With Alabama’s 41-9 victory over Arkansas on Saturday, we have now seen the Tide play half of their SEC schedule this season.

You can say that things have been going well, but that wouldn’t be giving them nearly enough credit. To put it simply, Alabama has dominated its opponents on a level we haven’t seen.

Over the course of their four SEC games, they’ve outscored their opponents 193-31. That total is good for a 40.5 point margin of victory, which is by far Alabama’s best four-game stretch against SEC opponents since Nick Saban arrived in 2007.

The widest point margin under Saban was +213 points in the 2012 season. Already at +162 with four conference games remaining, even modest victory margins would help the Tide obliterate that mark.

Here’s a look at a year-by-year breakdown of point differential between Alabama and its SEC opponents in the regular season:

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As you can see, the most points that the Tide scored against all eight SEC opponents is 305 in 2013. Projecting point totals is tricky because the opponents change. LSU and Auburn await, for instance, but Alabama is on pace for 386 points in the SEC this season.

Likewise, the defense also has a chance to establish a new low in the Saban era. The record is 67, which the Tide set back in 2011; they’re on pace to allow only 62 this season.

That also means that Alabama would have a new best in point differential during the Saban era, as those two combined would be a difference of 324 points. That would make the current best differential of 213 points — from the 2012 season — look pedestrian, which is absolutely insane when you think about it.

In 2013, there was a four-game stretch where Alabama’s average margin of victory was 38.3 points, but that is the closest it’s been to the current run. The opponents during that stretch were Ole Miss, Kentucky, Arkansas and Tennessee.

Things might not be slowing down for the Tide this week, either. Alabama is a 34-point favorite over Tennessee, and the Tide is 3-1 against the spread in SEC games this season.

To put its level of dominance into perspective, Alabama could cover that 34-point spread, and still lower its average margin of victory against SEC opponents.

Texas A&M, now 4-2 and arguably the second-best team in the West, came the closest to giving the Tide trouble in Week 6. The Aggies, like the other 18 SEC opponents since Alabama’s 43-37 loss to Ole Miss in 2015, ended up falling short in a 27-19 loss.

If it weren’t for that game, Saban and Co., would be winning SEC games by an average of 51.3 points.

The scariest part for future opponents is that this might not even be peak Alabama, as they are still working out some kinks along the offensive line and getting Jalen Hurts more comfortable with his receivers. In addition, the Tide is playing several young guys, on both sides of the ball, who continue to get better each week.

Looking at what Alabama has accomplished so far, there’s no doubt that Tennessee is going to have its hands full coming to Tuscaloosa on Saturday.

With Vols true freshman QB Jarrett Guarantano only making his second start, Alabama will look to build on its already impressive resume against SEC opponents in 2017.

This team has distanced itself so dramatically from the rest of the SEC that its only competition now are championship teams from its past.