Nick Saban is the highest-paid college football coach with a salary of $9,300,000, according to USA TODAY's NCAA salaries database. Nick Saban is the highest-paid college football coach with a salary of $9,300,000, according to USA TODAY's NCAA salaries database. As part of our ongoing series, FootballScoop has examined the 10 highest-paid special teams coordinators in college football. Note: USA Today lists Patterson's latest annual pay as $6.1 million, a number which is said to include all forms of compensation. Note: Auburn fired Gus Malzahn on Dec. 13, 2020. Here are the highest-paid football coaches in the NFL. Saban has now been college football's highest-paid coach in seven of the past nine years. This year, the average Power Five coach is making nearly $4.4 million in total compensation – more than four times the compensation for the average Group of Five coach. College football coaches' salaries as of Dec. 1, 2017. The one exception is Kansas' Les Miles: USA Today has Miles at $3.5 million, but the Los Angeles Times and Kansas' Wichita Eagle have his pay in the $2.7 million-$2.8 million range. • College Football • ... 2020 NCAA football head coach salaries methodology . Scanning FCS Coaches’ Salaries. Robert Willett/Associated Press 23 (tie). The professor operates from a false assumption that the vast salaries paid to college football coaches are beneficial to the educational institutions they serve. 3, Ryan Day: $5,651,694 Pruitt's camp accused Tennessee of "an orchestrated effort to renege on contractual promises." ► It's not surprising that there is a difference in coaching salaries between Power Five schools and Group of Five schools, but the size of the gap is notable. Note: Lovie Smith was fired by Illinois on Dec. 13, 2020. The top assistant coach salary is for Louisiana State's David Arnada, who earns $2.5 million. Note: According to the Los Angeles Times, Norvell accepted the biggest COVID-related salary cut among the nation's top coaches. Before getting into the top 25 highest-paid college football coaches for the 2020 season, let’s take a second to talk about Mark Dantonio who will get paid $4.3 million to not coach this year. Three years ago, Day was making $400,000 as an assistant coach at Ohio State. Here's how we've adapted and presented the data: We've listed every coach whose latest reported salary was pegged at $3 million or higher. Search College football coach jobs. College sports. Assistant coaches working with players at the community college level earn significantly less than their university counterparts. What a coach makes at a Division II school depends on many factors, including the state, the sport and whether you coach the men's or women's team. Using public-records requests, Newsday obtained the contracts for college football coaches at 109 public schools and services academies in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A. The above number was pulled from, (Photo: Nick King/Lansing State Journal via Imagn Content Services, USA TODAY Sports), (Photo: Jeffrey Becker, USA TODAY Sports), Note: USA Today has Ferentz's latest annual pay at $4.9 million; the Los Angeles Times puts him at $4.8 million. While ZipRecruiter is seeing annual salaries as high as $66,000 and as low as $16,500, the majority of salaries within the College Football Coaches jobs category currently range between $24,000 (25th percentile) to $44,500 (75th percentile) with top earners (90th percentile) making $53,500 annually across the United States. Which college football coaches improved their stock the most in 2020? Mack Brown, North Carolina Dabo Swinney — head coach of the reigning champion … 6d ESPN… Latest sports news, scores, schedules, stats and more for all pro sports including NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, college sports, high school sports and more. College football coaches are insurance agents, and their bosses will pay a premium to make sure their toilets never spring a leak and their opponent’s drives all start inside their own 30. Coach Salaries by State and City. Sumlin was fired by Arizona on Dec. 12, 2020, a day after the Wildcats lost to the Arizona State Sun Devils, 70-7. Illinois Fighting Illini. Badgers football: Wisconsin assistant coaches salaries rank in bottom half of Big Ten. The school called the termination a "for-cause" firing. Clemson's Dabo Swinney, who ruled in our 2019 review, has been deposed. He’ll earn around the same on average as Saban over the next several years of their contracts, but he received additional pay this year due to a contract extension that included some additional incentives. And more than half of Power Five coaches (33) have buyouts of $10 million or more. All together, the SEC’s 14 coaches will collect more than $75 million in salaries in 2020. Note: USA Today has Muschamp's latest annual pay at $4.6 million, but the Los Angeles Times, which put the figure at $4.4 million, reported that Muschamp redid his deal to basically pass along his scheduled 2020 raise (of $200,000) to one of his assistants. By . But college football coaches are paid far more than CEOs of similarly sized private companies, salary data show. Follow Steve Berkowitz on Twitter @ByBerkowitz. ► Nothing helps a coach's wallet like a national championship run. Coaches' records updated through week 15 of the 2020 college football season. Athletics were already outstripping academics. Three coaches had a previous head coaching stint at their current school that began prior to the 2002 season: Randy Edsall at UConn, Mack Brown at North Carolina, and Greg Schiano at Rutgers. USA TODAY Sports' annual review of coaches' compensation, Ed Orgeron accrued more than $1.77 million in bonuses last year, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. As for Notre Dame's Brian Kelly? We noted a few of them earlier this week. And that was before his 2021-inked contract extension.). Note: This figure was current as of the 2020 season, and does not reflect the revised numbers that Jim Harbaugh and Michigan agreed to on Jan. 8, 2021. South Carolina fired Muschamp on Nov. 15, 2020. According to USA Today, Sharrieff's estimated salary of $400,000 for the 2020 season makes him the 245th highest paid assistant coach in college football. University of Michigan. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City airs on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on Bravo. The actual database is accompanied by plenty of follow-up reports. Badgers sports: Committee approves $132.4 million Wisconsin athletics budget for 2017-18. It’s hard to argue against Swinney and Saban being the highest paid coaches. It reflects Whittingham's wages for the 2020 fiscal year. The overall average coaching salary as $56,290 at colleges, universities and professional schools in 2016, with big variations across divisions. ► USA TODAY Sports found some trends in pay cuts being taken by coaches in different conferences.