2000 Liberty Bowl

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{{Infobox NCAA football yearly game

|game_name=Liberty Bowl

|subheader=42nd Liberty Bowl

|date_game_played=December 29

|year_game_played=2000

|football_season=2000

|title_sponsor=AXA

|image=

|visitor_school=Colorado State University

|visitor_name_short=Colorado State

|visitor_nickname=Rams

|visitor_record=9–2

|visitor_rank_AP=23

|visitor_rank_coaches=22

|visitor_rank_BCS=NR

|visitor_coach=Sonny Lubick

|visitor_conference=Mountain West

|visitor_1q=3

|visitor_2q=13

|visitor_3q=3

|visitor_4q=3

|Visitor Total=22

|home_school=University of Louisville

|home_name_short=Louisville

|home_nickname=Cardinals

|home_record=9–2

|home_rank_AP=22

|home_rank_coaches=23

|home_rank_BCS=NR

|home_coach=John L. Smith

|home_conference=C-USA

|home_1q=7

|home_2q=3

|home_3q=0

|home_4q=7

|Home Total=17

|type=bg

|stadium=Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium

|city=Memphis, Tennessee

|MVP=Cecil Sapp (RB, Colorado State)

|odds=

|anthem=

|referee= David Neal (MAC)

|halftime=

|attendance=58,302{{cite web|title=Results/Attendance |url=http://www.libertybowl.org/history/resultsattendance |publisher=AutoZone Liberty Bowl |access-date=December 2, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122173830/http://www.libertybowl.org/history/resultsattendance |archive-date=November 22, 2012 }}

|us_network=ESPN

|us_announcers=Rich Waltz, Don McPherson, and Holly Rowe

|intl_network=

|intl_announcers=

}}

The 2000 Liberty Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game played on December 29, 2000, at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee. The 42nd edition of the Liberty Bowl was played between the Colorado State Rams and the Louisville Cardinals. The game was sponsored by the Axa Equitable Life Insurance Company and was branded as the AXA Liberty Bowl. Colorado State won the game, 22–17; Colorado State running back Cecil Sapp, the game's MVP, ran for a career-high 160 yards and a touchdown.{{cite web|title=Colorado St. 22, Louisville 17|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/recaps/2000/12/29/llh_cco/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010124062600/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/recaps/2000/12/29/llh_cco/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 24, 2001|publisher=Sports Illustrated|access-date=December 2, 2012}}