The SEC West had seven of the league’s top eight offenses in 2015, remarkable considering the division featured four of the best 36 scoring defenses in the country.

Just about every SEC West offense will look substantially different in 2016. Not substantially worse, or even worse, mind you. Just different.

Here’s how we expect the 2016 offenses to shake out:

1. LSU

2015 points per game: 32.8, sixth in the SEC.

Better or worse in 2016? Better.

Why? The skill players are back and if Les Miles learned anything last November, it was that it’s time to get everybody involved. His paycheck depends on it. In Travin Dural and Malachi Dupre, LSU can line up its athletes with anybody in the nation, and in 2016 they’ll stop being decoys.

In 2015, the Tigers completed just 18 passes that went for 30 or more yards. Florida had more. Alabama had more. That’s inexcusable, particularly with defenses paying so much attention to Leonard Fournette.

Yes, Brandon Harris needs to be more accurate, but the Tigers shouldn’t ask him to throw timing routes into tight coverage. Take advantage of the one-on-ones on the outside, incorporate Fournette in the screen game. Get your play-makers in space, like the rest of college football is trying to do.

Nobody is asking Miles, a Michigan man, to become Oregon overnight, though talking shop with Chip Kelly recently was the strongest sign yet that creativity is coming to the Bayou.

2. Texas A&M

2015 points per game: 27.8, seventh in the SEC.

Better or worse in 2016? Better.

Why? A&M’s offense is poised to take the biggest scoring leap in the league. Don’t worry about the quarterback. Noel Mazzone’s system is friendly, built to exploit mismatches and A&M has the athletes on the outside in Josh Reynolds and Christian Kirk to turn bubble screens, slants and go routes into six points.

A&M led the SEC in scoring in 2013, averaging more than 44 per game. It also finished 10th in the SEC that season in rushing, with quarterback Johnny Manziel doing most of that damage.

Last season was the first time under Kevin Sumlin that an Aggies running back topped 1,000 yards.

Ground and pound is not who the Aggies are, and they’ll get back to their high-scoring ways in 2016.

3. Ole Miss

2015 points per game: 40.8, best in the SEC.

Better or worse in 2016? Worse.

Why? Worse is relative. In the past 10 years, Texas A&M (2012-13) and Florida (2007-08) are the only SEC offenses to average 40-plus points in consecutive seasons. Both had a Heisman winner at quarterback.

The Rebels still should average five touchdowns a game, which will challenge for the league lead. Elite wide receivers — even great ones like Laquon Treadwell — are more plentiful and easier to replace than left tackles, but Chad Kelly is mobile enough to mitigate that.

4. Alabama

2015 points per game: 35.1, fourth in the SEC.

Better or worse in 2016? Worse.

Why? Alabama’s scoring average has dropped each of the past three seasons. Bet you didn’t know that. Lane Kiffin knows offense, but Nick Saban won’t allow for reckless play-calling. Alabama in 2016 will be breaking in a new quarterback and new running backs. It will lean on its defense again until those two positions, in particular, get up to speed.

We’ll learn a whole lot about Alabama’s offense and potential ceiling when it travels to Ole Miss on Sept. 17 and even more a month later at Tennessee.

5. Auburn

2015 points per game: 27.5, eighth in the SEC.

Better or worse in 2016? Better.

Why? Jeremy Johnson will be better. Auburn’s offensive production has varied wildly over the past decade, and it’s typically tied to the quarterback’s play.

The Tigers have averaged fewer than 20 points twice in the past seven seasons — and averaged more than 35 three times.

In 2013, they brought in Nick Marshall, and the offense more than doubled its scoring output from 2012.

So improvement in 2016 hinges on Johnson’s improvement. He gives Auburn the best chance to play like Auburn.

6. Arkansas

2015 points per game: 35.9, second in the SEC.

Better or worse in 2016? Worse.

Why? The replacement parts, particularly at the vital skill positions, aren’t nearly as proven or dynamic as the 2015 starters. Some of the new starters haven’t even been selected. Arkansas will still run the ball effectively, because that’s what Bret Bielema teams do, but it can’t count on producing as many explosive plays, and that was the most surprising aspect of Arkansas’ 2015 attack.

Arkansas finished second in the SEC last season with 73 plays of 20 yards or more — 50 of which came in the passing game. It had 11 plays go for 50 or more yards — seven of those were passes.

That element will be missing in 2016.

7. Mississippi State

2015 points per game: 34.4, fifth in the SEC.

Better or worse in 2016? Worse.

Why? Unless Nick Fitzgerald is able to channel his inner Tee Martin, it’s unfair to ask him or anybody else to perform like Dak Prescott.

Of course, they were probably saying the same thing in Knoxville after Peyton Manning left in 1997.

Mississippi State averaged 34.4 and 36.9 points in Prescott’s final two seasons — the only times since 2000 the Bulldogs’ offense topped 30.

That’s how good that guy was.