Maryland found out last year what it means to be a Big Ten football team — and the Terps delivered a solid first season in their new conference — but that doesn't mean that they have graduated.
It actually gets tougher from here as the rebuilt program tries to move forward without a number of key players from last year and works hard to develop into the kind of team that can compete at college football's highest level.
There undoubtedly will be some growing pains as Maryland navigates Year Two, which begins in little more than three weeks, but the Terps didn't make the jump from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Big Ten Conference because they thought it was going to be easy.