The preseason Amway Coaches Poll is out. USA TODAY's Paul Myerberg breaks down the biggest college football story lines from the top 25. USA TODAY
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – At some point during the last month, Mike Locksley looked around. Players were in helmets and pads again. The calendar was moving ever more quickly toward kickoff. And Locksley finally understood:
“It’s a reality,” he says. “It’s a reality now.”
He is a head coach again, somehow. At the place he’d always dreamed it would happen, but could never have expected it to. Not quite eight years since he – and these are his words – “failed miserably” at New Mexico, Locksley improbably finds himself at Maryland, in charge of a Power Five program.