Well, it was nice while it lasted.
A week after rallying for a one-point win against Southern California and giving fans a modicum of hope that the season wasn’t entirely lost, Maryland football squandered all those good vibes by getting clobbered by host Minnesota, 48-23, on Saturday evening before an announced 48,696 at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
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