2000 Idaho Vandals football team

2000 Idaho Vandals football
ConferenceBig West Conference
Record5–6 (3–2 Big West)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorBret Ingalls (1st season)
Offensive schemePro-style
Defensive coordinatorEd Rifilato[1][2] (1st season)
Base defense4–3
Home stadiumMartin Stadium (Pullman, WA)
Kibbie Dome (Moscow, ID)
Seasons
← 1999
2001 →
2000 Big West Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
Boise State $   5 0     10 2  
Utah State   4 1     5 6  
Idaho   3 2     5 6  
New Mexico State   1 4     3 8  
North Texas   1 4     3 8  
Arkansas State   1 4     1 10  
  • $ – Conference champion

The 2000 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the Big West Conference during the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by first-year head coach Tom Cable, the Vandals were 5–6 overall (3–2 in Big West, third).

Idaho played only one of their four home games at the Kibbie Dome, an indoor facility on campus in Moscow, Idaho;[3] the other three were at Martin Stadium at Washington State University in nearby Pullman, Washington.

In the Battle of the Palouse, Idaho defeated neighboring Washington State for the second straight year;[4] the previous two victories in this series were 35 years earlier and also in consecutive years under different head coaches: 1964 (Dee Andros) and 1965 (Steve Musseau).

  1. ^ Pond, Alex (August 30, 2000). "Familiar faces". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. (Idaho-Washington). p. 1B.
  2. ^ Sahlberg, Bert (September 1, 2000). "Gilbertson wary of his disciples on Idaho sideline". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). p. 1B.
  3. ^ Sahlberg, Bert (November 11, 2000). "Back at home sweet dome". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). p. 1B.
  4. ^ "Idaho 38, Washington State 34". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. September 24, 2000. p. 3B.