2000 Michigan State Spartans football team

The 2000 Michigan State Spartans football team represented Michigan State University in the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Spartans played their home games at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan. This was the first year for head coach Bobby Williams, who took over the program after previous head coach Nick Saban had left to take the head coaching position at Louisiana State University.

2000 Michigan State Spartans football
ConferenceBig Ten Conference
2000 record5–6 (2–6 Big Ten)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorMorris Watts (2nd season)
Defensive coordinatorBill Miller (2nd season)
Home stadiumSpartan Stadium (c. 72,027 AstroTurf)
2000 Big Ten Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
No. 13 Purdue $+  6 2     8 4  
Northwestern +  6 2     8 4  
No. 11 Michigan +  6 2     9 3  
Ohio State  5 3     8 4  
No. 23 Wisconsin  4 4     9 4  
Minnesota  4 4     6 6  
Penn State  4 4     5 7  
Iowa  3 5     3 9  
Illinois  2 6     5 6  
Michigan State  2 6     5 6  
Indiana  2 6     3 8  
  • $ BCS representative as conference champion
  • + Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendance
September 912:00 p.m.Marshall*No. 24ESPNW 34–2472,983
September 167:00 p.m.at Missouri*No. 22FSNW 13–1055,289
September 233:30 p.m.No. 16 Notre Dame*No. 23
ABCW 27–2174,714
September 3012:00 p.m.NorthwesternNo. 18
  • Spartan Stadium
  • East Lansing, MI
ESPN+L 17–3773,128
October 712:00 p.m.at IowaESPN+L 16–2163,290
October 1412:00 p.m.Wisconsin
  • Spartan Stadium
  • East Lansing, MI
ESPN+L 10–1774,863
October 213:30 p.m.at No. 16 MichiganABCL 0–14111,514
October 2812:00 p.m.Illinois
  • Spartan Stadium
  • East Lansing, MI
ESPNW 14–1073,826
November 412:00 p.m.at No. 16/19 Ohio StateESPNL 13–2798,406
November 111:05 p.m.No. 9/10 Purdue
  • Spartan Stadium
  • East Lansing, MI
ABCW 30–1074,624
November 1812:00 p.m.at Penn StateESPN+L 23–4296,070
  • *Non-conference game
  • Homecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time

Coaching Staff


Rankings

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. т = Tied with team above or below. ( ) = First place votes.
Week
Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Final 
AP 25 24 24 22 23 18 NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 
Coaches Poll 22 22 23 20 20 15 25 NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 
BCS Not released NR NR NR NR NR NR NR Not released

2001 NFL Draft

The following players were selected in the 2001 NFL Draft.

PlayerRoundPickPositionNFL Team
Renaldo Hill7202CornerbackArizona Cardinals
Tupe Peko7217GuardNew York Jets
T. J. Turner7239Outside LinebackerNew England Patriots


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