EBS Tournament - 1999

Season recap

After starting as preseason #1, Florida St lived up to expectations by finishing the year undefeated. Other undefeated teams were Big East champion Virginia Tech, led by freshman QB Michael Vick, and Chad Pennington's Marshall team. One loss teams were limited to Nebraska and Kansas State. Wisconsin won the Big Ten championship behind the rushing of Heisman winner Ron Dayne.

EBS Tournament

Alamo, Dec 23

GMAC, Dec 22

Gator, Dec 21

Las Vegas, Dec 23

Capital One
Jan 1

Rose
Jan 1

Sugar
Jan 3

Cotton
Jan 1

Orange
Jan 10

Fiesta
Jan 9

National Title Game
Jan 16

Florida St.

Virginia Tech

Nebraska

Wisconsin

Alabama

Tennessee

Kansas St.

Michigan

Florida

Michigan St.

Marshall

Stanford

Note: Michigan State's & Michigan's first-round matchups were switched. See EBS Seedings and Matchups for details.

First in:

6 BCS Champs	Conf.
Florida St.	ACC
Virginia Tech	Big East
Nebraska	Big 12
Wisconsin	Big Ten
Alabama	SEC
Stanford	Pac-10

Highest non-BCS Champ	Conf.
Marshall	MAC

Non-BCS Champs or Indep. in Top 12	Conf.
No addl automatic qualifiers

Fill Remaining:

At-large Teams	Conf.
Tennessee	SEC
Kansas St.	Big 12
Michigan	Big Ten
Michigan St.	Big Ten
Florida	SEC

End of regular season rankings

Team	Seed	Bid	Conf	BCS Rank	BCS Avg	AP Percent	Coaches Percent	CPU Percent	AP Pts	CPU Pts	AH	RB	CM	KM	JS	PW
Florida St.	1	C	*ACC	1	.998	.997	.998	1	1744	1472	25	25		25	25
Virginia Tech	2	C	*Big East	2	.959	.963	.959	.953	1685	1415	23	24		24	24
Nebraska	3	C	*Big 12	3	.915	.918	.902	.927	1606	1330	24	23		23	23
Wisconsin	4	C	*Big Ten	4	.828	.847	.865	.773	1482	1276	22	18		19	19
Alabama	5	C	*SEC	5	.817	.829	.802	.820	1450	1183	21	21		20	20
Tennessee	6	L	SEC	6	.802	.807	.805	.793	1412	1187	18	19		21	21
Kansas St.	7	L	Big 12	7	.789	.763	.776	.827	1336	1145	14	22		22	22
Michigan	8	L	Big Ten	8	.710	.701	.722	.707	1226	1065	20	16		18	17
Michigan St.	9	L	Big Ten	9	.699	.682	.676	.740	1193	997	19	20		17	18
Florida	10	L	SEC	10	.623	.626	.609	.633	1095	898	17	17		14	15
Marshall	11	M	*MAC	11	.542	.598	.555	.473	1047	819	15	0		15	13
Minnesota			Big Ten	12	.484	.534	.485	.433	935	715	11	12		9	11
Penn St.			Big Ten	13	.462	.441	.397	.547	772	586	4	15		16	16
Texas A&M			Big 12	14	.430	.361	.475	.453	632	701	12	13		11	9
Texas			Big 12	15	.416	.426	.382	.440	746	563	13	9		10	12
Southern Miss			*C-USA	16	.285	.413	.443	0	722	653
Mississippi St.			SEC	17	.272	.415	.400	0	727	590
Georgia Tech			ACC	18	.267	.384	.418	0	672	616
East Carolina			C-USA	19	.189	.246	.321	0	431	473
Purdue			Big Ten	20	.174	.288	.235	0	504	347
Stanford	12	C	*Pac-10	21	.121	.154	.209	0	270	308
Georgia			SEC	22	.090	.170	.100	0	298	147
Miami (FL)			Big East	23	.077	.128	.104	0	224	153
Boston College			Big East	24	.062	.064	.123	0	112	181
BYU			*MWC	25	.032	.027	.069	0	47	102

* - conference champion

Notes:
- Rankings determined using the current (enacted 2005) BCS formula with the following exceptions:
- The AP Poll was substituted for the Harris Poll.
- Under BCS rules at the time, computer rankings were allowed to consider margin-of-victory in their calculations. They are included as is.
- With data available from only four computer rankings, the highest and lowest ranking for each team are given half weight rather than being completely ignored.
- Teams for which computer rankings were unavailable were given a computer average of zero and are shown only to attempt to qualify the ranking of automatic qualifiers outside the top 15.
- Data from:
- Final 1999 Bowl Championship Series Rankings (1999, December 5). Retrieved 11 November 2006, from Fox Sports - BCSFootball - BCS Standings Archive. Web site: http://msn.foxsports.com/id/7894689_37_1.pdf
- USA Today/ESPN Poll. (1999, December 6). New York Times, p. D2.

Computer rankings
AH - Anderson & Hester | RB - Richard Billingsley | CM - Colley Matrix
KM - Kenneth Massey | JS - Jeff Sagarin | PW - Dr. Peter Wolfe