Maryland wasted little time getting out of the blocks in ultimate week’s season opener, scoring 21 issues within the first quarter on its solution to a 38-6 pasting of FCS foe Towson.
The Terrapins (1-0) check out for an encore Saturday night time once they welcome Charlotte (1-0) to School Park, Md., for any other nonconference conflict.
Maryland gained 3 landing throws and 260 yards passing ultimate week from Taulia Tagovailoa, who handed the 8,000-yard mark for his profession. Corey Dyches loved the most productive sport of his profession with six catches for 108 yards, whilst Tagovailoa and Roman Hemby each and every rushed for touchdowns.
To not be omitted, the protection posted its 3rd immediately sport of preserving warring parties out of the top zone — a streak that dates again to 2022.
“We were given off to the quick get started that we might love to get off to,” Terrapins trainer Mike Locksley stated. “We performed numerous avid gamers, which is massive for us as a result of for us to broaden our crew with the way in which soccer is now, we are going to want all of them.”
Oddsmakers be expecting Locksley gets an opportunity to make use of a lot of his roster once more this week because the Terrapins are a 24 1/2-point favourite. Then again, Charlotte and its new, feisty trainer, former Michigan assistant Biff Poggi, hope to have one thing to mention about that.
The 49ers offered Poggi with a regimen 24-3 win over FCS opponent South Carolina State ultimate week, getting 220 speeding yards and allowing simply 168 overall yards. Poggi, who famously upbraided the media at Convention USA media day as a result of he wasn’t requested sufficient questions on his crew, used to be extremely joyful with how the outcome used to be accomplished.
“The grittiness and toughness of the protection and the operating sport is who we’re,” he stated. “We’re a blue-collar, gritty soccer crew. We are not those guys which might be going to win a sport 55-54.”
Maryland gained the one earlier assembly of the colleges ultimate yr in Charlotte, routing the 49ers 56-21 in the back of 391 yards and 4 landing passes from Tagovailoa.
—Box Degree Media
