With Deion Sanders getting the bag on his five-year, $54 million contact extension with the Colorado Buffaloes, who is next to join Coach Prime in the $10 million-plus annual salary club? The guys in the top 10 are no surprises,

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

Deion Sanders is getting his long-awaited payday from Colorado, as he finally gets what everyone thought he was plotting for when he emerged as a head coaching candidate for the Dallas Cowboys in January.

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 will remain the head coach at Colorado through the 2029 season under terms of a contract extension announced Friday. He will earn a base salary of $10 million

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' efforts in rebuilding the Colorado Buffaloes has paid off in a big way, as Sanders is now the fourth-highest paid coach in college football after signing a five-year, $54 million extension on Friday.