1999 BYU Cougars football team explained

Year:1999
Team:BYU Cougars
Sport:football
Conference:Mountain West Conference
Short Conf:MW
Record:8–4
Conf Record:5–2
Head Coach:LaVell Edwards
Hc Year:28th
Cooff Coach1:Norm Chow
Cooc1 Year:4th
Cooff Coach2:Roger French
Cooc2 Year:19th
Off Scheme:Pro spread
Def Coach:Ken Schmidt
Dc Year:9th
Def Scheme:4–3
Stadium:Cougar Stadium
Champion:MW co-champion
Bowl:Motor City Bowl
Bowl Result:L 3–21 vs. Marshall

The 1999 BYU Cougars football team represented Brigham Young University in the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cougars were led by 28th-year head coach LaVell Edwards, in what would be his second-to-last season with the team, and played their home games at Cougar Stadium. This was the school's first year in the newly formed Mountain West Conference, and they would go on to share the conference's first conference championship with Utah and Colorado State. They finished with a record of 8–4 (5–2 MW), and were invited to the 1999 Motor City Bowl, where they lost to undefeated Marshall, 3–21.

Schedule

Sources:[1] [2]

•SportsWest Productions (SWP) games were shown locally on KSL 5.

Rankings

See also: 1999 NCAA Division I-A football rankings.

Game summaries

Washington

Colorado State

Virginia

Utah State

Cal

New Mexico

UNLV

Air Force

San Diego State

Wyoming

Utah

Marshall

Notes and References

  1. http://byucougars.com/files/media_guides/m-football/pdf/MG_FB_1999.pdf 1999 Cougar Football Media Guide
  2. Web site: 1999 Brigham Young Cougars Schedule and Results . Sports-Reference.com . May 9, 2017.