LOS ANGELES — Chip Kelly agreed to a five-year, $23.3 million deal to become U.C.L.A.’s football coach on Saturday.
A former Oregon coach, Kelly returns to the Pac-12 to replace Jim Mora, who was fired on Monday with one game left in his sixth season in Westwood.
Kelly, who turned 54 on Saturday, spent the past year out of coaching after four seasons in the N.F.L. He has elected to return to the college game with the sleeping giant of a program at U.C.L.A., which has not won a conference title since 1998.
“I am thrilled to welcome Chip Kelly to Westwood,” Athletic Director Dan Guerrero said.