Auburn's Hugh Freeze can potentially make an extra $3 million in contract incentives

Freeze has a lot of performance incentives in his contract with Auburn football.

Lance Dawe | Jun 2, 2023

Auburn's Hugh Freeze can potentially make an extra $3 million in contract incentives /

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Details surrounding incentives in Hugh Freeze's contract with Auburn have been released.

The Tigers' first-year head coach could stand to make upwards of three million dollars in extra incentives if the team accomplishes certain goals.

Here are the extra on-field performance incentive bonuses, per the Opelika-Auburn News:

Annual Performance Incentives
- Each conference win beginning with the fifth (5th), and every conference in thereafter, in a single season: $150,000 (per win)
Conference Championship Game (not cumulative)
- Conference Championship Game Appearance: $200,000
- Conference Championship Game Victory: $400,000
Post-Season Bowl Game (not cumulative)
- Non-SEC Group of 6 Bowl Appearance: $50,000
- Citrus or SEC Group of 6 Bowl Appearance: $150,000
- New Year’s Six Bowl Appearance: $200,000
- New Year’s Six Bowl Victory: $250,000
- CFP Semifinal Game Appearance: $750,000
- CFP National Championship Game Appearance: $1,000,000
- CFP National Championship Game Victory: $2,000,000
Coach of the Year (cumulative, maximum earnable is $150,000)
- Conference Coach of the Year: $75,000
- National Coach of the Year (limited to one; Bryant, Camp, ESPN, AP, AFCA, Eddie Robinson, Bobby Dodd, Sporting News or Maxwell): $75,000

In total, if Freeze were able to lead the Tigers to an undefeated national championship season he would make an extra $3,150,000 on top of his annual salary of $6.5 million dollars.

Per Justin Lee of the OA News, "the pay is split between $250,000 in base salary, $3,125,000 in what’s called endorsement rights payment and $3,125,000 in what’s called personal appearances payment."

Auburn kicks off the 2023 season on September 2nd vs UMass at 2:00 p.m. CT on ESPN.

Auburn's Hugh Freeze can potentially make an extra $3 million in contract incentives

Lance Dawe | Jun 2, 2023

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