2004 Florida Atlantic Owls football team

2004 Florida Atlantic Owls football
Conference Independent
2004 record 9–3
Head coach Howard Schnellenberger (4th season)
Home stadium Lockhart Stadium
(20,450, grass)
2004 Division I-A independents football records
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
Navy   –     10 –2  
Florida Atlantic   –     9 –3  
Florida International *   –     3 –7  
Notre Dame   –     6 –6  
  • * - Florida International later vacated 3 wins, due to NCAA sanctions
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2004 Florida Atlantic University Owls football team represented Florida Atlantic University in the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was coached by Howard Schnellenberger and played their home games at Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Owls entered the season as a program in transition from Division I-AA to Division I-A for the first year. As per NCAA rule, programs moving up from I-AA to I-A must spend two seasons in transition, thus not being eligible for a postseason bowl berth nor a conference championship.

Schedule

Date Time Opponent Site TV Result Attendance
September 4 12:05 a.m. at Hawaii Aloha Stadium • Honolulu, HI PPV W 35–28 OT  39,390
September 11 7:00 p.m. at North Texas Fouts Field • Denton, TX W 20–13   15,803
September 18 3:00 p.m. at Middle Tennessee Johnny "Red" Floyd Stadium • Murfreesboro, TN PPV W 27–20   13,348
October 9 1:30 p.m. at Texas State Bobcat Stadium • San Marcos, TX FSN W 20–13   8,314
October 16 4:00 p.m. at Northern Colorado Nottingham Field • Greeley, CO CSTV W 39–24   6,481
October 23 4:00 p.m. Louisiana–Monroe Lockhart Stadium • Fort Lauderdale, FL L 13–17   12,557
October 30 4:00 p.m. at Florida A&M Bragg Memorial Stadium • Tallahassee, FL CSS W 38–8   13,436
November 6 3:30 p.m. at Troy Movie Gallery Stadium • Troy, AL L 6–24   20,515
November 13 4:00 p.m. New Mexico State Lockhart Stadium • Fort Lauderdale, FL L 7–35   11,628
November 20 4:00 p.m. Illinois State Lockhart Stadium • Fort Lauderdale, FL W 28–0   8,296
November 27 4:00 p.m. Edward Waters Lockhart Stadium • Fort Lauderdale, FL W 49–15   5,178
December 4 4:00 p.m. vs. FIU Pro Player Stadium • Miami Gardens, FL (Shula Bowl) W 17–10   16,262
daggerHomecoming. All times are in Eastern Time.

Game summaries

at Hawaii

Game One: Florida Atlantic at Hawaii
1 2 34OTTotal
Owls 0 10 99735
Rainbow Warriors 7 7 140028

at Aloha Stadium • Honolulu, Hawaii

Game information
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