Ranking the 10 best offenses in LSU football history

Where does LSU’s 2023 offense rank against some of the best in program history?

LSU’s 2023 offense was one of the best units the sport has seen in some time. By some numbers, it was good enough to rival Joe Burrow’s 2019 offense.

The 2019 and 2023 offenses are two of the best in program history. And here, we’ll be looking at the 10 best offenses LSU ever put on the field.

This was tricky. The game has changed, and so has the way offenses are evaluated. Prolific passers and scorers are much more common now than they were in the 20th century. Yards come a dime a dozen now.

Because of that, I’ve tried my best to adjust for the era. I didn’t just use total yards and points, but I also looked at how the units performed in big games and the individual talent as well. If an offense was also good in back-to-back years and featured several of the same players, I used them once in the interest of variety.

Here’s how it all breaks down.