Remember the 2019 LSU Tigers? You couldn’t script it better if you tried. A perfect 15-0 run, tearing through one of the toughest schedules in college football history like it was a backyard scrimmage. Joe Burrow threw for an absurd 60 touchdowns and over 5,600 yards, Justin Jefferson and Ja’Marr Chas e turned defensive backs into props, and Clyde Edwards-Helaire danced through SEC defenses. Seven wins over top-10 teams. Fourteen future NFL players. Ask anyone, and they’ll say that the squad belongs in the ‘greatest of all time’ conversation for college football. The standard? It was sitting up in the stratosphere.

But after that peak, Ed Orgeron’s next two seasons were rough. Injuries, staff turnover, and COVID chaos all mixed into a mess, and the magic of 2019

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