2000 Baylor Bears football team

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2000 Baylor Bears football
Conference Big 12 Conference
DivisionSouth Division
2000 record29 (08 Big 12)
Head coach Kevin Steele (2nd season)
Home stadium Floyd Casey Stadium
(Capacity: 50,000)
Seasons
  1999
2001  
2000 Big 12 football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
Northern Division
No. 9 Kansas State xy 62    113 
No. 8 Nebraska x 62    102 
No. 25 Iowa State  53    93 
Colorado  35    38 
Kansas  26    47 
Missouri  26    38 
Southern Division
No. 1 Oklahoma x$# 80    130 
No. 12 Texas  71    93 
Texas A&M  53    75 
Texas Tech  35    76 
Oklahoma State  17    38 
Baylor  08    29 
Championship: Oklahoma 27, Kansas State 24
    1. BCS National Champion
  • $ BCS representative as conference champion
  • x Division champion/co-champions
  • y Championship game participant
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2000 Baylor Bears football team (variously "Baylor", "BU", or the "Bears") represented Baylor University in the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. They were represented in the Big 12 Conference in the South Division. They played their home games at Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco, Texas. They were coached by head coach Kevin Steele. They ended the season with the worst record in the Big 12.

Baylor University private university in Waco, Texas, United States

Baylor University, or simply Baylor, is a private Christian university in Waco, Texas. Chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas, it is the oldest continuously operating university in Texas and one of the first educational institutions west of the Mississippi River in the United States. Located on the banks of the Brazos River next to I-35, between the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and Austin, the university's 1,000-acre campus is the largest Baptist university campus in the world. Baylor University's athletic teams, known as the Bears, participate in 19 intercollegiate sports. The university is a member of the Big 12 Conference in the NCAA Division I. It was associated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas but no longer.

2000 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Oklahoma Sooners claiming their first national championship and their first conference championship since the departure of head coach Barry Switzer.

Big 12 Conference sports league

The Big 12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Irving, Texas. The conference consists of ten full-member universities. It is a member of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for all sports. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition. Its ten members, located in Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia, include eight public and two private, Christian schools. Additionally, the Big 12 has 11 affiliate members, eight for the sport of wrestling, one for women's gymnastics, and two for women's rowing. The Big 12 Conference is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in Delaware.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendance
August 317:00 PMat North Texas * CSS W 20–728,315
September 1611:30 AM Minnesota * FSN L 9–3420,125
September 236:00 PM South Florida *
  • Floyd Casey Stadium
  • Waco, Texas
W 28–1321,157
September 306:00 PM Iowa State
  • Floyd Casey Stadium
  • Waco, Texas
L 17–3131,126
October 76:00 PMat Texas Tech L 0–2840,209
October 1411:30 AM Texas A&M
FSNL 0–2440,076
October 2112:30 PMat No. 1 Nebraska L 0–5977,959
October 2811:30 AMat No. 22 Texas FSNL 14–4883,092
November 41:00 PMNo. 1 Oklahoma
  • Floyd Casey Stadium
  • Waco, Texas
L 7–5631,106
November 111:00 PM Missouri Dagger-14-plain.png
  • Floyd Casey Stadium
  • Waco, Texas
L 22–4729,872
November 181:00 PMat Oklahoma State L 22–5531,500
  • *Non-conference game
  • Dagger-14-plain.pngHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Central time

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References

  1. "Results/News Releases". Baylor Athletics. Retrieved September 11, 2012.