UConn coach Jim Mora is leaving the school to become the next head coach at Colorado State .

Huskies athletic director David Benedict said in a statement Wednesday that Mora informed him Tuesday night that he had accepted the Rams' coaching job.

"We are grateful for Coach Mora's contributions to UConn over the past four seasons. He took on the challenge of rebuilding our football program and delivered results that exceeded expectations," Benedict said. "... Coach Mora brought energy and a winning culture back to UConn football and put our program back on the national stage."

Mora is coming off back-to-back nine-win seasons at UConn, a school that hadn't had a nine-win football season since 2007. Mora led UConn to three bowl seasons in his four years there; the school had been to only

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