Peak Maryland football.

BleachedAnusDawg

Maryland is a basketball school.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/2105512#Comment_2105512

According to this link, it looks legit. Number 1 in both the AP & UPI.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/index.html

RaceBannon

They lost to my Sooners in the Orange Bowl

whlinder

Made me google their 1953. That was quite the era of college football with realignment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Conference#SoCon_membership_timeline

I clearly care so much about east coast football history that I didn't know Bama/Georgia and Maryland were once in the same conference with like 20 members.

The schedule Maryland played in the first year of the ACC in 1953 was wild. Georgia, Miami, Ole Miss, Bama, and the George Washington Colonials Revolutionaries. Only 3 conference games in a 7 team conference.

Of all the schools which cycled through the Southern Conference over tim, which is every major school south of an imaginary line from Penn State to Arkansas (excluding FSU/Miami), Maryland is the only one which ended up in the Big 10.

theknowledge

https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/2105494#Comment_2105494

This is true. More Pedo lowlights on the big screen than Maryland highlights. Weird scene.

PurpleThrobber

https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/2105663#Comment_2105663

People forget Bear Bryant’s first head coaching job was Maryland.