re: Who is the greatest college baseball program of all time? LSU or USC?

I agree that Texas is the all-time greatest program, edging out LSU despite the result of their last CWS encounter.

It is easy to overemphasize the last head-to-head result when making these "all-time" assessments. But that kind of thinking is the product of a cognitive bias called "recency bias" -- we tend to give more weight to the most recent piece of information. For example, many a stock broker have lost their asses because they overemphasized the latest report without accounting for aggregated history.

If you look at the history, Texas is slightly better. That's no knock on LSU -- obviously LSU was the greatest program of the 1990s and changed the game substantially during that time.