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BALTIMORE — The odds that the player who scored more touchdowns than any other quarterback in a single season in college football history would get stuffed at the goal line in a nail-biter of a game, not once … or twice … or three times … but four times? Probably incalculable.

But the odds were in Maryland‘s favor on Monday afternoon in M&T Bank Stadium. So when the Terps, underdogs to their in-state brethren in a resumption of a long-dormant series, lined up against Navy and Ricky Dobbs with their backs to the goal line, the record-setting Dobbs lost, time and time again. That included the last time, with 37 seconds left, Navy trailing by three and the ball inside Maryland’s 1-yard line.

Navy was sure that going for the touchdown and the victory was the safer move than trying a tying field goal. But Maryland safety Kenny Tate denied Dobbs one final time, and that locked up a 17-14 upset that bodes well for a team that went 2-10 last season and put head coach Ralph Friedgen’s job in jeopardy.

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