re: Top 5 screw jobs in LSU history

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The Longhorns were strictly a running team and would have been stopped cold by the great LSU defense.

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Would have been a classic for sure, the Longhorns beat a pretty good Irish team in that bowl!

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1969, when the Tigers had a gentlemen's agreement to play Texas in the Cotton Bowl for what would have been the national championship

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It would not have been for the national championship. Texas was in line to win the NC, but we weren't, even with a win over them.

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When Notre Dame broke its bowl ban, Texas jumped at the chance to avoid what was Cholly Mac's best team

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Well, the Cotton jumped at Notre Dame. Whether it was fear of LSU on Texas' part, we'll never know. I question, though, if Texas had the power to dictate to the Cotton who their opponent would be, and if they were afraid of LSU, then how and why would there have been a "gentlemen's agreement" to invite LSU in the first place?

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The Longhorns were strictly a running team and would have been stopped cold by the great LSU defense.

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Maybe. Remember that LSU played absolutely nobody that season outside of Auburn (which we beat 21-20 at home by blocking the tying XP), Alabama (which went only 6-5, yet put up a fight in Tiger Stadium, losing by 5) and Ole Miss (which beat us). Also, if I'm not mistaken, wasn't Texas running the wishbone at that time? I know that Alabama went to the wishbone in 1971, having copied it from Texas, so Texas had to be using it at least by 1970, but probably also 1969. If so, Mac's defenses, despite being great against the run in general, had terrible trouble with the wishbone.