Maryland Terrapins, 2025 Recap: The Meme Becomes Real

Alright, we're (begrudgingly) leading off our summer Football n Stuff series with a look back at Maryland's mostly underwhelming 2025 season. Good news, Terrapins!: you're no longer stuck in the Big Ten East division! Bad news: Michigan and Indiana are coming to College ~~University~~ Park ~~Station~~ to kick your ass anyways.

So, how'd it go?

What were the highlights?

MaximumSam: September Maryland is still a thing.

Transient Buckeye: Maryland smote the holy hell out of Wisconsin to open up Big Ten play. It wouldn't be until a couple of weeks later that the college football community collectively realized that the outcome of that game told us a lot more about Wisconsin than it did about Maryland.

Kind of...: I, a Wisconsin fan, KNEW plenty about Wisconsin going into that game. In fact, MY highlight of 2025 was the amount of money I won betting against Wisconsin. But we're talking about Maryland...and this should tell you enough to make clear how bad Maryland was in 2025. I guess the real highlight is that Malik Washington didn't transfer away.

HoustonBoiler: September Maryland.

AlmaOtter: Hey, they scored against Indiana. That's something!

And the lowlights?

MaximumSam: Non-September Maryland.

Transient Buckeye: Turtles! I know the whole "September vs. non-September Maryland" thing has been a meme for a while. But did you have to lean into it that hard?

Kind of...: Eight game losing streaks in conference play are pretty much lowlights for anybody.

HoustonBoiler: Post-September Maryland

AlmaOtter: Three consecutive 3 point losses to open up post-September Maryland was pretty bad. And then things got worse.

Any memorable and or absurd moments?

Transient Buckeye: It's a little absurd that Maryland has found a way to turn every football season into Groundhog Day. There isn't a lot that's going to be memorable when you go 4-8, but they did become the first Big Ten team since the Obama administration to lose a one-score game to Nebraska, so there's that. (*)

(*) This might not be literally true. I don't care, and I'm not checking.

Kind of...: I mean, they really did dominate Wisconsin. They lost to UCLA when they let the Bruins go 70 yards in thirty seconds or so as part of the Jerry Neuheisel boomlet. Maybe the most memorable in a bad way was blowing a 20-3 home lead to Washington in the fourth quarter, squandering their chance at a 5-0 start.