We’ve come to our last schedule preview ahead of the Maryland football season. It’s Rutgers! Here’s what we’ve done to date:
Week 4: Bye
Rutgers might be pretty decent, pretty soon. The Scarlet Knights were bad last year, but they hired a promising new coach in former Ohio State defensive coordinator Chris Ash. They play in New Jersey, which has a perfectly suitable high school recruiting base, even if it’s picked clean by Michigan every year.
That’s the future. The now is a lot hazier. Rutgers went 4-8 last year, and the Knights’ goal in Year 1 under Ash isn’t all the different than Maryland’s realistic goal under DJ Durkin: Show a pulse, and make a decent bowl game.