UConn football coach Jim Mora has agreed to a new contract that includes two additional years that will take him through the 2028 season, the school announced Saturday.

The deal includes an increase to an average of $2.5 million per year over the term. He earned a base salary of $1.81 million in 2024, and the new contract will increase that base salary to $2.1 million in 2025.

Mora’s deal comes after he revitalized UConn football in his first three years at the school. He took over a program that went 1-11 the year before his arrival and led it to two bowl games in three years.

That includes an 8-4 regular season in 2024 that earned UConn a berth in the Wasabi Fenway Bowl against North Carolina on Saturday.

“Three years ago, I tasked Jim Mora with the challenge of returning our football team to success, and through his experience, energy and leadership, he has accomplished just that,” UConn athletic director David Benedict said in a statement. “He has led our program to the post-season bowl game twice and just led our team to one of the best seasons in UConn football history, building momentum to move this program forward. I look forward to his leadership of our football team in the years ahead.”

If Mora leads UConn to a victory over North Carolina, it would be the Huskies’ first nine-win season since 2007 and just the third nine-win season in school history. UConn participated in the Myrtle Beach Bowl in Mora’s first year in 2022, the school’s first bowl game since Bob Diaco led the Huskies to the St. Petersburg Bowl in 2015.

Mora is an experienced coach who completed two stints in the NFL with the Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks. He is in his ninth season as a collegiate head coach, having accepted the job at UCLA in 2012 and having a successful stint there that included two 10-win seasons. UCLA hasn’t won 10 games in a season since Mora’s departure.

At Friday’s Fenway Bowl press conference, he mentioned that UConn remained undefeated against Group 5 teams this season, with losses to Maryland, Duke, Wake Forest and Syracuse.

The 8-0 record against teams outside the power leagues, Mora said, made UConn one of three Group 5 teams to remain undefeated against Group 5 competition. He said it’s a sign of UConn’s growth as a program.

“For this program, we want to start not just competing with the Power 4 teams, but beating them,” Mora said, “and making the statement that we are becoming very relevant again on the football field.”