A few weeks ago, Maryland offensive coordinator Walt Bell said he couldn’t wait for quarterback Perry Hills to throw his first interception, just to see how he’d respond. In Saturday’s win over Purdue, Hills responded pretty well.
He threw that pick on his very first pass of the game, a gimme right to Purdue linebacker Markus Bailey.
Maryland was having an outstanding — and probably lucky — zero-turnover start to the season, but Hills was going to throw a pick eventually. There was nothing else he could do except play a mostly error-free game the rest of the way, and he did.