The 1999 BYU Cougars football team represented

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in the

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. The Cougars were led by 28th-year head coach

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, 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

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, and they would go on to share the conference's first conference championship with

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and

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. They finished with a record of 8–4 (5–2 MW), and were invited to the

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, where they lost to undefeated

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, 3–21.

Schedule

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

Roster

Rankings

Game summaries

Washington

Colorado State

Virginia

Utah State

Cal

New Mexico

UNLV

Air Force

San Diego State

Wyoming

Utah

Marshall

References

{{Mountain West Conference football champions

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BYU Cougars football seasons Mountain West Conference football champion seasons

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