All together, the SEC’s 14 coaches will collect more than $75 million in salaries in 2020.

Newly crowned national champion Ed Orgeron received a nearly $5 million raise from LSU days after defeating Clemson for the College Football Playoff National Championship.

The Tigers coach's six-year, $42 million extension boosts his $4 million paycheck in 2019 to nearly $9 million in 2020, per the Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate. The deal makes Orgeron the second-highest paid coach in the conference behind Nick Saban, who enters his 14th season in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Georgia's Kirby Smart received a new seven-year contract in 2018. Smart's original deal paid him $3.75 million annually. The revised deal increases his pay by $500,000 a year, for an average pay of about $7 million per season. He is among the five-best paid coaches in the conference.

SEC coaches’ pay in 2020

Nick Saban, Alabama: $9.1 million 
Ed Orgeron, LSU: $8.7 million 
Jimbo Fisher, Texas A&M: $7.5 million 
Gus Malzahn, Auburn: $6.9 million 
Kirby Smart, Georgia: $6.8 million 
Dan Mullen, Florida: $6.1 million 
Mike Leach, Mississippi State: $5 million 
Mark Stoops, Kentucky: $5 million 
Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss: $3.9 million 
Jeremy Pruitt, Tennessee: $3.8 million 
Chad Morris, Arkansas: $3.5 million 
Will Muschamp, South Carolina: $3.3 million 
Derek Mason, Vanderbilt: $3.3 million* 
Barry Odom, Missouri: $3.05 million

The SEC’s two newest coaches — Lane Kiffin (Ole Miss) and Mike Leach (Mississippi State) — will make more than their predecessors.

Matt Luke — now Georgia's offensive line coach — made $3.1 million coaching the 4-8 Rebels last season. Kiffin left Florida Atlantic and signed a 4 year, $16.2 million deal at Ole Miss.

Joe Moorhead went 14-12 in two seasons at Starksville, Miss. He made $3.05 million as the Bulldogs’ coach in 2019. At $5 million a year, Leach becomes the highest-paid coach at Mississippi State since Dan Mullen ($4.5 million a year) left in 2017.

An SEC team has played for the national championship in each of the last five seasons, primarily against the ACC's Clemson Tigers. Clemson's Dabo Swinney is college football's highest paid coach at more than $9.3 million a year, according to the USA Today database.

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