2000 Oregon State Beavers football team

2000 Oregon State Beavers football
Pac-10 co-champion
Fiesta Bowl champion
Fiesta Bowl, W 41–9 vs. Notre Dame
ConferencePacific-10 Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 5
APNo. 4
Record11–1 (7–1 Pac-10)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorTim Lappano (2nd season)
Defensive coordinatorCraig Bray (1st season)
Captain
5
Home stadiumReser 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 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University in the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) during the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Beavers played their home games on campus at Reser Stadium in Corvallis and were led by second-year head coach Dennis Erickson.

The 2000 season was arguably the greatest season in OSU's football history. They finished the regular season at 10–1 (7–1 in Pac-10), to share the league title with Washington and Oregon–their first conference title since 1964. The three-point loss at Washington in early October kept the Beavers out of the Rose Bowl and their first outright conference title since 1956. They routed tenth-ranked Notre Dame 41–9 in the Fiesta Bowl,[1][2] and the eleven wins remains an Oregon State record.

  1. ^ Rodman, Bob (January 2, 2001). "Fiesta fireworks". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1E.
  2. ^ Baum, Bob (January 2, 2001). "Brash Beavers bash the Irish". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. p. C1.