With a month already gone in the 2016 season, the narratives for each SEC team are starting to come into focus.
Today we’ll look at one statistic that best explains where each team sits as we push into October. Here is the SEC West:
Alabama: 46.5 ppg scored. Everybody thought that Nick Saban’s defense would be ridiculous, and everybody was right. Alabama is at or near the top of the SEC in every meaningful defensive statistic. What we didn’t know was how a rebuilt offense would perform, but the Crimson Tide has had no problem there thus far.