2005 Maryland Terrapins

After falling short of their expectations last season, the 2005 Maryland Terrapins are hoping to turn their fortunes around this year. When it comes to making our football predictions for this year, we had to factor in this intangible. Each week when you work on college football betting, take motivations into account just like the experts here at Locksmith Sports do.

Maryland had high hopes for the 2004 season, but fell drastically short of their goals finishing last in the ACC and missing out on a bowl game for the first time in four years. Head Coach Ralph Friedgen has built a reputation for being able to turn things around after a team has fallen on tough times. When he first came to Maryland the Terps were in the midst of 5 consecutive losing seasons, but Friedgen stepped in to lead them to three consecutive bowl appearances. The task will be much more daunting this season, however, with a ton of question marks at key positions, most notably QB, where reportedly three inexperienced signal-callers are still slugging it out for the starting spot.

There’s definitely some hope for Maryland this season, a repeat performance from last year certainly shouldn’t be expected. Maryland is still strong on defense and special teams. This is a very young team, which means the season could either be a great accomplishment or a huge disappointment. They caught a lot of tough breaks in games that could have gone either way last season. If the ball bounces their way once or twice they could very well end up playing in a bowl game in 2005.

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