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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: ELA on September 26, 2017, 04:15:59 PM
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Confirmed Hill now out too with a torn ACL.
I feel like no team ever has average injury luck. You either get a ton of them, or get crazy lucky. Looks like this is the former type of year for the Terps.
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I'm just waiting for the basketball thread to become more relevant.
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I'm just waiting for the basketball thread to become more relevant.
Been There, Done that
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The series is all knotted up at 1-1.
The Terps beat the Gophers in a Bowl Game in 1977, but then lost to them at home last year.
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I like what Minnesota's doing and expect them to just continue to improve with Fleck at the helm.
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Apparently Caleb Henderson is back on the field and practicing taking reps this week. Whether or not he sees the field is undetermined.
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I'd like to see this game. I like both teams for some reason.
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A season that started by appearing that D.J. Durkin had the Terps rebuild ahead of schedule has devolved into a a massive quarterback issue. It appeared that only Max Bortenschlager remained available among Maryland's scholarship quarterbacks, but it seems that perhaps North Carolina transfer Caleb Henderson will play this week after all. Nobody is really sure what Maryland has in him, but I think fans saw just about all they wanted to see from Bortenschlager, after an awful showing last Saturday. Whoever gets snaps is going to need much more from a line that couldn't block Central Florida a week ago, only picking up 42 rushing yards on 1.1 ypc. The dynamic Ty Johnson was held totally in check on only 25 yards on 11 carries, getting more than half of them on one 13 yard run. Minnesota had seemingly found their groove a couple weeks ago, and now just need to hope the bye week was beneficial and not a hiccup to their progress. P.J. Fleck seems to slowly be working more of a passing game into the attack, and in that regard these teams are very similar, and we might have a 2 and a half hour game. Both right around 20 pass attempts per game, these two teams pass the ball the least in the conference, but when they do, they pick their spots, and do it effectively. Even down to their third quarterback, Maryland leads the Big Ten in completion percentage, Minnesota is 6th; and they are 2nd and 3rd in yards per attempt, both just under 9.0. The difference is that Minnesota also plays defense, and so far Maryland has not. Maryland ranks in the bottom four of the Big Ten in scoring defense, total defense, rushing defense and passing defense. Their pass rush is solid, but they aren't creating turnovers, and there are too many gaps in the back seven when they don't get there. I don't envision the Gophers giving them many chances to get at Conor Rhoda, and the Gophers grind out another big time of possession edge.
MINNESOTA 34, MARYLAND 23