Washington State has the nation’s No. 1 passing offense through the first four weeks of the college football season.
That comes as no surprise, with Mike Leach’s Cougars having led the sport in aerial yardage three times in the past five years.
It’s the two teams next in line that causes the jaw to drop.
LSU and Alabama, who began this decade as premier ground-and-pound programs, suddenly have running games that simply complement the dazzling arms of Joe Burrow and Tua Tagovailoa. Ed Orgeron’s Tigers are averaging an eye-popping 431.8 passing yards per game, while Alabama is even more explosive than a season ago with its 371.3-yard clip.
“We’re starting to see that we can do this every game to every team,” Burrow said last Saturday afternoon in a news conference that followed a 66-38 shellacking of Vanderbilt in Nashville. “This is who we are as an offense, and we’re going to try and score every time. I’m happy with where we are.”