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Maryland QB Taulia Tagovailoa passed for a school-record 3,860 yards — and he’s back to lead an impressive attack again
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With an skilled quarterback in Taulia Tagovailoa and a proficient receiving corps, Maryland has constructed an thrilling passing assault that has received its share of Huge Ten video games.
Whether or not the Terrapins will be something greater than an afterthought to the convention’s high groups stays to be seen.
Maryland is coming off a profitable season and a bowl victory — accomplishments value appreciating — however when the Terps went up in opposition to Ohio State and Michigan, they misplaced 66-17 and 59-18. A giant residence evening sport in opposition to Iowa became a 51-14 defeat.
Coach Michael Locksley is attempting to maintain the concentrate on his crew — what the Terps can do to keep away from beating themselves — as an alternative of worrying an excessive amount of about how formidable the competitors is perhaps.
“It’s going to be extra about what we do,” he stated. “I do know folks say we wish to shut the hole between the highest groups — we’ve bought a troublesome league, we perceive that — but it surely’s nonetheless going to be extra about what we do than it’s what they do.”
Maryland made it to a bowl by profitable the video games it was imagined to win. The Terrapins went 3-0 in nonconference video games and managed Huge Ten wins over Illinois, Indiana and Rutgers. They completed the season robust, routing Rutgers 40-16 for win No. 6, then beating Virginia Tech 54-10 within the Pinstripe Bowl.
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Tagovailoa returns after passing for a school-record 3,860 yards. Additionally again are receivers Rakim Jarrett and Dontay Demus. Jarrett caught 62 passes for 829 yards a season in the past, main a crew that had 10 gamers with at the very least 18 catches and at the very least 197 receiving yards.
Demus was misplaced to a knee damage lower than midway by final season, however he nonetheless completed with 507 receiving yards in 5 video games. Maryland additionally provides switch receiver Jacob Copeland, who had 41 catches for 642 yards at Florida final season. And Jeshaun Jones returns after his 2021 season was lower brief by a leg damage.
Tagovailoa, the brother of Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, lastly had an opportunity to play a full season for the Terps after the pandemic shortened the 2020 marketing campaign. The outcomes had been spectacular. He additionally set faculty information for completions (328) and completion proportion (69.2%).
“The largest subsequent step for Lia, and he understands, is to proceed to emotionally mature to the place, as a pacesetter, he doesn’t trip the wave of feelings that go throughout the sport,” Locksley stated. “The place you’ve gotten the nice and the dangerous, we wish to type of maintain him at impartial.”
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Pretty much as good because the passing sport could possibly be, the Terps know they will’t beat the Huge Ten’s finest on velocity alone. They’re hopeful that returning their total beginning offensive line will assist.
“We’re constructing nice depth, lastly,” Locksley stated. “Particularly up entrance within the trenches.”
Jap Michigan switch Chad Ryland arrives at Maryland with a streak of 17 consecutive made area targets. Locksley would like to see that type of consistency from his crew’s kicking sport.
“When you cross the 35-yard line, you need to have the ability to at the very least know that we have now an opportunity to get factors on the board,” he stated.
These scores in opposition to Ohio State, Michigan and Iowa illustrate how a lot room for enchancment Maryland has on protection, however the Terps do convey an honest quantity of expertise again. Sixteen gamers on the Maryland protection have began at the very least one sport.
Maryland opens the season Sept. 3 in opposition to Buffalo. Its different nonconference video games are at Charlotte and at residence in opposition to SMU.
Huge Ten play begins with back-to-back robust video games at Michigan and in opposition to Michigan State. November isn’t straightforward both — highway journeys to Wisconsin and Penn State adopted by a house matchup with Ohio State.
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Michigan State football opens as sizable underdog vs Maryland
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Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) September 1, 2024
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
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University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
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