During the third Saturday of the SEC’s 2023 season, the league opened its league schedule while also posting a 6-2 record in non-conference games. In SEC games, Florida defeated Tennessee 29-16, Georgia defeated South Carolina 24-14 and LSU defeated Mississippi State 41-14. In non-conference contests, Alabama defeated South Florida 17-3, Auburn defeated Samford 45-13, Kentucky defeated Akron 35-3, Missouri defeated Kansas State 30-27, Ole Miss defeated Georgia Tech 48-23 and Texas A&M defeated Louisiana-Monroe 47-3 and Arkansas lost to BYU 38-31 and Vanderbilt lost to UNLV 40-37. Here are 10 numbers about the SEC’s Week 3 games:

4 Penalties against Arkansas on the Razorbacks’ final possession in their 38-31 loss to BYU on Saturday. The game ended when Arkansas was penalized for illegal touching as QB KJ Jefferson’s final pass was caught by Arkansas G Joshua Braun. Trailing by a touchdown, Arkansas started its final series at its 32-yard line with 1:55 to play. The first snap resulted in a strip sack, with the Razorbacks recovering the football. Despite that start, Arkansas reached the BYU 16. But the third holding penalty (two accepted and one declined) against the Razorbacks on that possession pushed Arkansas back 10 yards for the final penalized pass. The Razorbacks also had a false-start penalty during the series. Arkansas had 14 penalties for 125 yards in the game.

6 Receptions for Florida WR Eugene Wilson III on the Gators’ first possession of their 29-16 victory over Tennessee on Saturday. Wilson gained 44 of Florida’s 61 yards on the 13-snap series, which ended when Tennessee DT Omari Thomas blocked a 46-yard field-goal attempt. Thomas also blocked an extra-point kick later in the first quarter to keep Tennessee ahead 7-6. A freshman, Wilson had six receptions for 60 yards in Florida’s first two games, and he ended Saturday’s contest with six receptions after getting hurt in the first half and leaving the game.

10 Consecutive losses for Tennessee in Gainesville after the Volunteers lost to Florida 29-16 on Saturday. The Volunteers haven’t won on Florida’s home field since a 24-10 victory over the Gators in 2003. Tennessee’s Saturday loss also was its first to an unranked Florida team when playing as a ranked team. The Vols were ranked No. 11 in last week’s AP Poll. Before Saturday, ranked Tennessee teams had a 5-0 record against unranked Florida opponents, with the victories coming in 1940, 1944, 1953, 1970 and 1971.

13 Receptions for 239 yards and two TDs for LSU WR Malik Nabers in the Tigers’ 41-14 victory over Mississippi State on Saturday, including 10 receptions for 188 yards and two TDs in the first half. Nabers tied the LSU record for most receptions in a half held by Josh Reed, who had 10 receptions in one half and nine in the other in setting the Tigers’ single-game reception mark in a 35-21 victory over Alabama in 2001. Nabers’ Saturday stats are No. 4 in receiving yards and No. 5 in receptions on LSU’s single-game lists. Only one player has had more receiving yards than Nabers in a game this season – Miami (Ohio)’s Gage Larvadain, who had 273 on eight receptions in a 41-28 victory over Massachusetts on Sept. 9.

16 Of 18 passing for 152 yards with one touchdown and no interceptions in the first half and 6-of-24 for 104 yards with no touchdowns and two interceptions for South Carolina QB Spencer Rattler in Saturday’s 24-14 loss to Georgia. The Gamecocks led 14-3 at halftime. Rattler threw both his interceptions in the fourth quarter, when he completed 3-of-19 passes.

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33 Yards was the distance on a field-goal attempt missed by Vanderbilt K Jacob Borcila with 44 seconds left against UNLV after he had connected from 32 and 44 yards earlier in the fourth quarter on Saturday. The 33-yard miss left the game tied, and Jose Pizano provided UNLV with a 40-37 victory by making a 36-yard field goal with five seconds to play. QB Jayden Maiava’s 48-yard completion to WR Ricky White came on the snap before Pizano’s field goal. UNLV had lost 30 consecutive games in which it had yielded at least 37 points, dating to a 69-66 three-overtime victory against Wyoming on Nov. 12, 2016.

56 Consecutive Alabama games had featured at least 18 points for the Crimson Tide, the longest such streak in SEC history. The streak ended on Saturday in Alabama’s 17-3 victory over South Florida. That was the first game in which the Tide failed to score at least 18 points since its 44-16 loss to Clemson in the CFP national-championship game on Jan. 7, 2019. Alabama’s streak is 20 games longer than the SEC’s runner-up – 36 games by Georgia during the 2012 through 2015 seasons. Alabama’s streak ranks sixth in major-college football history. The record streak for scoring at least 18 points is 77 games and is ongoing for Ohio State, which most recently failed to score at least 18 points in a 31-16 loss to Oklahoma on Sept. 9, 2017.

61 Yards was the distance of the field goal that K Harrison Mevis made on the final snap to lift Missouri to a 30-27 victory over Kansas State on Saturday. The field goal was the longest in SEC history. Mevis broke the 60-yard record established by Tennessee’s Fuad Reveiz in 1982 and tied by Georgia’s Kevin Butler and Florida’s Chris Perkins in 1984. Each of those kickers used a tee, a practice that was prohibited by the NCAA beginning in the 1989 season. In the seasons since, only other field goal longer than 57 yards had been made by an SEC kicker – a 58-yarder by Georgia’s Brandon Coutu in 2005. Even though Mevis’ kick broke the SEC record for the longest field goal, it didn’t break the school record. Tom Whelihan made a 62-yard field goal for Missouri in 1986, when the Tigers were members of the Big Eight. Saturday’s field goal did tie Mevis for the school record for career field goals with 66, a mark set by Andrew Bagget from 2012 through 2015.

128 Consecutive Associated Press polls had included Alabama in the top 10, the longest streak in SEC history and the second-longest in poll history. The streak ended this week with the Crimson Tide ranked 13th, dropping from No. 10 after a 17-3 victory over South Florida on Saturday. The record for consecutive appearances in the top 10 is 137, established by Miami (Fla.) from 1985 through 1993. The Sept. 27, 2015, poll had been the most recent that didn’t include Alabama in the top 10. The Crimson Tide was ranked 13th that week but bounced back to defeat Clemson 45-40 in the CFP national-championship game for the 2015 season and finish No. 1.

405 Yards of total offense for Auburn QB Payton Thorne in the Tigers’ 45-13 victory over Samford on Saturday. Thorne completed 24-of-32 passes for 282 yards with one TD and two interceptions and ran for 123 yards and two TDs on 11 carries to record the ninth game with more than 400 yards of total offense in school history. The QB had 252 yards of total offense in Auburn’s first two games this season. Thorne is tied for eighth on Auburn’s single-game chart for total offense with the 405 yards (50 rushing, 355 passing) of QB Dameyune Craig in a 49-13 victory over Louisiana Tech in 1997. The Tigers’ single-game total-offense record of 505 yards (49 rushing, 456 passing) was set by QB Nick Marshall in a 55-44 loss to Alabama in 2014. In addition to Thorne, Ole Miss QB Jaxson Dart also had a 200-yard passing/100-yard rushing game in the SEC on Saturday. In the Rebels’ 48-23 victory over Georgia Tech, Dart completed 10-of-18 passes for 251 yards with one TD and no interceptions and ran for 136 yards and two TDs on 14 carries.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.