College Football Head Coach Salaries — Quick Comparison

[Mile High]

College Football Head Coach Salaries — Quick Comparison

Lane Kiffin – Ole Miss
~ $9,000,000 per year (contract structure beginning 2025)

Eliah Drinkwitz – Missouri
~ $9,000,000 per year (projected compensation for 2025 season)

Jon Sumrall – Tulane
~ $3,000,000 per year (approximate annual salary)

Eric Morris – North Texas
~ $1,200,000 per year (base); total compensation with incentives around ~$1.3-1.4 m

Bob Chesney – James Madison
~ $766,500 total pay in 2024 per published numbers

[Luke77]

The difference is (excluding Lane) that if those coaches played in the SEC and kept their rankings, they'd be paid similar to Drink. We could move to their respective conferences and underpay a coach, but then we'd be playing in the AAC or Sun Belt in front of 25K people.

As for Kiffin, he is much more bang for the buck than Drink and I personally would love to have him, but a big name like him would never land in Missouri.