The 2016 Quick Lane Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game, played at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, on December 26, 2016.
[5] The third edition of the Quick Lane Bowl featured the Maryland Terrapins of the Big Ten Conference and the Boston College Eagles of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
[6] The game featured the Boston College Eagles against the Maryland Terrapins.
This was the twelfth meeting between the schools, with Boston College leading the all-time series 8–3 coming into the game.
Their most recent meeting had been on November 23, 2013, when the Eagles defeated the Terrapins by a score of 29–26.