The 1999 LSU Tigers football team represented
Louisiana State University in the
1999 NCAA Division I-A football season. Coached by
Gerry DiNardo in his last year at LSU, the Tigers played their home games at
Tiger Stadium in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana. LSU fired DiNardo before the final game of the season against conference opponent
Arkansas 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,
Curley Hallman, who coached the Tigers in their final two games of
1994 after being fired five years to the day prior to DiNardo's dismissal; and
Mike Archer, who coached the final two games of
1990 after resigning four years to the day before Hallman's dismissal).[1]
In Coach Hunter's only game as the team's head coach, unranked LSU (2-8, 0-7) dominated #17 Arkansas (7-3, 4-3) in their lone victory over a conference opponent that season and won back the Golden Boot.[2] Former
Michigan State University head football coach
Nick Saban, whose team DiNardo's Tigers defeated in the
1995 Independence Bowl, accepted LSU's offer and took over the team in December 1999.[3]
This would be LSU's last losing season until
2021.