Earlier this week, we opined in an open letter to Alabama coach Nick Saban that perhaps he should consider leaving Tide quarterback Tua Tagovailoa in more during these blowout games — to set more records and further entertain onlookers who might be bored with sportsmanlike 40-point Ws.

Expanding on that theme, this week could see more potential school records fall because the opponent — Ole Miss — is not exactly the Rebels/Black Bears unit that had goalposts torn down and Katy Perry hitting on their QB.

With Hugh Freeze proselytizing at Liberty, the cupboard is rather bare in Oxford. And the Rebels/Black Bears don’t even have The Grove going for them this week, as Tuscaloosa is the venue and CBS is ready to bear witness to the carnage.

And expecting carnage, it isn’t a bad idea to bank on at least a couple school records to fall in the process. Which ones, you ask? Check it out!

Tua goes to T-1 on career pass TD list

This one is going to fall eventually, if not this weekend than against sieve-like Texas A&M. AJ McCarron threw 77 career TD passes in 4 seasons at Alabama, and Tagovailoa has 71 in 2 seasons and 4 games.

Alabama’s sweet Hawaiian prince only needs 2 TDs to break the school record for total TDs (McCarron has 80, and Tagovailoa has 79 — 71 passing, 8 rushing), so figure that could fall late in the 1st quarter Saturday if all the dominoes tumble correctly.

But getting 6 pass TDs would *also* break the Tide’s single-game mark, which Tua tied last year against Auburn, 2 weeks ago at South Carolina and again last week vs. Southern Miss. A 2-for-1 deal!

Tide scores more than 66 points against the Rebels/Black Bears

Look, Ole Miss tore down their goalposts after beating Alabama in 2014 when the Rebels/Black Bears upset the No. 3 team in the land. Tore them down and paraded them around campus, then cut them up and sold them as souvenirs. How did they do it? Well, the methods were such that the NCAA practically set up a satellite office in Oxford and helped Hugh Freeze find Jesus.

Nick Saban remembers these things. Every one of them — the goalposts and Laremy Tunsil and Robert Nkemdiche. That’s probably why Alabama hung 66 on Ole Miss 2 years ago, breaking the record of 64 set originally in 1917 (64-0) and equaled in 1930 (64-0).

If Tua is torching the Ole Miss secondary as described above, then a 70-spot could happen. Nothing personal, Matt Luke. This would simply be a receipt.

Jerry Jeudy or Henry Ruggs goes for 225 receiving yards

The Alabama single-game record for receiving yards is held by now-Dallas Cowboys WR Amari Cooper, who grabbed 9 passes for 224 yards against Auburn in 2014 and then equaled it on 13 catches against Auburn a month later.

Extrapolating a 6-TD performance from Tagovailoa also means lots of opportunity for Jeudy or Ruggs to get this done. It would likely take a 70-plus-yard catch in there, but that is easier than one thinks in the Tide offense. If Jeudy or Ruggs gets especially hot and has 190 heading into the 4th quarter, you better believe someone will be in Saban’s ear whispering about 225.

The only thing that could stand in the way of this happening (besides Ole Miss’ defense, which really is of secondary concern …) is that Amari Cooper is perhaps the best representative of Alabama football in the NFL. Good dude. Doesn’t get in trouble. Plays the game at a stellar level. Erasing his name out of the record book doesn’t get you the same kind of benefit that, say, breaking DJ Hall’s single-game receptions record of 13 (which he shares with Cooper, twice) would get.

An Alabama kicker — either one, doesn’t matter — boots a 58-yard field goal

Van Tiffin became part of Alabama lore when he was good from 52 against Auburn in 1984, but the father of former Tide kicker Leigh Tiffin also holds the school record with his 57-yarder against Texas A&M in 1985.

Will Reichard has the leg to go for 58, and should his balky hip flexor be 100 percent against Ole Miss, we could see this being attempted at the end of the first half. Joseph Bulovas? Maybe not, but heck, why not try it if you’re in position … what could possibly go wrong?*

*– The Kick-6 against Auburn didn’t happen. Chris Davis stepped out of bounds.

Tagovailoa completes 34 passes

Incredibly, Alabama’s sweet Hawaiian Prince does not hold the school record for single-game pass completions. David Smith actually holds the current record of 33, which he accomplished on 52 attempts for 412 yards in Alabama’s 29-28 Sun Bowl victory over Army in 1988.

That this number is this low speaks to how much Alabama has relied on the run for virtually its entire history. Notice how there are no rushing records on this list? That’s because they are both absurdly out of reach *and* Alabama’s rushing game isn’t exactly ready to set records this season.