<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> BCS National Championship Game </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <2003 </Td> <Td> 2005> </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 . The teams were the LSU Tigers and the Oklahoma Sooners . The Tigers won the BCS National Championship, their second championship, defeating the Sooners by a score of 21--14 . </P> <P> BCS #2 ranked LSU came into the national championship title game 12--1, with their one loss at home to #17 Florida 19--7 . 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 35--7 . There was substantial 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 both of the human polls, the ESPN / USA Today Coaches Poll and the AP poll, which made up a portion of the BCS Standings . Southern Cal owned a record of 11--1, with its one loss coming in triple overtime at unranked Cal 34--31 . </P>

Who won the national championship in football in 2004