re: Does 2007 LSU Go Undefeated with Saban?

We lost to two teams that finished the year 8-5....so had we beaten them as we should have - they would have both likely been 7-6 if that puts thing in perspective our good fortune in winning the title that year. A perfect storm of unlikely events had to occur and did.

Of course it's hard to say, but I'd tend to think we likely do. Good message board question.

Again talk to people inside the stadium. Yes 2011 was an amazing year. But that doesn’t make Miles better than Saban. And yes the accountability was way less when Saban left. I can give you specific examples. But talk to old players during that time. They will tell you the same.

That 2006 team would have been nasty and was more talented than the 2007 team. That’s the more interesting hypothetical to make. How good is that 2006 LSU team with Saban as HC?

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He's only had two ('09 and '20*). His first was in Y3 at Bama.

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09 was one of the worst down years in SEC football.

Outside of Florida Bama everyone else was shite.

We finished ranked 17th in the country.
We were still recovering from kicking Ryan Perrilloux off the team and had lost our 3 top running backs to injury that season.
Ole Miss was the next best team, ranked 20th, and everyone else finished unranked. Everyone had 4 loses other than Bama and Florida.

Bama capitalized from the shittiest SEC schedule in the past 25 years.

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Does 2007 LSU Go Undefeated with Saban?

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The Kentucky and Arkansas games that year were just odd. We went up big in the Kentucky game and then just faltered down the stretch and didn't give the ball to Charles Scott when it looked like Hester was banged up and Scott had some momentum. Keiland Williams didn't touch the ball. I would think that game would have been managed differently and we win that game. Also, we struggled getting any sort of pass rush against Woodson.

Arkansas we were trailing in that game for a good bit and just couldn't stop their rushing attack between Felix, Hillis, and McFadden for the second straight season. Sabans defenses would not have struggled as much against the run like we did.

With that I still think we lose 1 game and go 13-1 but we wouldn't have had to have the events transpire to get into the Championship game. 06 was also a Championship team. He doesn't lose to Auburn. He wins the rematch against Florida.

Would have had a better game plan against Auburn with JR and his WR's instead of that conservative play calling crap Miles and Jimbo did.

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You could say the same and probably more for Les if Saban didn't come back to college.

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maybe I do agree Les probably has 2-3 titles if Nick never came back, but Les also had some pretty terrible losses that wouldn’t had happened under saban.
05 Tennessee
07 Kentucky
08 Arkansas
09 Ole Miss
‘10 Arkansas

Ugh

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Crowton

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Pelini

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Neither of these guys step foot on campus if Nick was here at that time

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Neither of these guys step foot on campus if Nick was here at that time

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Saban never had an offense as good as our '07 until maybe '13 and subs.

As for STs, like it or not, Les's STs >> Saban's.

And as noted, Pelini and Saban had the same basic approach on D. Very similar styles. If anything, Pelini used this nifty safety blitz that wreaked havoc on Bama QBs.

How do you see a Saban coached '07 team doing better?