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1999 Baylor Bears football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ4594520 ↗
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The 1999 Baylor Bears football team represented Baylor University as a member of the South Division of the Big 12 Conference during the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by first-year head coach Kevin Steele, the Bears compiled an overall record of 1–10 with a mark of 0–8 in conference play, placing last out of six teams in the Big 12's South Division. The team played home games at Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco, Texas.

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This entry incorporates text from “1999 Baylor Bears football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.