Sports reporter for the New Orleans Advocate Scott Rabalais thinks they are and says so in commentary dated 1/19/20. This writer, a long time fan and follower of LSU sports thinks Rabalais opinion is a stretch and the usual "apple polishing story" so many sports writers engage in. Rabalais tries to back up his opinion with stats that are self serving and are not a good judgment for evaluating a team. He also takes a shot at Clemson as a "pothole" LSU ran over.
Of course Clemson fans can say Joe Burrow as a starting quarterback for LSU will never accomplish in his two years at LSU, what Clemson's quarterback Lawrence and his team accomplished in his two years at Clemson. Twenty nine straight wins and two straight national championship games participated in. And as a starting quarterback, Lawrence only lost one game Rabalais also forgot the great Oklahoma teams under Bud Wilkerson in the early to mid fifties that won 47 straight games and even the 1958 LSU national championship team that went undefeated and shut out Clemson in the Sugar Bowl.
Rabalais seemed to pay a lot of attention to LSU's offensive stats because he was so use to seeing Les Miles offensive failures. But then again, Rabalais picked Alabama to beat LSU this year. Everything is relative in life and sports. Destiny has nothing to do with it because we are only destined to die. But players, like people, can choose their own fate and LSU and its coaching staff choose their own fate with a winning attitude and a will to win. LSU had a great year, no doubt about it, but picking a greatest team ever is mythical like the national championship before the BCS playoffs began.
And the greatest college teams in the past will never have the opportunity to play each other and decide which team really was the best. So every year college football will crown a national champion, but the best college football team ever will remain mythical.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
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