re: LSU's greatest game under McClendon, Dinardo, Saban, Miles, Orgeron (1 a piece),

I go further back than that (first LSU game I attended Tinsley was the coach) so I'll pick games starting with Dietzel:

1. Dietzel Ole Miss 1958 (most people would pick the 59 game, but in 58 the Tigers defeated a good Rebel team 14-0 to take over the #1 spot in the polls.)

2. Cholly Mac Auburn 1969, although the 1971 Notre Dame game is a close second.

3. Stovall Florida State 1982, although the win against Washington in 1983 deserves some consideration.

4. Arnsparger Southern Cal 1984 in Los Angeles

5. Archer Auburn 1988 - the earthquake game

6. Hallman BAMA 1993 (it is hard to say this is his "greatest" game, since that assumes there were other great games.)

7. DiNardo Florida 1997

8. Saban Oklahoma 2004 Sugar Bowl for the BCS Championship

9. Miles Oregon 2011

10. Orgeron Georgia 2018

I agree 100%

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Hallman


I can only possibly be fond of his last one.

ETA, Although there was one Miss St game where Jesse Daigle went off at QB for nearly 400 yards that I think sort of kindly of ONLY because of that.

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Do you even "when pigs fly" game vs. Alabama?

ND '71 strictly because LSU got hosed the previous year in South Bend on a pass interference penalty that led to a field goal for ND and a 3-0 Irish win. There was no way in hell ND was going to leave Baton Rouge with a W. It was one of the first nationally televised night games in Tiger Stadium. I'll never forget it.

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I'm curious how the Oregon games goes if it was played in November. Deanthony Thomas was kinda awful and misused against LSU and probably cost them the game. He was a monster when he moved to RB.

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Absolutely wouldn't matter.

That game was the most brilliant coaching job Les Miles ever did, and I don't mean that sarcastically.

Everyone talked about Oregon's pace and how it would tire us out. Les countered by practicing hurry-up himself, running 2 separate and complete O Lines in practice, so the second line could sprint to formation and run a play as soon as the last play ended.

And at some point it occurred to him- my O Linemen are getting up lining up fast, and they outweigh Oregon's line by 30+ lbs apiece. And my RB isn't a Heisman threat, but he's as big as their linebackers and loves contact.
And my patented toss-dive into the gut is about as fast developing a play as there is.

He unleashed that on Oregon, ran 3 straight HUNH toss dives, and we just crushed them. THEY had to call timeout because all the fancy playcalling was irrelevant, we were going to push them right off the field.
That series broke Oregon's souls right there. They were terrified of going no-huddle against us anymore, because if we retaliated and did the same back again, they would be taking players off in body bags. It truly felt like the rest of the game was played in submission, they lost all fight afterwards.

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Curley was still shite

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You can say that again. He followed up that "when pigs fly" masterpiece in Tuscaloosa with a bonafied stinker of a game in Tiger Stadium vs Arkansas, where pigs not only flew, but they ran, and ran, and ran through the porous Tiger defense for 450 yards. LSU lost out on an all important Car Quest bowl invitation.

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It’s hard for me to fathom a team like Notre Dame being that good.

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Notre Dame was the real deal back in the Seventies.

McClendon -ND ‘71
Stovall- FSU ‘82
Arnsparger - ‘86 ATM
Archer - Auburn ‘88
Hallman - Bama ‘93
DiNardo - Florida ‘97
Saban - BCSNC ‘04 (‘03 season)
Miles - BCSNC ‘08 (‘07 season)
Orgeron - UGA ‘18 so far ...

Deitzel 58, Game against O'l Piss , Cannon 90 yrd. punt return to beat OM!!!

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4. tOSU 2008 BCSNC Miles

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I'd say the VaTech game in '07 for Miles. Obviously the championship game gets a bump but as far as the game itself I don't think it is anywhere near the VaTech game or the UF game that year.