The curse of the Terps

Ralph Friedgen has talked quite a bit how nothing is going Maryland's way.

Try talking to the teams the Terps have lost to during their five-game losing streak.

Wake Forest has lost five in a row since beating Maryland.

Virginia has dropped four straight since its win in College Park.

Duke is 1-2 since outlasting the Terps in the rain, the victory coming at the expense of Virginia.

N.C. State got drubbed in its only game since beating Maryland.

Virginia Tech, obviously, just got its victory against the Terps yesterday.

So those five teams are a ghastly 1-12 since upending Maryland. That record has to "improve" next week, if only because Virginia Tech and N.C. State meet.

Whatever hex is on the Terps, it's clearly contagious.

And the last team Maryland beat? Yep, Clemson's actually rattled off five straight wins since that puzzling setback on Oct. 3.

--- Patrick Stevens