BATON ROUGE, La. -- Rohan Davey put the picture in his locker right after LSU played Auburn in 1999. It showed a group of Auburn players standing on the field in Tiger Stadium puffing victory cigars.

Rohan Davey makes his way through the pandemonium after LSU's victory.(AP)

It was the humiliating finish to Davey's first start in a Southeastern Conference game but he turned the tables Saturday night passing for 245 yards and a touchdown, adding key runs for 21 yards as he coolly directed No. 22 LSU's 27-14 victory over No. 25 Auburn.

"I think it was disrespectful," said Davey, who was 4-of-11 with two interceptions before being chased from the 1999 game against Auburn. "If you win, take it because you were the better team on that night. To me, it was a slap in our face, so it's been in my locker since the last time we played them."

LSU (8-3, 5-3) and Auburn (7-4, 5-3) shared the SEC West title, with LSU's victory sending it Atlanta next week for the conference championship game against No. 5 Tennessee.

"It all goes back to their quarterback," Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville said. "I've seen Rohan Davey go through the good times and the bad times, and that kind has done an outstanding job with this football team. He really has improved. They've got good players, but Davey is the key to their team."

LSU had 23 first downs and 431 yards in offense compared to 15 first downs and 293 yards for Auburn.

The LSU players celebrated the victory by dousing coach Nick Saban with Gatorade.

The crowd stormed the field but police were packed six deep around the goal posts, confining the demonstration to midfield. Fans tried to storm one of the goal posts, but were repelled. They refused repeated pleas to leave, however, remaining for more than 30 minutes after the game ended.

LSU was the preseason favorite to win the division, but appeared to be out of the picture after a midseason slump.

"I'm really pleased and proud of our team and what they've overcome this season," Saban said.

Auburn (7-4, 5-3), the defending SEC West champion, watched its grip on the outright title slip away with late season losses to Arkansas and Alabama.

The game, postponed following the terrorist attacks, was sold out long before the original Sept. 15 date and drew a record 92,141.

The Auburn-LSU rivalry has grown steadily over the years, fueled by a series of close games. It reached the boiling point two years ago when Davey made his brief and humiliating appearance. A fake field goal launched Auburn to a 41-7 victory in Tiger Stadium. After the game Tuberville handed out cigars to his players and they lit up right there on LSU's turf.

Saturday the tone was set before the game. Auburn drew an unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty when instead of leaving the field the team huddled on the gigantic tiger's eye painted at midfield and jumped up and down.

There were five personal fouls called in the game and an Auburn and an LSU player were ejected.

LSU quickly had Tuberville jumping up and down when it recovered an onside kick to open the game. Six plays later, LaBrandon Toefield charged the final two yards to put LSU up 7-0. The touchdown was Toefield's 19th of the season, tying him for the SEC record held by Garrison Hearst and Shaun Alexander.

Toefield ran for 120 yards and a touchdown on 29 carries.

"It was so loud," Toefield said. "We felt it when we got off the bus and walked down the street to the stadium. The fans felt it and wanted a show and we gave it to them."

Auburn needed only four plays to tie the score as Jason Campbell hit Tim Carter with a 72-yard touchdown pass.

Auburn tried an onside kick of its own following the score, but LSU recovered it.

LSU went up 14-7 in the second quarter on a 17-yard touchdown pass from Davey to Josh Reed.

"They kept trying to get in our heads all night," Reed said. "But we kept executing and putting points on the board."

Reed finished with 186 yards on 10 receptions, his 10th 100-yard game of the year. He also became the first receiver in SEC history to surpass the 1,500-yard mark. Reed has 1,680 for the season.

Domanick Davis' first touchdown run was called back on a penalty. Fourteen seconds later Davis did it again, running for a 7-yard score to make it 21-7 at the half.

John Corbello, who had a 47-yard field goal blocked in the first quarter, hit a 21-yarder in the third quarter to increase LSU's lead to 24-7.

Auburn drove to the LSU 12 on its first possession of the second half, but Damon Duval missed a 29-yard field goal. On its next possession Auburn faked a punt but Duval's pass was intercepted.

Auburn cut the lead to 27-14 on Chris Butler's 13-yard touchdown run in the fourth-quarter.

Butler rushed for 68 yards and a touchdown on eight carries.

Campbell, a redshirt freshman who was given the start earlier in the week, completed 13-of-24 for 177 yards and a touchdown. He was intercepted once and sacked once.

Davey was intercepted once.