What Maryland head coach Mike Locksley look back on the Terps' home loss to Michigan State and look ahead to Saturday's game at border rival UVA.

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PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Redshirt freshman running back Nolan Ray has been selected as one of 37 candidates for The Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year Award watch list, the Maxwell Football Club announced today. This marks the seventh year of the award, which is presented to the most outstanding freshman player in college football.

Ray, who redshirted last season, made his career debut in the Terps' 2023 season opener against Towson. He rushed three times for seven yards in that game.

A Southfield, MI native, Ray was the top-rated running back in Michigan coming out of high school. He rushed 145 times for 1,097 yards and 14 touchdowns in just nine games in his junior 2021 season.

The Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year Award will be presented at the Maxwell Football Club Awards along with several of the other top awards in college and professional football. The event will be held on Friday March 14, 2025 and hosted by the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia.

A ton of interesting stories in the book and my thoughts on many of them:

Mediocrity appears to be our ceiling.

.not salting away a win when it was there to be won. Not showing guts needed to win. Not being bold enough on the 4th down.
Sadly, this all is on the head coach. I am all for him, but he needs someone to give him more inspired ideas.
Just my opinion.
Go Terps. Love all things Maryland.

Maryland Football: Terps take massive jump in ESPN FPI rankings​

Maryland's preseason projections have taken a turn for the better after just one week of football.​

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Maryland did not receive a vote in the Week 2 AP college football poll.

But following their Week 1 performance against UConn, a 50-7 win in College Park, the Terps did take a massive jump in another popular rating.

Maryland sits at No. 26 nationally in the ESPN Football Power Index (FPI) ratings, a 20-spot rise from No. 46 before the season got underway.

The FPI projects the Terps to finish with a 7.8-4.2 record with a 90.8% chance to become bowl eligible; the preseason projections had the Terps at 6.6-5.4 with a 71.7% chance to get to six wins. The FPI also gives Maryland a 1.9% chance to win the Big Ten, a 0.2% chance to win out, an 11% chance to make the 12-team College Football Playoff, a 0.5% chance to make the national championship game and a 0.1% chance to win it.

Maryland is the seventh-highest rated Big Ten team in the FPI, sitting behind No. 4 Ohio State, No. 5 Penn State, No. 10 Oregon, No. 14 Michigan, No. 15 USC and No. 25 Washington. Michigan State, this week's opponent for the Terps, is 79th in the FPI. The system gives Maryland an 82.4% chance to beat the Spartans this Saturday.


The Terps are an FPI favorite in six of their next seven games and have a 49.9% chance to knock off USC on Oct. 19.

Maryland did earn nine points in this week's US LBM Coaches Poll, making it the unofficial No. 37 team in the nation (though it received the same amount of points of UNLV, listed No. 35 officially).

In Bill Connelly's post-Week 1 SP+ ratings on ESPN, Maryland checked in at No. 36 with the No. 72 offense and No. 20 defense nationally. Connelly's rankings, which are predictive and not a résumé ranking, had Maryland 46th in the preseason with the 82nd-ranked offense and 23rd-ranked defense.

Mike Locksley is off to a strong start in Year Six as Maryland's head coach, the first season since his first season without Taulia Tagovailoa under center. Billy Edwards Jr. won the quarterback competition and did a tremendous job against the Huskies in the opener, completing 20 of 27 passes for 311 yards and two touchdowns. Tai Felton also starred in the first game of the year, catching seven passes for 178 yards and two touchdowns. The Terps also had three takeaways: interceptions by Ruben Hyppolite II and Glendon Miller and a fumble recovery by Ricardo Cooper Jr.

Today we should find out our kickoff time and TV Slot for the Villanova game.

Here's the "competition"

Nebraska vs. Illinois 9/20 8 pm on Fox

Michigan vs. USC 3:30 pm See-BS

Notre Dame vs. Miami (OH) 3:30 pm NBC

Idinania vs. Charlotte

State Penn vs. Kent State

aOSU vs. Marshall

Minnesota vs. Iowa

Washington vs. Northwestern

Minnestoa and Iowa will probably get the NBC primetime slot. Washington vs. Northwestern probably an FS1 7 pm Eastern kick. Slight chance of a 10/10:30 Eastern kickoff for that one maybe on Fox if not FS1.

I think we get relegated to BTN for this one with another regional split. I'll go with Noon with State Penn as the Buckeyes and Hoosiers split the 3:30 pm window.

LSU vs. UCLA, Boston College vs. Michigan State, and Virginia Tech vs. Rutgers will not be handled by the B1G contract since the B1G teams are the road teams in those games. Oregon State vs. Purdue is already set for an 8:30 pm kickoff on The CW.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The Maryland-Villanova football game, set to be played at SECU Stadium on September 21, will kickoff at Noon and be broadcast on Big Ten Network, it was announced on Monday.

Maryland (1-1) has won 13 straight non-conference games, the second longest streak in the nation. The Terps are 9-2 all-time against the Wildcats, including nine straight wins, but the teams haven't met since 2007.

Villanova (2-0) is coming off a 28-3 win at Colgate last week and is set to host Towson this Saturday. The Wildcats reached the quarterfinal round of the 2023 FCS Playoffs before falling to eventual National Champion South Dakota State.

The game against Villanova will be part of the University of Maryland's Family Weekend.

The Terps travel to Virginia (2-0) for their first road game of the season this Saturday. The game will kickoff at 8 p.m. and air on ACC Network. All Maryland football games can also be heard on the Maryland Sports Radio Network.

THE MASTER RECRUITER NEEDS ANOTHER EXTENSION!!

WTF

Coming off of official visits to West Virginia and Pitt this past weekend, St. John's three-star combo guard Omari Witherspoon has cut his list to Maryland, Pitt and Vandy. A decision should be coming soon and I like the Terps here. It is worth noting he was recently in College Park for an unofficial visit and he cancelled a planned visit to Virginia Tech. He also still has an official visit planned to Maryland for next month. Wanna make another call or two first, but I'll likely be putting in a FutureCast for the Terps shortly.

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BG really did well vs PSU. BG QB was the guy we beat 2 years ago at Indiana, I believe.

Of all the years you'd WANT to play Michigan, and we don't. SMH

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Of course, why are we surprised with a career coaching record of 32-60, including an impressive 15-33 in the B1G?

We're about 45 minutes from kickoff as the Terps and Spartans get set to open Big Ten play in College Park.

One notable starter out today is TE Preston Howard. Listed as questionable was starting corner Perry Fisher, but if he were unable to go that would be a significant loss.

Overcast afternoon in the DMV with chance of showers throughout the afternoon. Perfect football temps, however, with the high only supposed to hit the low 70's.

Also good to see future face of the franchise, Malik Washington, in the house with a bunch of his Spalding teammates this afternoon.

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A retrospective on what we just witnessed and experience every year under TMR where every year is a tease

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Love seeing your traitor ass get roasted and toasted by Texas.

Nice showing, you POS

C’mon BG! Giving the shower boy molesters a scare.

MJ Morris is out this week. Also out is starting TE Preston Howard, DL Deandre Duffus and Kevin Thomas.

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