North Carolina coach Mack Brown, a College Football Hall of Famer who won a national championship at Texas, won’t return for the 2025 season.

The school announced the move Tuesday with a statement from athletic director Bubba Cunningham, who had informed the 73-year-old Brown that there would be a coaching change. Brown will coach the regular-season finale on Saturday against rival N.C. State.

Brown, who has three years remaining on his contract, had indicated his plans multiple times to return for a seventh season in his second stint with the Tar Heels.

North Carolina (6-5, 3-4 ACC) has been bowl eligible for every season of Brown’s second tenure, with a peak of reaching the ACC championship game in 2022.

The low point this season was an all-systems-failure showing in surrendering 70 points in a home loss to James Madison, which came amid a four-game skid following a 3-0 start.

UNC regrouped to return to bowl eligibility with a three-game winning streak.

Brown has 288 career wins, including 113 at UNCl.

He spent 10 seasons at UNC from 1988-97 and built the Tar Heels into a top-10 program before his departure for Texas, where he won 158 games in 16 seasons.

His 2018 return to Chapel Hill offered a reconnection to past success under a rejuvenated Brown, coming as UNC had lost 21 of 27 games under Larry Fedora.

The SEC’s losses were almost everyone else’s gain in the College Football Playoff rankings, with SMU nudging its way into the top 12 and Indiana staying in the mix at No. 10 despite a lopsided loss of its own.

The 12-team bracket released Tuesday placed undefeated Oregon on top for the fourth straight week. It did not include Alabama or Mississippi of the SEC, both of which suffered their third losses of the season last week.

That helped place SMU in the ninth spot, joining No. 6 Miami to give the ACC two teams in the 12-team bracket.

All eyes were on Indiana, and how harshly the committee would penalize the Hoosiers for their first loss of the season, a 38-15 thumping by No. 2 Ohio State. The Hoosiers fell just five spots.

The committee wasn’t nearly as generous to the Big 12. Losses by its top two teams — BYU and Colorado — vaulted Arizona State, which beat BYU, into the 12th and final spot in the bracket.

Boise State of the Mountain West was ranked 11th.

SEC leader Texas was ranked third.

Alabama dropped six spots to No. 13 and Ole Miss dropped five spots to No. 14.

Other rankings: No. 4 Penn State, No. 5 Notre Dame, No. 7 Georgia, No. 8 Tennessee.

Men’s basketball

Andrej Jakimovski converted an off-balance layup with 8 seconds left, and Colorado handed No. 2 UConn its second loss in two days at the Maui Invitational, beating the two-time defending national champion 73-72.

A day after a 99-97 overtime loss to Memphis, UConn (4-2) couldn’t shake the unranked Buffaloes (5-1), who shot 62.5% in the second half.

With Colorado trailing 72-71 in the closing seconds, Jakimovski drove to his right and absorbed contact from UConn’s Liam McNeeley. He tossed the ball toward the glass and the shot was good as he fell to the floor. Hassan Diarra missed a 3-pointer just ahead of the buzzer for UConn, which led by nine early in the second half.

SOCCER

St. Louis City SC hired former Aston Villa defender Olof Mellberg as its coach.

The 47-year-old Mellberg, who made more than 100 appearances for Sweden’s national team, will replace Bradley Carnell, who was fired by the MLS club in July. John Hackworth had been serving as interim manager.

St. Louis City made the playoffs in its inaugural 2023 season, but was just 8-13-13 in MLS play this year.

Robert Lewandowski joined Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi as the only players in Champions League history with 100 or more goals.

Lewandowski’s early penalty kick started Barcelona off to a 3-0 win over previously unbeaten Brest. The Poland striker added goal No. 101 in second-half stoppage time.

Ronaldo leads the all-time scoring list with 140 goals and Messi is next with 129. But neither play in the Champions League anymore.