Over the weekend, Penn State fired longtime head football coach James Franklin after the team started the season 3-3 — and agreed to give him the second-biggest coaching buyout in college football history.

Penn State got off to a much worse start than its No. 2 preseason ranking would have predicted, and let Franklin go after he signed a 10-year contract in 2021 that made him one of the highest-paid coaches in the country. With his firing, Penn State is now on the hook for an estimated

$49 million or more left on his contract.