CSU’s Mike Bobo remains the highest paid football coach in the Mountain West, earning $200,000 a year more than Boise State’s Bryan Harsin, according to a USA TODAY Sports database updated Wednesday.

Bobo’s annual salary of $1.8 million is nearly $390,000 more than the combined salaries of the head coaches the Rams (1-4, 0-1 MW) will face in their next two games — San Jose State’s Brent Brennan ($590,424) and New Mexico’s Bob Davie ($823,740) — and $223,000 more than the combined salaries of the league’s three lowest-paid head coaches.

Bobo, 44, has guided the Rams to 7-6 seasons each of the past three seasons that ended in bowl losses, along with a 1-4 start this year for a career record of 22-22 at CSU.

He received a raise of $150,000 this year over what he was originally scheduled to earn in a five-year, $10 million contract extension in December in a deal made by CSU athletic director Joe Parker, who also received a raise. Bobo’s annual salary is scheduled to increase by $100,000 each year over the five-year deal, reaching $2.2 million in 2022.

Bobo was the MW's highest-paid coach in 2017, as well, at $1.65 million a year. He is the 66th highest paid coach among the 123 reported salaries in the database.

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Harsin, who has led Boise State to a 45-13 record and three MW Mountain Division titles since taking over for Chris Petersen in 2014, will earn $1.65 million this year, according to the database. Fresno State’s Jeff Tedford, who led a program that had gone 1-11 in 2016 to the MW’s West Division title in his first season last year, will earn $1.55 million this year.

Hawaii’s Nick Rolovich is the MW’s lowest-paid head coach at $486,504 a year. Air Force declined to disclose coach Troy Calhoun’s contract details, but he is believed to be making about $950,000 this year, according to reports in the Colorado Springs Gazette.

Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre makes just less than $2.9 million a year, which ranks No. 45.

Alabama’s Nick Saban is the highest paid coach in the country at $8.3 million a year, followed by Ohio State’s Urban Meyer at $7.6 million and Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh at $7.5 million. Memphis’ Mike Norvell is the highest paid coach at a Group of 5 conference school, earning $2.6 million this year.

Louisiana-Monroe’s Matt Viator is the lowest-paid among the 123 Football Bowl Subdivision schools that are included in the database (Air Force, Army and five private universities did not provide contract information to USA TODAY Sports).

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MW football coach annual salaries

(For 2018, based on USA TODAY Sports database)

1. Mike Bobo, CSU, $1.8 million

2. Bryan Harsin, Boise State, $1.65 million

3. Jeff Tedford, Fresno State, $1.55 million

4. Craig Bohl, Wyoming, $1.41 million

5. x-Troy Calhoun, Air Force, $950,000*

6. Matt Wells, Utah State, $900,000

7. Rocky Long, San Diego State, $873,576

8. Bob Davie, New Mexico, $823,740

9. Tony Sanchez, UNLV, $600,000

10. Brent Brennan, San Jose State, $590,424

11. Jay Norvell, Nevada, $500,000

12. Nick Rolovich, Hawaii, $486,504

*Based on Colorado Springs Gazette reporting