This would be so much easier if it were basketball.

With LSU, if you’re picking records that will never be broken, you’d just throw out any of a number of insanely absurd Pete Maravich scoring records, maybe toss in some Shaq stats and you call it a day.

But we’re talking football. And it’s harder to go down the record books and find many that aren’t reachable. Not at LSU.

Maybe in a year, if Leonard Fournette … well, let’s wait and get to that a bit later.

So we dug deep, and here’s what we came up with:

5. Josh Reed’s magical Alabama game records

Can you imagine this happening against a Nick Saban defense? In 2001, with Saban coaching the Tigers, Reed caught 19 Rohan Davey passes for 293 yards. Those are both school records not likely to be touched any time soon.

These days, it’s hard to imagine Les Miles wanting to throw the ball 19 times, much less for 293 yards. And while the trend is no doubt temporary, getting to those numbers is highly unlikely, even if the Tigers become a pass-first team.

4. Chad Kessler’s half-a-field punt average

Remember how good Brad Wing was before moving on to the NFL?

Well, Kessler’s 1997 season average of 50.28 yards per punt are almost six yards better than Wing’s 2011 average. He became the first punter in NCAA history to average half a field per punt.

Unless Tiger Stadium goes from being “Death Valley” to “Death Mountain,” thus introducing elevation to LSU punts, don’t expect that average to be challenged.

3. Tyrann Mathieu’s 11 career forced fumbles

The amazing thing is the Honey Badger did it in just two seasons. He really did take what he wanted.

To do it, he put together the two most prolific years for forcing fumbles in school history (six and five). He was truly a once-in-a-lifetime talent when it comes to creating turnovers, and we’ll never see another player quite like him.

2. The Tigers’ current regular-season, non-conference win streak

Even if LSU loses the season opener to Wisconsin, the Tigers come into the season with 52 straight non-conference, regular-season wins. A cynic might say it’s because of easy scheduling.

But you can count on the Tigers to play one tough non-conference game a year, like this year’s opener against Wisconsin in Green Bay. The roll call of opponents is pretty impressive: Oregon, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Virginia Tech, Arizona State, Oregon State and North Carolina are among the teams the Tigers have beaten during the streak.

The norm in college football will probably trend toward tougher scheduling, meaning that once this streak is over, it’s going to be hard to ever repeat it.

1. Whatever Leonard Fournette finishes with

Fournette will leave for the NFL after this year but not before he may set some unbeatable records.

He’s likely to break Kevin Faulk’s career rushing record (4,557 yards) and may well shatter it. He enters the year with 2,987 yards and is coming off a 1,953-yard season.

He also already has the single-season rushing touchdowns record (22) and only needs two-thirds of that production to reach Faulk’s career rushing touchdown record.

In short, he’s in position to rewrite the LSU record book when it comes to rushing. And when he’s finished, he’ll leave standards awfully hard for future backs to catch.