LSU’s only national champion year that was impressive was 2019

People often forget that 2007 was a poor man’s COVID year.

- a lower ranked or unranked opponent beat the higher ranked opposition 59 times that year

- teams in the AP top 5 were defeated 13 times, a feat that’s only been come relatively close to back in 1967

- the #2 ranked team was defeated 7 times in the final 9 weeks of the season

All these combined to ultimately lead LSU and Ohio State, who, collectively lost to the unholy trinity of Kentucky, Arkansas and Illinois that year. West Virginia should’ve been in the national championship instead of LSU but they choked against Pittsburgh in the final week of the season, which allowed LSU to use that extra SECCG (which was the biggest cakewalk of all SECCGs since the inception) to push them to a spot in the game.


Then we get to the original Death Star, Darth Saban’s 2003 tigers. I’m not really gonna shite on these dudes too much, because there were some ballers on this squad, but the team and season collectively were underwhelming for very upfront reasons. One of the first examples of Nick Saban losing inexplicably to underclassmen players with highly superior players was the 2003 Florida Gators.

Ron Zook took a Leak on the tigers in Tiger Stadium to the tune of 7-19 in a classic SEC shootout. Fast forward to the end of the season and LSU faces Oklahoma in basically a home game in the super dome and wins 21-14. But, that Oklahoma team just a month earlier got toasted by Snyder and his squad of wildcats 35-7 and somehow STILL got in the championship game.





So yes, you can brag about 3 coaches having 3 championships at your school. But 1 of them isn’t even unanimous and the other is in a season that literally breaks records for how mediocre the top teams are.