Saturday evening, the kickoff time and broadcast affiliation for the Michigan football team's Nov. 22 matchup at Maryland was announced. The Wolverines will kick off against the Terrapins in College Park at 4 p.m. ET, and the game will air on Big Ten Network.
The game will be Michigan's 11th and penultimate regular-season game. The Wolverines will also host No. 1 Ohio State on Nov. 29, in a game that will kick off at Noon and air on FOX.
In terms of Michigan's game at Maryland, the contest will be the Wolverines' sixth road game of the season. Michigan will be favored in the game, as ESPN's Football Power Index gives Michigan an 81.9-percent of winning, and would project a two-touchdown margin on a neutral field. While the Wolverines have won four straight games and enter the contest 6-1 in league play and 8-2 overall, the Terrapins are on a six-game losing streak after beginning the year 4-0 and sit at 1-6 in Big Ten play. Most recently, Maryland lost at Illinois, 24-6.
The two teams have three common opponents; Maryland beat Wisconsin on the road, then lost to Washington and Nebraska at home, while Michigan went 3-0 against those opponents.
Similar to Michigan, the Terrapins are one of the youngest teams in the Big Ten. Their leading passer (Malik Washington), three of their top four rushers (DeJaun Williams, Washington, Iverson Howard) and four of their top 12 tacklers (Carlton Smith, Messiah Delhomme, Zahir Mathis, Sidney Stewart) are freshmen.
Michigan will be going for its ninth straight win over Maryland, and try to move to 11-1 in the all-time series. The two teams faced off in 1989 and 1990 (both Michigan wins), then faced every year from 2014-23 except for the 2020 season as Big Ten East foes. In that stretch, the Terrapins scored a win in 2014, but then lost eight straight to the Wolverines, including five losses by at least 25 points.
In 2022 and 2023, however, Maryland played Michigan closer than most, losing 34-27 in Ann Arbor in 2022 and 31-24 in College Park in 2023. Notably, this will be the third time in five years that the Wolverines will travel to take on Maryland the week before facing Ohio State at home.