Top buyouts add up to half-billion

Here are some of the standing deals for publicuniversity coaches at the top of NCAA football — totaling $585.5 million:

Kirby Smart, Georgia, $92.5 million

Contract expires 2031. His predecessor, Mark Richt, had a $4.1 million buyout in 2015.

Brian Kelly, LSU, $70 million

Contract expires 2031. His predecessor, Ed Orgeron, had a $16.9 million buyout in 2021.

James Franklin, Penn St., $64.5 million

Contract expires 2031. He would owe Penn State $6 million if he left for the NFL this year.

Dabo Swinney, Clemson, $64 million

Contract expires 2031. If Swinney took another job this year, he would owe Clemson $5 million. If that job was at Alabama, where he was a walk-on, he would owe $7.5 million.

Matt Rhule, Nebraska, $62 million

Contract expires 2031, signed 2022.

Nebraska required to pay only 90% of remaining contract value.

His predecessor, Scott Frost, had a $15 million buyout in 2022.

Mark Stoops, Kentucky, $51 million

Contract expires 2031. Kentucky required to pay only 75% of remaining contract value.

His predecessor, Joker Phillips, had a $2.5 million buyout in 2012.

Josh Heupel, Tennessee, $46.5 million

Contract expires 2029, signed in 2023.

Tennessee paid buyouts of $12.6 million to Jeremy Pruitt in 2020 and $8.3 million to Butch Jones in 2017.

Ryan Day, Ohio State, $46 million

Contract expires 2028, signed in 2022.

An NFL team or another school would have to pay Ohio State $4.5 million if it were to hire Day before Feb. 1.

Nick Saban, Alabama, $45 million

Contract expires 2030, signed in 2021.

Alabama would owe Saban 48 months’ pay if he were fired, or for the number of months remaining if the contract is within four years of expiration.

Dan Lanning, Oregon, $44 million

Contract expires 2028, signed in 2023.

An NFL team or another school would have to pay Oregon $20 million to hire him at any point during the contract term.