Florida vs. Kentucky by the numbers
No. 22 Florida (3-1, 1-0) at Kentucky (4-0, 1-0)
11 a.m. CDT Saturday (ESPN)
Kroger Field in Lexington, Kentucky
2 Florida running backs rank in the top 10 in rushing in the SEC. Trevor Etienne ranks fourth with 329 yards and two TDs on 49 rushing attempts, and Montrell Johnson Jr. ranks 10th with 211 yards and three TDs on 46 rushing attempts.
2 Interceptions were returned for touchdowns by Kentucky CB Maxwell Hairston during the Wildcats’ 45-28 victory over Vanderbilt last week. Hairston scored on a 29-yard interception return as Kentucky took a 14-0 lead with 8:14 left in the first quarter and a 54-yard interception return as the Wildcats went up 45-21 with 4:15 to play. Hairston became the sixth player in SEC history to return two interceptions for touchdowns in one game. The others have been Florida’s Joe Brodsky in a 26-0 victory over Mississippi State in 1956, Georgia’s Jake Scott in a 35-14 victory over Kentucky in 1968, Georgia’s Darryl Gamble in a 52-38 victory over LSU in 2008, Mississippi State’s Johnthan Banks in a 29-19 loss to Florida in 2009 and Alabama’s Minkah Fitzpatrick in a 41-23 victory over Texas A&M in 2015.
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3 Consecutive Florida opponents have failed to reach 20 points. The Gators haven’t limited four straight opponents to fewer than 20 points since 2015. After opening the season with a 24-11 loss to Utah, the Gators have beaten McNeese State 49-7, Tennessee 29-16 and Charlotte 22-7.
3 Consecutive Florida-Kentucky games have featured fewer than 300 yards for the Wildcats’ offense. Kentucky has won two of the games.
4 Consecutive games with at least one touchdown for Kentucky RB Ray Davis after he ran for 78 yards and two TDs on 17 carries in las week’s 45-28 victory over Vanderbilt. Davis became the first Kentucky player to score a touchdown in each of the first four games of a season since La’Rod King in 2011. Davis ran for two TDs in a 44-14 victory over Ball State on Sept. 2, caught a TD pass in a 28-17 victory over Eastern Kentucky on Sept. 9 and had one TD run and one TD reception in a 35-3 victory over Akron on Sept. 16.
30 Victories and four losses for Florida against Kentucky when the Gators are ranked and the Wildcats are not, which is the case on Saturday. One of Kentucky’s victories came the last time the teams played under this circumstance, when the Wildcats upended No. 10 Florida 20-13 in 2021.
53 Victories for Florida and 20 for Kentucky in the Gators-Wildcats series. Florida leads the series 22-11 in Lexington.
72 Years since Kentucky won three games in a row against Florida. The Wildcats defeated the Gators 20-13 in 2021 and 26-16 in 2022. Kentucky hasn’t beaten Florida three games in a row since it posted a four-game winning streak in the series from 1948 through 1951. But the Wildcats did lose 31 in a row to th Gators from 1987 through 2017.
440 Games have been played by Florida since it was most recently shut out, the longest scoring streak in major-college football history by 57 games. The Gators haven’t been blanked since losing to Auburn 16-0 on Oct. 29, 1988.
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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.