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Mel Tucker will be officially announced later today as the new head football coach at Colorado.
Sources have informed BuffZone.com that CU and Tucker finalized a deal late Tuesday night. Terms of the deal have not been released.
Tucker, who will become the 26th full-time head coach in CU football history, replaces Mike MacIntyre, who was fired Nov. 18 with one game left in his sixth season with the Buffaloes.
For the past three seasons, Tucker, 46, has been the defensive coordinator at Georgia. Throughout his coaching career, he has worked at the highest levels of college football, as well as in the National Football League, but this will be his first full-time head coaching job.