Florida better do something completely different on offense Saturday against Alabama in the SEC Championship Game, as the Gators head to Atlanta ranked 12th in the conference in total yards during the regular season.

According to CFBstats.com, here is where the past seven conference title game winners have finished offensively from 2008-14: first, fifth, first, sixth, fourth, second and third.

Even the losers have been strong offensively more often than not — sixth, first, seventh, third, third, third and 13th — with Missouri proving to be the outlier in 2014.

Despite a 7-1 conference record and running away with the SEC East, UF’s offense was exposed again this past Saturday when it put up just 262 yards and zero points on offense in a 27-2 loss to Florida State.

The Seminoles ranked second in the ACC in points allowed this season, and the Gators could only muster 3.2 yards per rush and 3.4 yards per pass in the friendly confines of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.

So how are coach Jim McElwain and Co. going to dent the scoreboard at the Georgia Dome against a Crimson Tide unit that finished No. 1 in the SEC in scoring defense, rushing defense and total defense?

As is usually the case on the gridiron, most of the criticism has been aimed at the game’s most important position.

When Will Grier wrestled the starting quarterback job away from incumbent Treon Harris, Florida’s passing offense finally began to show some signs of life. The redshirt freshman was particularly impressive in consecutive wins over Tennessee, Ole Miss and Mizzou, completing 67-of-104 throws for 762 yards with 6 touchdowns — including a game-winning 67-yarder on fourth-and-14 with 1:26 to play against the Volunteers — and just one interception.

But then Grier was popped by the NCAA for a year-long suspension following a positive test for performance-enhancing drugs, which put Harris back under center.

Harris looked more than capable initially, albeit in a loss at LSU, connecting on 17-of-32 passes for 271 yards with 2 TDs and no INTs in a hostile environment at Death Valley.

However, in his final five starts — including nail-biting wins at home over 4-8 Vanderbilt and 3-9 Florida Atlantic — the Miami product was a 50.4-percent passer and threw just as many picks (4) as scores.

According to Brady Ackerman, a former UF running back and currently the sideline reporter for the Gators radio broadcast, finding the right signal caller has been an issue in Gainesville for quite some time.

“The offense has been missing a quarterback since Tim Tebow left,” he said, “but it looked like it was headed in the right direction with Grier. Offensive recruiting with (former coach) Will Muschamp had not been on same level as it had on the defensive side of the ball.”

While Grier was more of a pocket passer, Harris is at his best outside the tackles after a play breaks down, like he was on this 66-yard touchdown pass to Antonio Callaway in a 27-3 win over Georgia.

But you can’t build an entire game plan around sandlot football, certainly not facing a Tide front seven that is littered with future draft picks at every position.

Florida has allowed 37 sacks — five more than anybody else in the conference — and Harris’ penchant for holding on to the pigskin too long is glaringly obvious.

While he can be effective on throws designed to get the ball out of his hand quickly, Harris often seems lost when asked to go through his progressions, like he did on this strip-sack touchdown against FAU.

“I agree, he is limited in what he can do and needs to be on the move more,” Ackerman said. “They have tried to fit him into their system, and it just hasn’t worked out.”

Harris doesn’t deserve all the blame, as his blocking up front is spotty at best, his ground game hasn’t been overly productive and his receiving corps doesn’t go very deep.

Running back Kelvin Taylor has 977 yards rushing, which is eighth in the SEC, although he averages just 4.1 yards per attempt and has been below 4.0 in six of 12 games. Even a big-play wideout like Callaway — he averages 19.2 yards per reception, second in the conference — has been held to 29 catches due to the general ineffectiveness of the UF offense as a whole.

It’s beyond time for McElwain to scrap the Grier-like approach he’s been using and instead have offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier mold his play-calling to Harris, as the 5-foot-11, 195-pounder will always be more playmaker than passer.

“Go up-tempo, spread it out and run zone read, jet sweep and speed option,” Ackerman said. “Put Treon in a position to be successful and attack. Take the thinking out of it.”

If Ackerman is correct, meaning McElwain hasn’t made enough of an adjustment with Harris subbing for Grier, then he is guilty of one of the coaching profession’s most heinous crimes: forcing a square peg into a round hole.

Grier was sacked 13 times before being suspended. Harris has roughly the same amount of pass attempts — 190 for Harris, 161 for Grier — yet has been sacked 23 times, which doesn’t make a lot of sense when he is the superior athlete and has shown some serious wiggle in the open field when deciding to tuck it and run.

Simply put, Harris can’t do what Grier can throwing the ball.

The aforementioned Tebow was only successful in the NFL when the Denver Broncos set their conventional playbook on fire after he took over for the statuesque Kyle Orton. They replaced it — briefly, of course, as Tebow’s style had no shelf life — with a replica of what the former Heisman Trophy winner ran during his collegiate career.

McElwain must do something similar, even if just for one game, as the Crimson Tide are in Tuscaloosa right now licking their chops as they watch Harris on tape.