Maryland football was no match for No. 8 Michigan on Saturday. Maryland gave up 24 points in the first half and then 35 in the second to fall 59-18 in College Park, moving it to 5-6 on the season with one game remaining. The Terps have won once in their last seven games. irst off credit to them, theye a top-10 team for a reason, sophomore linebacker Ruben Hyppolite II said. hey have good players on both sides of the ball in all three phases. After losing three straight games since its three-point home win in late October against Indiana, Maryland will now have to rely on a quality season-finale performance when it takes on Rutgers. Rutgers lost to Penn State this week, meaning that it has an identical 5-6 record. One of those programs will become bowl eligible next week with both teams competing for that sixth win. isappointed for our 25 seniors that we honored on today that we weren able to play better for those guys, head coach Michael Locksley said. ut as I told our team we can hang our heads. We got to flush this one pretty quickly because we still have a lot to play for next week going up to New Jersey with the opportunity to win six. Here are the three biggest takeaways from Maryland loss to Michigan on senior day. Maryland abysmal first half sealed the gameMichigan came into Saturday game with the No. 2 scoring offense and No. 2 scoring defense in the Big Ten Dontay Demus Jr. Jersey, making it clear as to why it entered College Park as double-digit favorites. It looked every part of an elite team over the course of the first 30 minutes and Maryland first-half performance ultimately did it in the rest of the way. Michigan absolutely dominated in the first quarter of this one, scoring the opening 14 points of the game. It used a combination of a strong rushing and aerial attack to go up on the Terps early on