re: 2019 LSU versus 2022 Georgia. Who wins?

If they play at the end of the season, 2019 LSU would win this game by three scores. You just cannot hope to contain that offense, especially with a defense with some known weaknesses in the secondary. Auburn had an approach to contain the offense by being able to generate a pass rush only rushing three, but the SECCG proved even dropping 8-9 people into coverage with a decent pass rush still wasn’t enough anymore.

The LSU defense wasn’t bad either by the end of the season. Stetson and company just wouldn’t be able to keep up. The real question is how many times would LSU have a drive that didn’t result in a TD.

I think matching the 2021 UGA defense against 2019 LSU would be a much more fun thought experiment, although the problem remains the 2019 LSU was still going to throw up a lot of points and I doubt 2021 UGA could keep up in a shootout.

I still think 2020 Alabama is the only other national title team I can think of with the offensive talent to match 2019 LSU and maybe beat them in a neutral field, but I can’t help but feel like we saw exactly how that type of game would go down in 2019 in Tuscaloosa. Burrow and company just outclass everyone.

I think both teams healthy and for a championship LSU wins. People try to discredit LSU's defense, because of a couple of games, but once Delpit was fully right they were very good and incredibly talented. Look what they did in the postseason against elite offenses. Held Lawrence to 0 TD passes, Etienne well under 100 yards.

TCU was a ridiculous mismatch. Much worse than 2019 OU. Ohio St nearly beat Georgia. Pretty confident that 2019 LSU team would outscore anybody if needed. Just incredible offensive talent. 2 top 5 NFL WRs right now and 1 top 5 NFL QB.

2022 LSU even put up 30 on Georgia. 2022 LSU would get destroyed by 2019 LSU probably much worse.

2019 LSU held 2019 UGA to just 10 and had no issue scoring against a great Kirby defense.

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2022 Georgia should have lost to Ohio St this year.

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No. But regardless, this year’s OSU would have given anyone of 2019 LSU or 2020 Bama fits. Let’s not act like they’re a team full of scrubs. Neither of those teams has a better answer for Harrison and company than Georgia did. All of these games would be toss ups.

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2019 LSU puts 60 plus in Georgia and wins by 21 plus.

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I’d wager that 2019 LSU probably wins this matchup more times than not, but they didn’t put up close to 60 on a lesser UGA team at the end of the season so, no, this isn’t realistic. Georgia’s 2022 offense was infinitely better and more creative under Monken than that 2019 team. I’d say good enough for two to three more scores. The defense was better as well, so likely good enough to lower LSU’s output by a score. I think a reasonable guess would be 31-24 or 31-30 LSU, six times out of ten. But any given game between the two could go either way. It’s not a runaway in either direction.