The first-year salaries of some of the coaches hired in major college football in December and November:
Coach, School, 2017 salary
Tom Herman,Texas,$5.25 million
Jeff Brohm,xPurdue, $3.3 million
Willie Taggart, Oregon, $2.9 million
Luke Fickell, Cincinnati, $2.3 million
Jeff Tedford, Fresno State, $1.6 million
Lane Kiffin, Florida Atlantic, $1 million
Randy Edsall, Connecticut, $1 million