Maryland football's 2025 home finale tabbed Michigan's top trap game

Ahmed Ghafir
Jul 3
2 min read

Maryland football hasn’t finished .500 or better in conference play since the program’s first season in the Big Ten as head coach Mike Locksley and his team look to prove the critics wrong in 2025.

The 2025 schedule is ranked among the easiest in the Big Ten while Phil Steele ranked the upcoming slate as the 46^th-toughest nationally, and a big reason for that is avoiding a trio of projected preseason top-25 teams in Penn State, Oregon and Ohio State. The upcoming slate does feature a pair of matchups for the first time in decades with Maryland and UCLA set to meet for the first time since 1955, two weeks after facing Washington for the first time since 1982. But the November slate will feature a familiar opponent at a familiar time with Michigan set as the home finale in 2025 for the third time since 2021.

The Wolverines have won all but one of the 12 all-time matchups with Maryland’s lone win back in 2014, somehow making Randy Edsall the head coach for two of the program’s three wins against the trio of top Big Ten teams to date. However, the last two matchups have both ended in one-touchdown losses for Maryland, first in 2022 after suffering a 34-27 defeat in Ann Arbor, and then returning to College Park in 2023 for a 31-24 loss.

Michigan will look to bounce back in 2025 in year two of the Sherrone Moore era with blue-chip quarterback Bryce Underwood leading the way. Though the Wolverines face Oklahoma two weeks ahead of their Big Ten opener at Nebraska, it was Maryland who was picked as Michigan’s top trap game in 2025 by Athlon Sports.

Athlon: Michigan has not lost to the Terrapins since 2014 but Mike Locksley's group has come close to beating the Wolverines several times. The Terps gave Michigan's 2023 National Championship team one of its toughest tests of the season suggesting that the 2025 game could go either way if the Wolverines aren't healthy and prepared to play one of their better games of the season in College Park.

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