It hasn’t even been a full calendar year since Maryland football played its season opener against Northwestern during a coronavirus-impacted campaign, but the Terps will welcome fans back to College Park tomorrow with a new season and a matchup against the West Virginia Mountaineers in store.
“We welcome a big-time opponent in West Virginia, you know, this is a natural border rivalry, a game that’s been played a lot of years around here... it’s one of those games that was always on the calendar,” head coach Michael Locksley said. “When you have an opportunity to play a team like West Virginia to open up, as I told our team, it gives us a pretty fast idea as to, you know, what type of team we’re going to be.