2003 SEC Championship Game: LSU 34, Georgia 13 | Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA. | December 6, 2003
Nick Saban’s LSU Tigers delivered a statement performance against fifth-ranked Georgia, dominating from start to finish in a 34-13 win that would go on to propel the Tigers to a share of the national championship.
The game was effectively decided in the opening minutes. Freshman running back Justin Vincent broke off an 87-yard touchdown run just 10 minutes into the contest, setting the tone for a Tigers offense that would finish with 293 rushing yards on the day. LSU kept pouring it on, building a 17-to-0 lead about five and a half minutes into the second quarter, a stretch in which the Tigers had piled up 196 yards of offense while holding Georgia to negative 8. Quarterback Matt Mauck, the surprise MVP of LSU’s win in the 2001 title game, added a 43-yard touchdown pass to Michael Clayton, and Vincent later scored again to help LSU pull away.
Georgia’s most memorable moment of the day came on a broken play, when Reggie Brown got hemmed up attempting a double reverse, reversed field, and turned what should have been a loss into a 35-yard gain. A facemask penalty tacked on 15 more yards, and David Greene eventually connected with Ben Watson on an 18-yard touchdown to cut the deficit to 24- 13 in the third quarter. It was as close as the Bulldogs would get. LSU answered with another scoring drive, set up by a 33-yard completion to Devery Henderson, and Vincent capped the account with his second touchdown of the night.
LSU finished the day with 293 rushing yards and controlled the game from the opening burst onward, denying Georgia any real chance to build momentum. The win gave the Tigers their third SEC title in the young championship game era and, combined with a chaotic final week of shuffled rankings around the country, helped push LSU into the BCS National Championship Game, where the Tigers would go on to share the national title with USC at the end of the season. For Georgia, the loss closed out a 10- 2 campaign that had carried real championship hopes into Atlanta.
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