Oregon Ducks coach Dan Lanning agreed to a two-year contract extension that runs through 2030, a person briefed on the deal confirmed Thursday. The new deal bumps his average annual salary to more than $10 million per year, the source said, making him one of the highest-paid coaches in college football.
The deal is pending approval from the Oregon board of trustees, which has a meeting scheduled for Friday. Listed on the posted agenda is “employment contracts for intercollegiate football coaches.”
Yahoo Sports first reported this extension.
This past season, the Ducks went 13-0 in the regular season, won the Big Ten championship in their first season as a member of the conference and were ranked No. 1 in the country for eight weeks before losing in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals to Ohio State.
The 38-year-old Lanning is 35-6 in three seasons with Oregon. It’s his first collegiate head-coaching job after four years with Georgia, where he spent three seasons as the defensive coordinator and one as the outside linebackers coach.
With the salary bump, Lanning now joins a college football coaching tier alongside Ohio State’s Ryan Day, Georgia’s Kirby Smart, Clemson’s Dabo Swinney and Texas’ Steve Sarkisian.
Day agreed to a new deal last month that pushed his salary over $12 million per year, making him the second-highest-paid coach behind Smart, who makes more than $13 million. Swinney makes more than $11 million annually and Texas gave Sarkisian a new deal that raises his salary to over $11 million.
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