The 2000 Northwestern Wildcats football team represented

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as a member of the

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during the

2000 NCAA Division I-A football season The 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Oklahoma Sooners beating the defending national champion Florida State Seminoles to claim the Sooners' seventh national championship and their thirty-seventh conference championship, the ...

. Led by second-year head coach Randy Walker, the Wildcats compiled an overall record of 8–4 with a mark of 6–2 in conference play, sharing the Big Ten title with

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and

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. Northwestern was invited to the

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, where the Wildcats lost to

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. The team played home games at

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Schedule

2000 Northwestern Football Season
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Rankings

Game summaries

At Minnesota

Personnel

References

Northwestern Northwestern Wildcats football seasons

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