Maryland Offers Free Tuition to Boost Football Game Attendance
University of Maryland raffles free tuition for Spring 2027 to attract students to Saturday’s game against Illinois.
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The University of Maryland is taking drastic measures to boost attendance at its football game against Illinois this Saturday. In an effort to ensure fans stay for all four quarters, the university is raffling off free tuition for the Spring 2027 semester to one student who attends the game and remains through the fourth quarter.
Crazy stuff here with the Maryland football 4th quarter student raffle this week:
Eligible students must attend the game, scan a QR code displayed on the video board, and stay through the fourth quarter for a chance to win. The tuition credit is valued at approximately $8,000, equivalent to the university’s in-state tuition rate.
Maryland’s in-state tuition fees for a semester, for those curious: https://t.co/1q8EnYvJvE
And apparently free tuition isn’t enough. Maryland is also offering a buy-one-get-two-free ticket promotion for Saturday’s game.
Triple the Terps, triple the treat 🎃🐢
Call them desperate, but it’s not exactly difficult to understand why. The Terrapins are 2-5 and winless in Big Ten play after losing five straight games. Maryland has also lost 12 consecutive conference games dating back to last season.
The struggles already cost head coach Michael Locksley his job. Maryland parted ways with Locksley last week in the middle of his eighth season as head coach. The Terrapins posted back-to-back four-win seasons in 2024 and 2025.
Now, interim head coach Aazaar Abdul-Rahim gets his first home game in charge against Illinois, and Maryland is trying their best to make sure students have plenty of reasons to stick around for all four quarters.
Source: Daily Wire
