Michael Locksley is the head football coach at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, a position he has held since December 2018. A Washington, D.C., native, he returned to Maryland for a third stint with the program after previous service as an assistant from 1997 to 2002 and as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2012 to 2015. The 2026 season is set to be his 18th year coaching at Maryland across those three periods.
Locksley arrived for his current tenure after three seasons on Alabama's staff under Nick Saban. He worked as an offensive analyst in 2016, then as co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach in 2017, when Alabama won the national championship. In 2018 he was promoted to offensive coordinator, and that season's offense averaged 45.6 points and 522.0 yards per game while setting school records for points, total offense, and passing yardage. Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa threw for 3,966 yards and a school-record 43 touchdown passes that year. Locksley received the 2018 Broyles Award as the nation's top assistant coach before leaving Tuscaloosa to take the Maryland head coaching job.
