In three of the Maryland Terrapins’ 4 wins, they have accumulated more than 290 yards on the ground. They do it by employing an offense which has “some parallels” to Georgia Tech’s, as Kirk Ferentz stated earlier this week. In some ways, the bevy of jet sweeps, fake jet sweeps, and double jet sweeps does resemble the offense Norm Parker shredded to pieces in the Orange Bowl all those seasons ago.
As many teams have done, they put a priority on chunk yardage and are able to achieve it through the running game as six of their 14 rushing touchdowns are 20 yards or more.