Joe Burrow responds to question of who would win game between his 2019 LSU team and 2020 Alabama team
Alabama polished off an undefeated season on Monday with its win over Ohio State in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game.
From beginning to end, it was a dominant 2020 for the Crimson Tide, led by an electrifying offense helmed by Mac Jones, Jaylen Waddle and DeVonta Smith that was held below 40 points only twice and rattled off 7 games of 50 points or more. It’s a team that will be looked upon by some as certainly the greatest in the history of the program, if not one of the greatest in the history of college football as a whole.
Alabama’s explosive offensive performances came a year after Joe Burrow and LSU put together an impressive season of their own, breaking several records and cruising through a 15-0 campaign that ended with them hoisting the championship trophy in New Orleans.
On Tuesday, Burrow was asked the question that may have been on the minds of many: if his LSU team were to play this year’s Alabama team, who would come out on top?
“I think everyone knows the answer to that question,” the Bengals quarterback and 2019 Heisman Trophy winner responded with a smile. “Everybody knows what I’m going to say. I don’t even have to say it.”
Joe Burrow was asked who would win a game between 2019 LSU and 2020 Alabama? "I think everyone knows the answer to that question… I don't even have to say it." pic.twitter.com/5Udob2YSFM
— Brandon Saho (@BrandonSaho) January 12, 2021
We’ll obviously never know the outcome of such a matchup, but it’s a fun topic to ponder and will likely be a major point of debate for years to come.
Offenses are about equal. Without checking the stats it seems like LSU had a better defense last year. So I’d say 2019 LSU beats 2020 Bama by 3. I’d run it through my game simulator 20,000 times but my machines are tied up mining bit coins at the moment.
You’re an idiot. LSU’s defense wasn’t even as good as the Bama defense he played against and that was the worst defense in Saban’s tenure. This Bama defense would have made Burrow look as pedestrian as they did Book and Fields. Actually the Corndog defense was terrible during the regular season schedule and it was a surprise how well they played in the post season. The only reason they won the Bama game is because Tua was injured, threw a pick 6 and lost an unforced fumble inside the Corndog 10. 14 point difference in a 5 point game. They shouldn’t have won the Auburn game either.
Oklahoma had no business in the playoffs last year. They had no defense and Jalen was slowed exactly like he always had been against an SEC defense. It should have been Bama. OSU should have beat Clemson last year and OSU this year is far better than Clemson last year and beat them this year worse than LSU did last year even though this Clemson team was more experienced and better than last years team. Both Trask and Fields were as good as Burrows and Ole Miss QB played better against Bama than Burrows did.
It’s laughable to even consider Burrows Corndog team as good as this Bama team.
you’re high bro!!
So, we dont get enough of this wondering and hypothetical junk for the CFP? This is nuts.
“The only reason they won the Bama game is because Tua was injured, threw a pick 6 and lost an unforced fumble inside the Corndog 10.”
So, the only reason Bama lost the game, is because LSU played better. Nice grasp of the obvious.
And simulators don’t prove $hit.
We can all dream about that time we were a one hit wonder . Mac shattered your records buddy. How’s that NFL career working out for you…oh wait nvm. so happy we erased all memories of flash in the pan LSWHO. Guarantee you we won’t be .500 next year with 5 losses
Wow giving a guy a hard time over an injury…Nice scummy attitude. He could retire yesterday and be happier than your working azz will ever be.
Seeing your sudden appearance after the CFP shows that you’ve obviously been waiting the whole year after Alabama’s non-relevance last year just to start posting ridiculuous troll remarks about LSU. Butt hurt much? Know what OCD is?? Is football THAT important to you? Must be nothing else to do where you’re from…
He’s obviously an excited child. Probably best to just let him rant.
One hit wonder or not, they were great, and that was the point. No one would argue about who had more championships. Burrow was doing ok until his injury, are you happy about that? It isn’t like Tua set the world on fire. Show a little class. It isn’t like someone flamed you.
Was he? I think they had won 1 game. Lmao.
Spot on!
Offenses were equal. BAMA had better scoring defenses 19.0ppg to 21.9 for LSU and margin of victory goes to BAMA also 29.1 to 24.8…FWIW
I would think it would be a lot like the game last year. If they played ten times the games would probably all be close and they would probably be fairly even. Last years Bama team was loaded with Tua, Ruggs, Jeudy, Waddle, Smith, and Harris. We tend to forget how good they were going into the LSU game because they lost that game. I don’t know how much better, if any, this years Bama team is versus last years team prior to Tua getting hurt. I think last years Bama team would dominate the 2020 Bama schedule much like this years team did.
Last years team did not have an O’line that won the Moore award going away. They did not have near the running game of this years team which is why Najee came back.
This years team would have beat last years by 14 to 21 points simoly because the 2019 defense $ucked even worse than the 2018 defense.
Actually it was stupid to ask him, what do you expect him to say. I think they were one of the greatest teams of all time. I think Bama beat some of the marks they set, others they did not. I think what makes Bama the best of all time is that they did it, in the style that they did it, during a pandemic that made everything tougher and made it easy to lose your focus on football.
Actually Bama beat ALL of the offensive records LSU set except maybe the number TD passes Burrow threw and that was only because Bama had Najee and it wasn’t necessary to score a TD by passing every time.
Burrow is better than Jones, but Smith is better than Chase and Najee is better than Clyde and the Tide’s o-line is better than last year’s LSU o-line.
However, the Tigers also had Moss and Jefferson and Marshall. If Waddle is healthy that probably cancels out the Jefferson advantage.
I honestly have no idea. Bama played 11 SEC opponents, but LSU beat an absurd number of top 10 teams last year.
No they only beat lots of top 10 teams who were top 10 at the time which means nothing. Bama beat more top 10 teams who were top 10 after the season than LSU did last year.
They did?
Bama beat 4 teams who finished top-10 at the end of the year (AP)(Notre Dame, Ohio St, UGA, A&M), and Bama also beat UF, who finished 13th. LSU beat 5 (Clemson, Oklahoma, UGA, UF, and Bama, who finished 8th in the AP) in addition to beating Auburn who finished 14, and Texas, who finished 25th. The AP is the better poll between the Coaches imo, and the CFP doesn’t make a new ranking after bowl season, so I used the AP
Honest assessment KirbySmart. Moore award winning O lines. Najee’s fantastic hurdle vs Clyde’s angry spin. Outrageous receiving corps on both sides. I give LSU the advantage in the defensive backfield – and that’s saying a lot. The important intangibles are what would matter.
Could this year’s Tide’s defense stop last year’s LSU’s juggernaut offense? The momentum LSU gained after each game last year would be hard for any team to interrupt. If anyone could do it, then this is probably the team. Kudos to both squads respectively for dropping Top 10’s like flies and for fighting through the pandemic untouched.
Both offenses would score every possession. If Golding was replaced with a competent DC, the Tide wins. And how can anyone criticize what Burrows did this season with the Bengals? I thought the kid looked great.
First of all you can’t compare the 2 seasons, Alabama 2020 season was so watered down because of all the critical players opting out. Even though it was an All-SEC schedule most teams Bama played had key opt-outs so that made the path of the team without opt-outs that much easier. Now the 2019 LSU Tigers played a full schedule beating 7 top 10 teams, 4 top 5 teams and the only team to in history to beat the top 4 preseason teams. That’s why there’s no debate that LSU had the best season in college football history, look Alabama had a great 2020 season but please it can’t come close to what LSU did in 2019. And it’s very weird to me that in this world of a pandemic and we not knowing if we were going to have a football season that the National Championship game between Alabama and Ohio St. had some of the worst ratings in decades, go figure.
Bama fans are like dog crap on everyones shoe. Mac is no Burrow. He won’t even sniff 1st round pick. LSU 2019 played a tougher schedule but even with a lesser D they would beat 2020 Bama. Congrats to this years Tide on their run but the problem with the Bama fans is they have such an inferiority complex in their personal lives…which comes from close relatives marrying…that if you don’t tell them they’re the best they troll message boards.
AL.com used to open commenting and where a normal page might get 20 to 30 comments…Bama fans would comment 1k to 2k times. Gumps had to be shut down…