Maryland Terrapins College Football Preview 2021: What Will Happen, Season Prediction
Seriously … how the hell do you try figuring out this team?
Mike Locksley’s 2019 debut started with wins over Howard and Syracuse by a combined score of 142-20, and it looked like the offensive talent he showed at job after job as a coordinator was about to translate over to the Terps.
And then the team couldn’t score for most of the rest of the year and went 3-9.
Last year, Maryland didn’t look like it knew how to play football – that’s not hyperbole – in the 43-3 loss to Northwestern to open the season, was getting its doors blown off by Minnesota, came back to beat the Gophers, was wonderful against Penn State, and then went back to being bad at college football again over the last two games.
By all normal indications, this is a team that at best should be fighting for a bowl spot, but could possibly go completely in the tank fast. However …
That spark against Minnesota. That performance two years ago against Minnesota. This should be a team that’s about to turn it on, but …
Set The Maryland Terrapins Regular Season Win Total At … 4.5
18 starters and both specialists might be returning, and there’s real talent at several spots, but there are too many losses in the transfer portal, too many question marks even with the good players back, and there hasn’t been a smidge of positive consistency with Maryland football for a long, long time.
The Terps will beat Kent State. It won’t be easy, but they will.
They’ll beat Howard, and they’ll beat … uhhhhhh …
It’s a guess. Maryland will win a few games from out of nowhere, but against who? West Virginia? against Illinois on the road? Rutgers on the road?
This isn’t the Big Ten East of last year – Michigan State isn’t going to be miserable, and that’s on the road, too. So are the dates against Ohio State and Minnesota.
There’s no Wisconsin or Northwestern, but it’s going to take a whole lot of upsets to get to come up with a winning season.
But with this program, go ahead and surprise us. For fun’s sake, it would be great if Locksley can finally put it all together and make Maryland a team everyone in the Big Ten has to worry about.
And do it for a full season.
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