re: What was the most near perfect game you can remember?

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This first half and the Ole Miss first half that year were unlike anything I'd seen.

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Maybe true. But that Ole Miss sucked and had basically mailed it in by that point. "Perfect" has to take into account the strength of the opponent IMO.

To that end, the 2007 Virginia Tech game and 2019 Oklahoma games are the closest to "perfect" I can remember. That Va Tech team came in #9 and it was 24-0 at the half. Tech never threated as LSU scored on its first two possessions. Tech went 10-1 the rest of the way before reaching the Orange Bowl. The "one" being a loss to (then) #2 BC. That was a good team and LSU beat them like they were Virginia Commonwealth, not Virginia Tech.

The Oklahoma game was a destruction. SEVEN TD passes...in the first half...vs. the #4 team in the country in a playoff game! You hear it said "this team could have scored 100" all the time. But that night it may have been true. To put things in perspective, LSU beat Virginia Tech 49-7 in 2007. It was 49-14 at halftime in 2019.

One (slight) disappointment was the Alabama game in 2019 was trending towards "perfect" in the first half. LSU had 8 possessions. They resulted in 4 TDs and 2 FGs. Alabama's offensive possessions were: Fumble, fumble, punt, punt return TD (that was crazily the result of a horrible facemask by LSU), stoned on 4th down, 64 yard TD pass (caused by the coaching staff getting Stingley to look to the sideline while the ball was snapped), punt, interception.

LSU's defense was actually playing great in the first half. You could see and feel the sheer astonishment in the stadium going into halftime because no one had manhandled Alabama like that in the Saban era.