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Figured I'd start this thread a little early today. We're a little over an hour and a half away from kickoff between the Terps and Badgers. Coming off of a bye, the Terps are perhaps the healthiest they have been since the start of the season with Lia back on offense and guys like Barham and Hyppolite expected back healthy on defense. The Badgers also get a few key players back this week, including safety Hunter Wohler. Should be a good game with the Terps likely entering the top 25 with a win.

It was ugly. Very ugly. As the Terps managed just 189 total yards of offense Saturday at Wisconsin. Yes, the weather played a factor, but no way to sugar coat it, that was one of the worst offensive performances I've ever seen. Need to forget this game even happened and have a tremendous week of practice with a trip to Happy Valley coming up next Saturday. Full recap at the link below.

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Ranking toughest MBB OOC schedules. I like what Terps have done for this year - @St Louis (30th), UCLA (8th), and Tennesee (11th) - and hope they build on this trend. Every school on this list seems to get the players they want in part because they are gonna play against top talent in high profile early games, and their coaches win. I do think their is a corelation between playing these tough schedules and overall total success.

About what I expected, we open up as 5 point underdogs to the Badgers on the road. Over/Under is 50.5

Catch up on Maryland and Wisconsin with interviews, stories, weather info, betting odds, stats and all of today's broadcast information at the link below.

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Here are three things I'm watching as the Terps look to get their first-ever win over Wisconsin this afternoon and possibly move into the top 25 for the first time since 2019. I expect penalties and the weather to possibly play a very big role in the outcome of today's game. More at the link below.

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To the NCAA, some schools' shite don't stink.

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I exchanged questions with Wisconsin Rivals writer Seamus Rohrer ahead of tomorrow's game in Madison. I asked about how the Badgers have responded following the firing of Paul Chryst, the health of the Badgers, the key to slowing down Braelon Allen, a final score prediction and more. I was a bit surprised to see him say the Badgers have cut down on mistakes since the firing of Chryst, especially considering in their past three games they have committed a total of 21 penalties for 209 yards. If that is cutting down on mistakes, I can't even fathom how undisciplined this team was earlier in the year! More at the link below.

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ATLANTA – Senior Diamond Miller of the 17th-ranked Maryland women's basketball team is one of 50 top players in the country named to the Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy Women's Watch List Friday by the Atlanta Tip-Off Club.

Earlier this fall, Miller was named to the Ann Meyers Drysdale Watch List and the All-Big Ten Preseason-Team for the second consecutive season.

Miller, a two-time All-Big Ten honoree and 2021 Big Ten Tournament Co-MVP, is Maryland's leading returning scorer after averaging 13.1 points and 4.0 rebounds last year. Miller earned All-Big Ten Second Team honors. She scored in double figures in 17 of her 22 games played on the year.

Miller became the 36th Terrapin to reach the 1,000-career points mark with her 23-point performance in the Terps' NCAA Tournament First Round win over Delaware.

The midseason 30 team will be announced in early January, and then the competition will be narrowed down to 10 national semifinalists in early March. Following those results, four finalists will be named on March 21, 2023, and the winner of the 2023 Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy for Women's Player of the Year will be announced on March 29, 2023.

The Big Ten Conference placed the most athletes on the watch list with 10.

The Terrapins will host two of last year's Final Four teams, as they play one of the toughest schedules in the country. Their out of conference schedule is highlighted by home matchups with defending national champion No. 1 South Carolina and No. 6 Connecticut, as well as road trips to No. 18 Baylor and No. 9 Notre Dame.

Maryland will officially open the 2022-23 season on Monday, Nov. 7 with a road trip to George Mason. The Terps and the Patriots will tip off at 7 p.m. on ESPN+. The Terrapins will host No. 1 South Carolina in their home opener at the XFINITY Center on Friday, Nov. 11 at 6 p.m.

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Freshman LB Jaishawn Barham has been named a semifinalist for the Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year Award. Past winners include Trevor Lawrence and Brock Bowers. More at the link below.

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Despite being idle this past Saturday, the Terps received the most points yet this season in this week's AP poll, coming in unofficially at No. 28 in the rankings. Despite the lofty ranking, the Terps open as underdogs Saturday at Wisconsin. Obviously the biggest question heading into the game is the status of Lia, which Locks addressed during the bye. More at the link below.

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It is Throwback Thursday once again, and today we compare the Terps starters to their Badgers counterparts. A couple of notes on this one, I listed safety Hunter Wohler as a starter, but he is coming off of a leg injury that forced him to miss the past 7 games. It is possible he doesn't start this week but he is expected to play. Also, former four-star LB Nick Herbig missed the Badgers' last game and could sit this one out, also. That said, he is not listed as OUT and they will very likely need him in what could be a tight ball game. Finally, corner Alexander Smith will likely start his second straight game after replacing Ricardo Hallman who was benched for poor play. That secondary is banged up and weak. Terps need to take advantage.

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If this is what passes for enforcement, tell me what is the point of having an organization that does nothing but suck money away from the colleges that piut the athletic product on the field.

Adam Friedman lists St. Frances USC commit Sam Greene as a potential flip candidate for the Terps. Greene was at Maryland's most recent game versus Northwestern and they have a real chance of pulling this one off. The Terps are also involved with a four-star safety out of Philly and the latest on some local 2024 QBs. More at the link.

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Watch Lia, Corey Dyches and Beau Brade preview the Terps' upcoming game at Wisconsin in the videos linked below.

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Maryland defensive lineman Greg China-Rose was named a Burlsworth Trophy Nominee, per release. The award is given to the most outstanding football player in America who began his career as a walk-on.

No surprise here, but Locksley says today at his weekly press conference that Lia will play Saturday at Wisconsin. Given the fact he was practicing last week, this was pretty much expected.

FORT WORTH, TX -- Maryland football quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa has been selected to the Davey O'Brien QB Class of 2022, it was announced Tuesday. Tagovailoa is one of 40 quarterbacks that are now an official candidate to win the 2022 Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award.
Tagovailoa currently stands fourth in the nation with a 72.5 completion percentage, and also ranks in the top-25 in completions per game (24.4) and passing yards per game (285.9). His 69.1 career completion percentage is currently fourth among all active FBS quarterbacks, and he also stands top-20 among all FBS quarterbacks in career passing yards per game (240.4), completions per game (20.1) and passing efficiency (151.4).

The redshirt junior has skyrocketed up the Maryland record books, now standing second all-time in Maryland history in completions (574), passing yards (6,872) and touchdowns (46). Tagovailoa only stands 77 completions, 430 yards and four touchdowns from setting the program passing records in those categories. With a 300-yard game against Purdue (315 yards), Tagovailoa now stands alone at the top of the all-time 300-yard game ranks in Terrapin history with 11. He also is first all-time in career completion percentage (69.2) and passing efficiency (151.4).



This season, Tagovailoa has completed 171-of-236 passes for 2,001 yards and 13 touchdowns while leading the Terps to a 6-2 record and the earliest they've reached bowl eligibility since 2010. Tagovailoa has thrown a touchdown in 22-of-24 career games as a Terp and six-of-seven games he has played this season.



The next step in the process will be to select the award's 16 semifinalists from the 40 quarterbacks. The semifinalists will be chosen based on voting from the Davey O'Brien National Selection Committee as well as bonus ballots awarded from the first round of the Davey O'Brien Fan Vote.

For the third straight year, the Fan Vote will take place on the award's three social media platforms—Instagram, Twitter and Facebook—and the top five vote getters on each will receive bonus committee member ballots which will be added to the votes cast by the National Selection Committee.

To participate in the Fan Vote, fans must like the original Davey O'Brien Award post highlighting their quarterback. The first round is open now until Friday, Nov. 11 at noon (CT). The 16 semifinalists will be named on Tuesday, Nov. 15. Looking ahead, the three finalists will be tabbed on Tuesday, Nov. 29, while the winner will be announced live on Thursday, Dec. 8 on The Home Depot College Football Awards on ESPN.

The Davey O'Brien Foundation was created in 1977, and the National Quarterback Award, the oldest and most prestigious college quarterback award, was first issued in 1981. Over its time, the Davey O'Brien Foundation has given away more than $1.2 million in scholarships and university grants to help high school and college athletes transform leadership on the field into leadership in life.

In 1938, O'Brien, who was a star quarterback for TCU, became the first player ever to win the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Award in the same year. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955.