The 2004 Sugar Bowl, the BCS title game for the 2003 college football season, was played on January 4, 2004 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The teams were LSU Tigers and the Oklahoma Sooners. The Tigers won the BCS National Championship, their second, by beating the Sooners by a score of 21-14.
Number 2 ranked LSU came into The National Championship Title Game 12-1, with their one loss at home to #17 Florida. Top-ranked Okla...
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The 2004 Sugar Bowl, the BCS title game for the 2003 college football season, was played on January 4, 2004 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The teams were LSU Tigers and the Oklahoma Sooners. The Tigers won the BCS National Championship, their second, by beating the Sooners by a score of 21-14.
Number 2 ranked LSU came into The National Championship Title Game 12-1, with their one loss at home to #17 Florida. Top-ranked Oklahoma (but #3 in the AP poll) was 12-1, with the lone defeat coming at a neutral site in the Big 12 Championship Game against Kansas State. There was some media and fan controversy as to which teams deserved to play in the National Title game. USC was ranked #3 in the BCS standings but #1 by the AP poll; Southern Cal owned a record of 11-1, with its one loss coming in triple overtime at unranked Cal.
Once the game commenced, LSU's #1 ranked defense held the country's most prolific offense, which had averaged 45.2 points and 461 yards per game,...
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