Terps favor the run in opening win

Two Spiffy Charts in one night? You bet, especially considering Maryland ran the ball a whopping 87.2 percent of the time tonight.

By comparison, Maryland had run 75 percent of the time just twice previously in Ralph Friedgen's tenure.

A glance, then, at the heaviest running days --- by percentage of rushes of total offensive snaps --- for Maryland since 2001:

Date	Opponent	Run	Pass	Run %	Score
9/6/10	vs. Navy	34	5	87.2	W, 17-14
10/21/06	N.C. State	41	9	82.0	W, 26-20
11/2/02	at North Carolina	49	14	77.8	W, 59-7
9/22/07	at Wake Forest	57	20	74.0	L, 31-24 (OT)
9/7/02	Akron	50	19	72.5	W, 44-14
11/10/01	Clemson	53	21	71.6	W, 37-20
9/28/02	Wofford	50	20	71.4	W, 37-8
11/16/02	at Clemson	59	24	71.1	W, 30-12
12/31/02	vs. Tennessee	45	19	70.3	W, 30-3
9/13/08	California	47	20	70.1	W, 35-27

No surprises here, right down to the fact Maryland has run it 70 percent of the time just four times since the start of the 2003 season --- and never more than once in a season in that span.

Nor is the record a shock. The Terps are 9-1 in the games on this chart, with only three yielding games of less than 30 points.

So will today be an exception? Probably. Considering even a 7-to-3 run/pass ratio was attained only three times in Maryland's previous 86 games, it's safe to say this probably won't be what anyone should expect in the weeks to come from the Terps.