Terp Schedule Rated 25th Toughest
6/9/2004 8:00:00 AM | Football
June 9, 2004
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The University of Maryland football schedule for 2004 has been ranked 25th toughest in the nation by the web site www.nationalchamps.net.
Maryland was one of nine schools in the newly expanded Atlantic Coast Conference among the 25 toughest schedules in the rankings. All 11 schools in the ACC for 2004 were in the top 31 on the list.
The site also had the following to say about the new ACC being among the nation's elite conferences:
"With the ACC only one year removed from becoming a 12-team conference (Boston College joins in 2005), the current 11-team version already demonstrates why the ACC is the toughest it's ever been throughout the league's history. All but two ACC teams (nine) dot our SOS Top 25 for 2004 - the most of any conference. Of course, this only makes sense considering five ACC teams sit in the Top 20 Preview rankings. We find it quite amazing that teams such as NC State and Georgia Tech, while being ranked in the Top 40, are being predicted to finish in the bottom half of the pack. But it's more than that...the ACC has managed to keep the non-conference slates full of big time opponents such as Florida, Georgia, Ohio State and USC."
