Sanders will now make $10 million in 2025 and 2026 before a raise to $11 million kicks in, in 2027 and 2028. In 2029, the final year of the extension, he’ll earn $12 million, according to Buffzone’s Brian Howell.

The Colorado Buffaloes signed football coach Deion Sanders to a five-year, $54 million contract extension, Sanders confirmed Friday.

Sanders will now be making $10 million, making him the highest-paid football coach in the Big 12 and among the top 10 highest-paid head football coaches in the country, the school said.

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,

Deion Sanders' new contract with Colorado moves him into rare air among the highest-paid college football coaches.

Speculation had swirled that Coach Prime — credited with one of the biggest turnarounds in college football history— was eyeing a jump to the NFL.

Colorado and coach Deion Sanders have agreed on a contract extension through the 2029 season that put Sanders into the $10 million club as one of the 10 highest-paid coaches in college football. The five-year deal worth $54 million total will put Sanders at $10 million for 2025-26,

But college and NFL fans may be more interested in a different number listed in Sanders' new contract: what it would cost for Sanders to leave the Big 12 program. Throughout Sanders' stint with the Buffs — and Jackson State before then — there's always been a lingering question of whether or not bigger name brands would come calling for him.

Deion Sanders has a new contract to stay with the Colorado Buffaloes, the school announced on Friday. Sanders' contract, which was approved by the school's board of regents, is now a five-year, $54 million deal that will make him one of the highest-paid coaches in the country.