Auburn vs. Georgia by the numbers
Auburn (3-2, 1-1) at No. 2 Georgia (5-0, 2-0)
2:30 p.m. CDT Saturday (CBS)
Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia
1 Major-college football rivalry will have been contested more than Auburn and Georgia after the Tigers and Bulldogs square off on Saturday for the 127th time. Minnesota and Wisconsin have met 131 times. North Carolina and Virginia will square off for the 127th time on Nov. 5. Georgia leads the series with Auburn 62-56-8, but the Tigers are 18-16 in Athens.
3 Teams have a worse turnover margin than Auburn this season. With 12 turnovers and three takeaways, the Tigers are at minus-9. New Mexico State, Stanford and Temple are at minus-10. No other SEC team is worse than minus-6 in turnover margin, including South Carolina, which has lost 13 turnovers this season.
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4 Receptions are needed by John Samuel Shenker to set Auburn’s career record for tight ends. Cooper Wallace set the school mark with 63 receptions from 2002 through 2005. Wallace also holds the Auburn career record for receiving yards with 829. Shenker has 718 receiving yards.
4 Of Auburn’s past five SEC games have included a lead for the Tigers in the second half. Auburn lost all four. The one game among the five that the Tigers didn’t lead in the second half, they won. Auburn and Missouri were tied 14-14 at halftime on Sept. 24, and after neither team scored in the second half, Auburn posted a 17-14 overtime victory.
4 Consecutive victories for Georgia in the series when the Bulldogs are ranked and the Tigers are not. An unranked Auburn team most recently defeated a ranked Georgia squad on Nov. 13, 1999, when the Tigers scored a 38-21 win against the No. 14 Bulldogs. Georgia has a 14-3-1 record when playing as a ranked team against unranked Auburn.
5 Years since Auburn won on an SEC East team’s home field. Since a 51-14 victory at Missouri on Sept. 23, 2017, the Tigers have lost at Georgia in 2018, Florida in 2019, Georgia and South Carolina in 2020 and South Carolina in 2021. Auburn has a 46-35-1 overall record against the SEC East since the league divided into divisions in 1992.
6 Consecutive October games have been won by Georgia, the SEC’s longest current winning streak in the 10th month.
12 Third downs have been converted into first downs in the first quarter and 10 third downs have been converted into first downs in the remainder of the game by Auburn this season. The Tigers are 12-for-21 on third downs in the first quarter and 10-of-44 on third downs from the second quarter on.
13 Consecutive conference games have been won by Georgia. The Bulldogs have had one longer winning streak in SEC play. A 23-game streak across the 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983 seasons ended by a 13-7 loss to Auburn on Nov. 12, 1983.
14 Years since the loser of the Auburn-Georgia game had more rushing attempts than the winner. In 2008, the Tigers had 36 rushing attempts, but lost 17-13 to the Bulldogs, who had 33. In the 13 games since, the winning team has had the most rushing attempts 11 times and the teams had the same number of rushing attempts in the 2009 and 2019 games.
14 Auburn players have had more rushing yards than RB Tank Bigsby, who moved into 15th place on the school’s all-time list last week. With 2,259 rushing yards, Bigsby is 5 behind No. 14 James Joseph.
19 Consecutive games have featured at least 20 points for the Bulldogs, the longest such streak in school history. Since Georgia defeated Clemson 10-3 to kick off the 2021 season, the Bulldogs haven’t scored fewer than 24 points in any game, and last week’s 26-22 victory over Missouri set the school record. Georgia had an 18-game streak with at least 20 points in each across the 2012 and 2013 seasons, which was ended by a 24-19 loss to Nebraska in the Gator Bowl. The SEC record for consecutive games scoring at least 20 points is 40 by Alabama, a streak that ended in the Crimson Tide’s 33-18 loss to Georgia in the CFP national championship game on Jan. 10, 2022. Georgia’s current streak is the 15th-longest with at least 20 points in SEC history.
64 Years since the Auburn-Georgia series had a six-game winning streak, with the Bulldogs entering Saturday’s contest having won the past five meetings with the Tigers. Auburn won six in a row from 1953 through 1958. The only longer streak in the series lasted nine games, with Georgia winning annually from 1923 through 1931.
122 Consecutive games without being shut out for Auburn, 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.
322 Days since Auburn played on its opponent’s home field. Between losing 21-17 at South Carolina on Nov. 20 and Saturday’s game at Georgia, Auburn has played in six home games and the Birmingham Bowl.
337 Passing yards for Auburn QB Robby Ashford in last week’s 21-17 loss to LSU. Ashford completed 19-of-38 passes with two TDs and one interception against LSU. Entering last week’s game, Ashford had completed 27-of-47 passes for 372 yards with one TD and two interceptions in his college career.
349 Games have been played by Georgia since it was most recently shut out, the second-longest scoring streak in SEC history and the sixth-longest in major-college football history. The Bulldogs haven’t been blanked since losing to Alabama 31-0 on Sept. 30, 1995.
1,536 Passing yards for Georgia QB Stetson Bennett in 2022. No other Georgia player had had more passing yards five games into a season in this century than Bennett.
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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.