Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 3-0
2021Pinstripe BowlW 54-10
2022Duke's Mayo BowlW 16-12
2023Music City BowlW 31-13
Right now
After Illinois: what changed
What’s left
Chance to win each game, from the CFB Zeitgeist forecast ratings with home field. #N = AP rank in the latest poll.
This season, week by week
Composite stature after each game — the number above each point.
Report card
Defense carries it: 56th percentile defense, below the median offense at 49th.
Maryland, every completed season graded against the whole field, then averaged.
Offense
Defense
Each season is his team’s percentile among every team with that stat (the share it beat), averaged over his completed seasons here; a mid-season takeover year and the season in progress aren’t graded. Letters: A+ 90th percentile and up, A 80, B+ 70, B 60, B− 50, C+ 45, C 40, C− 30, D 15, F below.
Hot seat
See every job →Hot seat: no longer the head coach · left October 21.
He left the job on October 21; Aazaar Abdul-Rahim is the interim head coach. How every job is measured.
Poach watch
He no longer holds this job, so there is no number for him here.
Fans
A few stories about him this week
78th of 104 FBS head coaches · from a few outlets and r/CFB
247Sports Oct 30 · one outlet
Dozens of stories about him this season
from dozens of outlets and r/CFB
Maryland football fires coach, but it’s not Mike Locksley
DC News Now +9 Oct 21 · several outlets
All 16 articles
What they’re talking about
The headlines for each topic are on the News tab.
What was said at each stop
Stories we tracked, by school.
MarylandDozens of stories2019 to now
Most about: job security talk, press conference and quotes, hot seat.
- DC News Now +9Maryland football fires coach, but it’s not Mike LocksleyOct 21
All 16 articles
Yahoo SportsMaryland football fires coach, but it’s not Mike LocksleyDC News NowUniversity of Maryland parts ways with head football coach Mike Locksley, sources sayThe New York TimesMaryland fires head coach Mike Locksley as Terps sit winless in Big Ten playHollywood LifeWas Mike Locksley Fired as the Maryland Football Coach?Yahoo SportsMike Locksley out as Maryland football head coachSporting NewsMike Locksley out as Maryland football head coachSporting NewsMike Locksley out as Maryland football head coachDC News NowUniversity of Maryland parts ways with head football coach Mike Locksley, sources sayESPN PhilippinesSources - Maryland fires football coach Mike LocksleyYahoo SportsBREAKING: Maryland Fires Head Coach Mike LocksleySports IllustratedBREAKING: Maryland Football Fires Head Coach Mike LocksleyWMAR 2 News BaltimoreMike Locksley steps down as head football coach at University of Maryland - 247Sports +7Maryland Head Coach Hot Board: Top candidates to replace Mike LocksleyOct 21
All 13 articles
On3Maryland Head Coach Hot Board: Top candidates to replace Mike LocksleyYahoo Sports$4M ACC Head Coach Named Among Candidates Being Considered to Replace Mike Locksley Amid Brian Kelly RumorsA to Z SportsMaryland's Mike Locksley firing starts the college football coaching carousel, and 5 candidates deserve every AD's attentionشبكة تواصل الإخباريةMaryland football hot board: 4 coaches who could replace Mike LocksleyThe Big LeadMaryland football hot board: 4 coaches who could replace Mike LocksleyYahoo SportsMaryland football hot board: 4 coaches who could replace Mike LocksleyThe New York TimesWhich college football coach candidates could replace Mike Locksley at Maryland?FOX Sports5 Coaching Candidates Maryland Could Target To Replace Mike LocksleyFOX Sports5 Coaching Candidates Maryland Could Target To Replace Mike Locksley247SportsMaryland football coaching hot board, version 1.0: 13 candidates to replace Mike LocksleyOn3Maryland Head Coach Hot Board: Top candidates to replace Mike LocksleyYahoo Sports9 Coaching Candidates to Replace Mike Locksley at Maryland 
Baltimore Sun +2Locksley wants Maryland football to talk less. History shows why. | ANALYSISSep 3
Awful Announcing +1Maryland student reporters have cops dispatched on them while covering Mike Locksley firingOct 21
On3 +1Maryland fires head coach Mike Locksley after eight seasonsOct 21
New Mexico2009 to 2011not trackedCould another school hire him? What has he said?
Across his career
166 stories about him across 18 seasons
Stories are headlines grouped by what they are about, counted through Nov 4.
Stats
Big games
Pick a job to see its years on their own.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
0-2 against his rivals at New Mexico.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
4-4 against his rivals at Maryland. Winless in 5 tries against Ryan Day.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
4-6 against his rivals. Winless in 5 tries against Ryan Day.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Passed more than the situation called for under Enos, Gattis and Hamilton.
5,349 run and pass snaps at Maryland, 2019–2025, his own games, one row per offensive coordinator. Each cell is how much more often he passed than the rest of FBS did in the same situation (field zone, down, distance, score, quarter, same season), in percentage points.
Pass rate, stint by stint
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next, against the FBS-wide average of 41% pass. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 449 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2004–2025.
Building the roster
Five numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His 8 ranked Maryland classes of his own have averaged #34 nationally — best #19, worst #47.
His class — he had the full signing cycle
Rank is each signing class’s national recruiting rank (#1 is best). Only a class he had a full signing cycle to build counts as his.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2026 roster arrived on his watch — 109 of 109 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 18% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
This tenure spans the 2021 transfer-portal tracking floor: seasons before 2021 structurally cannot be classified portal-vs-not (they land in 'unknown' below), so the portal-share figure understates how many pre-2021 arrivals might have been transfers under the pre-portal-tracking transfer rules.
20% of his 223 new players since 2022 came through the portal (FBS programs, same seasons: 23%). His share was 15% in 2022 and 22% in 2026.
Graded on the players who arrived and the players who left together, his portal seasons came out worse than most FBS programs’ in 2 of the 5 seasons graded. our read
Each player counts once, in the season he arrived. 2021, the first season of portal tracking here, is left off because its arrival records look incomplete (about 31 new players per FBS team, against 52 in 2022). Portal grade: the site’s position-value-weighted scoring (the same engine as the Portal Heat feed and the “Who won the portal” grade): the value of the players who came in minus the value of the ones who left, ranked against every FBS program’s grade that same season. A season with fewer than 4 transfers in and out is not graded.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Size up front
Size up front
Offensive linemen on his Maryland rosters have averaged 7 lb heavier than the FBS average (2019–2026) — heavier than 86% of FBS coaching runs since 2010. In the three seasons before he arrived, Maryland’s line averaged 6 lb heavier than the FBS average.
Average listed weight of every offensive lineman on each season’s roster, holdovers included, against every FBS roster that season (2010 on; a program needs 3+ seasons under him to appear). Weights are the ones programs publish, and programs list differently. This describes size only — not scheme, and not quality.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 65 of 168 signees (39%) across his 2019–2026 tenure, drawn from 23 states in all. Next: FL (25).
58% of his signees come from MD and its 5 border states (VA 14, DC 9, PA 9, DE 1).
Off this map: 11 signees to the west (TX 4, CA 2, others).
- median hometown distance
- 71 mi
- within 100 mi
- 54%
- within 500 mi
- 83%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 4%
The map counts signed recruits across his tenure; the distance figures cover his current roster, transfers and walk-ons included. Two different groups, kept separate on purpose.
The NFL pipeline
The NFL pipeline
players drafted into the NFL off his teams here. He brought in 15 of them himself; 4 arrived under Matt Canada (2), D.J. Durkin (2). 1 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | R3.36 | Jalen Huskey | Cornerback |  Jacksonville Jaguars | |
| 2025 | R3.38 | Tai Felton | Wide Receiver |  Minnesota Vikings | |
| 2025 | R4.30 | Ruben Hyppolite II | Linebacker |  Chicago Bears | |
| 2025 | R5.05 | Jordan Phillips | Defensive Tackle |  Miami Dolphins | |
| 2025 | R5.19 | Dante Trader Jr. | Safety | Miami Dolphins | |
| 2025 | R7.24 | Kaden Prather | Wide Receiver |  Buffalo Bills | |
| 2025 | R7.31 | Tommy Akingbesote | Defensive Tackle |  Dallas Cowboys | |
| 2024 | R3.13 | Delmar Glaze | Offensive Tackle |  Las Vegas Raiders |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R5.02 | Tarheeb Still | Cornerback |  Los Angeles Chargers | |
| 2023 | R1.25 | Deonte Banks | Cornerback |  New York Giants | |
| 2023 | R4.02 | Jakorian Bennett | Cornerback | Las Vegas Raiders | |
| 2023 | R4.10 | Chad Ryland | Place Kicker |  New England Patriots | |
| 2023 | R6.09 | Jaelyn Duncan | Offensive Tackle |  Tennessee Titans | |
| 2023 | R7.34 | Spencer Anderson | Offensive Guard |  Pittsburgh Steelers | |
| 2022 | R3.32 | Nick Cross | Safety |  Indianapolis Colts | |
| 2022 | R4.38 | Chigoziem Okonkwo | Tight End | Tennessee Titans | recruited under Matt Canada |
| 2021 | R7.05 | Jake Funk | Running Back |  Los Angeles Rams | recruited under D.J. Durkin |
| 2020 | R4.18 | Anthony McFarland Jr. | Running Back | Pittsburgh Steelers | recruited under Matt Canada |
| 2020 | R6.19 | Antoine Brooks Jr. | Safety | Pittsburgh Steelers | recruited under D.J. Durkin |
A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.
News
Stories about him
Headlines, grouped by what they are about. Each is the outlet’s own.
This season
Job security talk
- DC News Now +9Maryland football fires coach, but it’s not Mike LocksleyOct 21
All 16 articles
Yahoo SportsMaryland football fires coach, but it’s not Mike LocksleyDC News NowUniversity of Maryland parts ways with head football coach Mike Locksley, sources sayThe New York TimesMaryland fires head coach Mike Locksley as Terps sit winless in Big Ten playHollywood LifeWas Mike Locksley Fired as the Maryland Football Coach?Yahoo SportsMike Locksley out as Maryland football head coachSporting NewsMike Locksley out as Maryland football head coachSporting NewsMike Locksley out as Maryland football head coachDC News NowUniversity of Maryland parts ways with head football coach Mike Locksley, sources sayESPN PhilippinesSources - Maryland fires football coach Mike LocksleyYahoo SportsBREAKING: Maryland Fires Head Coach Mike LocksleySports IllustratedBREAKING: Maryland Football Fires Head Coach Mike LocksleyWMAR 2 News BaltimoreMike Locksley steps down as head football coach at University of Maryland - Awful Announcing +1Maryland student reporters have cops dispatched on them while covering Mike Locksley firingOct 21
- On3 +1Maryland fires head coach Mike Locksley after eight seasonsOct 21
ESPN +2Maryland fires coach Mike Locksley amid 12-game Big Ten skidOct 21
BroBible +2Student reports say Maryland called police for removal after Mike Locksley firingOct 21All 4 articles
Yahoo SportsStudent reports say Maryland called police for removal after Mike Locksley firingYahoo SportsMaryland staffer called cops on student journalists reporting on Mike Locksley firingBroBibleMaryland Called Cops On Student Journalists Reporting On Mike Locksley FiringUSA TodayStudent reports say Maryland called police for removal after Mike Locksley firing
Press conference and quotes
- Baltimore Sun +2Locksley wants Maryland football to talk less. History shows why. | ANALYSISSep 3
- Buckeyes Wire +1What Maryland coach Mike Locksley said about Ohio State postgameOct 10
All 2 articles
- Capital Gazette +1Mike Locksley details his Maryland exit, future plans in ESPN interviewOct 22
All 2 articles
- 247SportsStefon Diggs is already helping Maryland football and Mike Locksley says he has "a big secret"Aug 4
- 247SportsMike Locksley reveals he nearly added players from NFL training camps to Maryland football's rosterSep 1
Hot seat
- Lee News Central +1Heat check: Mike Locksley out of excuses. Two new names join coach hot seat rankingsOct 20
- On3Mike Locksley hot seat: Polymarket odds that Maryland coach will be out in 2026Aug 1
- 247SportsAmid hot seat talk, Mike Locksley remains quietly confident in a Maryland football bounce-backAug 5
WBFFMaryland's Locksley among 6 college football coaches under the most pressureAug 10
Yahoo SportsMike Locksley’s hot seat heats up after All-Big Ten edge Zahir Mathis suffers season-ending injuryAug 13
Game preview
Sports Illustrated +1Maryland Football's Reset Moment: Locksley Confronts Fundamental Failures Ahead of UCLA TestSep 22- On3Mike Locksley misidentifies Maryland's Week 2 opponent during opening statementSep 8
- 247SportsMike Locksley on what went wrong for Maryland football vs. Virginia Tech: "We've got to fix the football."Sep 20
- 247SportsIt's early in the season, but Maryland football and Mike Locksley face a must-win Saturday vs. UCLASep 22
- 247SportsWho wins? Does Mike Locksley's seat cool? Our bold predictions for Maryland-UCLASep 25
Loss
CBS SportsYou don't come back from a 54-3 loss to UCLA: It feels like time for Maryland to move on from Mike LocksleySep 26- [Pete Thamel] Sources: Maryland coach Mike Locksley has been dismissed. Maryland dropped to 2-5 on Saturday after a last-second loss to Rutgers. Locksley is 39-54 overall at Maryland, including his interim stint in 2015. Maryland is on a bye this week.Oct 21
- Yahoo SportsMaryland Coach Mike Locksley Makes Little Slip to Kick Off UConn WeekSep 8
- 247SportsIMS Radio: Mike Locksley's situation at a boiling point after Maryland football's loss to Virginia TechSep 23
- BroBibleFormer Maryland Football Player Throws Ex-Coach Mike Locksley Under The Bus After Embarrassing UCLA LossSep 29
Linked to another job
- 247Sports +7Maryland Head Coach Hot Board: Top candidates to replace Mike LocksleyOct 21
All 13 articles
On3Maryland Head Coach Hot Board: Top candidates to replace Mike LocksleyYahoo Sports$4M ACC Head Coach Named Among Candidates Being Considered to Replace Mike Locksley Amid Brian Kelly RumorsA to Z SportsMaryland's Mike Locksley firing starts the college football coaching carousel, and 5 candidates deserve every AD's attentionشبكة تواصل الإخباريةMaryland football hot board: 4 coaches who could replace Mike LocksleyThe Big LeadMaryland football hot board: 4 coaches who could replace Mike LocksleyYahoo SportsMaryland football hot board: 4 coaches who could replace Mike LocksleyThe New York TimesWhich college football coach candidates could replace Mike Locksley at Maryland?FOX Sports5 Coaching Candidates Maryland Could Target To Replace Mike LocksleyFOX Sports5 Coaching Candidates Maryland Could Target To Replace Mike Locksley247SportsMaryland football coaching hot board, version 1.0: 13 candidates to replace Mike LocksleyOn3Maryland Head Coach Hot Board: Top candidates to replace Mike LocksleyYahoo Sports9 Coaching Candidates to Replace Mike Locksley at Maryland - CBS SportsMaryland coaching candidates: Jake Dickert, Billy Napier among options to replace Mike LocksleyOct 21
- Yahoo SportsMaryland football rumors: Pat Forde urges Terrapins to poach from Curt Cignetti's Indiana staff to replace Mike LocksleySep 29
- Yahoo SportsMaryland football rumors: Why Terrapins are refusing to fire Mike Locksley right now despite being a dead man walkingOct 18
- Yahoo SportsMaryland football rumors: Brian Kelly, Chip Kelly, 2 Indiana coaches on Pete Nakos’ hot board to replace Mike LocksleyOct 21
What others say about him
Every quote, back to August 2026
What others say
I’ll never forget the day Coach Locksley offered me. He & his staff believed in me/supported me at every turn
but the time came where the athletic director just had to make a move to make sure anybody goes to the games … the fans definitely quit on [Locksley].
Following thoughtful conversations with Coach Locksley, we agreed that a coaching change was in the best interest of Coach Locksley and the Maryland football program
[Locksley’s] heart is so much in the right place. He’s such a great recruiter. He’s got a great offensive mind
In his own words
To be honest I kind of knew it was coming, just didn’t know when
Maryland football and this community mean a great deal to me
I won’t even get into that
I understand why the fans are frustrated. They’ve earned the right for us to play better than we have
I appreciate Ted’s hard work and dedication to our program during his time in College Park
I don’t know if you ever can, as a parent or as a coach, or as a teacher, fix everything once and for all. All you can do is continue to give it the attention that it needs
I don’t know if you ever can … fix everything once and for all
I’m really transparent in recruiting with recruits. When we sign guys, we don’t sign them based off what our record is, based on how we’ve performed
I’m super frustrated. Our players are super frustrated because we know we’re better than what we’ve played and that’s what motivates us
He’ll have our attention
I'll keep showing up tomorrow.
My focus is on Rutgers for next week. It’s not on anything other than that. My job as the head coach is to evaluate each week the things that show up on tape
The limiting of the explosives, which to me, when they’re the passing variety like they were today, that usually comes with leverage, eye control
When you play good teams like Nebraska, they don’t need help
Way too many self-inflicted wounds
It’s a collective of issues
We had opportunities
He shouldn’t have to feel he needs to carry the team
I still have a lot of confidence.
It starts with me as the leader of this team to figure out the things we have to do
Today was one of those games for us on offense where nothing we called worked
Movement was an issue for us on Saturday with how they moved the line of scrimmage, changed the surfaces of the blocks
It’s the type of environment that you want to have for your football team
Going into this game, there were no indications for me that we would play defense the way we played in terms of not being able to get off the field or stop the run
I watch college football all across the board. I see quarterbacks of that size play the way he plays
There’s been two veteran corners that we have a great high expectation from. [They] didn’t play with the high discipline that you’re going to need to play with
We’re always going to be a multi-tempo offense
That’s too big of a picture for me to worry about. I’m more concerned about week one
Hopefully he’ll get back to focusing on school and football.
We feel like Dontay has a support system here at Maryland, which is us, and being here is the best thing for him
That wasn’t a coach Locks decision. I take credit in that I could have shut it down, but here’s an example of when the Malik Washingtons and the Daniel Wingates of the world come and knock on the door
The difference is, for this year, is that we have a returning star
This is a trench league
He’s been through quite a bit here, and this summer really was not a good thing for him, not a good thing for us
We both decided mutually that he needs a fresh start
He’s a guy that deserves another chance
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Decliner the program's standing fell materially during the tenure · Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
11th-best Maryland tenure of 21 by the numbers.
Followed Matt Canada (2018).
| Season | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||
| Record | 3-9 | 2-3 | 7-6 | 8-5 | 8-5 | 4-8 | 4-8 | 2-6 | |
| Postseason | — | — | W bowl | W bowl | W bowl | — | — | — | |
| Coordinators | |||||||||
| OC | Scottie Montgomery | Scottie Montgomery | Dan Enos | Dan Enos / Mike Miller | Josh Gattis / Kevin Sumlin | Josh Gattis / Kevin Sumlin | Pep Hamilton | Clint Trickett | |
| DC | Jon Hoke | Jon Hoke | Brian Stewart | Brian Williams | Brian Williams | Aazaar Abdul-Rahim / Brian Williams | Aazaar Abdul-Rahim / Ted Monachino | Aazaar Abdul-Rahim / Ted Monachino | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||
| Offense | 5 | 26 | 83 | 47 | 57 | 15 | 25 | 9 | |
| Defense | 38 | 54 | 40 | 87 | 85 | 43 | 42 | 21 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 42.5 | 53.7 | 53.1 | 50.7 | 58.3 | 54.9 | 58.0 | 55.4 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 49.2 | 54.5 | 40.2 | 50.8 | 46.8 | 52.6 | 58.3 | 40.6 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 50.0 | 6.7 | 30.6 | 40.0 | 34.2 | 52.3 | 33.3 | 37.5 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
Brings in bigger-than-position-typical players than most.
A typical class-year mix of incoming transfers.
7th-best New Mexico tenure of 22 by the numbers.
Followed Rocky Long (1998–2008) · succeeded by George Barlow (2011).
| Season | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 1-11 | 1-11 | 0-4 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 24 | 6 | 15 | |
| Defense | 48 | 16 | 4 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 47.9 | 35.3 | 39.2 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 54.2 | 34.5 | 41.0 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 34.1 | 8.3 | 36.0 | |
1 NFL Draft pick: Erik Cook (2010)
Was he good?
The data leans negative, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
+4.1 pts at Maryland · #429 of 1290 · middle halfModel fit as of 2026-09-04.
Coordinator years
Offensive coordinator across 2 programs, 3 stints, before and after wearing the head-coach hat — every season measured on the same axis, whether he personally ran the unit or someone else did.
How to read this. Coordinator seasons come from our coordinator career records; head-coaching-era seasons are the same unit's FBS-relative percentile for those years, regardless of who coached it, read directly from the staff assignments record. A role change (a “hinge”) is a fact, never a performance verdict — only the season-by-season data itself is colored by outcome.