Fun Facts: Iowa-Maryland, a game to be played no matter who quarterbacks the Hawkeyes

Iowa will have a quarterback at the start of its football game at Maryland Saturday. We think. That said, here are the Fun Facts for that game:

1. After a 3,576-mile round trip to Pasadena, Calif., for its last game, Iowa will travel just 1,808 miles from Iowa City to College Park, Md., and back for this one.

2. Maryland is 2-23 in home November and December games since 2011.

3. Exactly five years ago Saturday, Nate Stanley of Iowa passed for 308 yards against Illinois. It was the fifth 300-yard game of Stanley’s career and 47th in Iowa history. The Hawkeyes haven’t had a 300-yard passer since.

4. Maryland’s Billy Edwards has passed for 300+ yards four times this season.

5. Iowa’s Kaleb Johnson is one of 24 different Big Ten players to rush for 20 touchdowns in a season and the first Hawkeye to do so.

6. Johnson has 20 carries of 20 yards or more. No other Big Ten player has more than eight and no Maryland player has more than two.

7. Maryland’s Mike Locksley has coached 100 college games as a head coach, at New Mexico and Maryland. He won 35.

8. Three of those wins, however, were bowls in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

9. Iowa has the fewest penalties (31) and penalty yards per game (29.7) of any team in the nation.

10. Tai Felton of Maryland leads the Big Ten in receptions (a school-record 86) and receiving yards (1,040).

11. After rushing for 211 yards against Iowa on Nov. 8, UCLA rushed for just 52 at Washington last Friday.

12. Maryland had an announced crowd of 31,433 for its home game against Rutgers last Saturday. Its average attendance is 37,010, 17th in the Big Ten. Only Northwestern, with five home games in a temporary stadium that seats 12,023, is behind the Terrapins.

13. Maryland leads the Big Ten in attempted fourth-down conversions with 28. Iowa is last, with 6, and is tied with Ohio for the fewest in the nation.

14. The Terrapins are 17th in the Big Ten in scoring defense, 18th in passing defense.

15. The Hawkeyes have won their last three games against Maryland by a total score of 105-29.

16. Maryland has transfers from 13 different FBS programs.

17. Former Iowa offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz is an analyst for Maryland. According to the school, an analyst’s responsibilities include breaking down game films, assisting with practice planning/work with the coordinators in the offseason to plan, create and implement offensive/defensive philosophies for the team, breaking down each opponent's offensive, defensive, and special teams game plan schemes, maintaining weekly and seasonal self-scout/quality control documents; and other duties as assigned.

18. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip attended a Maryland home football game in 1957.

19. College Park Mayor Dr. Fazlul Kabir has taught cybersecurity at the University of Maryland for eight years. He works as an information architect for the federal government.

20. Iowa had never played in Maryland before 2014. There are 24 states in which the Hawkeyes have never played, including Alaska and West Virginia.