The college football season begins in earnest this week and even though September is basically a ‘show me month’ littered with non-conference tune-ups against lesser foes, it can get late rather early for some programs.

Last year in Week 2, the Maryland Terrapins coughed up a late lead and fell at home to eight-point underdog Michigan State, setting the stage for the Terps’ worst season since head coach Mike Locksley’s first fall on campus in 2019. After close examination of the 4-8 season (1-8 in the Big Ten), Locksley admitted that he lost the locker room.

“It wasn’t because I wasn’t a good coach. It wasn’t because they weren’t good players, because we were better than a four-win team,” Locksley said to the Big Ten media last month. “But we had haves and have-nots for the first time in

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