THIS WEEKEND'S STORYLINES

1. Maryland has consistently gotten off to a good start in conference play, posting a 4-1 record in the Big Ten opener since joining the conference in 2014. The Terps have defeated Minnesota in each of the last two seasons (42-13, 2018; 31-24, 2017), topped Purdue in 2016 (50-7) and won at Indiana (37-15) in Maryland's first ever Big Ten game in 2014.

2. Junior transfer quarterback Josh Jackson has had an impressive start to his Terrapin career, throwing eight touchdowns on 51-of-100 passing for 724 yards through three games. Jackson is the first Terrapin quarterback to throw for eight touchdowns in the first two games of a season since at least 1977. 

3. Through three games, Maryland is averaging 277.3 yards on the ground, the eighth best average in the country and the best in the Big Ten. Anthony McFarland Jr. has five rushing touchdowns, with at least one in each game, the 12th best mark in the country. Six different Terps have scored a rushing touchdown, the most rushers with a TD in the Big Ten.

4. The Maryland defense has tallied 13 sacks through three games, the sixth highest total in the country and the Terrapins most over a three-game span since Maryland finished the year with 15 (3 at Nebraska, 7 vs. Rutgers, 5 vs. Boston College) in 2016. LB Keandre Jones has 3.5 to lead the Terps, the eighth highest total in the country. 

5. Maryland has forced a turnover in 15 straight contests, the fourth-longest streak in the FBS, trailing only Houston (21), Mississippi State (20) and Syracuse (18). The Terps, who notched a takeaway in every game last season continued the streak last week at Temple, forcing three turnovers, one by way of a S Antoine Brooks Jr. recovered fumble, one by LB Chance Campbell's first career interception and a third by a fumble forced by S Jordan Mosley and recovered by CB Marcus Lewis. 

6. The 43 point differential in the Terps last home game, a 63-20 win over #21 Syracuse, was the largest margin of victory in a win by an unranked team over a ranked team in 20 years, since Oklahoma beat #13 Texas A&M, 51-6 in 1999. The 43 point differential is the seventh-best all-time from an unranked team's defeat of a ranked team. Maryland has outscored its opponents by a combined 119 points this season. 

7. Maryland's 159 points this season are the most through any three successive games in Maryland history, surpassing the previous mark of 138 (1954 vs. George Washington 48-6 and Missouri 74-13).The Terps 142 points in the first two games was tied for the most through the first two games in a season by a Big Ten team since 1936 (Ohio State, 1996) and the third most by any FBS team over that span, trailing only Ole Miss' 149 in 2015 and Florida's 143 in 1994.