Still, a road win tomorrow and another next Saturday at Purdue would send IU bowling for the first time since the 2007 Insight Bowl in Tempe.
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Maryland (2-8, 0-6) hasn’t celebrated a victory since September 19, against South Florida.
It wasn’t enough to keep Maryland (2-9, 0-7) from remaining winless under interim coach Mike Locksley, now 0-5 since taking over for the fired Randy Edsall on October 11. Coverage of this game begins at 12:00 pm ET from Byrd Stadium. “I wish we would have got the win, but personally, it felt good to have that kind of game and really jump-start the offense”. It’s important to them, ” defensive coordinator Keith Dudzinski said.
The Terrapins are 4-1 ATS in their last five conference games and despite their offensive struggles the club is 35-16 ATS in their last 51 games on grass.
Ross still has one more game in his career at Rutgers next week to burnish his career bona fides at Maryland. “They blitzed a lot more”. Cassius Winston (Michigan State), De’Ron Davis (Indiana), Nick Ward (Michigan State), Cowan (Maryland) and Tony Carr (Penn State) were all ranked in the Top 50.
Not long after the senior day pregame festivities concluded, the Hoosiers stuffed Maryland’s Joe Riddle on the Terps’ first play of the game.
“I told the offense we’ve got to score 100”, Wilson recalled afterward.
The ending was disappointing, but the Terrapins could hardly have gotten off to a better start.
One team is going to celebrate its first conference win Saturday. “This is your last game at Byrd”, said junior cornerback Will Likely, the only non-senior in the Maryland secondary.
FILE – In this October 17, 2015, file photo, In head coach Kevin Wilson, right, runs off the field … “This being my last (home) game, I definitely wanted to go out strong”. IN is no pushover, but it’s no Iowa or Ohio State or MI State. Maryland’s seven-game slide has been much of its own doing – it leads the nation in turnovers – but the schedule-makers have done the Terps no favors, leading a few to dub their slate the nation’s toughest.
Will Maryland win at home or does visiting IN pull off the win IN this one? Ross had 540 yards coming into the game and added 250 more to that total against Indiana. Maryland kept possession after the ball bounced out of bounds and play was called dead. By the end of it all, there was no scoring in the garbage time play of the fourth quarter and the Terps would fall by a final score of 47-28. Eight minutes into the game, Ross had 116 yards and two TDs.
Defensive lineman Yannick Ngakoue, another Terp defender who could play on Sundays, also has plenty to play for against Indiana. IN counters with the Big Ten’s No. 3 rushing attack (197.9) after gashing MI for 307 yards on the ground.
The 250-yard performance also vaulted Ross up the career rushing list for the Terps.
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THE FINISH: If IN is going to end its losing streak, it must find a stronger knockout punch. And after Indiana’s furious comeback gave the Hoosiers a 30-21 halftime lead over the Terps, Ross close the gap.
