Auburn (3-3, 1-2) at No. 9 Ole Miss (6-0, 2-0)

11 a.m. CDT Saturday (ESPN)

Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi

1 7-0 record for Ole Miss during the SEC era, a mark the Rebels would own again if they defeat Auburn. Ole Miss won its first seven games in 2014. The Rebels later had to vacate those victories because of violations of NCAA rules.

1 Higher-ranked Ole Miss team has played Auburn. On Nov. 1, 2014, the No. 4 Tigers defeated the No. 7 Rebels 35-31. Ole Miss has played Auburn eight previous times as a ranked team when the Tigers were unranked. Auburn has won five of those games, although Saturday’s game is the first one in which Ole Miss is ranked better than 15th.

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2 Consecutive 100-yard rushing games for Auburn RB Tank Bigsby against Ole Miss. Bigsby ran for 129 yards in a 35-28 victory in 2020 and 140 in a 31-20 victory in 2021. Three Auburn players have rushed for 100 or more yards against the same opponent in at least three consecutive seasons. Carnell “Cadillac” Williams had 100-yard games against Mississippi State in 2002, 2003 and 2004, Bo Jackson had 100-yard games against Alabama in 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1985 and James Brooks had 100-yard games against Tennessee in 1977, 1978 and 1979. Auburn has had a 100-yard rusher in five of its past six games against Ole Miss.

2 Of the 10 players in the nation with two receptions of at least 60 yards are in Saturday’s game. Auburn RB Jarquez Hunter has receptions of 61 yards against LSU on Oct. 1 and 62 yards for a TD against Georgia on Oct. 8 from QB Robby Ashford. Ole Miss WR Jonathan Mingo had TD receptions of 71 and 72 yards from QB Jaxson Dart in last week’s victory over Vanderbilt.

2 TD passes have been yielded by the Auburn defense this season, tied with Illinois for the fewest in the nation. Ole Miss has scored TDs on 10 passes in 2022.

2 Points are needed by Anders Carlson to lift the Auburn kicker into sixth place on the SEC’s career list. Currently, Leigh Tiffin holds that spot with 385 points for Alabama from 2006 through 2009. Carlson ranks second in scoring in Auburn history to Daniel Carlson, who holds the SEC record with 480 points for the Tigers from 2014 through 2017.

3 Teams have a worse turnover margin than Auburn this season. With 13 turnovers and four takeaways, the Tigers are at minus-9. New Mexico State and Temple are at minus-10, and Stanford is at minus-11. No other SEC team is worse than minus-6 in turnover margin, including South Carolina, which has lost 15 turnovers this season.

6 Consecutive victories for Auburn over Ole Miss, with the Tigers leading the series 35-11. Auburn has a 13-3 record in Oxford with victories on the past four visits.

8 Consecutive seasons have included at least four losses for Auburn. The Tigers have had only one longer streak of at least four losses per season. From 1938 through 1952, Auburn lost at least four games in every season. Since posting a 12-2 record in 2013, Auburn has gone 8-5 in 2014, 7-6 in 2015, 8-5 in 2016, 10-4 in 2017, 8-5 in 2018, 9-4 in 2019, 6-5 in 2020 and 6-7 in 2021. The Tigers enter Saturday’s game with a 3-3 record in 2022.

10 Years since Auburn had fewer points and fewer rushing yards six games into a season than it does in 2022. The Tigers have scored 122 points and run for 889 yards this season. Those are the lowest six-game totals since 2012, when Auburn had 97 points and 753 rushing yards in a 1-5 start.

13 Consecutive victories in home games for Ole Miss, which hasn’t lost at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium since a 35-28 setback against Auburn on Oct. 24, 2020. It’s the Rebels’ longest winning streak in Oxford since a 21-game streak ended with a 7-3 loss to LSU on Oct. 31, 1959, when the Tigers’ Billy Cannon made his famous 89-yard punt return. Auburn has won its past four games in Oxford.

14 Third downs have been converted into first downs in the first quarter and 13 third downs have been converted into first downs in the remainder of the game by Auburn’s offense this season. The Tigers are 14-for-27 (52 percent) on third downs in the first quarter and 13-of-55 (24 percent) on third downs from the second quarter on. Auburn’s conversion rate gets worse as the game goes on – 6-for-18 in the second quarter, 5-for-20 in the third quarter, 2-for-16 in the fourth quarter and 0-for-1 in overtime. Auburn has outscored its opponents 38-7 in the first quarter and been outscored 143-84 in the remainder of its 2022 games.

16 Of the 22 Auburn-Ole Miss games this century have featured a Tigers ball-carrier with at least 100 rushing yards. Auburn has a 15-1 record in those games. Carnell “Cadillac” Williams rushed for 103 yards against the Rebels in 2003, but Auburn lost 24-20. In the six games this century without a 100-yard rusher, the Tigers have gone 3-3 against Ole Miss. Since the turn of the century, three Auburn RBs have had 200-yard games against Ole Miss – Ronnie Brown with 224 in 2002, Kamryn Pettway with 236 in 2016 and Kerryon Johnson with 204 in 2017. Auburn’s other 100-yard rushers against Ole Miss in the 2000s have been Rudi Johnson with 165 in 2000, Brown with 100 in 2004, Kenny Irons with 101 in 2005 and 106 in 2006, Ben Tate with 144 with 2009, Michael Dyer with 180 in 2010 and 177 in 2011, Nick Marshall with 140 in 2013, Cameron Artis-Payne with 138 in 2014, JaTarvious “Boobee” Whitlow with 170 in 2018 and Tank Bigsby with 129 in 2020 and 140 in 2021.

21 Rushing TDs have been scored by Ole Miss in 2022, tied with Georgia for the most in the nation. The Auburn defense has yielded 16 rushing TDs in 2022, the most in the SEC. Only four teams in the nation have allowed more rushing TDs than the Tigers this season.

65 Receptions for John Samuel Shenker, the most for a tight end in Auburn history. Shenker set the school career mark with five receptions against Georgia last week. Shenker surpassed the record of 63 established by Cooper Wallace from 2002 through 2005. Wallace remains the record-holder for receiving yards by an Auburn tight end with 829. Shenker has 750 receiving yards in his career.

123 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.

247 Yards and two TDs on nine receptions for Ole Miss WR Jonathan Mingo in a 52-28 victory over Vanderbilt last week to set a school single-game record. Mingo broke the mark of 238 yards that Elijah Moore had set when he had a school-record 14 receptions against Vanderbilt in 2020. Mingo had TD receptions of 71 and 72 yards from QB Jaxson Dart in the second half against the Commodores.

581 Yards and eight TDs on 96 rushing attempts for Ole Miss RB Quinshon Judkins, the most rushing yards in the nation for a freshman in 2022.

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