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Taulia Tagovailoa threw three touchdown passes and Maryland forced five turnovers in a 31-9 win over Michigan State to improve to 4-0 for the second time in three years. Here are three takeaways from Saturday's game.

Browse photos of the college football game between Maryland and host Michigan State on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, in East Lansing, Michigan.

Cornerback Tarheeb Still isn’t regretting his decision to bypass entry into last April’s NFL draft to return for his senior year at Maryland, which is 3-0 for the third consecutive season and where he is tied for the team lead in interceptions with two.

From how the team’s lethargic starts might require some changes in practice to how the defense has been the team’s rock in the past two games, here are three takeaways from Maryland football’s 42-14 victory over Virginia on Friday night.

For the second consecutive game, Maryland football found a way to storm back from an early 14-0 deficit, scoring 42 unanswered points to complete a 42-14 comeback win against visiting Virginia on Friday night.

Still recovering from the shooting deaths of three players, Virginia has a sympathetic opponent in coach Mike Locksley, whose son, Meiko, was fatally shot in 2017, and Maryland, which had its own tragedy with the death of Jordan McNair in 2018.

Browse photos of Maryland football's home game against Virginia on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, at SECU Stadium in College Park.

The plea agreement signed by John Willie Kennedy, Jr., 45, and filed in court Thursday details that he told a federal grand jury in 2021 that he was inside his Columbia town house when he heard the gunshots that killed Meiko Locksley — and admitted that story was false when federal agents confronted him over a year later.