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Which SEC football coach has the largest contract buyout?

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USA Today released its annual college football coaches salary database on Wednesday, a list that always includes a number of fascinating facts and figures.

For the first time, the database includes buyout figures for nearly every coach. These buyout figures are what the school would owe the coach as of Dec. 1, 2017, if he were to be “fired without cause,” that is, for not winning enough.

Read below for buyout figures for every coach in the SEC, starting from highest to lowest.

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Mark Stoops
David Stephenson

Stoops has a sweetheart of a deal at Kentucky, where he’s under contract through the 2022 season at an average $4 million-plus per season.