Maryland football will play Rutgers at Yankee Stadium in 2017, according to CSN Mid-Atlantic’s Chick Hernandez.
Terps football game scheduled to ply at Rutgers now will move to Yankee stadium MD source tells me. #Terps
— Chick Hernandez (@CHICKatCSN) May 26, 2016
For Maryland, this will hardly be its first experience playing on a neutral field in the regular season. Last season, the Terps played Penn State at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, in addition to their 2013 trip to Baltimore to face West Virginia. They’ve also played in Landover, having faced Notre Dame at FedEx Field in 2011.
This game will be the first regular-season neutral site where Maryland is not the “home” team in several years. Additionally, unlike M&T Bank Stadium and FedEx Field, Yankee Stadium is not a football-first stadium.
While Rutgers is much closer to the Bronx than Maryland is, it would be wrong to assume this’ll be a de facto home game game for the Scarlet Knights. Maryland has a sizable population of students and alumni from New York and New Jersey who can be expected to attend the game.
The Big Ten will hope its two newest members playing each other at a prestigious venue will help develop a rivalry between the two schools. In their first two matchups, Maryland and Rutgers have had comeback victories at each other’s stadiums.
It is worth noting that it will take some help to get this budding rivalry off the ground. Maryland considers Penn State its biggest football rival, while Rutgers’ biggest rival for football is…uhh…themselves?
The game will take place on November 4.