Where does this LSU team rank all-time?
I resent any team that’s great that isn’t mine. Winners? Dynasties? I root against them.
But I’m a college football fan. This LSU team is a stunning story. And, off the top of my head, one of the three greatest teams of my lifetime (the others: 1995 Nebraska, 2001 Miami).
They played an extremely hard schedule and annihilated everybody. The offense was astonishing. The defense showed weakness at times, a mark against them, but by the playoff it was deadly.
I‘ve never seen anything like Burrow’s transformation this year.
I’ll have to let this marinate before I rank them firmly (hard for any team to top 95 Nebraska IMO) but this is quite the team. What do you think?
January 14th, 2020 at 12:22 AM ^
Burrow has a 78% completion % this year. That. Is. Fucking. Insane. Nvm the 60/6 TD/INT ratio.
January 14th, 2020 at 12:25 AM ^
Best QB season ever. Combine that with a defense that was good enough, they would just outscore all of their opponents.
January 14th, 2020 at 1:14 AM ^
I truly believe in my heart, if Shea Patterson had 8 more years of eligibility we would see him transform into one of the greatest college QBs of all time
January 14th, 2020 at 1:17 AM ^
I don't.
(No offense to Shea.)
January 14th, 2020 at 8:14 AM ^
I needed that this morning, thank you!
January 14th, 2020 at 8:56 AM ^
Agree. He just needs time to adjust to our new system and he'd probably be a Heisman candidate by 2025
January 14th, 2020 at 10:58 AM ^
He would be more like Matt Millen G.M.
than Joe Burrow QB.
January 14th, 2020 at 12:53 PM ^
Shea peaked in those last 4 regular season games. Staying 8 more years will only make him worse. Shea got as good as he'll ever get. I think 2019 wasn't much better than 2018. Only had those 4 game late season this year or would have clearly regressed.
January 14th, 2020 at 2:00 AM ^
Burrow bout to get paid
January 14th, 2020 at 6:06 AM ^
about to get paid more
fify
and it would be fun to see a UFR for this game.
January 14th, 2020 at 6:37 AM ^
....yes as Brian's head just might....
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January 14th, 2020 at 5:07 AM ^
Especially when you consider how accurate he is on deep balls. the kid is amazing.
January 14th, 2020 at 8:55 AM ^
I actually saw him miss an easy read that would have been a TD. I’m serious I did.
January 14th, 2020 at 12:24 AM ^
I don’t know about the whole team, but for a Power 5 QB, Burrow had one of the most amazing seasons of any offensive player I’ve seen play.
January 14th, 2020 at 12:25 AM ^
Yeah - Burrow's performance is up there with Barry Sanders'.
January 14th, 2020 at 10:02 AM ^
Yep, this is the QB equivalent of Barry's last year in college. In the age of overused superlatives, this was a historic, all-time performance. And he wasn't doing these passing stats in the Big XII, or Conf-USA, this was against a big boy SEC schedule and two legit playoff games.
I'd put this up there as a Top 5 all-time contemporary college football team on a single season basis. Da Coach O is now eligible for godhood in Louisiana.
January 14th, 2020 at 12:29 AM ^
I know I can say LSU has the most powerful passing game I've ever seen in a college team. And that goes back close to 50 years of watching college football.
Ed Orgeron made a great choice in hiring Joe Brady. What a brilliant eye to pick him out!!
January 14th, 2020 at 11:26 AM ^
Yep, Coach O is a brilliant man indeed.
January 14th, 2020 at 12:30 AM ^
Sorry to thread jack, but if anyone wants to laugh / get pissed off, Eleven Warriors twitter and OSU twitter is in full “take credit for Joe Burrow” and “we would’ve beat LSU” modes right now
January 14th, 2020 at 12:34 AM ^
The team that beat OSU just got run out of the gym by LSU. OSU was too stupid to even play Burrows. LSU would have beaten OSU by 45.
The only thing OSU fans should be taking credit for is delivering pizzas
January 14th, 2020 at 6:40 AM ^
No, no, no, you are absolutely wrong. That is clearly the domain of....
There birthright is far more smelly....
January 14th, 2020 at 12:45 AM ^
Like taking credit for your neighbor's new yacht after you gave away the winning lottery ticket because you were sure you already had the winner.
If it helps you sleep at night . . .
January 14th, 2020 at 2:05 AM ^
You reading that is sad. You thinking it is worth sharing is sadder. It pissing you off is the saddest.
January 14th, 2020 at 8:39 AM ^
Since we're discussing reading, and those things making people sad, your post is painful to read. "It pissing you off is the saddest." is not even nearly a complete sentence. I'f you're going to attack someone, come correct.
January 14th, 2020 at 6:02 AM ^
Saw a few buckeye fans in the reddit threads early last night saying OSU would crush LSU. I don't know why in the world any of them would think that
January 14th, 2020 at 11:29 AM ^
Well...plenty of Spartans count Nick Foles' Super Bowl ring as a Spartan winner, you know, because of his 5 of 8 for 57 yard performance as a freshman..
“Although he didn’t graduate from Michigan State, I consider him one of our guys, one of my guys,’’ Dantonio said at his weekly press conference on Tuesday at Spartan Stadium. “As a matter of fact I talked to his father yesterday and I’ve talked to Nick, he recently got married, and so his life is obviously going very well.’’
January 14th, 2020 at 10:15 AM ^
I have a Facebook friend with NO connection to OSU, and yet she has posted 5 threads about Joe Burrow and how happy the OSU family is to win a National Championship. I asked her how many Georgia fans were rooting for OSU this year and heard back nothing but crickets. The guy left their school for greener pastures. Get over yourselves.
January 14th, 2020 at 10:19 AM ^
Their logic is laughable. They lost that game, regardless of the refs. Interception at the end of the game, not a bad call. And then the team they lost to gets manhandled by a team who saw in Joe Burrow an excellence that Ohio State didn't. Sour grapes are sour.
January 14th, 2020 at 12:34 AM ^
Who the hell knows? Stupid subjective questions.
How about this is MgoBlog and I'll take a roster that included Woodson, Griese, Brady, Hutchinson, Jon Jansen, Tai Streets, Dhani Jones, Jeff Backus, Ian Gold, Aaron Shea, Glen Steele, Jay Feely, Jerame Tuman, Sam Sword and Anthony Thomas.
How about that was the greatest college football team of All-time? We'll never know. But I'd bet on that team over anyone that came before or after.
January 14th, 2020 at 12:35 AM ^
Even over 2001 Miami?
WAT
January 14th, 2020 at 12:54 AM ^
You seem fun...and like a bad gambler to boot.
January 14th, 2020 at 12:34 AM ^
This guy was a 2/3 star QB out of a small town in Ohio, cast off by Ohio when they had a 1st round QB fighting for snaps and then transfers to a team known for wasting offensive talent. They pick up a promising NFL assistant in Joe Brady and then this fucking season happens. Just unreal.
I don't know what Joe Burrow did this offseason, but if I'm an OC, I'm calling Joe Brady non-stop to find out what the hell he knows that everyone else doesn't
January 14th, 2020 at 12:41 AM ^
Good thing we got Joe Brady’s former colleague/boss in Gattis. Zero chance they replicate this next year. Brady should leave while he has all the shine being the hottest coaching commodity in college.
January 14th, 2020 at 1:34 AM ^
I read somewhere that he’s got an NFL OC job already lined up.
January 14th, 2020 at 1:39 AM ^
he just signed a 3 year extension with LSU 4 days ago
January 14th, 2020 at 2:24 AM ^
He's not sticking around LSU as an assistant for 3 more years. I'd be surprised if he makes it to next year.
January 14th, 2020 at 7:26 AM ^
Probably not in any hurry to leave.
Just think guy literally has 35 years left in football. He'll likely still be associated with the game in 2054.
January 14th, 2020 at 12:44 AM ^
He was a 4 star recruit on 247.
January 14th, 2020 at 12:47 AM ^
Thank you. Herbstreit playing up the drama by calling him a 2 star recruit early in the broadcast. Come on Kirk.
January 14th, 2020 at 12:56 AM ^
WELL, HE'S NO SCOTTY FROST!! SCOTTY IS PRECIOUS AND A GOOD BOY! AND JOE BRADY CALLED MY SCOTTY FOR ADVICE AND SUCH...YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT DID YOU?!
- Carol Frost
January 14th, 2020 at 1:43 AM ^
I know what Joe Burrow didn't do this off-season.
He sure as hell didn't play a lot of golf.
January 14th, 2020 at 2:27 PM ^
He also didn't go to class during the season.
I give it one more season before the entire team at Alabama, LSU, Clemson, OSU and Oklahoma never once step foot on the academic campus during their three years in "college".
January 14th, 2020 at 4:28 AM ^
Herbie fed you some pretty bad information. On the composite, Burrow was a solid 4 star and the 280 ranked player in the country.
January 14th, 2020 at 9:39 AM ^
That's how he finished in the recruiting rankings. At the time he committed to the Buckeyes he was a 3* composite and I believe one of the services had him as a 2*. It wasn't until after his senior year when the recruiting services started thinking more highly of him.
January 14th, 2020 at 1:38 PM ^
Yeah I lived nearby during his Senior year, he was unheralded until the end of his recruitment following his team's state championship game. The kid had to scratch and claw just to get a pity offer from his hometown Buckeyes. I remember the locals were beyond pissed that Urban didn't really care to take him except as a second QB option. His class included a 5* QB in Torrance Gibson (who flamed out due to various reasons) and he was probably looked at as a future backup a la Kenny Guiton despite his absurd High School stats. He was close to going to his actual hometown team in Ohio University because his dad worked there.
January 14th, 2020 at 12:35 AM ^
Best offense I have ever seen as far a scoring.
January 14th, 2020 at 12:37 AM ^
They were just monsters. Early in the year you could see the potential. But I vey much doubted them — doubted Coach O, doubted Burrow could keep this up, doubted their D wouldn’t end up costing them (they were getting shredded earlier in the year).
But man, what a story. They just kept getting better. And yeah, Burrow was the most dialed in of any QB I can ever remember. To keep doing that game after game against a brutal slate of opponents ... that was just incredible.
January 14th, 2020 at 12:41 AM ^
I think this LSU team would beat all of those other candidates head to head . . .