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 https://www.mtoutletstore.com/Hunter_Patrick_Jersey-79. Maryland had a decent start to the game, holding the Wolverines to a three-and-out on their first offensive possession, but a missed 48-yard field goal attempt from kicker Joseph Petrino spoiled Maryland good start soon after. The Terps offense was not-so-stellar in the first quarter. Maryland had just 62 total yards on three drives Josh Jackson Jersey. Credit to the Michigan defense, but the same problems on offense drops, missed throws and penalties stunted anything the Terps tried to do offensively as they trailed 14-0 after the first quarter. Then early in the second quarter, Maryland finally had something progressing in Michigan end. However, the Terps typical penalty issues came back to haunt them when it mattered most. Junior quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa marched the offense down to the four-yard line, but a chop block, a false start then an illegal shift pushed Maryland back. It eventually settled for a field goal as the Terps couldn't manage a touchdown after a 17-play, six-and-a-half-minute drive. Failing to convert in the red zone was just one of the issues Maryland had in the first half. With under five minutes left in the second quarter, junior Anthony Pecorella had his punt blocked, placing Michigan in Terps territory. The Wolverines went on to capitalize with another touchdown, extending their advantage to 21-3 before the break. A field goal in the closing moments of the half made it 24-3. Three points from Maryland on offense and 21 points given up on defense, along with a plethora of mistakes, against a top-10 team in the nation in the first half simply just isn good enough to generate an upset. The Terps offense was no match for Michigan defenseIf there was anything to note of in the matchup, it was that Maryland offense was largely ineffective. Michigan allowed just 16.1 points per game coming into the contest and its elite defense continued over 60 minutes of play in College Park. In the first half, where Maryland managed to put up just one field goal on its seven drives. The Terps and Tagovailoa went down the field for 62 yards in the first quarter, while barely upping that in the next frame with just 64 yards. Maryland finished the first half with noticeable drops from the wide receivers corps and four penalties stemming from the offense https://www.mtoutletstore.com/Terrence_Lewis_Jersey-148. Tagovailoa was also bottled up in the passing game as well. The junior finished the first 30 minutes with 87 yards and 11 completions. The rushing game was absent too, as the Terps backs had a mediocre 39 yards. Those struggles crept into the second half as well after Maryland scored three points in the first half. The Terps immediately kicked off the half with a failed fourth-down conversion, which set the tone for the remainder of the game. Maryland did drive down the field over halfway through the third quarter, still on