| 2007 Allstate Sugar Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| BCS Bowl Game 73rd Sugar Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 3, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Louisiana Superdome | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | LSU QB JaMarcus Russell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | LSU by 8½ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Irvin Mayfield | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Tom Walker (Big XII) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Halftime show | LSU and Notre Dame Marching Bands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 77,781 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | FOX | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Kenny Albert, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | 9.3[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2007 Allstate Sugar Bowl was a college football bowl game, which formed part of the 2006–2007 Bowl Championship Series (BCS) of the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Played on January 3, 2007, in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, it was the 73rd Sugar Bowl. The game matched the Notre Dame Fighting Irish against the LSU Tigers and was televised on Fox.
This game received extra attention because it was the return of the Sugar Bowl to New Orleans. In 2006, the game was played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia due to the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina to the Superdome (that game also featured a virtual "home" team, the Georgia Bulldogs). LSU won the 2007 contest 41–14, tying the Notre Dame-LSU series at 5–5 (with LSU taking a 2–0 lead in bowl game meetings).
With the loss, Notre Dame lost a record-setting nine bowl games in a row,[2] including losing their three BCS bowl games by wide point margins.[2]