1999 Wisconsin Badgers football team

1999 Wisconsin Badgers football
Rose Bowl Champions
Big Ten Champions
Rose Bowl, W 17–9 vs. Stanford
Conference Big Ten Conference
Ranking
Coaches No. 4
AP No. 4
1999 record 10–2 (7–1 Big Ten)
Head coach Barry Alvarez (10th year)
Home stadium Camp Randall Stadium
(Capacity: 76,129, Astroturf)
1999 Big Ten football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
#4 Wisconsin $   7 – 1         10 – 2  
#5 Michigan %   6 – 2         10 – 2  
#7 Michigan State   6 – 2         10 – 2  
#11 Penn State   5 – 3         10 – 3  
#18 Minnesota   5 – 3         8 – 4  
#24 Illinois   4 – 4         8 – 4  
#25 Purdue   4 – 4         7 – 5  
Ohio State   3 – 5         6 – 6  
Indiana   3 – 5         4 – 7  
Northwestern   1 – 7         3 – 8  
Iowa   0 – 8         1 – 10  
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • % – BCS at-large representative
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1999 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season.

Season

Wisconsin finished the regular season 9–2 overall (7–1 conference) and were sole champions of the Big Ten Conference for the first time since 1962 (the 1993 and 1998 championships were shared). They defeated #22 Stanford 17–9 in the 2000 Rose Bowl for the third Rose Bowl victory of coach Barry Alvarez's tenure (and program history) to finish the season 10–2.

Ron Dayne

Ron Dayne gained 1,834 rushing yards as a senior. Dayne broke the NCAA Division I-A (now known as NCAA Division I FBS) career rushing record in the final game of the 1999 season against Iowa. Dayne ended his career with 6,397 rushing yards, eclipsing the record set the previous year by Ricky Williams of Texas.

Dayne rushed for 200 yards or more in a game a dozen times, including his final game, a 17–9 victory over Stanford in the Rose Bowl. Dayne had 200 yards on 34 carries and was named the Rose Bowl's Most Valuable Player for the second consecutive year.[1] He became one of only three (now, four) players to win two Rose Bowl MVPs (Washington's Bob Schloredt, Southern California's Charles White, and Texas' Vince Young are the others).

Dayne won the Heisman Trophy, the second player in Wisconsin's history to receive this award, after Alan Ameche in 1954. He also received many other awards in this season and throughout his college career, including Big Ten Conference Player of the Year, and All-American placement. Dayne's career rushing total remains an NCAA record. Bowl games included, he amassed 7,125 yards, becoming the first player in NCAA history to total over 7,000 rushing yards. He is one of five players in NCAA history to rush for over a thousand yards in each of his four seasons.

Individual awards and honors

Schedule and results

Date Time Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance
September 4 11:00 AM Murray State* No. 9 Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, WI MSC W 49–10   77,527[5]
September 11 11:00 AM Ball State* No. 9 Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, WI ESPN+ W 50–10   75,807[6]
September 18 2:15 PM at Cincinnati* No. 8 Nippert Stadium • Cincinnati, OH FSN L 12–17   27,721[7]
September 25 2:30 PM No. 4 Michigan No. 17 Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, WI ABC L 16–21   79,037[8]
October 2 2:30 PM at No. 12 Ohio State Ohio Stadium • Columbus, OH ABC W 42–17   93,524[9]
October 9 11:00 AM at No. 25 Minnesota No. 20 Metrodome • Minneapolis, MN (Paul Bunyan's Axe) ESPN2 W 20–17 OT  63,108[10]
October 16 11:00 AM Indianadagger No. 18 Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, WI ESPN W 59–0   78,243[11]
October 23 11:00 AM No. 11 Michigan State No. 16 Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, WI ESPN2 W 40–10   78,469[12]
October 30 11:00 AM at Northwestern No. 11 Ryan Field • Evanston, IL ESPN+ W 35–19   42,292[13]
November 6 2:30 PM at No. 17 Purdue No. 10 Ross–Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN ABC W 28–21   67,308[14]
November 13 2:30 PM Iowa No. 9 Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, WI (Rivalry) ABC W 41–3   79,404[15]
January 1 3:30 PM vs. No. 22 Stanford* No. 4 Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA (Rose Bowl) ABC W 17–9   93,731[16]
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll. All times are in Central Time.

Game notes

Ohio State

1 234Total
• Wisconsin 0 61224 42
Ohio State 7 1000 17

Regular starters

Position Player
Quarterback Brooks Bollinger
Running Back Ron Dayne
Fullback Chad Kuhns
Wide Receiver Chris Chambers
Wide Receiver Nick Davis
Tight End Dague Retzlaff
Left Tackle Chris McIntosh
Left Guard Bill Ferrario
Center Casey Rabach
Right Guard Dave Costa
Right Tackle Mark Tauscher
Position Player
Defensive End Ross Kolodziej
Nose Tackle Eric Mahlik
Defensive End Wendell Bryant
Rush End John Favret
Outside Linebacker Roger Knight
Inside Linebacker Donnel Thompson
Outside Linebacker Chris Ghidorzi
Cornerback Mike Echols
Free Safety Jason Doering
Strong Safety Bobby Myers
Cornerback Jamar Fletcher

Team players in the NFL

Player Position Round Pick NFL Club
Ron Dayne Running Back 1 11 New York Giants
Chris McIntosh Tackle 1 22 Seattle Seahawks
Bobby Myers Defensive Back 4 124 Tennessee Titans
Brooks Bollinger Quarterback 6 200 New York Jets
Mark Tauscher Guard 7 224 Green Bay Packers
Donnel Thompson Linebacker free agent Pittsburgh Steelers

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.maxwellfootballclub.org/content/awards/maxwell/1999/bio_dayne.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.heisman.com/winners/hsmn-winners.html
  3. ↑ James Alder. "College Football Awards - Maxwell Award". About.com Sports.
  4. ↑ Tim Hyland. "The Walter Camp Award". About.com Sports.
  5. ↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/boxscores/1999/09/04/wwo_mmz/
  6. ↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/boxscores/1999/09/11/wwo_bba/
  7. ↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/boxscores/1999/09/18/ccj_wwo/
  8. ↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/boxscores/1999/09/25/wwo_mmk/
  9. ↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/boxscores/1999/10/02/oob_wwo/
  10. ↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/boxscores/1999/10/09/mmn_wwo/
  11. ↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/boxscores/1999/10/16/wwo_iie/
  12. ↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/boxscores/1999/10/23/wwo_mml/
  13. ↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/boxscores/1999/10/30/nnv_wwo/
  14. ↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/boxscores/1999/11/06/ppj_wwo/
  15. ↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/boxscores/1999/11/13/wwo_iig/
  16. ↑ "Rose Bowl 2000".
  17. ↑ "2000 NFL Draft".
  18. ↑ "2000 Pittsburgh Steelers". Pro-Football-Reference.com.

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