These are college football's 10 highest-paid head coaches heading into the 2025 season after Colorado gave Deion Sanders an extension.

The highest-paid college football coach is Georgia's Kirby Smart, who makes an average of $13.2 million, per Spotrac. Smart signed a reported 10-year, $130 million deal with the Bulldogs in May 2024. With Smart leading the way, here's a look at the top five highest-paid college football coaches based on average annual salary, via Spotrac:

Sanders enters his third year at Colorado after spending the first three seasons of his collegiate coaching career at Jackson State. The Buffaloes improved to 9-4 in 2024 -- their first winning record in a full 12-game season since 2016 -- and pushed for an appearance in the Big 12 Championship Game with a 7-2 effort in conference play.

Colorado announced a contract extension for Deion Sanders on Friday that will keep him in gold and black through the 2029 season. The deal will also pay him plenty of green as he'll be making $54 million over the course of the five-year agreement.

Deion Sanders will remain the head coach at Colorado through the 2029 season under terms of a contract extension announced Friday.

If NFL teams hope to hire Deion Sanders away from college in the near-future, they will have to pull him away from a lucrative new contract at Colorado. Per Brian Howell of Buffzone, the Colorado board of regents approved a new five-year,

The contract raises Sanders' salary to $10 million this year, making him one of the 10 highest-paid coaches in the country.

Colorado Buffaloes fans from all over came flocking to social media to celebrate Deion Sanders record-breaking contract extension.

The deal was reached with three years remaining on Sanders’ existing five-year, $29.5 million deal he signed when he was brought in from Jackson State.