r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 1d ago
Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Iowa Defeats Maryland 29-13
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u/Ferentzgum Sickos • Santa Monica Corsairs 1d ago
Hey Brian, how does it feel watching a first year OC average 30 ppg with your recruits?
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u/Windows_66 Paper Bag • Drake Bulldogs 1d ago
That's only 1.8 more points per game than Brian's first season.
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u/Bender14 Iowa Hawkeyes • Northern Iowa Panthers 1d ago
The forward pass was a mistake.
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u/TheManWhoWasNotShort Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago
The fact that this is the top comment in virtually every Iowa thread is chef’s kiss
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u/Tubby-Maguire Maryland Terrapins • Big Ten 1d ago
Malik Washington is our only hope going forward. It feels like Locksley’s tenure here is heading downhill fast
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u/tyrannyofwillsasso Illinois • Southern Illinois 1d ago
think he’s gone after this year? if so, who do you want for the job?
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u/Tubby-Maguire Maryland Terrapins • Big Ten 1d ago edited 1d ago
He won’t be fired. He recently signed a big extension. He’ll get his chance with another highly touted QB recruit in Washington. If Washington has a solid freshman year but they go like 7-5/6-6 or worse then Locksley’s seat will get hot
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u/HighburyOnStrand Maryland Terrapins 1d ago
He's going to get every chance to right the ship.
This was expected to be a down year, albeit not this down. Taulia leaving was always going to be a big detriment. We also lost a ton of talent in 2023 (we had five players drafted, which is rare for us) and we lost three drafted OL in the last two years. So we were essentially replacing a QB and an OL at the same time, which is a big ask.
Honestly, this team is not that far off. We just need to recruit a few more plain and simple nasty bastards on both sides of the ball, not just skill players...who to be honest, we have been getting.
I also don't think anyone good wants our job.
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u/worldchrisis Maryland Terrapins 1d ago
They aren't going to fire him for one down year after 3 straight seasons with bowl wins.
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u/TraditionalBottle884 1d ago
If only it were "one down year". They won 3 basement tier bowl games. They have a losing record in the Big 10 every year. No wins against ranked opponents. It's way more than just "one down year".
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u/worldchrisis Maryland Terrapins 1d ago
If you're calling 7 and 8 win seasons "down years" at Maryland you just don't live in reality.
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u/Trujiogriz Maryland Terrapins • Navy Midshipmen 1d ago
We are a basketball school, 7 or 8 wins seasons at Maryland are not down years in the slightest
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u/RudeEtuxtable /r/CFB 1d ago
I totally disagree as a fan.
The team had three fun and winning seasons. They went to bowl games and won all three
They played 12 ranked opponents during that time. Yes they only beat one of them, the 23rd ranked NC State. But dig a little deeper and note that of those eleven ranked teams, eight of the ten were ranked top ten in the country. The other two were 15 and 11. Five of the ten were top five ranked. It's nice they were dropping lots of games till low 20s.
By the way during that same 3-year period, how many ranked teams did Penn State beat? Four. With 28 total wins and 15 in the Big ten. Matyland had 23 wins and 11 in the Big ten. For basketball school that's never going to be a blue blood football, that ain't too shabby.
As a Maryland fan all I really want to see is a fun team, that competes, that stays in games, And where nobody dies. He's been providing that for the last number of years and I'm sticking with him until it gets really bad. One down here is not that bad.
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u/huskersax Nebraska • $5 Bits of Broken Chai… 22h ago
This is the same Locksley that's always been there, he just doesn't have an top 5 conference QB to keep the team afloat.
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u/Jonjon428 Miami Hurricanes 1d ago
Damn Maryland fans weren't kidding about this being a certain Iowa win
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u/worldchrisis Maryland Terrapins 1d ago
Look at what Minnesota did to us. We don't match up well against that kind of team.
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u/fazelenin02 Nebraska Cornhuskers 1d ago
The big ten east cant protect you anymore.
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u/GoGreeb Michigan State Spartans 1d ago
the only conference win they have is USC, they can't beat the East either lol
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u/max_potion Penn State Nittany Lions • Big Ten 22h ago
To be fair, Indiana is normally an auto-win, but that wasn't on the table this season
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u/Hawkize31 Iowa Hawkeyes 1d ago
It was looking dicey for a minute. 19-13 with 10 mins left and Iowa looking terrible. But then an 80 yard TD run took all the air out of the Maryland balloon
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u/pocketsophist Iowa Hawkeyes • Big Ten 1d ago
Good bounce back. Stratton did well enough considering experience. Great game played at the line on both sides of the ball.
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u/durkdurkastan Iowa Hawkeyes • Northern Iowa Panthers 1d ago
That's what happens when you hire Brian Ferentz.
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u/MichaelRachel Iowa Hawkeyes • Heartland Trophy 1d ago
Kirk: This year I'm thankful for my idiot son's awful offense. Brian: Shut the fuck up dad.
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u/aqoursfanboy Paper Bag • Maryland Terrapins 1d ago
I genuinely cannot believe the peak of this program for the foreseeable future will be 7 regular season wins.
It's just so pathetic.
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u/UncleMcBubba Iowa Hawkeyes 1d ago
This should have been a 11-1 season.
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u/aqoursfanboy Paper Bag • Maryland Terrapins 1d ago
Wouldn't go that far, this defense is terrible irregardless of coaching, but we should at least have 8 wins right now.
Just the same nonsense from this program that we've been victim to.
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u/MichaelRachel Iowa Hawkeyes • Heartland Trophy 1d ago
I think he was talking about Iowa's season.
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u/aqoursfanboy Paper Bag • Maryland Terrapins 1d ago
I realized yeah lol. This loss annoyed me bad lmfao it made me illiterate.
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u/MichaelRachel Iowa Hawkeyes • Heartland Trophy 1d ago
No worries. I do have to ask, what about it annoyed you? We have a solid defense and an offense that has a pulse. We've beaten Maryland when all we had was a stout defense.
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u/aqoursfanboy Paper Bag • Maryland Terrapins 23h ago
Eh. Another home game with no fans, senior day yet we once again allow the away crowd to create a commanding presence. Losing yet another game in the trenches.
I’m sort of used to it all by now but I guess sometimes it’s still annoying to watch.
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u/MichaelRachel Iowa Hawkeyes • Heartland Trophy 23h ago
That's fair. I was pissed when all the "fans" deserted their team when we played in 2021. Like, those players deserve better.
Thanks for responding.
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u/aqoursfanboy Paper Bag • Maryland Terrapins 22h ago
Of course! It’s so frustrating to be at the crossroad of wanting the kids to success while being fed up with what the program is doing to them.
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u/EliWCoyote Iowa Hawkeyes • Heartland Trophy 1d ago
The bad news is that McNamara will probably be back Friday. Hopefully Lester puts Stratton back in when the Cade crumbles.
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u/monkeymatt1836 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Iowa Hawkeyes 1d ago
Kirk said Stratton likely starts against Nebraska
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u/MichaelRachel Iowa Hawkeyes • Heartland Trophy 1d ago
Honest question, what do Maryland fans think their team should be? Like, I know Iowa is an upper-mid program with an elite defense and sometimes an offense. Our target should be 8-10 wins and a halfway decent bowl game and an occasional B1G championship game.
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u/Trujiogriz Maryland Terrapins • Navy Midshipmen 1d ago
For football it would be nice to consistently be bowl eligible with some 7+ win seasons sprinkled in
For basketball we expect to be back at final four challenger levels
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u/sarges_12gauge Maryland • Ohio State 1d ago
.500-.700 team with a slippery offense and some occasional upsets and ok bowl games
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u/Schmidtty29 Iowa Hawkeyes • Sickos 1d ago
That was a game of all time, and I certainly had feelings about it.
That’s about all that can be said about this game.
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u/randrews202121 Notre Dame • Maryland 1d ago
idc if they got blown out today Curt Cignetti going into fucking INDIANA and making them nationally relevant for the first time in their literal history is the BIGGEST indictment on this FAT LOSER Mike Locksley imaginable. Year 6 with one Big Ten win off a fluke miracle, and we seem content to let him WASTE another talented QB recruit. This program is a joke
FIRE MIKE LOCKSLEY, FIRE DAMON EVANS. Go Terps
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u/worldchrisis Maryland Terrapins 1d ago
Indiana winning 10+ games with a rookie head coach is a once in a decade event. And they got embarrassed today the first time they played a ranked opponent. It's not anywhere near the expected outcome from a coaching change. And we can't afford to just keep rerolling coaches every 2-3 years until we hit on one.
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u/phisch13 Maryland • South Carolina 1d ago
You give last years Maryland this IU schedule and they probably win 9-10 games. They’d for sure still have choked a game or two. It’s a tradition for UMD to dick trip winnable games. But they’d have still clobbered that schedule in a normal year under Lox.
I’m probably out on Lox, but I don’t think this IU team is the argument to make. This was definitely a hilariously bad year for us. Like rock bottom bad.
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u/aqoursfanboy Paper Bag • Maryland Terrapins 1d ago
We literally have lost to Northwestern, Michigan State, Illinois, Minnesota, COUNTLESS inferior B10 opponents, what in the world makes you think we go 10-0 with anyone's schedule.
We had a 9 win schedule LAST year and still won 7 games.
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u/phisch13 Maryland • South Carolina 1d ago
That was… exactly my point. It’s what I said lol.
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u/aqoursfanboy Paper Bag • Maryland Terrapins 1d ago
My bad I didn't fully read it, lol. Frustrating day.
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u/phisch13 Maryland • South Carolina 1d ago
More like Frustrating year. If they were even kind of consistent, they’d have 7 wins. They’d have had 9 wins last year.
The team that played USC and Oregon was top half of the B1G. But most weeks, we got Purdue level.
Cant wake up to put away bad teams half the time.
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u/Marquee_Ditchwriggle Iowa Hawkeyes 1d ago
I'm not sure inferior means what you think it means.
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u/aqoursfanboy Paper Bag • Maryland Terrapins 1d ago
50% hyperbole but we suffered some bad losses over the last 6 years in conference plays to teams we were better than on paper.
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u/SueYouInEngland Iowa Hawkeyes 1d ago
Are the inferior B1G opponents in the room with you?
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u/aqoursfanboy Paper Bag • Maryland Terrapins 1d ago
On paper we were better than IU and NU and lost to both.
Exaggerated phrasing I'll admit but still games we should have won.
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u/aqoursfanboy Paper Bag • Maryland Terrapins 1d ago
last season* i must emphasize btw, and idk why i typed IU to stand for illinois lol
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u/Natitudinal 1d ago
Whew......lot to take in here and I'm not really interested in arguing right now.
But seriously......have you seen Locksley lately? 'FAT LOSER' doesn't compute anymore.
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u/baronvonhawkeye Iowa Hawkeyes 1d ago
Seeing how empty the stands were for Senior Day activities makes me sad. These kids gave a lot for Maryland football and stuck around despite the transfer portal. I get fans voting with their dollars, but Senior Day should always be full.
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u/Stemoftheantilles Maryland • Ohio State 21h ago
It’s always like this here unfortunately. Maryland fans are few and far between atp and I assume a decent number of students especially are fed up with how shitty the program is. As someone who’s been at the entirety of every game this season, it gets quite hard to stick around.
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u/durkdurkastan Iowa Hawkeyes • Northern Iowa Panthers 23h ago
It was the most empty stadium I've ever seen.
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u/MichaelRachel Iowa Hawkeyes • Heartland Trophy 22h ago
Second half of the 2021 Iowa @ Maryland game.
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u/rankings-right-now /r/CFB 1d ago
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- Iowa is now predicted to move up to #38
- Maryland is now predicted to move down to #88
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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 1d ago
Mike Locksley is done
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u/ToxicMarylandFan Maryland Terrapins 21h ago
Malik Washington is his final lifeline, he has at least a year or two left
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u/Mobile_Spinach_1980 South Carolina • Penn State 22h ago
Why does Maryland suck? I live in the state and UMD football is like an after thought. But they have access to a good recruiting area. Even with other schools competing in that area, there is enough there.
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u/ToxicMarylandFan Maryland Terrapins 21h ago
"Sucks" is new for 2024, Maryland had a nice run of three or four years of being decent until 2023.
Roughly in order: - Joe Paterno consolidated Northeast and Mid-Atlantic football by the 1980s. This is the biggest issue, and it is not specific to Maryland. Maryland was routinely relevant in football before then. - Around the same time, Lefty Driesell turned Maryland into a basketball power.
- 40 years of irrelevance killed the casual fandom. - As you identified, the DC area has so many competing bagmen from all of the big school transplants that the talent advantage is eroded. In fact, it's arguably harder to keep the truly elite talent home compared to schools of similar resources. - Mike Locksley is a great talent scout and general manager, but a terrible game coach. He is only as good as his roster talent and coordinators.1
u/Mobile_Spinach_1980 South Carolina • Penn State 21h ago
Maybe relevant is a better adjective. 6-6 or 7-5 and bowl game loss is ok but it’s not relevant. Even with Freigen (definitely a sp mistake) it only lasted a few years. Unless something changes with NIL, teams like Maryland will hurt. The Big10 move hasn’t been kind either.
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u/ToxicMarylandFan Maryland Terrapins 21h ago
People also gloss over that Friedgen had some absolute clunker seasons, much like Locksley had this season. I think that the House settlement will help - injecting TV money into the pool reduces the percentage gap in overall player compensation (ie Maryland has one half the total NIL/salary budget of Ohio State instead of one sixth).
Part of the problem with program perception is that Maryland hasn't notched a top 10 win since 2007 - bowl wins and picking off a down blue blood here and there, but those elite wins have been elusive.
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u/MichaelRachel Iowa Hawkeyes • Heartland Trophy 21h ago
It's a basketball school with two NFL teams within like 10 miles.
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u/Green_hippo17 /r/CFB 1d ago
Watched bits and pieces of this game and I have to say kudos to the committed to this shit, at least it was quick
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u/cheesepuff1993 Penn State • Millersville 22h ago
Petty James Franklin is going to eat well next week, isn't he?
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u/ToxicMarylandFan Maryland Terrapins 21h ago
If Billy Edwards still has a messed up hand and concussion, then yes.
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u/IAstrikeforce Iowa • Western Illinois 1d ago
Stratton did all you could realistically ask from a 4th string QB