The 2020 season for the Maryland football team may be remembered more for the final game it didn’t play than the ones it did.
Sure, the Terps’ fourth-quarter rally from a 17-point deficit to outlast Minnesota in a 45-44 overtime decision on Oct. 30 was a thrilling development for a program smarting from a 43-3 humbling at Northwestern six days before. And a 35-19 rout of archrival Penn State — which had easily won the previous four meetings by a combined score of 201-20 — on Nov. 7 began to draw eyeballs nationally to the school.
But Maryland’s campaign ended Thursday afternoon with the announcement that the team was forced to cancel Saturday’s home game against Michigan State for the second time in as many months due to 15 players and six staff members testing positive for the coronavirus between Dec.