1999 BYU Cougars football team

1999 BYU Cougars football
1999 BYU Cougars football
MW co-champion
Motor City Bowl, L 3–21 vs. Marshall
Conference	Mountain West Conference
Record	8–4 (5–2 MW)
Head coach	LaVell Edwards (28th season);
Co-offensive coordinator	Norm Chow (4th season)
Co-offensive coordinator	Roger French (19th season)
Offensive scheme	Pro spread
Defensive coordinator	Ken Schmidt (9th season)
Base defense	4–3
Home stadium	Cougar Stadium
	Seasons ← 1998 2000 →

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.

1999 Mountain West Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
Utah +	5	–	2	9	–	3
BYU +	5	–	2	8	–	4
Colorado State +	5	–	2	8	–	4
Wyoming	4	–	3	7	–	4
San Diego State	3	–	4	5	–	6
New Mexico	3	–	4	4	–	7
Air Force	2	–	5	6	–	5
UNLV	1	–	6	3	–	8

+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result
September 9	6:00pm	Washington*		Cougar Stadium Provo, Utah	ESPN	W 35–28
September 16	6:00pm	No. 23 Colorado State	No. 25	Cougar Stadium Provo, Utah	ESPN	W 34–13
September 25	7:00pm	Virginia*	No. 17	Cougar Stadium Provo, Utah	ESPN2	L 40–45
October 1	7:00pm	at Utah State*		Romney Stadium Logan, Utah (The Old Wagon Wheel; Beehive Boot)	SWP^[1]	W 34–31 ^OT
October 9	5:00pm	California*	No. 24	Cougar Stadium Provo, Utah	ABC	W 38–28
October 16	6:00pm	at New Mexico	No. 21	University Stadium Albuquerque, New Mexico		W 31–7
October 23	5:00pm	at UNLV	No. 19	Sam Boyd Stadium Whitney, Nevada	SWP	W 29–0
October 30	1:00pm	Air Force	No. 16	Cougar Stadium Provo, Utah	ESPN+	W 27–20
November 6	1:00pm	at San Diego State	No. 15	Qualcomm Stadium San Diego	SWP	W 30–7
November 13	Noon	at Wyoming	No. 15	War Memorial Stadium Laramie, Wyoming	SWP	L 17–31
November 20	1:00pm	Utah	No. 19	Cougar Stadium Provo, Utah (Holy War; Beehive Boot)	ESPN+	L 17–20
December 27		vs. No. 11 Marshall*		Pontiac Silverdome Pontiac, Michigan (Motor City Bowl)	ESPN	L 3–21
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Mountain time

Sources:^[2]^[3]

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

Roster

1999 BYU Cougars football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
QB	`11`	Brandon Doman	So
TE	`88`	Doug Jolley	So
WR	`20`	Reno Mahe	So
TE	`89`	Spencer Nead	Fr
TE	`91`	Tevita Ofahengaue	Jr
TE	`42`	Gabriel Reid	Fr
RB	`34`	Kalani Sitake	Jr
RB	`6`	Luke Staley	Fr

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
DE	`92`	Ryan Denney	So
LB	`55`	Justin Ena	So
DE	`93`	Byron Frisch	Sr
DT	`98`	Chris Hoke	Jr
DE	`93`	Brett Keisel	So
LB	`44`	Rob Morris	Sr
DT	`72`	Hans Olsen	Jr

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class
K	`27`	Owen Pochman	Jr

Head coach

LaVell Edwards

Coordinators/assistant coaches

Legend

(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible

Injured
Redshirt

Roster

Rankings

Ranking movements
**Legend:** ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking
— = Not ranked RV = Received votes
	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	Final
AP	RV	—	—	25	17	RV	24	21	19	16	15	15	19	—	—	—	—
Coaches Poll	—	—*	—	—	19	RV	24	20	19	15	13	12	19	—	25	25	—
BCS	Not released									—	15	14	—	—	—	—	Not released

Game summaries

Washington

	1	2	3	4	Total
Washington	7	0	7	14	28
• BYU	0	13	14	8	35

Date: September 9
Location: Cougar Stadium, Provo, UT
Game start: 6:01 p.m. MDT
Elapsed time: 3:44
Game attendance: 65,726
Game weather: 82 °F (28 °C), Overcast
TV announcers (ESPN2): Mike Tirico, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Dr. Jerry Punch

Colorado State

	1	2	3	4	Total
#23/24 Colorado State	0	0	0	13	13
• #25/RV BYU	7	14	10	3	34

Date: September 16
Location: Cougar Stadium, Provo, UT
Game start: 6:01 p.m. MDT
Elapsed time: 3:24
Game attendance: 63,054
Game weather: 78 °F (26 °C), Partly Cloudy
TV announcers (ESPN): Mike Tirico, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Dr. Jerry Punch

Virginia

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Virginia	21	7	17	0	45
#17/19 BYU	0	19	14	7	40

Date: September 25
Location: Cougar Stadium, Provo, UT
Game start: 7:11 p.m. MDT
Elapsed time: 3:29
Game attendance: 65,453
Game weather: 77 °F (25 °C), Clear
TV announcers (ESPN2): Mark Jones, Sean Salisbury, Nick Lowery

Utah State

	1	2	3	4	OT	Total
• BYU	7	10	7	7	3	34
Utah State	14	6	0	11	0	31

Date: October 1
Location: Romney Stadium, Logan, UT
Game start: 7:05 p.m. MDT
Elapsed time: 3:40
Game attendance: 31,220
Game weather: 65 °F (18 °C), clear
TV announcers (SportsWest): Tom Kirkland, Blaine Fowler

Cal

	1	2	3	4	Total
Cal	0	14	7	7	28
• #24/20 BYU	14	7	3	14	38

Date: October 9
Location: Cougar Stadium, Provo, UT
Game start: 5:07 p.m. MDT
Elapsed time: 3:42
Game attendance: 65,617
Game weather: 83 °F (28 °C), Fair
TV announcers (ABC): Charlie Jones, Nick Lowery

New Mexico

	1	2	3	4	Total
• #21/19 BYU	21	3	7	0	31
New Mexico	0	0	0	7	7

Date: October 16
Location: University Stadium, Albuquerque, NM
Game start: 6:05 p.m. MDT
Elapsed time: 3:42
Game attendance: 25,301
Game weather: 68 °F (20 °C), lightning

UNLV

	1	2	3	4	Total
• #19/19 BYU	7	9	3	10	29
UNLV	0	0	0	0	0

Date: October 23
Location: Sam Boyd Stadium, Las Vegas, NV
Game start: 7:37 p.m. PDT
Elapsed time: 3:15
Game attendance: 30,599
Game weather: 73 °F (23 °C), clear
TV announcers (SportsWest): Dave McCann, Blaine Fowler

Air Force

	1	2	3	4	Total
Air Force	0	7	3	10	20
• #16/15 BYU	3	14	3	7	27

Date: October 30
Location: Cougar Stadium, Provo, UT
Game start: 1:07 p.m. MDT
Elapsed time: 3:18
Game attendance: 65,319
Game weather: 58 °F (14 °C), Clear
TV announcers (ESPN+): Chris Marlowe, Mike Hold, Beth Mowins

San Diego State

	1	2	3	4	Total
• #15/15 BYU	0	13	10	7	30
San Diego State	7	0	0	0	7

Date: November 6
Location: Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, CA
Game start: 6:05 p.m. PST
Elapsed time: 3:09
Game attendance: 40,836
Game weather: 68 °F (20 °C), overcast
TV announcers (SportsWest): Dave McCann, Blaine Fowler

Wyoming

	1	2	3	4	Total
#15/12 BYU	0	7	3	7	17
• Wyoming	7	7	10	7	31

Date: November 13
Location: War Memorial Stadium, Laramie, WY
Game start: 4:07 p.m. MST
Elapsed time: 3:20
Game attendance: 40,836
Game weather: 62 °F (17 °C), unseasonably warm
TV announcers (SportsWest): Tom Kirkland, Blaine Fowler

Utah

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Utah	0	6	7	7	20
#19/19 BYU	3	0	7	7	17

Date: November 20
Location: Cougar Stadium, Provo, UT
Game start: 1:07 p.m. MDT
Elapsed time: 3:38
Game attendance: 65,453
Game weather: 53 °F (12 °C), Cloudy
TV announcers (ESPN+): Chris Marlowe, Mike Hold, Beth Mowins

Marshall

1999 Motor City Bowl

	1	2	3	4	Total
#RV/25 BYU	3	0	0	0	3
• #11/11 Marshall	0	7	7	7	21

Date: December 27
Location: Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, MI
Game start: 1:40 p.m. CST
Elapsed time: 3:03
Game attendance: 52,449
Game weather: 65 °F (18 °C), Indoors
TV announcers (ESPN
TBC Radio Sports): Dave Barnett, Bill Curry, Dave Ryan (ESPN)
Will Tieman, Larry Bielat (TBC Radio Sports)

References

^ "SportsWest is not that big a deal". Deseret News. September 22, 1999. Archived from the original on September 25, 2018.
^ 1999 Cougar Football Media Guide Archived 2015-07-15 at the Wayback Machine. BYUCougars.com. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
^ "1999 Brigham Young Cougars Schedule and Results". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 9, 2017.

[1] "SportsWest is not that big a deal". Deseret News. September 22, 1999. Archived from the original on September 25, 2018.

[2] 1999 Cougar Football Media Guide Archived 2015-07-15 at the Wayback Machine. BYUCougars.com. Retrieved May 9, 2017.

[3] "1999 Brigham Young Cougars Schedule and Results". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 9, 2017.

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