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Preview: Maryland 2023

Essentials WHAT #2 Michigan (10-0) vs Maryland(6-4)   WHERE Autograph: Rewarding Fans Stadium College Park, MD WHEN Noon Eastern THE LINE M –19 (Vegas) M –19.5 (Bill C) TELEVISION FOX PBP: Gus Johnson Color: Joel Klatt TICKETS From $97. WEATHER sunny 10-15 mph wind mid-50s Overview Here's a nice thing you can say about November 2023 Maryland: I have no idea what to expect from this team. That's a huge improvement from previous editions of November Maryland, where you expected a shop teacher in a helmet to play quarterback and for a series of silly things to happen en route to a 58-14 final score. The Terrapins are bowl eligible at 6-4 but got there with a 13-10 win over Nebraska in which the Cornhuskers had three different quarterbacks throw boggling interceptions; they were competitive into the fourth quarter against Ohio State and then ran off consecutive losses to Illinois, Northwestern, and Penn State. That latter isn't a huge surprise except for the fact that Penn State scored 51 points thanks to 4 turnovers and a total of –49 rushing yards. It's been weird. [AFTER THE JUMP: same OL as always]

Fee Fi Foe Film: Maryland Offense 2023

Michigan heads out on the road for the final time in the 2023 season on Saturday, heading to College Park to take on the Maryland Terrapins. The crowd will presumably be filled with Michigan fans as the Terps haven't given their side a ton to cheer about this season. The team is 6-4 and bowl eligible, which is nice, but hopes for a 9 or even 10 win season (with an upset or bowl win) have crumbled to pieces due to disappointing losses against Illinois and Northwestern. Does Maryland's offense have much left in the tank to threaten the Wolverines this weekend? Let us find out:    The Film: The two best defenses Maryland has played this season are Penn State and Ohio State. While the PSU game was more recent, I opted for OSU because 1) The Game is next week and we need to continue to compile advance scouting and 2) Maryland's showing was much better against the Buckeyes than the Nittany Lions and I am a firm believer in scouting teams at their best, not their worst.   Personnel: Click for big. Michigan will face Taulia Tagovailoa for the third straight season, the only opposing QB this season to accomplish that feat. Taulia is back and is more or less the same for the Terps, still capable of excellent, NFL-level throws and also terrible decisions. He's still scrambly and mobile, though he has seemed to regress back to his 2021 form somewhat, running backwards into more egregious sacks than he did last season. He is far from a perfect QB, but he's the best Michigan has seen this season by a country mile (not a high bar), which earns him the star. Last year we saw Tagovailoa come out of the game due to injury and that backup, Billy Edwards Jr., is still around. He has been used on wildcat short yardage packages this year, as an FYI.  The running back position features the same characters as last year, with Roman Hemby still around as the starter and joined in the backfield by Antwain Littleton II and Colby McDonald in the rotation. I was a fan of Hemby's last year but I didn't see too much from him in this game to earn that status. He's not bad, just fine in my viewings this season. Blitz pickups have been an issue for him this season but he's still a speedy straight-line runner who also catches a fair number of balls out of the backfield. McDonald's 6.7 YPC clip is best on the team, though Littleton leads him in carries with 61. At 232, Littleton is the heavy back, while Hemby and McDonald are slimmer and quicker.  After a few years of incredibly deep wide receiver rooms, this year's Maryland team is a bit thinner on the outside. They did return their statistical best receiver from last year, Jeshaun Jones, and have two other 500+ receiving yard receivers in Tai Felton and Kaiden Prather. The raw talent isn't as dynamic as years past when you had the likes of Rakim Jarrett and Dontay Demus, but these are three of the most prolific receivers in the conference, largely because Maryland is one of the only teams that attempts to throw the ball with regularity. I think Jones is the best of this group, not really a true star but pretty close to it. All three WRs are 6'1" or taller, so this week will give Michigan's pass defense some solid reps. Those three players get most of the snaps at wideout, but slot Octavian Smith and outside WR Tyrese Chambers mix in occasionally too.  Maryland mostly plays with one TE, Corey Dyches. He has 42 catches, second on the team and only a nose behind Jones, acting as Tagovailoa's security blanket. Dyches is not a dynamic threat nor a leaper with size to be confused with Colston Loveland (Dyches is only 6'2), but he's rock solid at running a 5-10 yard route and sitting down in the zone for a quick completion. The other TE of note is Preston Howard, only 10 catches on the season as more of a blocking option. Most of his snaps come in Maryland's occasional 12 personnel sets. Neither Howard nor Dyches are particularly great blockers.  My biggest concern with the Terrapin offense coming into the season was the offensive line after losing four starters off last year's squad and planning to fill them with low-level up transfers. Surprisingly, my fears have not quite come to pass. Let's be clear, the resulting OL has not been good, but it also hasn't been terrible, which was my baseline expectation. Delmar Glaze, last year's RT, is the lone returning starter and has shifted over to left. He's been alright, pretty good in the game I charted against OSU but very poor against the elite rush threats of PSU.  The story of the Maryland OL has been rotation, as eight different linemen have played at least 290 snaps and started at least three games. Glaze at LT is the only player to start every game at the same spot, while the rest has been moving around. At C it's either Aric Harris or Teddy Purcell, but Harris is definitely the better of the two (Purcell started against OSU and was very poor). The RT is normally Gottleib Ayedze, a transfer from D2 Frostburg State who I had grave concerns about in the preseason. He's been better than I expected but is a long way from being good. Sometimes Ayedze slides to G when Andre Roye Jr. or Connor Fagan come in at tackle, both of whom are not ready for primetime. The G spots have most frequently been NC Central transfer Corey Bullock (has played both LG/RG) and Amelio Moran, the latter of whom has been a weak spot for the "starting line". Another G in the mix is Kyle Long, who got extensive work against OSU and was bad. In other words, this line is a hodgepodge, rotating quite a bit but the best five linemen can generally hang in there. The more the dig into the depth, the worse it gets.  [AFTER THE JUMP: the clips]

Terps Top Three: Maryland's offensive line comes into focus

Maryland's first Power Five matchup of the season comes against old foe Virginia.

The Enemy, Ranked 2023: Offensive Line

Baltimore native Chambers shines in Maryland's spring game

Former Florida International standout and Baltimore native Tyrese Chambers caught both Red Team touchdowns and earned player-of-the-game honors as Maryland's first-string offense hung on to beat the White Team and the Terrapins' first-team defense 20-19 Saturday.

What will Maryland football's offensive lineup look like in 2023 after big departures?

There are significant departures, but a lot of talent will be back on Maryland's offense.

Fee Fi Foe Film: Maryland Offense 2022

Last season, the Maryland Terrapins represented the second-to-last game of Michigan's regular season B1G slate. They were the final tuneup before Ohio State in late November and Michigan skunked the Terps 59-18. This year it's the reverse, as Maryland opens up Michigan's B1G schedule. The little chronological time between these most recent two meetings is reflected in this offensive piece, as little has changed with the Maryland offense. Though they lost their RB and TE from last season, Maryland returns their QB, every WR of note, and all five offensive linemen. Therefore, this FFFF will look quite a bit like last season, but there will be some new wrinkles along the way.    The Film: Maryland has played Buffalo, Charlotte, and SMU so far in the non-conference. Though I am not completely convinced SMU is going to be good this year without Sonny Dykes, they are still a clear step up in terms of quality from those other two opponents. They also gave Maryland an extremely competitive game, as opposed to the comfortable blowouts that the Terps got against the other two. SMU made the most sense as the opponent to use for this situation.  Personnel: The chart. Click for big or here for PDF.  Maryland returns QB Taulia Tagovailoa, the central cog to the offense and someone who will be discussed often in this piece. He loses his leading runner from last season in Tayon Fleet-Davis but did return Colby McDonald, one of last season's foremost reserves at the position. McDonald has been supplanted as the nominal starter by Roman Hemby, a RS Fr who leads the team in carries by a significant margin. The second back in terms of carries is the bigger Antwain Littleton II, a classmate of Hemby's who leads the team in rushing TDs. All three of McDonald, Hemby, and Littleton can run routes as receivers, since that is a staple of the Locksley Spread n' Shred system.  At receiver, Maryland returns its vaunted trio of Dontay Demus, Rakim Jarrett, and Jeshaun Jones, and adds Jacob Copeland to the picture. Demus got off to a torrid pace last season before injuries ended in his season in early October. He is a good player, but is presently not playing at the same caliber he was a year ago and has fallen down the receiver hierarchy. Jarrett is the superstar, a former 5* recruit who is poised to be picked by the NFL in the early rounds next spring. Jones is tied with Jarrett for the team lead in receptions with 11, while Copeland, a Florida transfer, has the highest YPC average at 21.5. All three of Jarrett, Copeland, and Jones have a catch of 35+ yards this season, and all three have a receiving TD. Tai Felton and Octavion Smith Jr. are farther down the depth chart but occasionally see the field, each with 3 catches on the year so far.  The TE position was hurt by the lost of last year's star Chigoziem Okonkwo. In his place there is a rotation between Corey Dyches and CJ Dippre, with Dippre getting a bit more of the total snaps because of his superior abilities as a blocker, while Dyches is more of the receiving option. I will also note that while these two are the only TEs in the main rotation, edge defender Austin Fontaine was used as a tight end as well in the game I saw.  Maryland's offensive line returns all five pieces from last season. Jaelyn Duncan, whose raw tools and athleticism are garnering him NFL buzz (something I'm not sold on at all), reprises his role at LT, as does Delmar Glaze at RT and Mason Lunsford at LG. Both Lunsford and Glaze had cyans on last year's diagram, but neither have done anything to earn it so far. We shall see if that holds up against Michigan and the rest of the B1G slate. The only change at OL was shifting Johari Branch to C and Spencer Anderson to RG (they were reversed last season), a move that has not paid off in your author's view. Branch was my highest rated Maryland OL last season and came in the lowest in my charting this season, largely because of poor pass protection related to stunts and line call responsibilities assigned to a center. Amelio Moran has played the most of any non-starter OL, but there are no spots currently seeing rotation.  [AFTER THE JUMP: A new dual-threat RB]

The Enemy, Ranked 2022: Offensive Line

Previously: Quarterback, Running Backs, Receivers  Welcome to Opponent Preview week! Next week is the real preview week of Michigan Football, but this week will be mostly about the opponents, as I've got four more The Enemy pieces lined up, and I believe we should have the conclusion to Opponent Watch as well. If you like reading about Michigan's opponents, this is the week for you. We are now on to the offensive line, which is a little bit longer of a piece because there are more names to talk about. I provide the depth chart below each team, showing the starters and a couple reserves who may see the field or are of note. Ideally, these are the first up at guard or tackle. A quick note about the format: bold refers to a returning starter while italics refers to a starter at another school who has transferred in. For this piece, I lean heavily on PFF grades for the non-conference teams because traditional stats don't exist for OL and I didn't really watch any of these teams last year. Then we transition to using my own charting from FFFF last year once we get into the B1G slate.    12. Connecticut  LT LG C RG RT Valentin Senn Noel Ofori-Nyadu Jake Guidone Christian Haynes Chris Fortin Chase Lundt     Niko Pohahau Danny Antolovich The Huskies rank last on our list due to an offensive line that is in the process of being rebuilt without a ton of talent or experience. They do return two starters from last season, both of them at guard, and both posted solid PFF grades. However, we must point out a pretty important caveat with UCONN's PFF grades: PFF does not curve based on quality of opponent and the Huskies played a dreadful schedule last season, with 1/3 of the games being UMass, Holy Cross, Yale, and Vandy. So take both those scores with a grain of salt. UCONN imports a transfer center with plenty of experience, Jake Guidone, but he is coming from Dartmouth, which makes him not the most fit to block teams like Michigan. Canadian Chris Fortin slides in at RT after playing some last season, but he received poor marks in those outings, and Austrian LT Valentin Senn transfers in from Colorado, boasting little experience.  This is a group with a couple decent returning players (but ones who were decent against a horrendous schedule), a transfer center from the Ivy League, and tackles with little experience and recruiting rankings outside the top 1,800 national players in their respective years. The depth doesn't offer much of anything to note either, so this is pretty much the same story for what UCONN has been in this series so far, an untalented positional group offering little experience or depth.  [AFTER THE JUMP: OLs with fewer Ivy League transfers]

What's next for Maryland after its first winning season since 2014?

The Terps should be explosive on offense but need to take a step forward on defense to make a move in the Big Ten.

The Enemy, Ranked 2021: Offensive Line