Maryland Terrapins football

Maryland Terrapins football
Maryland Terrapins football
	2023 Maryland Terrapins football team
First season	1892
Athletic director	Damon Evans
Head coach	Mike Locksley ; 5th season, 28–28 (.500)
Stadium	SECU Stadium; (capacity: 51,802)
Field surface	FieldTurf
Location	College Park, Maryland
Conference	Big Ten Conference
Division	East
Past conferences	Independent (1892–1893); MIFA (1894, 1896–1897); Independent (1898–1919); SAIAA (1920); SoCon (1921–1951); Independent (1952); ACC (1953–2013)
All-time record	577–624–43 (.481)
Bowl record	14–14–2 (.500)
Claimed national titles	1 (1953)
Unclaimed national titles	1 (1951)
Conference titles	11
Rivalries	West Virginia (rivalry); Penn State (rivalry); Virginia (rivalry); Navy (rivalry)
Consensus All-Americans	12
Current uniform
Colors	Red, white, gold, and black;
Fight song	Maryland Victory Song Maryland Fight Song (Played after scoring a Touchdown)
Mascot	Testudo
Marching band	Mighty Sound of Maryland
Outfitter	Under Armour
Website	umterps.com

The Maryland Terrapins football team represents the University of Maryland, College Park in the sport of American football. The Terrapins compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and the Big Ten Conference. The Terrapins joined the Big Ten Conference on July 1, 2014, following 62 years in the Atlantic Coast Conference as a founding member. Mike Locksley is the head coach of the Terrapins.

Since 1950, the Terrapins have played their home games at SECU Stadium^[2] in College Park, Maryland, with occasional home games from time to time in Baltimore, making them one of two FBS football teams in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area (Navy Midshipmen) and the closest Football Bowl Subdivision team to Washington, D.C. The team's official colors of red, white, black, and gold have been in use in some combination since the 1920s and are taken from Maryland's state flag, and the Terrapins nickname — often abbreviated as "Terps" — was adopted in 1933 after the diamondback terrapin, a turtle species native to the state. Maryland shares storied rivalries with Virginia and West Virginia.

The program's achievements have included one national championship in 1953,^[3] nine ACC championships, two Southern Conference championships, 12 consensus All-Americans, several Hall of Fame inductees, and 28 bowl game appearances. Maryland possesses the third-most ACC championships with nine, which places them behind Clemson and Florida State with 15 each. Many former Terrapins players and coaches have gone on to careers in professional football including 17 first-round NFL Draft picks.^[4]

^ "Color | The University of Maryland Brand". Retrieved July 9, 2022.
^ "Maryland football stadium to be renamed SECU Stadium under terms of 10-year deal". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
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^ "Maryland Drafted Players/Alumni – Pro-Football-Reference.com". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2017-11-27. Retrieved 2018-03-30.