Offensive anemia was the trend for the Terrapins football team last season. Whether it was the cast of quarterbacks leading the offense, the youth and inexperience of the majority of the skill players or the lack of familiarity with offensive coordinator Mike Locksley’s system, there often weren’t positive results from the 2012 offense.

In 2013, that’s been far from the case.

The Terps’ 47-10 victory over Old Dominion before an announced 38,377 at Byrd Stadium on Saturday marked the first time in program history the Terps have scored more than 40 points in back-to-back games to start the season. Running back Brandon Ross and wide receiver Stefon Diggs each set career highs in rushing and receiving yards, respectively. Quarterback C.J. Brown had a hand in four more touchdowns in the rout.

“It’s a new feeling,” Diggs said. “We’re going to continue to work hard. We still haven’t had our best game — none of us have. I haven’t had my best game. We’re going to continue to work as a unit. The more we work as a unit, the more we get better.”

While it might be easy to discount the Terps’ early returns because the results came against Florida International and Old Dominion, the Terps could muster only one touchdown against William & Mary in their season opener a year ago. And in this young season, the Terps have already matched the number of 40-point games they had in coach Randy Edsall’s first two years.

After a quiet opener, Ross shone with 149 yards on 18 carries, most of which came in the first half. He hit the holes opened by the offensive line instead of trying to bounce everything outside. On the Terps’ first touchdown drive in the first quarter, Ross rushed four times for 49 yards, capping the march with a five-yard run into the end zone.

While Ross was taking advantage of the opportunities up the middle, Diggs was the Terps’ playmaker on the edge. Last week, wide receiver Deon Long torched the FIU defense, so Old Dominion keyed in on him early, leaving plenty of chances for Diggs. The sophomore caught six passes for 179 yards and a touchdown.

“I think what happens is, is that people that we play, they have to decide who they’re going to take away or what they’re going to do,” Edsall said. “I think Old Dominion tried to take C.J. away a little bit this week because of what he did last week. As they took C.J. away, you saw what Brandon did.”

Diggs provided what was easily the highlight of the afternoon in the second quarter on his touchdown catch. Brown found Diggs in the flat, and the sophomore stiff-armed an Old Dominion defender and raced down the sideline before high-stepping and somersaulting into the end zone for a 41-yard touchdown.

“I’m still young, so hopefully I have better games,” Diggs said. “I think it was an OK game. I haven’t really looked at the stats that much, but I think I had an OK game.”

The defense complemented the offense’s performance with a second straight stingy outing. The Terps held Old Dominion to its lowest scoring output since the varsity program was created in 2009, and Monarchs quarterback Taylor Heinicke — the reigning Walter Payton Award winner as the best player in the Football Championship Subdivision — threw three interceptions.

Using six defensive backs most of the game to counter Old Dominion’s spread offense, the Terps still managed to get pressure and sacked Heinicke four times. The Terps’ success came in their first game without returning starting cornerback Jeremiah Johnson, who will miss seven to eight weeks with a fractured bone in his left toe. The Monarchs’ only touchdown didn’t come until five minutes were left in the game and the Terps owned a 47-3 lead.

“We just knew we had to shut down the quarterback,” said safety Sean Davis, who had his first career interception in the game. “He did [win] the Heisman of [FCS], so we knew he was a playmaker, and he definitely brought his ‘A’ game out there. We were just able to outscheme him and outplay him as a whole.”

The Terps have now equaled their longest winning streak under Edsall and have the opportunity to build on it next week at Connecticut, the coach’s former school. That possibility is becoming more likely with the way the offense is playing.

But after Saturday’s game — the eighth win in Edsall’s two-plus years in College Park — he was thinking only about what had just happened against Old Dominion. Next Saturday could wait.

“We’ll address all that, I’m sure, this week,” Edsall said. “But I want to enjoy this one. Wins are hard to come by.”