How come the 2010 team doesn't get much love & recognition?

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Id say because the team that came after them overshadowed them a little bit.

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That's a big part of it.

If the 2011 team had won that last game we’d have a legit argument between them and the 2019 team. 2011 was defensive juggernaut and had the honey badger and 2019 was the most prolific offense in CFB history!

Saban had that game down to a science.

Les was stubborn, but Saban made damn sure to keep the ball away from TM7 all night, and knew exactly what we were gonna do. All night. Rough.

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Les was stubborn, but Saban made damn sure to keep the ball away from TM7 all night, and knew exactly what we were gonna do. All night. Rough.

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Yes

But

Saban and Bama sat at home, rested and game planned, while LSU had SECCG

The mulligan was BS and I don’t mind saying Bama was definitely 1B, having to beat them again was robbery

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We wouldn’t have had the 2019 team if the 2011 team won the championship.

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You can't state that like it's a fact.

LSU was already established as a program that would bring in an outside QB, they'd done it with Mettenberger and Etling already. And they also brought in a Penn State guy that never panned out. LSU was also a national power, that had beat Ohio State for a title.

Burrow left Ohio State when he didn't get the starting job. Many teams, famously Nebraska, told him no. His only choices were LSU (again, a national power who took transfer QBs), and Cincinnati (a mid-major at the time). Burrow was ambitious, he would take LSU 10 out of 10 times, regardless of coach.

As for offensive scheme, remember Les did try a couple times to spruce it up. 2011, for example, was supposed to be the Louisville guy, who took ill with Parkinson's. That offense was a last-minute bandaid run by the O Line coach.
They did open it up for Mett. That Georgia game we lost in Athens was similar to the Texas game Burrow emerged, other than the outcome. We were pushed in both games, and threw the ball accordingly.

As for surrounding talent... Jefferson was a lifer for LSU. And we've always had stud WRs, both under Saban and Miles. I see no reason to say we don't have the same group, or the Catholic High running back.

Maybe it's a bit different scheme (not Brady); Burrow looks good without Brady with the Bengals, other than getting hurt. I think he would still shine through, because a lot of that was his internal motivation more than any scheme. His 2018 offense looked a lot like Les ball, so that would have been the same... and he would have still had a burning desire to come out better the next year. Brady didn't do the summer of 10,000 catches, Burrow and the WRs did.

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You can't state that like it's a fact.

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Les Miles never ever gets fired if LSU wins that championship.
The 2019 team was assembled by Ed Orgeron. Would have been a different team with different coaches and several players without him.

That’s a fact.

People on this board speak down on Miles like he was a bad coach but LSU was just winning a few more games in multiple seasons seeing at least 2 more NC games. I don't think people realize how much better LSU would've been if Bama wasn't in our side of the division. Miles had his flaws but he always had LSU get up for the big games, we physical, with elite defenses.

Because the QB was so bad

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Les Miles never ever gets fired if LSU wins that championship.
The 2019 team was assembled by Ed Orgeron. Would have been a different team with different coaches and several players without him.

That’s a fact.

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Ed didn't dip into any recruiting pools Les wasn't already running. Les' criticism was always that he had elite talent and didn't win enough with it. Fact.

Dave Aranda was brought in by Les, not Ed. Fact.

Justin Jefferson is a legacy LSU guy, following Rickey and yes, his other brother Jordan, who in this scenario would have a national title. So he's coming here. Fact.

LSU under Miles often had elite WRs, and especially from La. In addition to Jefferson, both Chase and Marshall were from La. Fact.

Les brought in Etling, the transfer QB that immediately preceded Burrow. Fact.

Jeff Grimes was the OL coach under Miles, he was retained by Ed for a year, and brought in a couple of the OL who ended up starting in 2019. And the 5 starters were 3 from La, 2 from Miss (and Ole Miss/Miss State not going to outrecruit LSU under Miles for them). Fact.

CEH came from Catholic High and was a shoo-in for LSU; he immediately followed Guice at both high school and college. I'd say that's as close to fact as you can get, especially if LSU had a more recent title.

Ed didn't "change" the program, not the way Kelly did later. He "refreshed" it, but kept a lot of pieces in place. Ed's program actually crumbled once all of Miles' guys were gone (Aranda, the seniors from Miles' last year, etc). But he ran Miles' machine until it did. Which was the fear we had, he could bring excitement and energy, but could he maintain something once it was all on him? Turned out, he couldn't.

If Miles had won 2011, it's questionable that the program would later get stale as it did. We'd have more momentum recruiting, if anything.
And as for the immediate time before Burrow, we had Etling, a transfer, who was leaving and we needed a QB (because Les could never get one out of high school).

So the Burrow situation would be the same- LSU would be loaded in need of a QB, Burrow was a QB in need of a team, and the only competition was a mid-major. As I said, 2018 was typical LSU offense under Miles... but that drove Burrow to get better. Which he did, mostly on his own.

You get that shootout at Texas, which was necessary to win, not to establish an offense, and then you ride the momentum the way we did in 2019. Burrow didn't make mistakes and put the ball perfectly, it wasn't "just" good playcalls. Brady can get credit for formations and routes, but Burrow was the guy who dropped the ball over someone's fingertips constantly, and those WRs never dropped after having the drops the year before.