Jim Mora, UCLA agrees to two-year contract extension

UCLA isn't facing the same outside expectations it did last season, Jim Mora said during Pac-12 Football Media Days on July 30, 2015. (Sarah Reingewirtz/Staff)

Jim Mora agreed to a two-year contract extension Tuesday that will keep him with UCLA through the 2021 season. (Sarah Reingewirtz/Staff)

UCLA football head coach Jim Mora and the university agreed to a two-year contract extension through the 2021 season, the school announced Tuesday. The financial terms of the agreement were not announced.

In four seasons, Mora is 37-16 with the Bruins. His 37 wins in his first four years equal the school record for most victories over a four-year span. He is 23-13 in Pac-12 play with no conference titles. UCLA played in the Pac-12 Championship Game in 2012, losing to Stanford.

The Bruins had eight players drafted in the NFL Draft in April, a school record for the seven-round draft era.

The head coach was also a main figure in the construction of the Wasserman Football Center, which is scheduled to open in 2017. Mora’s previous contract extension, a six-year deal signed in December 2013, allowed that buyouts be waived if the university had not started construction on a football facility by October 2015.

UCLA is coming off an injury-plagued 8-5 season, the worst mark in Mora’s head coaching tenure, and starts the season on Sept. 3 at Texas A&M.