The 2000 Boise State Broncos football team represented

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in the

2000 NCAA Division I-A football season The 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Oklahoma Sooners claiming their seventh national championship and their thirty-seventh conference championship, the first of each since the departure of head coach Barry Switzer. Oklahoma ...

. The Broncos competed in the

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and played their home games at

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. The Broncos were led by third-year head coach

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. The Broncos finished the season 10–2 and 5–0 in conference to win their second consecutive Big West title. 2000 was the Broncos' final year in the Big West (a conference that ceased to sponsor football after this season) as they joined the

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in 2001. At the end of the regular season, head coach Dirk Koetter resigned to take the same position at

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but did stay on to coach in the Broncos' bowl game. The Broncos hired offensive coordinator

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as their new head coach.

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