Josh Heupel has received a raise in the middle of his second season at Tennessee.

Heupel received a $1 million raise, and is now a $5 million man in compensation, VolQuest reported. The Vols went 7-6 last season, and are 2-0 entering this week’s game against Akron. The head coach’s amended contract runs through Jan. 31, 2028 with a guaranteed salary of $5 million annually.

Heupel’s salary puts him roughly 11th in the SEC in compensation based on published reports of salaries of head coaches in the league. Heupel’s buyout, should he leave, is $8 million if he leaves before December 15, 2023 and it drops $2 million a year accordingly after that.

The head coach’s bonus structure remains unchanged from his original contract. Heupel’s bowl bonus structure ranges from $100,000 for making a bowl game up to $500,000 for winning the national championship game. He also has incentives for making the SEC Championship game, coach of the year honors, academic progress achievements and finishing ranked.

Heupel has quickly turned Tennessee around as the Vols before he arrived were 3-7.

Fueled by a high-powered offense, the Vols last year had the nation’s fastest offense — 2.99 plays per minute — and an attacking defense. In 2021, the Vols beat 6 teams by at least 24 points, and Heupel became just the fifth UT head coach in the last 80 years to win 7 or more games in his debut season.