Missouri vs. South Carolina by the numbers
Missouri (3-4, 1-3) at No. 25 South Carolina (5-2, 2-2)
3 p.m. CDT Saturday (SEC Network)
Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina
1 Player in the SEC has at least 44 tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss, two sacks and one interception in 2022 – Missouri LB Ty’ron Hopper, the Tigers’ leading tackler. Four other players in the nation have met those four statistical standards – Ball State’s Cole Pearce, Massachusetts’ Jalen Mackie, Washington State’s Dalyan Henley and Oklahoma State’s Mason Cobb.
1 Player in the nation has thrown at least eight interceptions and no more than five TD passes this season – South Carolina QB Spencer Rattler, who has completed 124-of-195 passes for 1,466 yards with five TDs and eight interceptions.
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2 Victories for Missouri in three games against South Carolina when the Tigers are unranked and the Gamecocks are ranked in the AP Poll. Missouri defeated No. 16 South Carolina 24-14 in the Hall of Fame Classic in Birmingham on Dec. 29, 1979, and No. 13 South Carolina 21-20 on Sept. 27, 2014. No. 7 South Carolina defeated unranked Missouri 31-10 on Sept. 22, 2012. Saturday’s game is the first Missouri-South Carolina meeting to involve a ranked team since 2014.
5 Punts have been blocked by South Carolina this season, the most in the nation.
7 Victories for Missouri and five victories for South Carolina in the Tigers-Gamecocks series. The teams play for the Mayors’ Cup Trophy.
7 Missouri players have recorded a rushing, receiving and punt-return TD in the same season, including WR Luther Burden III in 2022. Burden is one of five players in the nation to achieve the feat this season, and he’s the only one without more than one in two of the categories, with two rushing TDs and two receiving TDs.
9 Victories without a loss for South Carolina under coach Shane Beamer when leading at halftime. The Gamecocks have a 3-8 record when they have not led at halftime.
9 Years since South Carolina had a five-game winning streak. The Gamecocks enter Saturday’s game after defeating Charlotte 56-20 on Sept. 24, South Carolina State 50-10 on Oct. 1, Kentucky 24-14 on Oct. 8 and Vanderbilt 17-14 on Oct. 15 in their previous four games. South Carolina won the final six games of the 2013 season. The current four-game winning streak is the first for the Gamecocks since then.
31.2 Yards have been averaged on 10 kickoff returns by South Carolina in 2022, the best in the nation. The Gamecocks’ average got a boost when Xavier Leggette returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown in last week’s 30-24 victory over Texas A&M.
48 More points for Missouri than for its opponents in the second quarter this season. The Tigers have a 74-26 scoring advantage in the second period. In the rest of the game, Missouri has been outscored 136-94. South Carolina has been outscored 56-49 in the second quarter while outscoring its opponents 183-118 in the remainder of the game.
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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.