2004 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team

{{short description|American college football season}}

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{{Infobox college sports team season

| year = 2004

| team = Northern Arizona Lumberjacks

| sport = football

| image = Northern Arizona Athletics Script.png

| image_size = 150

| conference = Big Sky Conference

| short_conf = Big Sky

| record = 4–7

| conf_record = 3–4

| head_coach = Jerome Souers

| hc_year = 7th

| captain =

| stadium = Walkup Skydome

}}

{{2004 Big Sky Conference football standings}}

The 2004 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team was an American football team that represented Northern Arizona University (NAU) as a member of the Big Sky Conference (Big Sky) during the 2004 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their seventh year under head coach Jerome Souers, the Lumberjacks compiled a 4–7 record (3–4 against conference opponents), were outscored by a total of 314 to 244, and finished fifth out of eight teams in the Big Sky.{{cite web|title=2013 Northern Arizona Football Media Guide|publisher=Northern Arizona University|year=2013|page=79|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/nau.sidearmsports.com/documents/2017/5/26/2013_Football_Media_Guide-Web.pdf|accessdate=September 4, 2021|archive-date=October 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004022233/https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/nau.sidearmsports.com/documents/2017/5/26/2013_Football_Media_Guide-Web.pdf|url-status=dead}}

The team played its home games at the J. Lawrence Walkup Skydome, commonly known as the Walkup Skydome, in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Schedule

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| timezone = Mountain

|September 4||at|Arizona|Arizona Stadium|Tucson, AZ|L 3–21|49,741|

|September 11|6:00 p.m.|at|Stephen F. Austin|Homer Bryce Stadium|Nacogdoches, TX|L 17–24 |8,307|

|September 25|||{{cfb link|year=2004|team=Weber State Wildcats|title=Weber State}}|Walkup Skydome|Flagstaff, AZ|W 55–27|9,836|{{cite news|title=Well...that's more like it|newspaper=Arizona Daily Sun|author=Ed Odeven|date=September 26, 2004|pages=B1, B7|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87246703/wellthats-more-like-it/|via=Newspapers.com}}

|October 2|||Sacramento State|Walkup Skydome|Flagstaff, AZ|W 26–0|10,983|{{cite news|title=The Skydome Swarm|newspaper=Arizona Daily Sun|author=Ed Odeven|date=October 3, 2004|pages=B1, B6|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87247147/the-skydome-swarm/|via=Newspapers.com}}

|October 9||at|{{cfb link|year=2004|team=Eastern Washington Eagles|title=Eastern Washington}}|Woodward Field|Cheney, WA|L 14–45||

|October 16|||Western New Mexico|Walkup Skydome|Flagstaff, AZ|W 34–14|7,090|{{cite news|title=A win's a win|newspaper=Arizona Daily Sun|author=Ed Odeven|date=October 17, 2004|pages=B1, B8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87246856/a-wins-a-win/|via=Newspapers.com}}

|October 23|||{{cfb link|year=2004|team=Portland State Vikings|title=Portland State}}|Walkup Skydome|Flagstaff, AZ|W 21–20|9,020|{{cite news|title=Ernster finds redemption|newspaper=Arizona Daily Sun|author=Ed Odeven|date=October 24, 2004|pages=B1, B6|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87246934/ernster-finds-redemption/|via=Newspapers.com}}

|October 30|||Montana State|Walkup Skydome|Flagstaff, AZ|L 14–60|6,495|{{cite news|title=A real Skydome stinker|newspaper=Arizona Daily Sun|author=Ed Odeven|date=October 31, 2004|page=B1, B6|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86416708/a-real-skydome-stinker/}}

|November 6||at|No. 10 Montana|Washington–Grizzly Stadium|Missoula, MT|L 22–34|22,274|

|November 13||at|{{cfb link|year=2004|team=Idaho State Bengals|title=Idaho State}}|Holt Arena|Pocatello, ID|L 17–24||

|November 20|6:05 p.m.||Northern Iowa|UNI-Dome|Cedar Falls, IA|L 21–45||

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