No. 8 Alabama (10-1, 7-0) at Auburn (6-5, 3-4)

2:30 p.m. CST Saturday (CBS)

Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn

1 Victory in 28 games for unranked Auburn teams against ranked Alabama teams since the AP Poll began in 1936. In 2002, the unranked Tigers upended the No. 9 Crimson Tide 17-7. Alabama has won eight straight ranked/unranked games against Auburn since then.

1 Previous season has featured two SEC teams that finished with 8-0 league records. In 2009, Alabama and Florida completed their conference campaigns with 8-0 marks. Georgia has finished its SEC slate for 2023 with an 8-0 record, and Alabama is carrying a 7-0 league mark into its conference finale against Auburn.

2 Previous Iron Bowls have been played on Nov. 25. In 1988, No. 7 Auburn defeated No. 17 Alabama 15-10. In 2017, No. 6 Auburn defeated No. 1 Alabama 26-14.

7 TD passes and 1 interception for the Alabama offense and 7 TD passes and 1 interception against the Auburn defense in the third quarter this season. Against the Auburn defense in 2023, opposing passers have completed 56-of-77 passes for 760 yards with seven TDs and one interception for a passing-efficiency rating of 183.04 in the third quarter. Auburn has given up three TD passes in the first half this season. Alabama’s quarterbacks have completed 41-of-62 passes for 747 yards with seven TDs and one interception for a passing-efficiency rating of 201.36 in the third quarter this season.

10 Points are needed by Alabama K Will Reichard to become the career scoring leader in major-college football history. After scoring 12 points in Alabama’s 66-10 shutout of Chattanooga last week, Reichard has 521. Reichard trails 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, on the all-time list.

12 Consecutive seasons with at least 11 victories for Alabama, the longest such streak in major-college football history. The Crimson Tide can extend the streak with a victory on Saturday. Alabama most recently failed to win 11 games in a season in 2010, when the Crimson Tide went 10-3. Alabama won 12 games in 2011, 13 in 2012, 11 in 2013, 12 in 2014, 14 in 2015, 14 in 2016, 13 in 2017, 14 in 2018, 11 in 2019, 13 in 2020, 13 in 2021 and 11 in 2022.

12 TD runs by Alabama’s Jalen Milroe this season, the most by a quarterback in the nation.

13 Victories and eight losses for Alabama coach Nick Saban against Auburn – a winning percentage of .619. In his 17th season with the Crimson Tide after five years at LSU, Saban’s record in SEC regular-season games against all other teams is 134-22 – a winning percentage of .859. Auburn coach Hugh Freeze had a 2-3 record against Saban and Alabama while at Ole Miss.

17 Takeaways for Auburn this season, tied for the most in the SEC. The Tigers have recovered six of their opponents’ fumbles and intercepted 11 passes. Alabama has lost 10 turnovers this season – four fumbles and six interceptions.

17 Iron Bowls since the winning team has been outscored in the fourth quarter. The Iron Bowl winner has had the most fourth-quarter points in 14 of the past 17 games, and in the other three games each team scored the same number of points in the final period – zero twice and seven once. In the 2005 Iron Bowl, Auburn did all its scoring in a 28-18 victory in the first half while Alabama scored eight points in the fourth quarter.

18 Consecutive field-goal attempts have been made by Auburn K Alex McPherson since he missed the first one of his career, the longest streak in school history.

24 Consecutive victories for Alabama over Auburn when the Crimson Tide enters the Iron Bowl with a record at least three games better than the Tigers’ mark. Since the rivalry resumed in 1948, only one Auburn team has won the Iron Bowl with a record at least three games worse than the Tide’s mark. In 1949, the 1-4-3 Tigers upended 6-2-1 Alabama 14-13.

33 Receptions for Rivaldo Fairweather in 2023, tied for the most in one season for an Auburn tight end. John Samuel Shenker set the mark with 33 receptions in 2021. Fairweather has 349 receiving yards. His six TD receptions are the most for an Auburn tight end since Philip Lutzenkirchen had seven in 2011.

33 More tackles for Alabama S Caleb Downs than for any of his teammates this season. Downs has 90 tackles, with LB Jihaad Campbell next with 57.

35 More tackles for Auburn WLB Eugene Asante than for any of his teammates this season. Asante has 79 tackles, with MLB Larry Nixon III next with 44.

42 Years since Alabama owned a four-game winning streak against Auburn. A Crimson Tide victory on Saturday would be its fourth in a row in the Iron Bowl, which would be Alabama’s longest winning streak against Auburn since a 28-17 victory in 1981 was its ninth in a row over the Tigers. This is Alabama’s third three-game winning streak in the intervening time.

49 Victories for Alabama, 37 victories for Auburn and one tie in the Tide-Tigers series. Auburn leads the series 10-6 in games played at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

140 Games have been played by Auburn since it was most recently shut out, the second-longest streak in school history. Auburn’s most recent shutout loss came 49-0 to Alabama on Nov. 17, 2012. Auburn’s record scoring streak lasted 149 games, starting with a 55-16 victory over Richmond on Oct. 4, 1980, and ending with a 17-0 loss to Alabama on Nov. 26, 1992. Auburn’s current scoring streak is the 10th-longest in SEC history, and its record streak is the ninth-longest.

307 Games have been played by Alabama since it was most recently shut out. Alabama’s scoring streak is the third-longest in SEC history and the 12th-longest in major-college football history. Alabama’s most recent shutout loss came 9-0 to Auburn on Nov. 18, 2000.

799 Victories in Auburn football history. A win on Saturday would make the Tigers the 13th NCAA FBS and fifth SEC program with 800 victories. The other schools with at least 800 victories include Michigan, Alabama, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas, Oklahoma, Penn State, Nebraska, Tennessee, Southern Cal, Georgia and LSU. The NCAA record book credits Auburn with an all-time record of 799-469-47.

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