College football coaches keep getting richer, but they're also cashing in on some lucrative perks and bonuses baked into some of their contracts. USA TODAY Sports
Jim Harbaugh is making $7.5 million this season to coach football at the University of Michigan. Jimbo Fisher is making roughly the same at Texas A&M. Only Alabama’s Nick Saban ($8.3 million) and Ohio State’s Urban Meyer ($7.6 million) are making more.
Such soaring salaries seem more suited to Wall Street than Sesame Street, but let’s borrow a sing-song game from the venerable children’s show anyway: One of these things is not like the others.