Maryland football coach Ralph Friedgen was asked what he did when not worrying about his current football team during the Terps' bye week. The coach said he went to a football game last weekend (he was spied at Gilman) and while there he got a big surprise that had nothing to do with football.

It was senior day and the owner of one of his favorite Italian restaurants - Da Mimmo's - was at the game supporting her son. She saw the coach and came over to him to say hello.

"She said she was looking forward to seeing me at her restaurant that night," Friedgen said. "I said, 'Tonight?' And she said yes, 'Your wife made reservations for the whole family, didn't you know?'

"No. I wasn't told.

"I mean, would your wife do that to you? She must of wanted to keep me on my diet," said the coach, who has been on a diet since before the season.