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Football is back and Dabo is getting paid!

The first few college football games of the 2017 season have been played! College football is officially back and we’ll get our first live look at the 2017 Clemson squad this weekend as they take on Kent State.

The big news from last week? Dabo Swinney agreed to a new 8-year contract. In terms of actual cash being paid per-year, Coach Swinney is the second highest paid coach in all of college football (with other benefits and perks included, he’s third after Nick Saban and Jim Harbaugh). The contract is frontloaded, so while it’s an average of 6.