Maryland Terrapins vs MI State Spartans Odds

TS: If the Spartans don’t make the College Football Playoff, is this season viewed as a failure? “I’ve seen guys in the locker room very serious and not play well”. Watching a ideal season go from promising when the Spartans took a 12-point lead with under four minutes left to impossible as the Cornhuskers scored the game-winning touchdown with 17 seconds left. “Let everything settle in and realize it’s not over.’ We’re right where we need to be”.

An upset victory over MI State has changed the outlook for Nebraska as the Huskers prepare for the final two games of the regular season. Special teams usually provides a spark for Maryland. No chance for yet another late game collapse by Mark Dantonio’s bunch.

“Basically that life’s never going to go the way you want it to go and you have to adjust”, he said. 974 overall. Only one other goalie in college hockey history recorded six shutouts in seven games (Blaine Lacher for Lake State in 1994, which is bananas given the rate at which goals were scored back then), and Demko is now halfway to the NCAA record for shutouts in a season (12, obviously) with a minimum of 27 games to play, but likely closer to 35. “That’s how sports are; that’s how football is”.

Shoring up the third-down defense will be a key for the Spartans.

Many of MI State’s issues begin with the uncertainty in the secondary. ANY contact makes that play non-reviewable. When you lose, negative things tend to happen. “How (a different player) calls things, even the sounds of his voice, it’s different out there”. Personally to me the recruiting has been getting better and better each season under Anastos and next year’s class could be a program changer (at least compared to recent times). “That just takes reps, rotating guys in practice more, so when it comes to game time it’s not as much of a surprise”.

What hasn’t been as much of a surprise is the way Harris has played.

Now, off their first loss of the season and with Ohio State on deck, the Spartans must get up for a home game against woeful Maryland. There’s a lot to be said for scheduling WCHA opponents for this very reason, and the NCHC knows the value, because it has once again compiled a 10-1-2 OOC record against clubs from that league so far this year (and against Hockey East and the ECAC it’s only 6-15-4, which is likewise telling). “Coach Dantonio always talks about for our team to have a good year, our seniors have to have their best year and he’s a senior that is having his best year”.

“Really, I’ve nearly quit trying to figure out how a football team gets ready”, Dantonio said. “He is doing a great job”.

-RB Gerald Holmes has started two straight games and gained a career-high 117 yards in the loss at Nebraska.

He’s so proud of where he’s from that has the Maryland flag tattooed on his arm, something his teammates give him a hard time about. “I don’t look at it as two divisions”, he said. It has nothing to do with school.

The No. 8 Nebraska volleyball team finishes its four-match road stretch at Maryland on Saturday in a 6 p.m. (CT) match that will be streamed online with a BTN Plus subscription. As for the MI State defense, there are important areas to keep an eye on.

“I would say we were inconsistent versus the pass on Saturday and inconsistent versus the run, as well”, coach Mark Dantonio said.