USA Today’s annual FBS coaching salary tracker, the much-ballyhooed table that places all 128 FBS coaches in order by salary from highest to lowest uncovers a lot of interesting nuggets.
For the first time in what feels like forever, Alabama head coach Nick Saban is not the highest-paid coach in the country. The title now belongs to Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh, who will make $9,004,000 before bonuses (which could total $1,325,000.)
Needless to say, no MAC coach will probably get anywhere close to $9 million, much less $5 million. That’s not to say, however, we can’t see a MAC-affiliated $1 million/year coach in the near future.