Maryland to the Music City: Terrapins will face Auburn in Nashville bowl

Maryland’s third straight appearance in a bowl game will take the Terrapins from the nation’s capital to the capital of country music.

The Music City Bowl will feature Maryland for the first time, the Nashville, Tennessee-based game announced Sunday. The Terrapins will face Southeastern Conference opponent Auburn on Dec. 30 in the schools’ first meeting since 1983.

It’s the first time Maryland will play in the bowl, which has existed since 1998, and the second Terrapins bowl game in Tennessee after the Liberty Bowl in 1974.

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