Despite not playing a game this past weekend, Maryland finds itself in Week 6’s AP Top 25.
Well, the receiving votes section.
Two pollsters, Scott Hamilton and Conor O’Neill have the Terps in their rankings. Hamilton has the Terps at No. 20, while the Terps sit at No. 22 for O’Neill. Thanks to these two votes, Maryland is ranked as the 34th-best team in the country.
Maryland would most assuredly by ranked higher than No. 34 if it wasn’t for their loss to Temple. The Terps were sitting at No. 30 before they suffered a surprising loss to Temple. The Owls sit at 2-3 and lost to FCS Villanova earlier this season. Maryland already has a quality win over No. 19 Texas, so you can pretty confidently say if they avoided an upset at the hands of the Owls, they’d be sitting pretty somewhere in the top 25.
The last time the Terps found themselves ranked was Week 6 of 2013. They spent exactly one week in the rankings, as Jameis Winston and eventual national champion Florida State destroyed the Terps 63-0.
Maryland has a good chance to bolster its resume and claw its way into the top 25 this weekend with a visit to Ann Arbor against No. 15 Michigan. The Terps are 1-6 all time against Michigan with the lone victory in 2014, when Randy Edsall’s Terps came into Ann Arbor and topped Brady Hoke’s squad.
