By BJ Bennett
SouthernPigskin.com

Follow us at Twitter.com/SouthernPigskin.  Become a fan at the SouthernPigskin.com Facebook Page

The Crimson Tide are the current offensive standard in today’s game.

Alabama’s offensive balance and production is staggering. That remains the case after facing the nation’s top defense in Georgia, with continued success in that top three showdown only further validating the Crimson Tide’s remarkable start. Against the Bulldogs, Alabama totaled 41 points and 564 yards, somehow boasting a 400-yard passer in Mac Jones, a 150-yard rusher in Najee Harris and two 150-yard receivers in DeVonta Smith and Jaylen Waddle.

It was another near-perfect performance from the Crimson Tide attack, all with another great gameplan from offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian.

A year after LSU’s famed offense made history, Alabama is now making some of its own.

Remarkably, Jones currently leads the nation with a passer rating of 220.1; Joe Burrow’s record-setting season total this past year, for frame of reference, was 201.96. Jones ranks number one in the country with 13.2 yards per pass attempt and ranks second with both 379.5 yards per game and a 78.3% completion percentage. He has 12 touchdown passes compared to just two interceptions.

Harris now has 358 rushing yards and six rushing touchdowns the last two weeks alone. He paces college football by a wide margin with eleven rushing scores as the next closest producers have eight. Running for 124.75 yards per game has Harris in the top five nationally. His work against Georgia’s vaunted rush defense, which was the game’s best in 2019 and three games into 2020, essentially doubled the Bulldogs’ average yardage total allowed.

The dynamic duo of Waddle and Smith slot 4th and 7th in the country with 139.3 and 120.8 receiving yards per game, respectively. Smith’s 9.5 catches per game are good for third in the nation, while Waddle is the game’s only receiver with at least 20 catches averaging 22 yards per grab. Then there’s John Metchie III, who ranks fourth in college football with 24.86 yards per reception.

Alabama’s offensive line, as the starting point for the big plays that are made, has been consistent and dominant as usual.

Fresh off dismantling the best defense around in a primetime top three showdown, the accolades continue to come for the Crimson Tide. Jones should be the early Heisman Trophy frontrunner. In he, Harris, Waddle and Smith, Alabama has four legitimate contenders for college football’s most prestigous individual honor. Each of them, along with multiple offensive linemen, are currently worthy of All-American recognition.

Alabama is second nationally with 48.5 points per game, leading the country with a third down conversation rate of 61.9%. Especially given the defense they just did it against, the Crimson Tide are the current offensive standard in today’s game.

Right now, Alabama has the nation’s best offense, one that still appears to be improving week to week.