Alabama is halfway through its toughest stretch of games in years. You probably need to be reminded.

The Tide have traveled to Arkansas and Tennessee the past two weeks and won by a combined 58 points. Toughest? It's really hard to write this with a straight face: No. 6 Texas A&M comes to Bryant-Denny Stadium next week for what qualifies as the SEC game of the year.

There, you've been properly updated. Don't blame us if that one also fails to live up to expectations. You know, like, being a competitive game.

Feel free to reach for the nearest thesaurus. Epic doesn't begin to describe No. 1 Alabama at the moment. We'll start slow so as not to overwhelm you: Alabama has won 19 in a row after beating the Vols 49-10.

It scored the most points against Tennessee in the last 30 years of this series. The 39-point differential is also the largest margin of victory in an Alabama-Tennessee game since the NCAA was born (1906).

The third Saturday in October quickly turned into the Tide's 10th consecutive defeat of the Vols.

Oh yeah, about that tough stretch? Following Texas A&M, Alabama goes to LSU on Nov. 5. So far, the Tide have scored at least 48 points against all four ranked teams they have played.

It says somewhere that we have to play the rest of the games but seldom has Alabama looked so dominant during this dynastic run. The Tide have won their seven games this season by an average of three touchdowns. Only Ole Miss played Alabama close in a 48-43 Rebels loss.

If it all wasn't so impressive, it would be discouraging. An off-Broadway production of a bunch of red elephants in Groundhog Day.

"When you get to Atlanta, anything can happen," Peyton Manning said on CBS during the rout.

That was a reference to a possible Alabama-Tennessee rematch in the SEC Championship Game.

Please, no. That would be anti-climactic.

Besides, Florida now controls the SEC East, and the SEC West controls that championship game. The West Division winner has won seven straight in Atlanta.

Yes, we're getting ahead of the program. Tennessee was a nice story while it lasted. That is before it tried to stay in the same area code as Alabama.

There are at least four pros on that Tide defense that lost six starters to the draft. Consider that only two of the front seven returned to a unit that sent four players to the NFL last season.

That's also in Alabama's first season without Kirby Smart.

It was an Alabama hat trick at Neyland Stadium -- offense, defense, special teams. Free safety Ronnie Harrison stepped in front of a Josh Dobbs screen pass and went 58 yards for a touchdown. Eddie Jackson added a punt return for a score.

That made it 11 non-offensive touchdowns (defense, special teams) for the Tide this season. Stanford, Arkansas State, South Carolina and Buffalo came into Saturday all having scored no more than 11 total touchdowns in 2016.

You can literally see three generations worth of starting tailbacks out there. Helping pile up 438 rushing yards were the two primary rushers: Damien Harris and true freshman Joshua Jacobs. Sophomore Bo Scarbrough touched the ball five times and ran for 109 yards.

Freshman Jalen Hurts (132 rushing yards) became the first Tide quarterback in 15 years with two 100-yard games in a season.

Once again, Alabama has sucked much of the drama out of the season before leaves have turned. Yeah, I know. What else is new?

The Tide are at the point where they can "afford" a loss, still win the SEC West and still get in the playoff.

But who's thinking about losing at this point?