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COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Maryland will play its second straight Big Ten road game on Saturday when it travels to West Lafayette, Indiana for the first time ever to take on Purdue. The game will kick at noon and be broadcast on BTN and the Maryland Sports Radio Network.

THIS WEEKEND'S STORYLINES

1. Against Rutgers, RB Javon Leake returned the opening kickoff of the second half 100 yards for his second career kick return touchdown, marking the first time any Big Ten team has returned a kick to the house this season. With a WR DJ Turner punt return touchdown in Week One vs. Howard, Maryland is one of only five FBS teams with both a kick return and punt return touchdown this season, joining Appalachian State, Houston, UCLA and Utah State. Maryland leads the Big Ten in both kick return average (29.44 ypr) and punt return average (15.13 ypr). 

2. RB Anthony McFarland Jr. has tallied seven rushing touchdowns through five games this season (2 vs. Howard, 2 vs. Syracuse, 1 at Temple, 2 at Rutgers), the ninth highest total in the country and the most for a Maryland RB in the first five games of the season since Keon Lattimore also had seven in 2007. 

3. The Maryland defense has tallied 16 sacks through four games, the 19th highest total in the country and the Terrapins most over a five-game span since Maryland finished the year with 18 (1 at Michigan, 2 vs. Ohio State, 3 at Nebraska, 7 vs. Rutgers, 5 vs. Boston College) in 2016. LB Keandre Jones has 4.5 to lead the Terps, the sixth highest total in the Big Ten and 20th best in the country. 

4. Maryland has forced a turnover in 17 straight contests, the third-longest streak in the FBS, trailing only Mississippi State (21) and Syracuse (19). The Terps, who notched a takeaway in every game last season continued the streak last week at Rutgers when they picked off the Scarlet Knights twice, first by LB Ayinde Eley and then by LB Isaiah Davis, his first career interception. The Terps have forced nine turnovers and only lost five, a plus-four margin this season, the 21st best in the country and top five in the Big Ten. Maryland won the turnover battle in four of the first five games. 

5. Senior DB Antoine Brooks Jr. has totaled 30 solo tackles this year, the most per game in the Big Ten and the 15th highest total in the country. Brooks has led Maryland in tackles in three of the five games and tallied a career-best 13, all solo, at Temple (9/14). 

6. All three of the Terps wins this season have been by at least 40 points (79 vs. Howard, 43 vs. Syracuse, 41 at Rutgers), making Maryland one of only three teams in the country (Ohio State and Wisconsin) to have three 40-plus point wins. It is the first time since 1974 that Maryland has had three 40-plus point wins in a single season. 

7. Maryland has 207 points through five games, the highest total in the first five games of a season in program history and the most over any five game span since scoring 223 during a five game win streak in the 2002 season. The Terps 41.4 points per game is the 14th highest in the country and fourth-most in the Big Ten. 

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