TCU agrees to multi-year extension with coach Sonny Dykes, per report
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TCU is apparently set to keep Sonny Dykes around Fort Worth for the long haul.
According to a report on Friday morning by ESPN insider Pete Thamel, TCU and its head football coach have agreed to a new contract, which includes a lucrative multi-year extension. The 56-year-old Dykes was under contract through the 2028 season and, according to Thamel’s report, his last listed salary was more than $7 million.
Dykes has had an impressive run with the Big 12 program since he took over in 2022, leading TCU to more victories (36) than any other Big 12 program, which is quite a statement considering the competitiveness in the Power 4 conference.
There have been 17 losses for Dykes at TCU during that span, and 1 of them was in the national championship game to end the 2022 season, his first in Fort Worth, when the Horned Frogs fell to Georgia. After that special first season at TCU, when he went 13-2, Dykes followed a 5-7 clunker in 2023 with back-to-back 9-4 seasons in 2024 and last season.
Dykes’s salary last season was the third-highest in the Big 12. He has thrived in Fort Worth in the face of big expectations, taking over for longtime head coach Gary Patterson, who is now the defensive coordinator at USC.
Before arriving at TCU, Dykes had previous head coaching stints at Louisiana Tech, California and SMU, where he coached from 2018-21 before following Patterson in Fort Worth. Dykes has tipped his toes into the SEC waters as a coach, too, spending the 1997 and 1999 seasons as an assistant at Kentucky.
Dykes will be tasked this year with finding a replacement for transfer quarterback Josh Hoover, who bolted to play for reigning national champion Indiana in 2026.
With Dykes reportedly locked up for the long term at TCU, the Horned Frogs will be chasing a College Football Playoff berth again in 2026. Here is what the Kalshi market currently sees for the odds for the top teams in the mix to be in that Playoff come December:
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
