Gary Patterson is No. 1 in the Big 12 in the standings, but not in pay.
The TCU football coach earned $5.1 million in 2015, according the school’s most recent tax filing. That is one of the top 10 salaries in the country, but not more than first-year Texas coach Tom Herman, according to a database of salaries published by USA Today.
Herman will make $5.5 million, not counting bonuses that could total $725,000. The newspaper annually publishes a list of salaries for FBS coaches.
Patterson is the ninth-highest paid coach on this year’s list, and Herman is the eighth.