No. 12 Alabama (3-1, 1-0) at Mississippi State (2-2, 0-2)

8 p.m. CDT Saturday (ESPN)

Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Mississippi

0 TD passes and five interceptions for Mississippi State QB Will Rogers on 152 passes in three games against Alabama. Rogers has 88 TD passes and 20 interceptions in his other games for the Bulldogs. Against Alabama, Rogers has completed 89 passes for 678 yards.

1 Loss for Alabama in its 16 previous SEC road-openers under coach Nick Saban. In 2014, the Crimson Tide lost its first SEC road game 23-17 at Ole Miss on Oct. 4.

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1 SEC player has scored more points than Alabama K Will Reichard, who has 458. Auburn’s Daniel Carlson holds the SEC record with 480 points from 2014 through 2017.

2 100-yard rushing games for RB Roydell Williams during his four seasons with the Crimson Tide. In both instances, another Alabama running back ran for 100 yards in the Tide’s next game. On Sept. 16, Williams ran for a career-high 126 yards and one TD on 17 carries in a 17-3 victory over South Florida. On Sept. 23, Alabama RB Jase McClellan ran for 105 yards and one TD on 17 carries in a 24-10 victory over Ole Miss. Williams’ other 100-yard game came in a 63-14 victory over Southern Miss on Sept. 25, 2021, when he ran for 110 yards and one TD on 11 carries. On Oct. 2, 2021, Brian Robinson Jr. ran for 171 yards and four TDs on 36 carries in a 42-21 victory over Ole Miss.

4.5 Sacks by Alabama LB Dallas Turner this season, the most in the SEC. Crimson Tide LB Chris Braswell ranks third with 3.5.

11 Consecutive Mississippi State coaches have lost in their first meeting with Alabama. The most recent MSU coach to win in his initial outing against the Crimson Tide was Darrell Royal in 1954, when the Bulldogs topped Alabama 12-7. In the 11 first-meeting games since, the Bulldogs scored more than seven points only twice, with a high of 14. Six of the new coaches were shut out in their first game against Alabama, including the past two. Zach Arnett will lead Mississippi State against Alabama for the first time on Saturday.

15 Consecutive games against Mississippi State have been won by Alabama. The Crimson Tide hasn’t lost to the Bulldogs since MSU defeated No. 21 Alabama 17-12 in 2007. Alabama leads the series 87-17-3 on the field. Alabama has played and beaten Mississippi State more times than it has any other opponent. The teams have squared off annually since 1948.

17 Points apiece have been scored by Mississippi State and its opponents in the first quarter, 41 points apiece have been scored by MSU and its opponents in the second quarter and 24 points apiece have been scored by the Bulldogs and their opponents in the third quarter this season. Mississippi State has outscored its opponents 34-27 in the fourth quarter and 7-0 in overtime.

22 Consecutive Alabama-Mississippi State games have featured points in the second quarter for the Crimson Tide. The Bulldogs haven’t shut out Alabama in the second period since MSU’s 29-7 victory in 2000. Since then, the Tide has outscored the Bulldogs 226-57 in the second quarter.

33 Victories and four losses for Alabama when a ranked Crimson Tide plays unranked Mississippi State, which is the situation on Saturday night. Alabama has won eight in a row in this circumstance dating to the Bulldogs’ 17-12 victory over No. 21 Alabama in 2007. This year, the Tide has its lowest ranking in the AP Poll for its annual game against MSU since that contest.

40 Consecutive games with a reception for Mississippi State RB Jo’quavious Marks, who has caught a pass in every game in his college career. Marks holds the school record for consecutive games with a reception and for receptions with 205.

45 Tackles have been made by Mississippi State LB Jett Johnson this season, the most in the SEC.

250 Consecutive AP polls have included Alabama, the nation’s longest current streak and the second-longest in AP poll history. The most recent AP poll that did not include Alabama was the final one of the 2007 season. The only streak of poll appearances longer than Alabama’s belongs to Nebraska at 348. After beating Colorado 59-0 on Oct. 10, 1981, Nebraska was ranked No. 19 two days later, and the Cornhuskers were not unranked again until the Sept. 29, 2002, poll, after back-to-back losses to Penn State and Iowa State dropped them to 3-2.

300 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 14th-longest in major-college football history. Alabama’s most recent shutout loss came 9-0 to Auburn on Nov. 18, 2000.

487 Passing yards by Mississippi State QB Will Rogers in the Bulldogs’ 37-30 loss to South Carolina last week, the second-most by an NCAA FBS player this season. The output jumped Rogers from sixth to third on the SEC’s list for career passing yards. WR Lideatrick “Tulu” Griffin caught 256 of Rogers’ passing yards as he had seven receptions and one TD to set a school single-game record for receiving yards.

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