Maryland football beats Michigan State, 27-13, behind Taulia Tagovailoa to continue hot start: ‘I’ll take my hat off to that kid’

大学公园 - 马里兰州红衫军少年四分卫Taulia Tagovailoa在过去48小时中处理了情绪的旋风。

On Thursday night, he watched his older brother Tuasuffer a frightening head injury在迈阿密海豚队对阵辛辛那提孟加拉人的比赛中，并在担架上被带走。全国观众面前的不可磨灭的时刻引发了有关NFL脑震荡协议的立即辩论，这使《星四分卫》在上一场比赛中击中了他的头后仅四天。

As Maryland football coach Mike Locksley considered the impact the scary scene had on his young quarterback, a simple FaceTime call between the brothers changed everything.

“ Tua基本上说，‘嘿，我很好，去玩。我期待看到您去玩并赢得比赛。’”洛克斯利说。

The brief conversation with his brother give Taulia the energy he needed to throw for 314 yards and a touchdown and move into third place on Maryland’s all-time passing list in the Terps’ 27-13 win over Michigan State on Saturday at SECU Stadium.

“With my background with that family, those boys are warriors,” Locksley said of the Tagovailoa brothers, who he coached when he was the offensive coordinator at Alabama. “Once he had the conversation with his brother, he was able to focus on doing his job and I thought the kid showed up and played well.”

在膝盖受伤后一周输给密歇根州第4号，塔加伏洛亚（Tagovailoa）周六有效，在41次尝试成为学校历史上最快的四分卫中，有32杆，以蚀了6,000次职业传球码，并在记录书中移至Boomer Esiason上方。阿拉巴马州的转会与10个不同的接球手相连，因为红衫军高级接球手Jeshaun Jones在60码处获得了6个接球，而Junior Rakim Jarrett对金刚狼队则受伤，总计41码，并在五个接待处达到了达阵。

Tagovailoa从一开始就有热手。在下午的第一次驾驶中，他完成了16码通行证，向小的Dontay Demus Jr.完成了16码传球，然后才发现Roman Hemby进行了20码的接球。Terps面对第三和8，Tagovailoa将21码的传球投入了佛罗里达转会，雅各布·科普兰（Jacob Copeland）将马里兰州（4-1，1-1 Big 10）放在斯巴达人的28码线上。几场比赛之后，红衫军新生跑回安特旺·利特尔顿二世（Antwain Littleton II），左右打了15码的触地得分，在12场比赛中获得了12杆，93码的得分驱动。

Littleton, who rushed for 120 yards on 19 carries, including a 68-yard run in the fourth quarter, has scored a touchdown in six straight games, the longest streak by a Terp in 17 years.

“He knows we’re his brothers [and] we got him at the end of the day,” Littleton said of Tagovailoa.

After Littleton’s opening score, Michigan State (2-3, 0-2 Big Ten) responded. Quarterback Peyton Thorne (27-for-44 for 221 yards and a touchdown) completed four passes for more than 10 yards, and running back Elijah Collins slipped past several Maryland defenders for a 12-yard touchdown to tie the game at 7 with 9:15 left in the first quarter.

尽管如此，斯巴达人仍未对马里兰州的进攻答案。Tagovailoa走进口袋，逃脱了三名密歇根州立后卫，然后抛出了深端的Corey Dyches，以获得44码的收益。三场比赛后，奔跑的科尔比·麦克唐纳（Colby McDonald）取得了2码的触地得分，在剩下不到六分钟的情况下，马里兰州以14-7领先。

In the second quarter, Michigan State missed an opportunity to even the score. After Thorne’s 8-yard touchdown pass to receiver Jayden Reed with 4:24 to go, the Spartans failed to convert a fake extra-point attempt, helping Maryland maintain a 14-13 lead.

On the following drive, Tagovailoa once again marched the offense down the field before throwing a 5-yard touchdown pass to Jarrett, extending the lead to 21-13 with 42 seconds left.

洛克斯利说：“我会戴上那个孩子的帽子。”“我们在围绕着他方面做得很好，但是我喜欢他能够划分和依靠他的兄弟的方式，这就是我们试图创造的文化。”

Maryland had a chance to break the game open when Thorne’s pass slipped off Reed’s outstretched hand before being intercepted by sophomore safety Dante Trader Jr., who ran 47 yards for a touchdown. However, Trader’s touchdown was negated due to a questionable personal foul call on sophomore defensive back Corey Cooley Jr., who hit Reed in the shoulder just after the ball arrived.

“We can’t control the referees [and] we can’t control the calls,” Locksley said. “At some point, I think we’ll earn the respect to where we are able to take advantage of calls like that.”

然而，密歇根州并没有利用罚款，因为随着时间到期，斯巴达人的45码射门得分的尝试遭到了高级防守后卫·贝内特（Jakorian Bennett）的阻塞。

The Terps’ offense was held in check in the second half, but one of their rising stars made sure they came away with points. After an 11-play drive stalled at the Spartans’ 25 with 8:26 left in the third quarter, kicker Chad Ryland hit a 43-yard field goal to tie the Big Ten Conference record with his 24th consecutive make. The Eastern Michigan transfer just missed breaking the record, missing a 50-yard attempt with 1:22 to go, but bounced back to nail a 51-yard try that gave Maryland a 27-13 lead with 7:54 to go in the fourth.

尽管马里兰州未能在下半场到达终点区，但防守端确保斯巴达人的失败延伸到三场比赛。马里兰州在下半场将密歇根州的总码保持在76码，因为接球手努力抓住球。

洛克斯利（Locksley）认为防守协调员布莱恩·威廉姆斯（Brian Williams）进行了急需的调整，切换到2次，并向四分卫施加了几次施压。大一新生后卫Jaishawn Barham（圣弗朗西丝）表现出色，总共有五个铲球，其中包括损失。

“They went tempo a lot in the first drive, and they caught us off guard a bit,” said junior cornerback Tarheeb Still, who had a team-high nine tackles. “Once we settled down, we were pretty good.”

With the victory, Maryland is now two wins away from becoming bowl eligible for the second straight season, which the program hasn’t done since 2013 and 2014. Five of Maryland’s last seven games are against winnable opponents, giving the Terps a chance to win nine games for the first time in 22 years.

Locksley said there’s still more work to do, but he feels the program is where he wants it to be in Year 4 at the helm.

他说：“您开始看到它实现了。”

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