2000 NCAA Division I-A football season

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The 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with fans singing Oklahoma! as the Sooners claimed the first national championship and their first conference championship since the departure of Barry Switzer.

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops was in only his second season as head coach, but was a hot commodity coming in, having been the defensive coordinator of Steve Spurrier's 1996 National Champion Florida Gators, and also having helped Bill Snyder turn the Kansas State Wildcats around in the early 1990s. While Oklahoma fans reveled in the national championship, it might have meant even more that Stoops erased a three-game losing streak against rival Texas in 63-14 trampling, one of Texas' worst defeats in its history. Despite the lopsided victory, this game marked a return of the Red River Shootout to a rivalry game with national title implications.

The BCS title game was not without controversy, as the system shut second ranked Miami out of the championship game, despite having beaten #3 Florida State during the regular season, being ranked higher in both the AP Writers' Poll and the ESPN/USA Today Coaches' Poll, and having the same record as the Seminoles. 10-1 Washington, the only team who had beaten Miami, also deserved a shot at the national championship.

Virginia Tech also found themselves on the outside looking in, despite being ranked higher than both the at-large teams, Notre Dame and Oregon State.

Two new bowl games started this year: the Silicon Valley Bowl, which had a contractual tie-in with the WAC, and the GalleryFurntiture.com Bowl.

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[edit] Bowl Championship Series Rankings

WEEK #1 #2 EVENT
OCT 23 Nebraska Oklahoma Oklahoma 31, Nebraska 14
OCT 30 Oklahoma Virginia Tech Miami 41, Va. Tech 21
NOV 6 Oklahoma Florida State Miami 35, Pittsburgh 7
NOV 13 Oklahoma Miami Florida St 30, Florida 7
NOV 20 Oklahoma Florida State
NOV 27 Oklahoma Florida State Oklahoma 27, Kansas St. 24
FINAL Oklahoma Florida State

[edit] Final BCS Standings

  1. Oklahoma
  2. Florida State
  3. Miami
  4. Washington
  5. Virginia Tech
  6. Oregon State
  7. Florida
  8. Nebraska
  9. Kansas State
  10. Oregon
  11. Notre Dame
  12. Texas
  13. Georgia Tech
  14. TCU
  15. Clemson

[edit] Bowl Games

[edit] BCS Bowls

  • Orange Bowl: #1 Oklahoma (BCS #1) 13, #3 Florida State (BCS #2) 2
  • Rose Bowl: #4 Washington (Pac10 Champ) 34, #14 Purdue (Big10 co-Champ) 24
  • Fiesta Bowl: #6 Oregon State (At Large [Pac10 co-champ]) 41, #10 Notre Dame (At Large) 9
  • Sugar Bowl: #2 Miami (Big East Champ) 37, #7 Florida (SEC Champ) 20

[edit] Other New Years Day Bowls

[edit] December Bowl Games

[edit] Heisman Trophy Voting

The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award is given to the Most Outstanding Player of the year

[edit] Other Major Awards

Preceded by
1999 NCAA Division I-A football season		 Division I-A Seasons
2000		 Succeeded by
2001 NCAA Division I-A football season