Maryland
2-0Big Ten · Mike Locksley, year 8 (38-44) · SECU Stadium · 51,802 · 43,421 avg in 2026
LastW 38–14 at UConn · Sat Sep 12 · Derrick LeBlanc 2 sacks, 2 TFL, 2 tackles
Nextvs Virginia Tech · Sat Sep 19 · 7:30 pm ET · SECU Stadium · Virginia Tech by 3 · series 17-15, won the last 2 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
All 77 stats
FBS rankings · 2026 season · all stats vs 136 FBS programs
| Player | # | G | Cmp/Att | Pct | Yds | Y/A | TD | INT | Rate | ZPR | QBR | Adj ANY/A | Sack% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +0.19 EPA/play | 7 | 2 | 53 / 72 | 73.6 | 533 #37 FBS | 7.4 | 3 #60 FBS | 0 | 149.5 | 58 | 73.9 | 8.0 | 1.4 | |
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| Player | # | G | Car | Yds | Avg | TD | Long | Stuff% | 10+% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +0.12 EPA/play | 24 | 2 | 26 | 121 | 4.7 | 3 #11 FBS | 15 | — | — | |
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| -0.58 EPA/play | 25 | 2 | 24 | 87 | 3.6 | 3 #11 FBS | 14 | — | — | |
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| Player | # | G | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | Long | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Possession Receiver | 1 | 2 | 14 | 187 #33 FBS | 13.4 | 2 #24 FBS | 60 | |
Yards by week → Possession Receiver· Boom-or-bustReliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive. his yards come in chunks — feast or famine The most common profile in its group this season — 37 of 58 classified this way. Played in 2 of 3 games this season · junior View Na'eem Abdul-Rahim Gladding's full player page | ||||||||
| Slot Technician · +0.36 EPA/play | 13 | 2 | 16 | 147 | 9.2 | 1 | 24 | |
Yards by week → Slot TechnicianRuns precise routes in tight quarters. Volume player who keeps chains moving. 5 of 58 WRs we've classified this way this season. Season receipt Reception volume16 81th percentile · FBS WRs, min. 12 receptions Yards / reception8.3 bottom 13th percentile · FBS WRs, min. 12 receptions Trait fingerprint Plays like View Chris Durr Jr.'s full player page | ||||||||
| +0.38 EPA/play | 2 | 2 | 6 | 69 | 11.5 | 0 | 30 | |
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| Player | # | G | Tot | Solo | TFL | Sack | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 #26 FBS | 0 | |
| 40 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | |
| 11 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1.5 | 1 | 1 |
| Player | # | G | Tot | Solo | Ast | TFL | Sack | PD | INT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | Tot | PD | INT | TFL | Sack |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 14 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | FG M/A | FG% | XP M/A | Pts | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 2 | 3/4 | 75 | 12/12 | 21 | 36 |
2026 stat leaders · Maryland
through 2 games
2026 stat leaders · MarylandNa'eem Abdul-Rahim Gladding leads Maryland with 187 receiving yards through 2 games.
How They Play · 2025Maryland fields a limited pass-first, explosive, big-play offense behind a strong defense.
Percentile vs all FBS, based on this season's per-game production. Bar = where this team ranks — right is better.
Maryland reads strongest in explosive plays (top 27%) and passing epa allowed (top 38%); the crux lives in rushing epa, where Maryland sits at the 9th percentile.
offense · strengths lead
defense · higher bar = harder to play against
hidden math · special situations
Home-field advantage · Maryland · 2018–present · FBS opponents
Maryland is worth +3.1 points more at home than on the road.
Bottom third of FBS, 30th percentile of 133 programs
45% at home, 33% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (20–24 home, 13–26 away). Interval ±5.3.
Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge — per-team modelling was tested and did not survive scrutiny (why) — and the books use about 3. Against the closing line, Maryland has beaten the number by +0.7 more at home than away over 72 games — inside the ±8.4 that many games can resolve. Results here cannot tell the flat number apart from the building, and that is the honest reading of nearly every FBS stadium.
SECU Stadium seats 51,802 and has averaged 72% full (37,475, 29 games reported). Visitors cover a median 422 miles to get here since 2018 — 67th-shortest of 135 FBS venues, inside the ordinary range. For the home side it is genuinely home ground: 54% of the 2026 roster (54 of 100 located players) grew up inside 100 miles of the stadium.
Edge = half the gap between average home margin and average road margin, FBS opponents only, non-neutral games since 2018; the interval is 95%. Market line: closing spread, seasons with lines on file. Trip length is straight-line miles from the visiting team's campus to the venue, measured across all 50 home games since 2018.
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Tendency drift
Season by season
How Maryland’s current staff calls plays, year over year
Pass defense by zone
Pass-depth identity
What this team throws, and gives up, by depth.
On short throws (≤19 air yards), Maryland’s passing game completes a completion rate above the FBS mean (73.1% vs 68.3% league-wide, shrunk toward the mean for its 73-play sample) — mid-pack, 37 of 41 qualifying offenses.
We won’t show a deep-ball (20+ air yards) leaderboard here, on either side of the ball: even a full season of charted plays gives most teams well under 30 deep attempts — too thin to tell a real tendency from noise, so we won’t guess. Same refusal for yards-after-catch allowed and where a team’s attempts land by zone: both measured and both came back statistically indistinguishable from season-to-season noise.
Ratings
Comparable teams
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Matched on how the programs are built — tier, prestige band, kind of fanbase, conference, voice and roster size — not on this season's stats. A calibration, not a prediction.
Conditions
64°F average kickoff temp; 7% of games had measurable precipitation; 7 mph average wind.
Based on 75 home games with weather data.