2000 Arizona Wildcats football team

2000 Arizona Wildcats football
ConferencePacific-10
Record5–6 (3–5 Pac-10)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorDino Babers (3rd season)
Offensive schemeSpread
Defensive coordinatorRich Ellerson (4th season)
Base defense4–3
Home stadiumArizona Stadium
Seasons
← 1999
2001 →
2000 Pacific-10 Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
No. 3 Washington $+   7 1     11 1  
No. 4 Oregon State  %+   7 1     11 1  
No. 7 Oregon +   7 1     10 2  
Stanford   4 4     5 6  
UCLA   3 5     6 6  
Arizona State   3 5     6 6  
Arizona   3 5     5 6  
USC   2 6     5 7  
Washington State   2 6     4 7  
California   2 6     3 8  
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • % – BCS at-large representative
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2000 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona during the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. They were coached by Dick Tomey in his fourteenth and final season. The Wildcats would finish the year with a 5–6 record (3–5 against Pac-10 opponents). Tomey resigned after the season concluded, which meant that he would not return for a fifteenth season as coach in 2001.[1]

After starting the season at 5–1 with a possible chance at a Rose Bowl, the team would lose their final five games due to offensive mistakes and a poor defense, which prevented them from reaching a bowl game and leading to Tomey’s resignation.[2]

  1. ^ "Tomey, Wildcats' winningest football coach, resigns". Tucson Citizen. November 25, 2000.
  2. ^ "Collapse in 2000, end of an era: The fall of Arizona football". Arizona Daily Wildcat. November 28, 2000.