re: Which past LSU team had best chance vs 2019

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2011's offense being so limited gives the opposing defense a lot of leeway. Your argument isn't very logical.

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A one-dimensional offense isn't necessarily a bad one... look at the opener against Oregon.

The series where LSU went hurry-up no-huddle, toss dive up the gut. Oregon could NOT stop that, they had to call time out.
Now, go back to LSU-Ole Miss in 2019. Burrow demolished the Ole Miss defense, but Ole Miss raped that LSU defense with the running game. Rhys Plumlee ran us ragged.

2011 had the defense to potentially keep the game in check, and the ground game to move on 2019, and very possibly wear them down.

Like someone else said, it took Alabama with an incredible defense of it's own to beat the 2011 team, and that was a rematch where Bama had the benefit of tweaking what it did, while LSU, as the winner of the first game, didn't have as many clear adjustments. And that rematch wasn't horrible; Bama had to settle for 5 FGs, and only punched it in late in the 4th to seal it. 2019 didn't have the defense that Bama team did, they're not shutting 2011 out. Probably not holding them under 20.

I still think 2019 eventually scores enough to win, but suspect the game would be far more interesting than anyone guesses.