No. 3 Alabama (6-0, 3-0) at No. 6 Tennessee (5-0, 2-0)

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

Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee

3 Victories over ranked teams in the past four games for Tennessee, making 2022 the first time that the Volunteers have defeated three ranked teams in a single regular season since 2001. Tennessee defeated No. 17 Pitt 34-27 in overtime on Sept. 10, No. 20 Florida 38-33 on Sept. 24 and No. 25 LSU 40-13 on Oct. 8. In 2001, the Vols defeated No. 14 LSU 26-18, No. 12 South Carolina 17-10 and No. 2 Florida 34-32.

4 Consecutive games with a 100-yard receiver for Tennessee. WR Bru McCoy had seven receptions for 140 yards in a 40-13 victory over LSU on Oct. 8 and five receptions for 102 yards and one TD in a 38-33 victory over Florida on Sept. 24. In the Volunteers’ 63-6 victory over Akron on Sept. 17, WR Jalin Hyatt had five receptions for 166 yards and two TDs. In Tennessee’s 34-27 overtime victory against Pitt on Sept. 10, WR Cedric Tillman had nine receptions for 162 yards and one TD. Alabama has had one opponent reach 100 receiving yards this season, when Texas A&M’s Evan Stewart had 106 on eight receptions last week.

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7 Yards per rushing attempt have been averaged by Alabama, the highest figure in the nation. At 257.5 rushing yards per game, the Crimson Tide has the third-best ground output in the nation. Tennessee’s defense is yielding an average of 2.8 yards per rushing attempt and 89.2 rushing yards per game in 2022.

8 Consecutive Tennessee games have featured at least 30 points for the Volunteers, the second-longest streak in school history. Tennessee reached at least 30 points in nine consecutive games during the 1995 season, a streak ended by a 12-7 victory over Vanderbilt on Nov. 25, 1995. Alabama has yielded 12.5 points per game in 2022, the sixth-lowest average in the nation.

9 Is the combined rank in the AP Poll of Alabama and Tennessee, the lowest of their 22 meetings as ranked teams. The Crimson Tide is No. 3 and the Volunteers are No. 6 in this week’s poll. Alabama leads the series 12-8-1 when both teams are ranked, and the Crimson Tide has a 9-2-1 record when it is the higher-ranked team in those matchups. Tennessee’s most recent victory over Alabama as the lower-ranked team in those games came in 1967, when the No. 7 Vols took a 24-13 victory over No. 6 Alabama.

12 Victories without a loss for Tennessee under coach Josh Heupel when the Volunteers were ahead at halftime. Tennessee is 0-6 under Heupel when it hasn’t led at halftime.

15 Consecutive victories have been posted by Alabama against Tennessee. The Volunteers haven’t beaten the Crimson Tide since a 16-13 victory on Oct. 21, 2006. Alabama’s longest winning streak in an annual rivalry is 22 games when the Tide defeated Mississippi State every season from 1958 through 1979. Alabama’s winning streak against Tennessee is not its longest active streak against an SEC rival. The Tide has won its past 23 games against Vanderbilt, starting with a victory in 1985. The Tide has outscored the Volunteers 537-177 in its current winning streak.

17 Consecutive Tennessee games have featured at least one TD pass by QB Hendon Hooker, the second-longest streak in school history. Heath Shuler had an 18-game streak that started in the 1992 season and ended in the 1994 campaign. In the only game he’s played at Tennessee without a TD pass, Hooker threw only once. In the past eight games, Hooker has thrown at least two TD passes in each. Alabama’s defense has yielded three TD passes this season.

20 Consecutive seasons have featured an Alabama victory in the Crimson Tide’s seventh game. Alabama’s most recent loss in Game No. 7 came in a 35-24 defeat by Tennessee on Oct. 20, 2001. During the streak, the Tide has beaten Ole Miss six times, Tennessee four, Arkansas, Southern Miss and Texas A&M twice apiece and Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi State and South Carolina once each.

27 Consecutive regular-season games against SEC East opponents have been won by Alabama. The Crimson Tide’s most recent regular-season loss to an SEC East rival is a 35-21 setback against South Carolina on Oct. 9, 2010. Alabama has a 63-19-1 regular-season record against SEC East opponents since the conference divided into divisions in 1992.

28 Scores on 28 red-zone possessions for Tennessee this season, which has 22 TDs and six field goals when reaching its opponent’s 20-yard line. Clemson, Ohio State and Vanderbilt are the only other teams that have scored on every red-zone possession this season. Alabama’s opponents have scored on 14-of-18 red-zone possessions this season with seven TDs and seven field goals.

33 Years since the Alabama-Tennessee game involved two unbeaten, untied teams. In 1989, each team had a 5-0 record, and the No. 10 Crimson Tide defeated the No. 6 Volunteers 47-30. During the SEC era, Alabama and Tennessee also have squared off as unbeaten, untied teams in 1934, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1945, 1946 and 1973. Each team has won four games in this circumstance. In the first five, both teams had 3-0 records. In 1946, Alabama was 4-0 and Tennessee 3-0. In 1973 and 1989, each team had a 5-0 mark.

34 Consecutive Alabama teams with 6-0 records won their seventh game. The most recent Crimson Tide team to win its first six games in a season and lose in Game No. 7 was the 1916 squad, which started 6-0 but lost to Georgia Tech 13-0 on Nov. 11 (then was shut out by Tulane and Georgia in its remaining two games).

97 Victories and 44 losses for Alabama coach Nick Saban in games against opponents ranked in the AP Poll. Saban has the most coaching victories against ranked opponents after passing former Penn State coach Joe Paterno, who had an 86-82 record against ranked teams.

105 Football games between Alabama and Tennessee when they kick off on Saturday. The Crimson Tide leads the series 59-37-8 on the field. The teams have squared off annually since 1928 with the exception of the 1943 season.

107 Years since Tennessee had as many points five games into a season as the Volunteers have scored in 2022. Tennessee has 234 points this season. Five games into the 1915 season, the Volunteers had 303 points, even though they lost to Clemson 3-0. But Tennessee also defeated Carson-Newman 101-0, Tusculum 21-0, Centre 80-0 and Cumberland 101-0 within the first five games of the 1915 season. After defeating Cumberland, the Volunteers finished that season without scoring another point, losing to Vanderbilt 35-0, Mississippi State 14-0 and Kentucky 6-0 to close campaign with a 4-4 record.

239 Passes by Tennessee QB Hendon Hooker since he most recently threw an interception – the longest streak in school history and the fifth-longest in SEC history. Kentucky QB Andre Woodson set the SEC record of 325 consecutive passes without an interception during the 2006 and 2007 seasons. Alabama’s defense has intercepted two passes this season.

289 Games have been played by Alabama since it was most recently shut out, a school record and the fourth-longest scoring streak in SEC history. Alabama’s most recent shutout loss came 9-0 to Auburn on Nov. 18, 2000. The Crimson Tide is one short of the third-longest scoring streak in SEC history. Tennessee had scored in 290 consecutive games when it was beaten 41-0 by Georgia on Sept. 30, 2017. Florida has a 429-game scoring streak going, and Georgia has scored in its past 350 games.

319 Yards on 18 punt returns for Alabama’s Kool-Aid McKinstry, 80 more yards than any other player in the nation has in the 2022 season. Tennessee has had one punt returned against it this season, but it went for 30 yards.

360 Rushing yards for Alabama RB Jahmyr Gibbs over the past two games. Gibbs ran for 206 yards and two TDs on 18 carries against Arkansas on Oct. 1 and 154 yards on 21 carries against Texas A&M on Oct. 8.

547.8 Yards per game have been gained by the Tennessee offense this season, the highest average in the nation. The Alabama defense is yielding 250.8 yards per game, the sixth-lowest average in the nation.

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