Maryland football announced its 2025 schedule on Wednesday, less than two weeks after its 2024 season ended.
The Terps are scheduled to face just one of the Big Ten’s top four teams from this year, Indiana, and avoid Ohio State, Oregon and Penn State.
Coach Michael Locksley’s squad will kick off the campaign against FAU in the first-ever meeting between the schools. The game will be the Eagles’ first under new head coach Zach Kittley.
The Terps follow that matchup with two more home games against Northern Illinois and Towson to conclude their nonconference slate. Maryland won against the Tigers, 38-6, in 2023 at SECU Stadium.
Locksley has scheduled an opponent from the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia region in all but one season since he became head coach, excluding the conference-only 2020 campaign.
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Maryland’s 2025 Big Ten schedule features the other two former Pac-12 schools after playing Oregon and USC this year. It will host Washington on Oct. 4 and travel to Los Angeles to face UCLA on Oct. 18. A home bout against Nebraska will come in between.
The Terps are also set to travel to Wisconsin on Sept. 20, Rutgers on Nov. 8, Illinois on Nov. 15 and Michigan State on Nov. 29. Three of their final four regular season games will be on the road.
Maryland’s other two conference games are home bouts against Indiana on Nov. 1 and Michigan on Nov. 22. The Terps’ 42-28 loss to the Hoosiers in Bloomington snapped their three-game win streak since 2020 over Indiana.
Maryland has also only won once against the Wolverines since it joined the Big Ten in 2014.
The Terps hope for an improved conference record without playing Ohio State, Oregon and Penn State — all conference foes who reached this year’s College Football Playoff — after going 1-8 this season
