The Maryland football team’s 35-19 win at Penn State on Saturday was historic in a variety of ways.
The 35 points were the most the Terps (2-1) had scored against the Nittany Lions in a series that dates to 1917 and were 15 points more than they had scored in their previous four meetings combined. The 16-point difference was also the program’s largest margin of victory in the series.
The win was Maryland’s first against Penn State since Nov. 1, 2014, and only its third in the 44-game history. Coach Mike Locksley opened his postgame conference citing several former players who had fallen short in previous bids to upset the Nittany Lions, and even for someone as new to the Big Ten rivalry as sophomore quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa, the significance of Saturday’s victory was not lost.