{"id":542010,"date":"2025-11-01T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/542010\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:28:12","slug":"college-football-fired-coach-buyouts-tracker-how-much-schools-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/542010\/","title":{"rendered":"College football fired coach buyouts tracker: How much schools spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Top college football coaching vacancies ranked<\/p>\n

Before The Snap ranked the top-4 head coach openings in college football, including LSU, Penn State, Florida and Arkansas.<\/p>\n

Ten FBS coaches have been fired since the start of the 2025 season. That includes openings at some of the country’s biggest programs: Penn State<\/a>, LSU<\/a> and Florida<\/a>. And being a fired college football doesn’t seem all that bad.<\/p>\n

The combined buyouts are pushing $170 million, according to contracts and term sheets obtained by USA TODAY Sports<\/a>. And it won’t be long until we reach $200 million.<\/p>\n

Brian Kelly and James Franklin’s $50 million buyouts are doing most of that lift, rivaling Jimbo Fisher’s $76.8 million<\/a> Texas A&M gave him to go away as the largest buyouts in college football history.<\/p>\n

LSU football becomes a circus. <\/strong>Does Lane Kiffin want to be a clown in the act?<\/a><\/p>\n

Year 4 or shown the door? <\/strong>Florida showed Auburn the price for retaining a lame-duck coach<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a look at the buyouts for the 10 coaches fired so far this season:<\/p>\n

College football 2025 fired coaches buyouts<\/p>\n

These buyouts may be subject to coaches’ duty to mitigate by getting new jobs with the firing schools getting to offset the buyouts based on the new employment income.<\/p>\n

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  1. Brian Kell<\/a>y, LSU, $53 million<\/li>\n
  2. James Franklin, Penn State $49 million<\/li>\n
  3. Billy Napier, Florida<\/a>, $21 million<\/li>\n
  4. Mike Gundy<\/a>, Oklahoma State, $15 million<\/li>\n
  5. Sam Pittman<\/a>, Arkansas, $9.3 million<\/li>\n
  6. Brent Pry<\/a>, Virginia Tech, $6.8 million<\/li>\n
  7. DeShaun Foster<\/a>, UCLA, $6.4 million<\/li>\n
  8. Trent Bray, Oregon State, ~$4 million<\/li>\n
  9. Trent Dilfer, UAB, $3 million<\/li>\n
  10. Jay Norvell, Colorado State<\/a>, $1.5 million<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Keep up with the latest news and analysis from college football’s top two conferences: Check out our Big Ten Hub<\/a> and our SEC Hub<\/a> to get school-by-school coverage from across the USA TODAY Network.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top college football coaching vacancies ranked Before The Snap ranked the top-4 head coach openings in college football,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[10548,174466,6304,12634,24398,7747,174465,174471,174487,59063,13236,136450,136438,143175,174491,855,174473,56952,53907,12058,10932,12067,3613,174488,46928,27719,174462,44225,577,174484,94,174467,174474,174464,29729,174463,174476,174469,174468,174485,19910,20300,174483,8178,174492,174470,174486,152178,12049,73131,6584,12,27725,3577,18607,174478,20257,174480,5179,6591,27724,27745,27726,92519,136439,136451,57402,79,174482,6924,5199,326,19332,369,174479,3948,9699,1400,174475,5181,174472,174489,11228,174490,49,5178,174481,978,659,18772,174477],"class_list":["post-542010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-10548","tag-aggies","tag-alabama","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-at","tag-au0026m","tag-auburn","tag-auburn-tigers-football","tag-beavers","tag-big","tag-big-10-hub","tag-big-ten-conference-football","tag-billy","tag-billy-napier","tag-birmingham","tag-blazers","tag-bruins","tag-coaching","tag-college","tag-college-football","tag-college-sports","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-state-rams-football","tag-conference","tag-cowboys","tag-dilfer","tag-fisher","tag-florida","tag-florida-gators-football","tag-football","tag-gators","tag-gundy","tag-hokies","tag-hub","tag-jimbo","tag-jimbo-fisher","tag-kiffin","tag-lane","tag-lane-kiffin","tag-lions","tag-louisiana","tag-louisiana-state-tigers-football","tag-mike","tag-mike-gundy","tag-monte","tag-monte-kiffin","tag-napier","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-southeastern-conference","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-nittany","tag-of","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-state-cowboys-football","tag-oregon","tag-oregon-state-beavers-football","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-penn","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions-football","tag-rams","tag-sec","tag-sec-conference-football","tag-sec-hub","tag-southeastern","tag-sports","tag-sports-coaching-u0026-training","tag-sports-news","tag-state","tag-tech","tag-ten","tag-texas","tag-texas-au0026m-aggies-football","tag-tigers","tag-training","tag-trent","tag-trent-dilfer","tag-u0026","tag-uab","tag-uab-blazers-football","tag-ucla","tag-ucla-bruins-football","tag-united-states","tag-university","tag-university-of-alabama-at-birmingham","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-virginia","tag-virginia-tech-hokies-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}