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    • How Much Money Does Firing Gus Malzahn Cost Auburn?
    • How Much Money Does Firing Lovie Smith Cost Illinois?
    • How Much Money Does Firing Will Muschamp Cost South Carolina?
    • What Could Les Miles Earn Coaching at Kansas in 2020-2021?
    • What’s the Worst Coaching Contract in the PAC-12?
    • What Could Herm Edwards Earn at Arizona State in 2020-2021?
    • How Would a Cap on College Football Head Coaches’ Salaries Work?
    • What Does Lane Kiffin Stand to Earn This Upcoming Season?
    • What’s Mack Brown Going to Earn at North Carolina During 2020-2021?
    • What’s the Most Undervalued Contract in College Football?
    • How Much Did Kirby Smart Earn in 2019-2020?
    • How Much Did Dabo Swinney Earn Last Year?
    • Has Gus Malzahn Lived Up to His 2017 Contract Extension at Auburn?
    • Has Tom Herman Lived Up to His Contract at Texas?
    • How Much Would a PAC-12 and Big Ten Coach Lose This Season?
    • How Much Did Ed Orgeron Earn by Winning the National Championship?
    • What’s the Most Unrealistic Contract Clause in College Football?
    • 12.9 Million Reasons not to Shed a Tear for Les Miles
    • When A College Football Coach Gets Fired: The Sizable Cost of Saying Goodbye
    • College Football Coaches Are Making Millions Off A Useless Metric
    • Steve Sarkisian Lawsuit Details
    • 15 million potential reasons why LSU did not fire Les Miles
    • Harbaugh’s Employment Contract – Deep Dive
    • Contract Faceoff – Harbaugh vs. Meyer
    • Top Perks in NCAA Coaches’ Contracts
    • The Most Bizarre Stuff in NCAA Coaches’ Contracts

Coaches

  • Andy Avalos (Boise State)
  • Bill Bradford Clark (UAB)
  • Billy Napier (Louisiana at Lafayette)
  • Blake Anderson (Utah State)
  • Brady Hoke (San Diego State)
  • Brent Brennan (San Jose State)
  • Bret Bielema (Illinois)
  • Bronco Mendenhall (Virginia)
  • Bryan Harsin (Auburn University)
  • Butch Davis (Florida International)
  • Butch Jones (Arkansas State)
  • Chad Lunsford (Georgia Southern)
  • Charles Huff (Marshall)
  • Chip Kelly (UCLA)
  • Chris Creighton (Eastern Michigan)
  • Chris Klieman (Kansas State)
  • Chuck Martin (Miami of Ohio)
  • Craig Bohl (Wyoming)
  • Dabo Swinney (Clemson)
  • Dan Mullen (Florida)
  • Dana Dimel (UTEP)
  • Dana Holgorsen (Houston)
  • Danny Gonzales (New Mexico)
  • Dave Doeren (North Carolina State)
  • Doug Martin (New Mexico State)
  • Ed Orgeron (LSU)
  • Eliah Drinkwitz (Missouri)
  • Frank Solich (Ohio University)
  • Geoff Collins (Georgia Tech)
  • Gregory Schiano (Rutgers)
  • Gus Malzahn (Central Florida)
  • Herman Edwards (Arizona State)
  • Jacob Spavital (Texas State)
  • Jason Candle (Toledo)
  • Jay Norvell (Nevada)
  • Jedd Fisch (Arizona)
  • Jeff Brohm (Purdue)
  • Jeff Scott (South Florida)
  • Jeff Traylor (Texas at San Antonio)
  • Jim Harbaugh (Michigan)
  • Jim McElwain (Central Michigan)
  • Jimbo Fisher (Texas A&M)
  • Jimmy Lake (Washington)
  • Jonathan Smith (Oregon State)
  • Joshua Heupel (Tennessee)
  • Justin Fuente (VA Tech)
  • Justin Wilcox (UC Berkeley)
  • Kalen DeBoer (Fresno State)
  • Karl Dorrell (Colorado)
  • Kevin Sumlin (Arizona)
  • Kirby Smart (Georgia)
  • Kirk Ferentz (Iowa)
  • Kyle Whittingham (Utah)
  • Lance Leipold (Buffalo)
  • Lane Kiffin (Mississippi)
  • Leslie Edwin Miles (Kansas)
  • Lincoln Riley (Oklahoma)
  • Luke Fickell (Cincinnati)
  • Marcus Arroyo (UNLV)
  • Mario Cristobal (Oregon)
  • Mark Stoops (Kentucky)
  • Matt Campbell (Iowa State)
  • Matt Wells (Texas Tech)
  • Mel Tucker (Michigan State)
  • Michael Locksley (Maryland)
  • Michael London (William and Mary)
  • Mike Bobo (Colorado State)
  • Mike Gundy (Oklahoma State)
  • Mike Houston (East Carolina)
  • Mike Leach (Mississippi State)
  • Mike Neu (Ball State)
  • Mike Norvell (Florida State)
  • Neal Brown (West Virginia)
  • Nick Rolovich (Washington State)
  • Nick Saban (Alabama)
  • Paul Chryst (Wisconsin)
  • Paul Petrino (Idaho)
  • PJ Fleck (Minnesota)
  • Randy Edsall (Connecticut)
  • Rick Stockstill (Middle Tennessee State)
  • Ricky Rahne (Old Dominion)
  • Ryan Day (Ohio State)
  • Ryan Silverfield (Memphis)
  • Sam Pittman (Arkansas)
  • Scot Loeffler (Bowling Green State)
  • Scott Frost (Nebraska)
  • Scott Satterfield (Louisville)
  • Sean Lewis (Kent State)
  • Seth Littrell (North Texas)
  • Shane Beamer (South Carolina)
  • Shawn Clark (Appalachian State)
  • Shawn Elliott (Georgia State)
  • Skip Holtz (Louisiana Tech)
  • Steve Addazio (Colorado State)
  • Steve Sarkisian (Texas)
  • Terry Bowden (Louisiana-Monroe)
  • Thomas Hammock (Northern Illinois)
  • Tim Lester (Western Michigan)
  • Todd Graham (Hawaii)
  • Tom Allen (Indiana)
  • Tom Arth (Akron)
  • Tyson Helton (Western Kentucky)
  • Walt Bell (Massachusetts)
  • Will Hall (Southern Mississippi)
  • Will Healy (North Carolina Charlotte)
  • William Mack Brown (North Carolina)
  • Willie Taggart (Florida Atlantic)

Coach Contract Ranking – Top 25

  1. Dabo Swinney (Clemson)
  2. Nick Saban (Alabama)
  3. Steve Sarkisian (Texas)
  4. Lincoln Riley (Oklahoma)
  5. Ryan Day (Ohio State)
  6. Mel Tucker (Michigan State)
  7. Kyle Whittingham (Utah)
  8. Jeff Brohm (Purdue)
  9. Bret Bielema (Illinois)
  10. Scott Frost (Nebraska)
  11. Jim Harbaugh (Michigan)
  12. Geoff Collins (Georgia Tech)
  13. Dana Holgorsen (Houston)
  14. Neal Brown (West Virginia)
  15. Chip Kelly (UCLA)
  16. Bryan Harsin (Auburn University)
  17. Jimbo Fisher (Texas A&M)
  18. Tom Allen (Indiana)
  19. Mike Norvell (Florida State)
  20. Jedd Fisch (Arizona)
  21. Dan Mullen (Florida)
  22. Mike Gundy (Oklahoma State)
  23. Ed Orgeron (LSU)
  24. Paul Chryst (Wisconsin)
  25. Matt Campbell (Iowa State)

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