The 1999 LSU Tigers football team represented

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in the

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. Coached by

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in his last year at LSU, the Tigers played their home games at Tiger Stadium in

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. LSU fired DiNardo before the final game of the season against conference opponent

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after eight consecutive losses and named Assistant Coach Hal Hunter as interim head coach for the final game. DiNardo was given the opportunity to coach the game vs. Arkansas, but refused (in contrast to his predecessors at LSU,

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, who coached the Tigers in their final two games of

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after being fired five years to the day prior to DiNardo's dismissal; and Mike Archer, who coached the final two games of

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after resigning four years to the day before Hallman's dismissal). In Hunter's only game as the team's head coach, unranked LSU (2–8, 0–7) dominated No. 17 Arkansas (7–3, 4–3) in their lone conference victory over of the season, and won back the Golden Boot. Former

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head football coach

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, whose team DiNardo's Tigers defeated in the 1995 Independence Bowl, accepted LSU's offer and took over the team in December 1999. This was be LSU's last losing season until

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