumhalf Mitch Sora were named as a D1AA Fall Top 50 Backs.

Bowling Green won the Fall D1AA Rugby National Championship in 2018, beating Saint Joseph’s University 26–7.

While on a trolley to Toledo, Dr. Winslow sat behind a woman wearing a large hat adorned with beautiful brown and orange feathers.

Dr. Winslow was so interested in the color scheme of the pair that he convinced the committee to approve the combination of brown and orange.

[32][33] Bowling Green State University has three common songs that can be heard being played by the Falcon Marching Band at various athletic and academic events.