Jarrett Stidham enters each week with one personal goal in mind. It's almost unattainable for a quarterback, but Auburn's QB1 tries to set a high standard for himself.

Each time he takes the field, Stidham aims to throw a perfect game and finish without a single incomplete pass.

"That's one of my goals every week, to have a perfect completion game," Stidham said. "Obviously, it doesn't work out like that, but I try to get it as close as possible each week, so that's something I hang my hat on."

The former Baylor transfer hasn't achieved that goal through five games, but he has come closer than most would expect while putting together three straight incredibly efficient performances against Mercer, Missouri and Mississippi State as Auburn has rattled off three straight wins following the worst offensive performance of Gus Malzahn's coaching career. Over the last three games, Stidham has completed nearly 83 percent of his passes for 846 yards, three touchdowns and one interception.

"That's really, really high but we knew he was a very talented quarterback when we recruited him," Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said. "We knew he could throw it. Obviously, being with him in the spring and fall camp, he's a guy that can make all the throws. But you've got to do it against game situations. Really, sometimes it's tough to complete 82 or 83 percent on air, but he's been able to do that and that was impressive."

Stidham's recent string of success comes on the heels of the arguably the worst game of his career against Clemson, when he completed 13-of-24 passes for just 79 yards and was sacked an astounding 11 times -- some of which were due to his indecisiveness with the ball and holding onto it for too long.

Since then, however, Stidham has settled in and is hitting his stride within Chip Lindsey's offense.

Against Mercer, he completed 32-of-37 passes for 364 yards and rattled off a school-record 18 straight completions between the first and third quarters. His completion percentage of 86.5 percent was the second-best mark in SEC history for a player who attempted at least 30 passes -- just behind Tim Tebow's 88.6 percent against Cincinnati in 2009.

The following week against Missouri in Auburn's SEC opener, Stidham followed up by completing 13-of-17 passes (76.5 percent) for 218 yards and a career-high 12.8 yards per pass attempt. Then last weekend against Mississippi State, Stidham put together perhaps his finest performance to date when he had the most efficient game by an Auburn quarterback in eight years.

"The very first game he looked like a guy that hadn't played in a long time, which is to be expected," Malzahn said. "That's kind of, with all the expectations, I tried to lay the groundwork before the season started that we needed to let the guy grow a little bit. We needed to let him get some experience before we start really judging him. He got better. Obviously, the second game, that was a very tough experience for him and everybody.

"Then the last three weeks you really started to see him kinda get more comfortable and get more of a command of the offense. He's been very efficient and we've got to continue that."

Against the Bulldogs, Stidham completed 13-of-16 passes, including four of at least 47 yards and two of 50-plus yards -- matching the team's season total in the category from a year ago in a single outing. Among those passes was a 49-yard pass to Darius Slayton on a trick play out of the Wildcat, a 47-yard touchdown to Will Hastings, a 52-yard near-touchdown to Kyle Davis and a 57-yarder to Eli Stove on a play that started inside Auburn's own 1-yard line.

"He's really just feeling it," Stove said. "He's doing a great job."

It was a performance that earned him SEC Co-Offensive Player of the Week honors.

Most importantly, perhaps, is that Stidham has been making good decisions when the ball is in his hand. He isn't holding on to the ball too long, as he oftentimes did during the first two games, and he's going through his progressions and making the right reads -- which is also partly due to the offensive line keeping him upright the last three games.

Stidham currently leads the SEC in completion percentage (72 percent) and ranks eighth nationally in the category. He's currently on pace to break the single-season Auburn record for completion percentage, which was set by Ben Leard in 1999 (70.7 percent). Stidham is also 19th nationally and seconds in the conference -- behind Ole Miss' Shea Patterson -- in passer rating at 161.64.

So while Stidham has yet to throw that perfect game, the Auburn quarterback has been almost as good as possible the last few weeks.

"I'm a lot more comfortable," Stidham said of the difference for him the last few weeks. "The first game, it was the first game I'd played in something like two years. Really, it's no excuse, but (I was) just trying to get that experience back and that confidence back. I feel like I've come a long way."

Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.