The season continues to slip away from Maryland football.

Needing two wins to become eligible for a bowl, the Terps wasted a prime opportunity against one of the worst teams in the Big Ten and bumbled their way to a 35-20 loss Saturday evening to lowly Rutgers at SHI Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey.

Maryland (4-5, 1-5 Big Ten) absorbed its fifth consecutive loss and has just three games left to reverse this downward spiral. To even be considered for what would be a fourth bowl in the past five years, the team must collect two victories at Illinois (6-3, 3-3) on Saturday, against No. 21 Michigan (7-2, 5-1) at home on Nov. 22, and at Michigan State (3-6, 0-6) on Nov. 29.

Malik Washington paced the Terps with a school single-game record 164 rushing yards by a freshman quarterback. He ran

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