'02 Football Schedule Features Notre Dame, Home Games Vs. Ga. Tech, Fla. State
1/18/2002 7:00:00 AM | Football
Jan. 18, 2002
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
The second year of the Ralph Friedgen era at the University of Maryland will feature a school-record 13 regular season games, including a Kickoff Classic meeting vs. Notre Dame and ACC matchups in Byrd Stadium against Florida State and Georgia Tech.
Should the Terps advance to a bowl game, as they did this past season in Ralph Friedgen's head coaching debut, Maryland would play a 14-game schedule. (This coming season marks the first year I-A teams can play 12-game regular-season schedules that do not include exempt contests. Legislation was passed by NCAA membership in 1999 allowing 12 regular-season games during those years in which there are 14 Saturdays from the first permissible playing date through the last playing date in November. In addition to the 2002 season, this also will occur during the 2003, 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2019 seasons. Maryland is allowed a 13th regular-season contest since the Kickoff Classic is considered an exempt game).
The defending ACC champion Terps, who return 16 starters and 44 letterwinners from last season's 10-2 squad, open their 2002 slate at the Meadowlands when they meet Notre Dame and first-year coach Tyrone Willingham in the final Kickoff Classic. The game, which will be played Saturday, Aug. 31 at Giants Stadium, is scheduled to be televised nationally on ABC. It will be the first grid meeting between Maryland and Notre Dame.
Maryland is also slated for a national cable television appearance on Thursday, Oct. 17, when the Terps play host to ACC rival Georgia Tech and first-year coach Chan Gailey in a game to be shown on ESPN.
Other ACC foes who will visit Byrd Stadium in 2002 include Florida State, NC State, and Wake Forest. Three non-conference opponents - Troy State, Akron and Eastern Michigan - will also face Maryland in College Park, giving the Terps a seven-game home schedule for the second consecutive season. The Terps' lone non-conference road game will be at West Virginia.
The Terps will be on the road for ACC matchups vs. Duke, North Carolina, Clemson, and Virginia.
In total, Maryland's 2002 schedule includes games against five teams that advanced to bowl games in 2001: Florida State, Georgia Tech, NC State, Clemson and North Carolina.
The Aug. 31 opener vs. Notre Dame matches the earliest start in Terp history (also in 1996). The Nov. 30 game vs. Wake Forest is the latest regular season finale since 1965.
Season tickets can be ordered now through the Terrapin Ticket Office (1-800-462-TERP). Tickets are $182 for adults and $112 for children (18 and under). The Family Four-Pack, good for a family of four in the view level (sections 308-312) of Byrd Stadium, are priced at $308.
2002 Maryland Football Schedule
Date Day Opponent Site Aug. 31 Sat Notre Dame (ABC) East Rutherford, N.J. Sept. 7 Sat Akron College Park, Md. Sept. 14 Sat Florida State* College Park, Md. Sept. 21 Sat Eastern Michigan College Park, Md. Sept. 28 Sat Troy State College Park, Md. Oct. 5 Sat at West Virginia Morgantown, W.Va. Oct. 12 Sat open Oct. 17 Thu Georgia Tech* (ESPN) College Park, Md. Oct. 26 Sat at Duke* Durham, N.C. Nov. 2 Sat at North Carolina* Chapel Hill, N.C. Nov. 9 Sat NC State* College Park, Md. Nov. 16 Sat at Clemson* Clemson, S.C. Nov. 23 Sat at Virginia* Charlottesville, Va. Nov. 30 Sat Wake Forest* College Park, Md.*indicates ACC game.
