Hugh Freeze has moved on from his past and is making the most of his present. But will the Liberty coach someday make a return to the Power 5?

LYNCHBURG, Va. — Hugh Freeze still has pieces of the goal post that once stood at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, the ones that students toted across Oxford Square after an upset of Alabama. He’s got photos of his father and Archie Manning on the field after Ole Miss’s Sugar Bowl victory in 2015. He has bowl rings with Rebels scripted on the side and red-and-blue Egg Bowl memorabilia from his three wins over rival Mississippi State.

However, none of those things are here, inside his window-lined office at Liberty University. On a giant shelf behind his desk, there is a Liberty helmet and a Liberty football. There are dozens of books, mostly football texts and Christian literature. There are Liberty lanyards, a bulky