Maryland football

By Max Marcilla

The game will not be played at Yankee Stadium — a combination of what happens when the New York Yankees make a postseason run and Rutgers has an opportunity to get $750,000 refunded. Still, the Maryland football game team has an opportunity to become bowl eligible with a victory on Sabbatum against the Rutgers Cerise Knights.

A win wouldn't guarantee the Terps make a basin game for the second straight season, and it would have a different feel than last year'south regular season finale, which gave Maryland its sixth win. Even if the Terps lose their three games after Rutgers (vs. Michigan, at Michigan Country, vs. Penn State), five wins may be enough to assure a bowl game.

How? Something called Academic Progress Charge per unit (APR). The metric, which measures the academic success of a school's student-athletes that receive scholarships, is how the NCAA decides which five-win teams make a bowl game if additional spots are needed.

Spoiler warning: they nearly always are. That's why the NCAA sponsors basin games real names such as the Franklin American Mortgage Music Urban center Bowl and the Zaxby's Heart of Dallas Basin (this could be 1 for which the Terps qualify).

Anyhow, the NCAA's listing of APR ahead of the 2022 college football season had Maryland tied for 11th with a score of 984. It is tied for 5th in the Large Ten with Illinois, just trailing Northwestern, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

More importantly than that, of the 10 teams with a ameliorate Apr than the Terps, 3 have already clinched a bowl game and another three already have five wins.

With all that said, what does that mean for Maryland? Simply put, a victory against Rutgers on Saturday could put the Terps in a position to compete with a few other teams with a solid Apr score for a basin game spot.

Information technology would exist a large deal, although it may not seem like it in the brusk-term. If Maryland makes a basin game, it would be just the second time in program history that a head jitney makes a basin game in both of his first two seasons.