1999–2000 NCAA football bowl games

The 1999–2000 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season. In the second year of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) era, Florida State defeated Virginia Tech in the 2000 Sugar Bowl, designated as the BCS National Championship Game for the 1999 season.

1999–00 NCAA football bowl games
Season1999
Number of bowls23
Bowl gamesDecember 18, 1999 –
January 4, 2000
National ChampionshipSugar Bowl
Location of ChampionshipLouisiana Superdome
New Orleans, LA
ChampionsFlorida State
Bowl record by conference
Conference Bowls Record Final AP Poll
SEC 8 4–4 (0.500) 7
Big Ten 7 5–2 (0.714) 7
Big 12 6 3–3 (0.500) 4
ACC 5 2–3 (0.400) 2
Pac-10 5 1–4 (0.200) 1
Big East 4 2–2 (0.500) 2
WAC 3 2–1 (0.667) 0
CUSA 3 1–2 (0.333) 1
MW 3 1–2 (0.333) 0
Big West 1 1–0 (1.000) 0
MAC 1 1–0 (1.000) 1

A total of 23 bowl games were played between December 18, 1999 and January 4, 2000 by 46 bowl-eligible teams.[1] One new bowl was established for the 1999–2000 season: the Mobile Alabama Bowl (now known as the Dollar General Bowl).

Non-BCS bowls
Date Time Game Site Result Ref.
Dec 18 6:00 PM Las Vegas Bowl Sam Boyd Stadium
 · Las Vegas, NV		 Utah 17, Fresno State 16
Dec 22 7:30 PM Mobile Alabama Bowl Ladd–Peebles Stadium
 · Mobile, AL		 TCU 28, No. 20 East Carolina 14
Dec 25 3:30 PM Aloha Bowl Aloha Stadium
 · Honolulu, HI		 Wake Forest 23, Arizona State 3
8:30 PM Oahu Bowl Aloha Stadium
 · Honolulu, HI		 Hawaii 23, Oregon State 17
Dec 27 2:30 PM Motor City Bowl Pontiac Silverdome
 · Pontiac, MI		 No. 11 Marshall 21, BYU 3
Dec 28 7:30 PM Alamo Bowl Alamodome
 · San Antonio, TX		 No. 13 Penn State 24, No. 18 Texas A&M 0
Dec 29 4:00 PM Music City Bowl Adelphia Coliseum
 · Nashville, TN		 Syracuse 20, Kentucky 13
8:00 PM Holiday Bowl Qualcomm Stadium
 · San Diego, CA		 No. 7 Kansas State 24, Washington 20
Dec 30 3:00 PM Humanitarian Bowl Bronco Stadium
 · Boise, ID		 Boise State 34, Louisville 31
7:00 PM MicronPC Bowl Pro Player Stadium
 · Miami Gardens, FL		 Illinois 63, Virginia 21
7:30 PM Peach Bowl Georgia Dome
 · Atlanta, GA		 No. 15 Mississippi State 17, Clemson 7
Dec 31 1:30 PM Insight.com Bowl Arizona Stadium
 · Tucson, AZ		 Colorado 62, No. 25 Boston College 28
2:15 PM Sun Bowl Sun Bowl
 · El Paso, TX		 Oregon 24, No. 12 Minnesota 20
5:00 PM Liberty Bowl Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium
 · Memphis, TN		 No. 16 Southern Miss 23, Colorado State 17
8:30 PM Independence Bowl Independence Stadium
 · Shreveport, LA		 Ole Miss 27, Oklahoma 25
Jan 1 11:00 AM Outback Bowl Raymond James Stadium
 · Tampa, FL		 No. 21 Georgia 28, No. 19 Purdue 25
11:00 AM Cotton Bowl Classic Cotton Bowl
 · Dallas, TX		 No. 24 Arkansas 27, No. 14 Texas 6
12:30 PM Gator Bowl Alltel Stadium
 · Jacksonville, FL		 No. 23 Miami (FL) 28, No. 17 Georgia Tech 13
1:00 PM Florida Citrus Bowl Florida Citrus Bowl
 · Orlando, FL		 No. 9 Michigan State 37, No. 10 Florida 34
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game. All times are in Eastern Time.[2]

BCS bowls
Date Time Game Site Result Ref.
Jan 1 4:30 PM Rose Bowl Rose Bowl
 · Pasadena, CA		 No. 4 Wisconsin 17, No. 22 Stanford 9
8:30 PM Orange Bowl Pro Player Stadium
 · Miami Gardens, FL		 No. 8 Michigan 35, No. 5 Alabama 34
Jan 2 8:00 PM Fiesta Bowl Sun Devil Stadium
 · Tempe, AZ		 No. 3 Nebraska 31, No. 6 Tennessee 21
Jan 4 8:00 PM Sugar Bowl
(BCS National Championship Game)		 Louisiana Superdome
 · New Orleans, LA		 No. 1 Florida State 46, No. 2 Virginia Tech 29
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game. All times are in Eastern Time.[2]

References
  1. "1999 College Football Bowl Games". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
  2. "College Football: Bowl Schedule". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 30, 1999. p. 47 – via Newspapers.com.
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