Maryland (4-0, 1-0 B1G) vs. #5 Iowa (4-0, 1-0 B1G)
October 1, 2021
Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium
8:05 pm EDT
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -Â The University of Maryland football team will host No. 5 Iowa for its conference home opener on Friday, Oct. 1. The game is set to kick at 8:00 p.m. and will be broadcast on FS1 and the Maryland Sports Radio Network.
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GAME FIVEÂ STORYLINES
SACK CITY
- Maryland ranks fifth in the country and leads the Big Ten with 16 sacks through four games, an average of four per game.
- The Terps have had at least two sacks in each game this season and have tallied 11 over the last two weeks with six against Illinois (9/17) and five against Kent State (9/25).
- Those 16 sacks have been for a loss of 129 yards, the second-most sack yards in the country, only trailing Pittsburgh's 132.
- Maryland's 16 sacks are the most through the first four games of a season since totaling 17 in 2016.
- DL Sam Okuayinonu leads the team and stands third in the Big Ten with four sacks, tallying at least one in each of the first three games.
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- WR Dontay Demus Jr., who leads the Big Ten and ranks 11th in the country with 446 receiving yards, has caught a pass in 26 straight games, dating back to October 27, 2018, tied for the 11th-longest streak in the country and fourth-longest in the Big Ten.
- Demus Jr. is also third in the Big Ten in both receptions per game (six) and touchdowns (three) and stands sixth all-time in program history with 13 career touchdowns, tied with Darrius Heyward-Bey (2006-08) and Guilian Gary (1998-2001).
- With one more touchdown, Demus Jr. will tie Stefon Diggs (2012-14) for fifth all-time.
- Demus Jr. has caught a touchdown in seven of the last eight games, dating back to the Minnesota game last season (10/30/20).Â
DEMUS + JARRETT = STARDOM
- ​​​​The wide receiver duo of Dontay Demus Jr. (446 yards) and Rakim Jarrett (265 yards) have combined for the second-most yards of any pass catching duo among all Power Five teams so far this season with 711, only trailing Virginia's duo of Dontayvion Wicks (460 yards) and Billy Kemp (281 yards).
- Demus Jr. and Jarrett are also one of only two Power Five receiver pairs to each catch a touchdown in three different games this season (West Virginia, Howard & Kent State), matching Virginia's Dontayvion Wicks and Jelani Woods.
- The duo's 255 receiving yards vs. West Virginia (9/4) was the most combined yardage of any pass catching duo in Week One and the most by a Maryland receiving tandem since Torrey Smith (224) and Will Yeatman (46) combined for 270 yards against North Carolina State on November 27, 2010.Â
 TAULIA TERRIFIC
- In his time as a Terp beginning in 2020, QB Taulia Tagovailoa has averaged 293.9 passing yards per game, the fourth-highest over that time span of any Power Five quarterback playing in 2021 and the most in the Big Ten.
- Tagovailoa, who has totaled 2,351 yards in eight games as a Terp, trails only Ole Miss' Matt Corral (334.1 per game), UNC's Sam Howell (297.3 per game) and Virginia's Brennan Armstrong (294.0 per game).
- Tagovailoa is seventh in the country and first in the Big Ten, averaging 335.0 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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- CB Jakorian Bennett leads all Power Five defenders with eight total pass breakups this season (two per game), tallying six pass breakups and two interceptions.
- Bennett has at least one PBU in all four games this season and caught an interception in each of the first two games.
- Bennett and fellow defensive back Nick Cross, who also has two interceptions, are one of only two defensive back duos in the Big Ten (Iowa's Matt Hankins & Riley Moss) to each have two interceptions.
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