2008 BCS National Championship Game

2008 Allstate BCS National Championship Game
BCS Bowl Game
LSU Tigers Ohio State Buckeyes (11–2) (11–1) SEC Big Ten 38 24 Head coach:  Les Miles Head coach:  Jim Tressel AP Coaches BCS 2 2 2 AP Coaches BCS 1 1 1
1 2 3 4 Total LSU 3 21 7 7 38 Ohio State 10 0 7 7 24
Date	January 7, 2008
Season	2007
Stadium	Louisiana Superdome
Location	New Orleans, Louisiana
MVP	Offense: QB Matt Flynn (LSU) Defense: DE Ricky Jean-Francois (LSU)
Favorite	LSU by 5½[1]
National anthem	Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Referee	Jon Bible (Big 12)
Halftime show	Allstate Alumni Kicker Challenge, Ohio State's marching band, LSU's Marching band
Attendance	79,651[2]
Payout	US$17,500,000 per conference[3]
United States TV coverage
Network	Fox
Announcers	Thom Brennaman, Charles Davis and Chris Myers
Nielsen ratings	14.4[4]
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The 2008 BCS National Championship Game (branded as the 2008 Allstate BCS National Championship Game for sponsorship reasons) was played at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Monday, January 7, 2008, and featured the No. 1 and No. 2 college football teams in the United States as determined by the BCS Poll (a combination of polls and computer formulas) to decide the BCS National Championship for the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season.

The game featured No. 1 Big Ten champion Ohio State Buckeyes hosting No. 2 SEC champion LSU Tigers. It also featured the second postseason matchup between head coaches Jim Tressel and Les Miles in four seasons. The first was the 2004 Alamo Bowl, when Tressel's Buckeyes defeated Miles' Oklahoma State Cowboys, 33–7, in what turned out to be Miles' last game with the Cowboys, as he was hired by LSU to replace Nick Saban five days later. In the BCS National Championship Game, the Tigers defeated the Buckeyes by a 38–24 score to win their second national championship in five years and first consensus national championship since their 1958 squad.