Only 21 months after guiding LSU to a perfect record and College Football Playoff National Championship, Ed Orgeron and the Tigers have reached an agreement for him to step aside after this season, sources told ESPN.

Orgeron, 60, will coach the remainder of the season, sources said. The Tigers are 4-3 after upsetting No. 20 Florida 49-42 at home Saturday.

Sports Illustrated first reported that Orgeron would not return to LSU in 2022.

Orgeron is among the highest-paid coaches in the FBS, behind only Alabama's Nick Saban and soon to be Texas A&M's Jimbo Fisher, with an annual salary of about $9 million. Under the terms of the six-year contract he signed in January 2020, the school owes him a buyout of more than $17 million. He is 49-17 over six seasons with LSU.

Orgeron and the Tigers had the perfect mix in the 2019 season. Led by Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow, a transfer quarterback from Ohio State, LSU went 15-0, winning 12 games by 10 or more points and defeating seven opponents ranked in the AP poll's top 10. Orgeron won nearly every national coach of the year award.

Following that championship, however, Burrow and 13 other Tigers departed for the NFL, including five first-rounders. Passing game coordinator Joe Brady, the architect of LSU's high-flying passing game, took a job with the Carolina Panthers, and defensive coordinator Dave Aranda was hired as Baylor's head coach.

During the coronavirus pandemic-shortened 2020 season, the Tigers finished 5-5 after starting at No. 6 in the preseason AP poll. Orgeron hired former Nebraska coach Bo Pelini to replace Aranda. Pelini was fired after the Tigers finished 97th in scoring defense (34.9 PPG) and 124th in total defense (492 YPG) in 2020. LSU paid Pelini a $4 million settlement to buy out the remainder of his contract.

Off the field, Orgeron was dogged by claims that he didn't properly report allegations of sexual misconduct by his players, which he has denied. In March, a woman testified to a Louisiana Senate select committee that former LSU running back Derrius Guice approached her while she was working as a security guard at the New Orleans Superdome in December 2017. According to the woman, Guice told her, "I like having sex with older women like you" and "I want your body."

The woman, Gloria Scott, told lawmakers that Orgeron called her offering to have Guice apologize. Scott said Orgeron asked her to "please forgive [Guice] because he's a troubled child."

Orgeron submitted a written statement to the committee, in lieu of testifying in person, and denied ever speaking to Scott directly about the matter. Scott said she told Orgeron that she wanted Guice suspended from playing in the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1, 2018. He was allowed to play.

In the letter to the committee, Orgeron wrote that whether he spoke to Scott directly "does not change the fact that what happened to Ms. Scott in 2017 is unequivocally wrong."

"As a leader, and as a father, son, and grandson, I want to emphasize that it is heartbreaking Ms. Scott was subjected to such crude remarks by Mr. Guice, and she should be respected for her bravery and resolve to provide her statements to the Committee," Orgeron wrote. "She, along with this Committee, has my word that I will continue to be vigilant in ensuring that the LSU football program maintains a culture of integrity and compliance."

In June, Orgeron was added as a defendant in an amended Title IX lawsuit against LSU that accused him of failing to properly report an allegation of rape against one of his players. In the fall of 2016, according to the complaint, Ashlyn Robertson told her new boyfriend, who had been recruited to play for LSU, that Guice had raped her.

According to the lawsuit, Robertson's boyfriend disclosed the rape to Orgeron, who allegedly responded by telling Robertson's boyfriend not to be upset because "everybody's girlfriend sleeps with other people."

At the time, Orgeron issued a statement denying he said that and "credibly denied" being told about the incident, according to the law firm Husch Blackwell's investigation into the university's handling of sexual misconduct cases.

The amended lawsuit states Orgeron never reported the rape to the Title IX office or any other office at LSU.

In December 2020, the Tigers added a bowl ban to its list of self-imposed sanctions stemming from improper benefits being made to players by boosters and others. LSU had already self-imposed a loss of eight scholarships over two years; a reduction in recruiting visits, evaluations and communication; and a ban of Cleveland Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. from its football facilities for two years.

The NCAA charged the Tigers with a Level III violation involving Beckham, a former LSU star, who gave $2,000 in cash to four Tigers football players on the field after the team's 42-25 victory over Clemson in the 2019 CFP National Championship.

The most serious allegation related to LSU's football program involves booster John Paul Funes, a former CEO of a hospital foundation whom the NCAA enforcement staff accused of "providing funds to the families of current and former student-athletes, arranging for members of the institution's football staff to use a private plane and offering internships to football student-athletes."

The enforcement staff confirmed that Funes "arranged employment beginning in 2012 for the parents of a then football student-athlete and paid the father $180,000 during 2012-17 for a no-show job." The enforcement case, which also includes allegations of improper payments to LSU basketball players and recruits, hasn't been adjudicated by the Independent Accountability Resolution Process.

Orgeron took over for fired coach Les Miles as an interim coach in September 2016 and was hired as his replacement in November 2016.

ESPN's Heather Dinich and Alex Scarborough contributed to this report.