brings an 8-4 overall mark into the contest as the Tigers are coming off a 23-17 win over Texas A&M in the regular-season finale on Nov. 27. LSU has won at least 8 games in a season for 15 straight years dating back to 2000, which is the longest such streak by any Power 5 conference team. LSU goes into a bowl game coming off a win for the seventh time in 10 years under head coach Les Miles. Notre Dame has dropped four straight and stands at 7-5 overall. It's the first meeting between LSU and Notre Dame since a 41-14 Tiger victory in the 2007 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. LSU goes into the Music City Bowl with one of the top defenses in the countryfor the 11th time when the teams meet on Dec. 30 in the Music City Bowl in Nashville … The teams last met on Jan. 3, 2007 in the Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans … LSU won that game 41-14 to tie the series at 5-5 … LSU-Notre Dame series dates back to 1970 when the second-ranked Irish posted a 3-0 win over sixth-ranked LSU in South Bend … A year later, the 14th-ranked Tigers evened the score with a 28-8 victory over seventh-ranked Notre Dame in Baton Rouge in a game televised to a national audience by ABC … The 2007 Sugar Bowl matchup was the first meeting between the teams since 1998 when the Irish held off the Tigers, 39-36, in South Bend … It