Power Ranking Top Offenses in College Football Heading into Week 10

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No. 5 Alabama Crimson Tide

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I can easily make an argument for the Alabama Crimson Tide to be either left off this ranking, or moved higher up it. The Tide have scored easily in every game they have played, but they have looked bad at times as well. Not as bad as we see from the likes of Middle Tennessee on a Saturday, but more of the players running the wrong routes and running backs struggling to move the chains. Alabama will get its first real test of the year Saturday night against the LSU Tigers in a game in which AJ McCarron will enter with just three interceptions, but with 16 touchdowns and 1,862 passing yards.

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No. 4 Texas A&M Aggies

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This one is easy to explain, but hard to defend. Johnny Manziel and the Texas A&M Aggies dismantled the Alabama defense earlier this year, the first team to do so since last year, when they did it as well. Manziel and Mike Evans can make a deadly combo in the red zone and open field, but without one of the two this offense takes a huge step back. The Aggies gave us one of the best games of the college football season to date, and they may move themselves up this list if they play well against LSU on November 23.

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No. 3 Florida State Seminoles

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As a redshirt-freshmen, Jameis Winston burst onto the scene in a huge way his first game under center. Winston threw the ball just 27 times, but only two passes were incomplete, and he gained 356 yards and four touchdowns on his way to becoming the next big star in college football. He then proved himself even further when on national television, in a prime time game, he lit up the Clemson Tigers defense for 444 passing yards and four total touchdowns. Winston will be a hot name in the 2015 NFL draft, but until then fans will get to watch him routinely make highlight reel plays. As a group, the Seminoles have the third most points in the nation, but even they don’t come close to what the next team is doing.

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No. 2 Oregon Ducks

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The Ducks are once again the premier zone-option offense in the country as Mariota and De’Anthony Thomas remain as two of the most electric players in the game. Even when Thomas was out with an injury the Ducks were still the best running offense in the country and average over 330 yards on the ground per game. Oregon gets their next real test this Saturday night against the Stanford Cardinal. If the Ducks escape that road game with a victory, they should be lined up to take on the Crimson Tide in the National Championship, something we have all wanted to see for years.

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No. 1 Baylor Bears

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As you can see from the picture above, Baylor run a version of the read-option, but what separates them from Oregon is that Bryce Petty, the Bears’ quarterback, would rather drop back and throw the ball deep, which attributes to the 400 passing yards he averages per game. The Bears don’t run the option to keep the ball on the ground all the time, but instead they use it to freeze linebackers and create time for their receivers to get open deep. The Bears also have one of the best running backs in the country with Lache Seastrunk, but their next three games are against ranked opponents, so their offense, which averages over 700 total yards per game, must prove deserving of this No. 1 ranking if they hope to emerge unbeaten.