Rutgers keeps bowl hopes alive with home win over…
Antwan Raymond rushed for a career-high 240 yards and Athan Kaliakmanis handed for 4 touchdowns to keep Rutgers’ postseason hopes alive in a 35-20 win over Maryland on Saturday n Piscataway, N.J..
Rutgers (5-5, 2-5 Big Ten) performs at Ohio State in two weeks before internet hosting Penn State on Nov. twenty ninth to strive and secure a bowl bid for the third straight season.
Raymond’s 240 yards are the most in the Big Ten this season and the third highest in the nation this season behind Cameron Dickey of Texas Tech and Ahmad Hardy of Missouri.
Antwan Raymond, who rushed for a career-high 240 yards, runs up discipline during Rutgers’ 35-20 home win over Maryland on Nov. 8, 2025. Getty Images
The sophomore ran for a TD and carried the ball 41 occasions for a 5.9-yard average. It’s the third highest yards gained in Rutgers’ program historical past. Ray Rice holds the top two speeding marks for the varsity.
Raymond, who has taken over the majority of the carries for Rutgers since Kyle Monangai graduated and was drafted by the Chicago Bears in this years’ NFL draft, now has 1,000 yards for the season. Raymond’s 41 carries are tied with Savon Huggins and Jawan Jamison for the most in Scarlet Knights historical past.
This is the first time in faculty historical past that Rutgers has consecutive 1,000-yard rushers in a season. Monangai ran for 1,279 yards in 2024.
“It’s definitely a special, special moment for sure,” said Raymond. “All the work that we put in, not just me, but the coaches, all the other running backs, all the work we put in.”
“I’m not surprised about anything that’s going my way, because I know I work so hard for this. I put my whole life into this. I come from really far away, (Quebec, Canada). I left my family, so I think that I’ve done a lot of sacrifices to be here.”
There was an inkling this might be a big day for Raymond from the start.
He set the tone by working the ball six straight occasions up the center for 30 yards in the Scarlet Knights’ first possession.
Athan Kaliakmanis throws one of his 4 landing passes during the first half of Rutgers’ home win over Maryland. AP
This was the Scarlet Knights most balanced sport of the season. They had been 9 of 12 on third down, handed for 229 yards and ran for 256 yards.
“Every game, we anticipated really wanting to run the football,” said Rutgers coach Greg Schiano, “but to say that I anticipated 41 carries, that would not be true.”
Maryland (4-5, 1-5) has misplaced 5 straight.
Ian Strong caught three TD passes for the Scarlet Knights and Kaliakmanis handed for 229 yards. Strong’s 14-yard TD reception in the third quarter elevated the Scarlet Knights’ lead to 28-17
Maryland’s freshman quarterback Malik Washington ran for 164 yards on just eight carries, including a 73-yard landing run on the second play of the sport.
“We are a very young team,” said Maryland coach Michael Locksley. “The development of a young team and an inexperienced team sometimes has its ups and downs and we’re in the middle of a tough stretch for this group and the young guys, as I told them in the locker, don’t understand that now we’re running on limited opportunities for some veteran players that have done some good things around here.”
The Terrapins, who hit the highway to face Illinois on Nov. 15, managed 83 whole yards in the second half and have now misplaced 4 of their last 5 video games by a whole of 18 factors.
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