The team with an 11-1 regular season record played in the 2004 Nokia Sugar Bowl for the BCS title game.
 The Tigers compiled an 111 regular season record and then defeated the No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs in the SEC Championship Game, Afterward, LSU was invited to play the Oklahoma Sooners in the Sugar Bowl for the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) national title. 
The 2004 Nokia 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. 
