1955 Maryland Terrapins football team

1955 ACC football standings
	+ – Conference co-champions; Rankings from AP Poll

Maryland Terrapins football
1955 Maryland Terrapins football
ACC co-champion
Orange Bowl, L 6–20 vs. Oklahoma
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 3
AP	No. 3
1955 record	10–1 (4–0 ACC)
Head coach	Jim Tatum
Offensive scheme	Split-T
Home stadium	Byrd Stadium
	Seasons ← 1954 1956 →

The 1955 Maryland Terrapins football team represented the University of Maryland, College Park in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) college football in its third season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Their perfect 10–0 regular season culminated with a bid to the 1956 Orange Bowl, where they faced first-ranked Oklahoma. Maryland lost, 6–20.^[2] Maryland's 25-12 victory over Clemson on November 12th was referenced in the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II, which primarily took place on the same day.

Schedule[edit]

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance
17 September 1955	at Missouri*	No. 8	Faurot Field Columbia, MO	W 13–12	18,000
24 September 1955	No. 1 UCLA*	No. 5	Byrd Stadium College Park, MD (Best of the East vs. Best of the West)	W 7–0	46,000
1 October 1955	at No. 20 Baylor*	No. 1	Floyd Casey Stadium Waco, TX	W 20–6	39,000
8 October 1955	Wake Forest	No. 1	Byrd Stadium College Park, MD	W 28–7	16,000
15 October 1955	at North Carolina	No. 2	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC	W 25–7	30,000
22 October 1955	at Syracuse*	No. 2	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 34–13	32,500
29 October 1955	South Carolina	No. 1	Williams-Brice Stadium Columbia, SC	W 27–0	25,000
5 November 1955	Louisiana State*	No. 1	Byrd Stadium College Park, MD	W 13–0	28,000
12 November 1955	at Clemson	No. 2	Memorial Stadium Clemson, SC	W 25–12	30,000
19 November 1955	George Washington*	No. 2	Byrd Stadium College Park, MD	W 19–0	20,000
2 January 1956	vs. No. 1 Oklahoma*	No. 3	Orange Bowl Miami, FL (1956 Orange Bowl)	L 6–20	76,561
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to the game

^ "1955 Atlantic Coast Conference Year Summary". sports-reference.com. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
^ Year-by-Year Results (PDF), 2008 Maryland Football Media Guide, University of Maryland, 2008. Accessed 2009-06-15. Archived 2009-06-17.

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Venues	Maryland Agricultural College Field Old Byrd Stadium (1923–1947, 1949) Griffith Stadium (1948) Maryland Stadium (1950–present)
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National championship seasons in bold

1955 ACC football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 3 Maryland +	4	–	0	–	0	10	–	1	–	0
Duke +	4	–	0	–	0	7	–	2	–	1
Clemson	3	–	1	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Wake Forest	3	–	3	–	1	5	–	4	–	1
North Carolina	3	–	3	–	0	3	–	7	–	0
NC State	0	–	2	–	1	4	–	5	–	1
South Carolina	1	–	5	–	0	3	–	6	–	0
Virginia	0	–	4	–	0	1	–	9	–	0

+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from AP Poll^[1]