As head coaching vacancies become more common around college football this season, candidates are beginning to emerge from the assistant coach ranks.

Maryland came open again last week, and over the weekend, Kansas announced that it is in the market for a new coach. Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports has released another list of potential candidates and Alabama offensive coordinator Mike Locksley is among the possibilities.

Dodd wrote that Locksley is one of the season’s best stories. “Left on the scrap heap after jobs at New Mexico and Maryland, Locksley has thrived as a play-caller under Nick Saban, especially now with Tua Tagovailoa. Kansas might be interested, but would Locksley? Coming off possible back-to-back national championships, he could do better than KU. Locksley had personnel issues at New Mexico, but it is assumed all it would take is one phone call from Saban to the get the process rolling.”

Locksley has also been mentioned for the Maryland opening, and several of the same names have been publicized for both jobs.

Among them, former LSU coach Les Miles, N.C. State coach Dave Doeren, Neal Brown of Troy, Scott Satterfield of Appalachian State, Jason Candle of Toledo, Jeff Monken of Army, Jedd Fisch, an L.A. Rams offensive analyst, Willie Fritz of Tulane and Chris Creighton of Eastern Michigan.