2004 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team

2004 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football
Conference	Big Sky Conference
Record	4–7 (3–4 Big Sky)
Head coach	Jerome Souers (7th season)
Home stadium	Walkup Skydome

2004 Big Sky Conference football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
No. 2 Montana $^		6	–	1					12	–	3
No. 8 E. Washington ^		6	–	1					9	–	4
Montana State		4	–	3					6	–	5
Portland State		4	–	3					7	–	4
Northern Arizona		3	–	4					4	–	7
Idaho State		2	–	5					3	–	8
Sacramento State		2	–	5					3	–	8
Weber State		1	–	6					1	–	10
$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant Rankings from The Sports Network poll

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.

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

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 4	at Arizona	Arizona Stadium Tucson, AZ	L 3–21	49,741
September 11	at Stephen F. Austin	Homer Bryce Stadium Nacogdoches, TX	L 17–24 OT
September 25	Weber State	Walkup Skydome Flagstaff, AZ	W 55–27	9,836
October 2	Sacramento State	Walkup Skydome Flagstaff, AZ	W 26–0	10,983
October 9	at Eastern Washington	Woodward Field Cheney, WA	L 14–45
October 16	Western New Mexico	Walkup Skydome Flagstaff, AZ	W 34–14	7,090
October 23	Portland State	Walkup Skydome Flagstaff, AZ	W 21–20	9,020
October 30	Montana State	Walkup Skydome Flagstaff, AZ	L 14–60	6,495
November 6	at No. 10 Montana	Washington–Grizzly Stadium Missoula, MT	L 22–34	22,274
November 13	at Idaho State	Holt Arena Pocatello, ID	L 17–24
November 20	Northern Iowa	UNI-Dome Cedar Falls, IA	L 21–45
Homecoming Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to the game