Maryland (4-3, 1-3 B1G) vs. Indiana (2-5, 0-4 B1G)
October 30, 2021
Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium
12:01 pm EDT
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -Â The University of Maryland football team is set to host Big Ten East foe Indiana on Saturday, October 30. The game is set to kick at Noon and will be broadcast on Big Ten Network and the Maryland Sports Radio Network.
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GAME EIGHT STORYLINES
HOMECOMING HISTORY
- Maryland has won 63-percent of its homecoming games all-time, a 59-35-4 record.
- The Terps have won four of their past five homecoming games, defeating Purdue in 2016, Indiana in 2017, Rutgers in 2018 and Minnesota last season, while falling to Michigan in 2019.
- This will be the second time the Terps have hosted Indiana for homecoming, defeating the Hoosiers, 42-39, in 2017 behind two fourth quarter touchdown runs by Jake Funk.Â
- Maryland's homecoming football game will be a celebration of the 2001 ACC Champion Terrapins. Twenty seasons ago, under then-first year head coach Ralph Friedgen, the Terps captured the attention of the nation by winning a conference championship for the first time since 1985 and playing in the Orange Bowl in posting a 10-2 overall record.
- The Terps will welcome back many members of that 2001 team including ACC Player of the Year E.J. Henderson and ACC Coach of the Year Ralph Friedgen.
- Current head coach Michael Locksley was a member of that staff, serving as the running backs coach and recruiting coordinator.Â
SACK CITY
- Maryland ranks 31st in the country and third in the Big Ten with 19 sacks through seven games, an average of 2.71 per game.
- The 19 sacks have been for a loss of 151 yards, the 18th-most sack yards in the country and second-most in the Big Ten, trailing only Ohio State's 176.
- The Terps 19 sacks are the most through the first seven games of a season since totaling 24 in 2015.
- DL Sam Okuayinonu has five solo sacks on the season, tied for most in the Big Ten.
- Okuayinonu's 45 sack yards are also the most in the Big Ten and 14th-most in the country.Â
 TAULIA TERRIFIC
- In his time as a Terp beginning in 2020, QB Taulia Tagovailoa has averaged 270.5 passing yards per game, the seventh-highest over that time span of any Power Five quarterback that has played in 2020 & 2021 and the most in the Big Ten.
- Tagovailoa, who has totaled 2,976 yards in 11 game as a Terp, trails only Virginia's Brennan Armstrong (313.9 per game), Ole Miss' Matt Corral (308.8 per game), Pittsburgh's Kenny Pickett (290.3), USC's Kedon Slovis (287.6 per game), UNC's Sam Howell (286.2 per game) and Mississippi State's Will Rogers (282.8). Tagovailoa is 14th in the country and second in the Big Ten, averaging 280.7 passing yards per game this season and is on pace to set the all-time Maryland record for passing yards in a season (Scott Milanovich, 3,499 in 1993).
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- DB Jakorian Bennett stands ninth in the country and first in the Big Ten with 1.3 pass breakups per game and has the most per game of any Power Five player.
- In only six games played, Bennett has eight total pass breakups (six pass breakups and two interceptions), the second-most of any Power Five player (Kyu Blu Kelly, Stanford).
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- CB Tarheeb Still has 14 pass breakups through only 11 games as a Terp, the most by a player over his first 11 games since Domonique Foxworth also had 14 over the first 11 games of his career in 2001-02.
- As a freshman in 2020, Still led the nation in pass breakups per game, averaging two per game and eight on the season, the highest per game mark in program history.
- Still was selected to The Athletic's Freshman All-America Team, one of five defensive backs named to the team.
- The now-sophomore has six so far this season, including one in five straight games, the second-most on the team.
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