The new football head coach for the Michigan Wolverines,Sherrone Moore, is surprisingly underpaid. At $5.5 million annually, Moore’s current compensation is less than half that of the top coach in the sport. To be honest, Moore’s pay barely makes it into the top ten. Nonetheless, it’s easy to argue that Sherrone Moore ought to receive the biggest salary of any college football coach.
Moore just agreed to a five-year contract worth $5.5 million to coach the Michigan Wolverines. Ryan Day of Ohio State, whose team has lost to Michigan the last three years, will make almost twice as much, projected at $10.2 million annually.
Moore is not being paid his full market value, as evidenced by the latest media deals, Michigan’s regular top television ratings, and the fact that the team sells out the nation’s largest stadium. Add to this the fact that Michigan has the best schedule in college football history. Soon, Coach Moore and the Wolverines will be the center of attention.
The main attraction is the Michigan Wolverines.
Dabo Swinney, the head coach of Clemson, will be the best paid college football coach in 2024, with an estimated salary of $11.5 million. The Alabama Crimson Tide’s first-year head coach, Kalen DeBoer, will receive $10 million. More people will most likely watch Sherrone Moore and the Michigan Wolverines in the stands and on television.
The Rose Bowl matchup between Michigan and Alabama was the most viewed college football match of the previous season. The national championship match between Michigan and Washington was the second-most viewed game. The third-most watched game was Michigan versus Ohio State. The games that week had some of the greatest ratings, including Michigan versus Iowa at number eight, Michigan versus Penn State at number fifteen, and Michigan versus Nebraska, Michigan versus Maryland, and Michigan versus Michigan State.
Furthermore, Michigan routinely draws the biggest audiences for its home games at the “Big House.” There were around 770,000 home attendees in 2023.
Additional evidence. The Big Ten, which Michigan plays in, has the largest media deal. The conference’s eight billion dollar contract with FOX, CBS, and NBC, which runs for seven years, averages $1.15 billion annually, according to the Sports Business Journal. About $710 million is the value of the SEC’s media deal, which is the next-richest. According to Nielsen, each of the of the Big Ten member institutions will receive around $100 million annually from the agreement.
The All-Time Greatest Football Schedule Ever
Another example is the football schedule for Michigan in 2024. It might be the best in recorded history.
The Washington Huskies, who the Michigan Wolverines recently defeated to capture their first national championship since 1997, will be their opponent in 2024. Additionally, Michigan will play against Ohio State in “The Game,” like it always does. There’s more. The University of Texas will play Michigan. They’re going to play Oregon and USC. They’ll take on Michigan State, their bitter rival, in-state. The supposedly simple non-conference game for the Wolverines? Against the Bulldogs of Fresno State. For those who don’t know, Fresno State is among the all-time greatest D1 programs and won the Mountain West in 2022.
Ohio State ranks second in ESPN’s preseason rankings. Third place goes to Oregon. Texas comes in fourth. Every opponent from Michigan. USC and Washington are barely outside the top 25. Anticipate television ratings that break records.
How do you replace a legendary coach after a season that produced a national championship? The answer is obvious for the Michigan Wolverines and their new head coach, Sherrone Moore: they will play the best football schedule in history. Without a doubt, more people will watch Michigan than any other team in the nation, both on TV and in the stands.
