1999 Michigan State Spartans football team

The 1999 Michigan State Spartans football team represented Michigan State University in the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Spartans played their home games at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan. This was the last year for head coach Nick Saban, who left the program on December 5 to take the head coaching position at LSU. During the bowl game, the Spartans were coached by interim head coach Bobby Williams, who led the Spartans to a 37–34 victory in the 2000 Florida Citrus Bowl over the Florida Gators of the Southeastern Conference, with a last second, game-winning field goal by kicker Paul Edinger.

1999 Michigan State Spartans football
Florida Citrus Bowl champion
ConferenceBig Ten Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 7
APNo. 7
Record10–2 (6–2 Big Ten)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorMorris Watts (1st season)
Defensive coordinatorBill Miller (1st season)
Home stadiumSpartan Stadium (c. 72,027 AstroTurf)
1999 Big Ten Conference football standings
ConfOverall
Team W L  W L 
No. 4 Wisconsin $  7 1   10 2  
No. 7 Michigan State  6 2   10 2  
No. 5 Michigan %  6 2   10 2  
No. 11 Penn State  5 3   10 3  
No. 18 Minnesota  5 3   8 4  
No. 24 Illinois  4 4   8 4  
No. 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

This Spartan team featured the likes of Plaxico Burress, T. J. Duckett, Julian Peterson, and Renaldo Hill, and goes down as one of the best Spartan teams in the BCS era.

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