The season continues to slip away from Maryland football.
Needing two wins to become eligible for a bowl, the Terps wasted a prime opportunity against one of the worst teams in the Big Ten and bumbled their way to a 35-20 loss Saturday evening to lowly Rutgers at SHI Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey.
Maryland (4-5, 1-5 Big Ten) absorbed its fifth consecutive loss and has just three games left to reverse this downward spiral. To even be considered for what would be a fourth bowl in the past five years, the team must collect two victories at Illinois (6-3, 3-3) on Saturday, against No.