USC’s Lincoln Riley was 4th-highest paid college football coach in 2022

Riley earned $10.04 million in base pay and benefits in 2022, and was paid nearly $20 million total in his first year at USC, according to the school’s 2022-23 fiscal-year tax forms

USC head coach Lincoln Riley leads his Trojans into Eugene, Oregon, for a Pac-12 showdown Saturday against the No. 6 Ducks. LOS ANGELES — Upon Lincoln Riley’s arrival at USC in November 2021, the trumpets of the student band welcoming him to a terrace overlooking the Coliseum, one of the football coach’s first statements of this new era was to note the unity of the group of constituents who had brought him there.

He was hailed as a savior at USC in his first season in 2022, accelerating USC’s rebuild to a stunning 11-3 season. But USC stumbled in 2023, in a well-documented 8-5 finish. And the clear reality of USC’s investment into Riley, in addition to other financial commitments detailed in the tax forms, only intensifies the importance of continued progress in the program’s foray into the Big Ten Conference.

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