Maryland football

Past: Eddie Hobbs

Maryland (4-eight, ii-vii Large Ten) came into Saturday's matchup against No. 12 Penn State (10-2, 7-2 Big Ten) trying to pull off an upset on senior dark. After dropping its concluding iii games to young man Big X opponents, Maryland lost the opportunity to make a basin appearance this year.

The Nittany Lions went with a balanced attack led past quarterback Trace McSorley (22-33, 237 yards two TDs) and running dorsum Saquon Barkley (sixteen attempts, 77 yards two TDs) in the 66-3 victory over the Terps.

Information technology is no hugger-mugger that Maryland's front end has struggled against the run this season. Maryland is assuasive 182 rushing yards per game, and are 0-5 when allowing teams to blitz for more than 100 yards in a game and 4-0 when it does not.

Given the statistics, it was expected that Penn Land would testify off its heisman candidate Barkley early. The Nittany Lions went a different route and decided to gain their yards through the air for much of the first one-half, going for 209 passing yards compared to 90 rushing yards.

Maryland could not practice much on offense and looked lost for the majority of the one-half. The Terps only had one scoring gamble, a 47-yard field goal try by Henry Darmstadter that did not have enough leg. The second quarter saw plenty of yardage for Maryland, 148 total yards, only no points to show for it, and entered the half down 31-0.

"Nosotros went out there and we didn't play very well, I retrieve a season long of adversity and things happening just got to united states of america," caput omnibus DJ Durkin said. "That wasn't our best effort we put along. Tin can't do that, I think in life, the lesson for our players is you but go so many opportunities, and we tell them in the game of football, y'all don't go many of them…."

Ane bright spot for Maryland in the game was DJ Moore, who passed Geroy Simon for the unmarried-season reception leader at 78 receptions. Moore finished with 8 receptions for 100 yards.

"Nosotros simply wanted to send the seniors out with a win, and evidently we didn't exercise that," Moore said. "We came upwards a lot short, merely at the same time I am withal thinking well-nigh the record, but I am however thinking about the game more."

To open upward the third quarter, Penn Land went on a x-play 73-grand touchdown bulldoze to push the pb to 38-0. On the ensuing kickoff, Antwaine Richardson picked up the brawl on the xx-k line and fumbled to requite the Nittany Lions perfect field position. Four plays subsequently, Barkley would dial in a one-yard touchdown run to substantially finish off the Terrapins.

Maryland put its outset, and simply, points on the lath with under a minute remaining in the third quarter cheers to a Darmstadter 42-yard field goal.

Heading into the offseason, the Terps volition focus on continuing their rebuild, and volition try to mold the team effectually their young quarterbacks. The offense and defense force demand to work on third down conversions as the squad ranked last in the Large Ten on 3rd downwardly on both sides of the ball.