Maryland (5-3, 2-3Â B1G) vs. Penn State (5-3, 2-3 B1G)
November 6, 2021
Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium
3:40 pm EDT
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -Â The University of Maryland football team will host Big Ten East foe Penn State on Saturday, Nov. 6. The game is set to kick at 3:30 p.m. and will be broadcast on FS1 and the Maryland Sports Radio Network.
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GAME NINE STORYLINES
TAULIA RISING THE RANKS
- QB Taulia Tagovailoa's 419 passing yards last week against Indiana (10/30), was the third-most in program history, only trailing Scott Milanovich's back-to-back games of 451 yards against West Virginia (9/18) and 498 yards against Virginia Tech (9/25) in 1993.
- Tagovailoa now has three of the top 12 single game passing performances in program history (394 vs. Minnesota, 10/30/20 and 384 vs. Kent State, 9/25/21).
- The junior's 17 touchdown passes this season are tied for the sixth-most in program history and only one behind Boomer Esiason's 18 for fifth all-time.
- In addition, Tagovailoa's 2,384 passing yards this season put him 12th all-time in single season passing yards, 10 yards behind Scott Milanovich's 2,394 yards in 1994.
- In only 12 games as a Terp including last season, Tagovailoa already stands 10th all-time in career passing touchdowns with 24, only two behind Neil O'Donnell (1987-89) for ninth-all time, and 15th all-time in career passing yards with 3,395, only 15 behind Dick Shiner (1961-63) for 14th all-time.
SACK CITY
- Maryland ranks 19th in the country and fourth in the Big Ten with 23 sacks through eight games, an average of 2.88 per game.
- The 19 sacks have been for a loss of 175 yards, the 14th-most sack yards in the country and second-most in the Big Ten, trailing only Ohio State's 198.
- The Terps 23 sacks are the most through the first eight games of a season since totaling 26 in 2015.
 TAULIA TERRIFIC
- In his time as a Terp beginning in 2020, QB Taulia Tagovailoa has averaged 282.9 passing yards per game, the sixth-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 3,395 yards in 12 game as a Terp, trails only Virginia's Brennan Armstrong (315.2 per game), Ole Miss' Matt Corral (307.8 per game), Pittsburgh's Kenny Pickett (303.1), UNC's Sam Howell (288.9 per game) and Mississippi State's Will Rogers (286.4).
- Tagovailoa is 13th in the country and second in the Big Ten, averaging 298.0 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 11th in the country and first in the Big Ten with 1.3 pass breakups per game and has the third-most per game of any Power Five player (Kei'Trel Clark, Louisville & Kyu Blu Kelly, Stanford).
- In seven games played, Bennett has nine total pass breakups (seven pass breakups and two interceptions), the fourth-most of any Power Five player.
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- CB Tarheeb Still has 16 pass breakups through only 12 games as a Terp, the most by a player over his first 12 games since Domonique Foxworth also had 16 over the first 12 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 eight so far this season, the second-most on the team and fourth-most in the Big Ten, and has one in six straight games.
LAST TIME VS. PENN STATE
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