Florida vs. Texas A&M by the numbers
Florida (4-4, 1-4) at Texas A&M (3-5, 1-4)
11 a.m. CDT Saturday (ESPN)
Kyle Field in College Station, Texas
0 Ranked teams in Saturday’s game. Texas A&M was ranked sixth and Florida was ranked 12th in the AP Poll on Sept. 6.
1 SEC team has only one player with at least 100 rushing yards – Texas A&M. RB Devon Achane leads the Aggies with 765 yards and four TDs on 142 rushing attempts.
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2 Teams in the nation have allowed their opponents to convert at least half of their third-down snaps into first downs this season, including Florida. The 109 third-down plays against the Gators defense have yielded 57 first downs. One team has allowed its opponents to succeed on third-down at a greater rate than Florida – Colorado at 52.43 percent. Florida has allowed a conversion rate of 52.29 percent. The Texas A&M offense has converted 34.34 percent of its third-down snaps into first downs (34-of-99), the worst rate in the SEC.
3 Victories for Texas A&M and two victories for Florida in the Aggies-Gators series. The teams have played three times as SEC rivals with Florida winning in 2012 and Texas A&M winning in 2017 and 2020. The largest margin of victory in those three games was three points. Florida defeated Texas A&M 42-6 in a regular-season game on Oct. 13, 1962, and the Aggies won the Sun Bowl 37-14 on Jan. 2, 1977, in their other meetings.
4 NCAA FBS players have run for a TD, caught a TD pass and returned a kickoff for a TD this season, including Texas A&M RB Devon Achane. The others are North Texas’ Kaylon Horton, Arkansas State’s Johnnie Lang and Western Michigan’s Sean Tyler. With seven, Achane has the most total TDs of the group in 2022.
5 Conference losses for Florida coach Billy Napier in the previous four seasons as the coach at Louisiana, a number he would match six SEC games into his tenure as the Gators coach with a defeat on Saturday. In four seasons at the helm of the Ragin’ Cajuns, Napier had a 27-5 record against Sun Belt Conference competition and a 40-12 overall mark.
7 Rushing TDs have been scored by Texas A&M this season. The Aggies have had at least 10 rushing TDs eight games into every other season in this century. Texas A&M’s 229 rushing attempts in 2022 also are the Aggies’ fewest eight games into a season since 2000.
18 Victories and five losses for Texas A&M against SEC East opponents. Florida has a 46-37 record against SEC West opponents.
38 Years since Texas A&M had fewer points eight games into the season than it does in 2022, when the Aggies have scored 181. In 1983, Texas A&M had 173 points and a 3-4-1 record eight games into the season.
42 Years since Texas A&M had a record of 3-6 or worse nine games into a season. The Aggies will be 3-6 in 2022 if they lose on Saturday. In 1980, Texas A&M won only two of its first nine games before defeating TCU and Texas to finish the campaign with a 4-7 mark.
43 Years since the previous time that Florida failed to win at least two of its first five SEC games in a season. In 1979, the Gators went 0-6 against conference competition.
338 Passing yards and four TD passes for Texas A&M QB Conner Weigman in his first career start last week. Before the Aggies’ 31-28 loss to Ole Miss, Weigman had 91 passing yards and no TD passes in his college career. He completed 28-of-44 passes with no interceptions against the Rebels. Weigman’s passing yardage was the most in a game for a true freshman in Texas A&M history. Weigman became the first Texas A&M player with at least 338 passing yards and four TD passes in a game since Nick Starkel had 499 and four in the Aggies’ 55-52 loss to Wake Forest in the Belk Bowl on Dec. 29, 2017.
431 Games have been played by Florida since it was most recently shut out, the longest scoring streak in major-college football history by 57 games. The Gators haven’t been blanked since losing to Auburn 16-0 on Oct. 29, 1988.
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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.