SEC Football by the Numbers: Top 10 from Week 10

SEC Football by the Numbers: Top 10 from Week 10

On the 10th Saturday of the SEC’s 2023 season, Alabama defeated LSU 42-28, Arkansas defeated Florida 39-36 in overtime, Auburn defeated Vanderbilt 31-15, Georgia defeated Missouri 30-21, Kentucky defeated Mississippi State 24-3 and Ole Miss defeated Texas A&M 38-35 in conference games and South Carolina defeated Jacksonville State 38-28 and Tennessee defeated Connecticut 59-3 in non-conference contests. Here are 10 numbers about the SEC’s Week 10 games:

2 Alabama players have had at least 150 rushing yards and 150 passing yards in the same game, including QB Jalen Milroe in the Crimson Tide’s 42-28 victory over LSU on Saturday. Milroe had 219 passing yards and 155 rushing yards against the Tigers. The first Alabama player with a 150/150 game was QB Tyler Watts, who had 231 passing yards and 162 rushing yards in a 37-36 loss to South Carolina on Sept. 29, 2001. Three other Alabama quarterbacks have had at least 150 rushing yards in a game – Steadman Shealy with 190 in a 24-7 victory over Mississippi State on Nov. 3, 1979; Walter Lewis with 156 in a 21-3 victory over Cincinnati on Oct. 23, 1982; and Jalen Hurts with 154 in a 41-10 victory over Fresno State on Sept. 19, 2017. In those games, Shealy had 42 passing yards, Lewis 61 and Hurts 128. (Halfback Harry Gilmore had 216 rushing yards against Kentucky on Nov. 3, 1945, and is sometimes listed as a quarterback. He had 50 passing yards in the 60-19 victory over the Wildcats.) Milroe also ran for four TDs against LSU, becoming the ninth Alabama player with at least four rushing TDs in one game (with Shaun Alexander doing it twice). Milroe is the only quarterback on the list.

2 Players in major-college football history have scored more points than Alabama K Will Reichard, who set the record for career points by a kicker with six extra points in the Crimson Tide’s 42-28 victory over LSU on Saturday. With 502 points, Reichard replaced Austin Seibert, who had 499 points for Oklahoma from 2015 through 2018, on the top of the kicker list. The players with more points than Reichard are QB Keenan Reynolds, who scored 530 points for Navy from 2012 through 2015, and RB Kenneth Dixon, who scored 522 points for TCU from 2012 through 2015.

2 SEC players had 200-yard receiving games on Saturday. Ole Miss WR Tre Harris had 213 yards and one TD on 11 receptions in a 38-35 victory over Texas A&M, and South Carolina WR Xavier Legette had 217 yards and two TDs on nine receptions in a 38-28 victory over Jacksonville State. There have been two other 200-yard receiving games by SEC players this season. Mississippi State WR Lideatrick Griffin had 256 yards and one TD on seven receptions in a 37-30 loss to South Carolina on Sept. 23, and LSU WR Malik Nabers had 239 yards and two TDs on 13 receptions in a 41-14 victory over Mississippi State on Sept. 16.

2 Of the five 80-yard plays from scrimmage in the SEC this season occurred in Tennessee’s 59-3 victory over Connecticut on Saturday. RB Jaylen Wright ran 82 yards for a touchdown, and WR Squirrel White caught an 83-yard TD pass from QB Joe Milton III. Tennessee is the only team in the nation with more than two 80-yard plays from scrimmage this season. Milton had an 81-yard run in a 45-14 victory over UTSA on Sept. 23. The SEC’s other 80-yard plays this season include an 86-yard pass from LSU QB Jayden Daniels to WR Brian Thomas Jr. in a 62-0 victory over Army on Oct. 21 and an 85-yard pass from Vanderbilt QB Ken Seals to WR Will Sheppard in a 38-14 loss to Florida on Oct. 7. Wright, who also had an 83-yard run in a 56-0 victory over Vanderbilt on Nov. 26, 2022, became the second Tennessee player with two 80-yard runs, joining LaMarcus Coker, who had two for the Volunteers in 2006.

2 SEC coaches have won 250 games after Alabama defeated LSU 42-28 on Saturday. The victory boosted Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban’s record guiding SEC programs to 250-44. Saban’s on-the-field record is 202-28 at Alabama after going 48-16 at LSU. Paul “Bear” Bryant had a 60-23-5 record at Kentucky from 1946 through 1953 and 232-46-9 record at Alabama from 1958 through 1982 for an overall mark of 292-69-14 in the SEC. Bryant is the only coach with more victories at one SEC school than Saban, who passed Georgia’s Vince Dooley on Saturday. Dooley had a 201-77-10 record with the Bulldogs from 1964 through 1988.

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8 Consecutive Vanderbilt games have included at least 30 points for the Commodores’ opponent, the longest such streak in SEC history. By losing to Auburn 31-15 on Saturday, the Commodores moved past seven-game streaks by Vanderbilt in the 1978 season and Tennessee in the 2012 season. Before losing to Auburn, the Commodores lost to Wake Forest 36-20, UNLV 40-37, Kentucky 45-28, Missouri 38-21, Florida 38-14, Georgia 37-20 and Ole Miss 33-7.

13 SEC players have had two 1,000-yard receiving seasons after LSU WR Malik Nabers had 171 yards and one TD on 10 receptions in a 42-28 loss to Alabama on Saturday. Nabers has 1,152 yards and 10 TDs on 66 receptions in 2023 after he had 1,017 yards and three TDs on 72 receptions in 2022. The other SEC players with two 1,000-yard receiving seasons have been Alabama’s DJ Hall in 2006 and 2007, Amari Cooper in 2012 and 2014, Jerry Jeudy in 2018 and 2019 and DeVonta Smith in 2019 and 2020, Florida’s Jabar Gaffney in 2000 and 2001, LSU’s Josh Reed in 2000 and 2001, Missouri’s J’Mon Moore in 2016 and 2017, Ole Miss’ A.J. Brown in 2017 and 2018, South Carolina’s Sidney Rice in 2005 and 2006, Tennessee’s Joey Kent in 1995 and 1996, Texas A&M’s Mike Evans in 2012 and 2013 and Vanderbilt’s Jordan Matthews on 2012 and 2013.

14 Years between victories for Kentucky in an SEC West opponent’s stadium. The Wildcats’ 24-3 victory over Mississippi State in Starkville on Saturday was Kentucky’s first in a road game against an interdivision opponent since downing Auburn 21-14 on Oct. 17, 2009, at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Kentucky lost 15 in a row on the road against SEC West opponents in between. The Wildcats’ 21-point margin of victory also matched its most one-sided road win in 32 seasons of play against the SEC West, equaling its 45-24 victory over Mississippi State on Nov. 2, 2022, at Davis Wade Stadium. Kentucky became the first visiting team to win its annual matchup against Mississippi State since the Bulldogs won 45-31 in Lexington on Oct. 25, 2014.

183 Yards and two TDs on 19 carries for Auburn RB Jarquez Hunter in the Tigers’ 31-15 victory over Vanderbilt on Saturday. Hunter had the second-most rushing yards by an SEC this player this season, the most rushing yards for an Auburn player since RB Tank Bigsby with 192 in a 24-10 victory over Mississippi State on Dec. 12, 2020, and the second-most rushing yards for an Auburn player against Vanderbilt behind 219 by Joe Cribbs in a 52-35 victory on Oct. 13, 1979. Hunter’s first touchdown came on a 67-yard run – one of Auburn’s three TDs of at least 50 yards in the game. The Tigers most recently had three 50-yard TDs in a game in a 63-14 victory over Purdue in the Dec. 28, 2018.

481 Yards were gained by Arkansas in a 39-36 overtime victory against Florida on Saturday that was the Razorbacks’ first win in Gainesville. The game was the first for Arkansas with Kenny Guiton as its offensive coordinator and featured the most yards for the Razorbacks this season. The Razorbacks wide-receivers coach, Guiton was promoted last week after Arkansas fired offensive coordinator Dan Enos. With 226 rushing yards and 255 passing yards against Florida, Arkansas surpassed the 426 yards in a 34-31 loss to LSU on Sept. 23.

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