STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Since the two programs first met on Nov. 17, 1917, Penn State’s home stadium — whether it be New Beaver Field or, since 1960, Beaver Stadium — has been a house of horrors for Maryland football. The Nittany Lions, ranked as the 14th-best team in the country in the latest AP poll, entered Saturday having won 23 of the 25 games played in Happy Valley.
The caveat to that statistic is that both of the Terps’ wins had come in the last four matchups, the latest of which was in 2020 — albeit in front of an empty stadium — that featured many of the same players that took the field in the 2022 rendition of the matchup.