Maryland needs just two wins in its final four games to secure bowl eligibility, but the Terps face a challenging late-season schedule.

Gray Collegiate Academy will make an appeal Wednesday to keep its football team’s postseason hopes alive. According to an athletics source with knowledge of the situation, Gray could be ineligible for the 2024 state football playoffs because of the use of an ineligible player.

It seems hard to believe that in college football days past, bowl games would begin courting prospective teams in November (and sometimes earlier). The prospect of being stuck with a lemon with two straight losses to end the season?

While Maryland football endures its ups and downs this fall, the program is making progress off the field — especially in recruiting. The Terps (4-3, 1-3 Big Ten) recently moved into ESPN’s national Top 20 rankings of schools’ incoming class of freshmen.