SEC Football by the Numbers: Alabama top 10 for 2022

SEC Football by the Numbers: Alabama top 10 for 2022

Alabama posted an 11-2 record during the 2022 season, including a 6-2 mark in SEC play. Here are 10 numbers that illustrate the Crimson Tide’s most recent campaign:

1 Alabama player has been a unanimous All-American more than once — LB Will Anderson Jr., who followed his 2021 unanimous selection with another in 2022. Georgia RB Herschel Walker in 1980, 1981 and 1982, and Tennessee S Eric Berry in 2008 and 2009 are the only other SEC players to achieve the feat. Anderson also repeated as the winner of the Nagurski Trophy in 2022. Anderson joined Northwestern LB Pat Fitzgerald in 1995 and 1996 as the only two-time winners of the award, which has been presented annually since 1993 to the nation’s defensive player of the year.

1 Loss for Alabama when it has scored at least 46 points in a game – a 52-49 setback against Tennessee on Oct. 15. Before the Volunteers posted their victory on a final-snap field goal, the Crimson Tide had a 161-0 record when scoring more than 45 points. Alabama became the fourth SEC team to lose when scoring at least 49 points in a non-overtime game. Mississippi State defeated Arkansas 51-50 on Nov. 21, 2015, Wake Forest defeated Texas A&M 55-52 in the Belk Bowl on Dec. 29, 2017, and Ole Miss defeated Arkansas 52-51 on Oct. 9, 2021. Tennessee became the third opponent to score at least 52 points against Alabama in a non-overtime game. Sewanee defeated the Tide 54-4 on Oct. 21, 1907, and Vanderbilt defeated Alabama 78-0 on Oct. 20, 1906.

2 SEC players have scored more points than Alabama K Will Reichard. In the Crimson Tide’s 32-31 overtime loss to LSU on Nov. 5, Reichard broke the school record of 385 points established by K Leigh Tiffin from 2006 through 2009. Reichard completed his fourth season at Alabama with 426 points. The only SEC players who have scored more points are Daniel Carlson, with 480 at Auburn from 2014 through 2017, and Rodrigo Blankenship, with 440 at Georgia from 2016 through 2019.

2 Players in the nation had at least 900 rushing yards and 400 receiving yards during the 2022 season, including Alabama RB Jahmyr Gibbs. Gibbs ran for 926 yards and seven TDs on 151 carries and set a Crimson Tide single-season record for receptions by a running back with 44, which went for 444 yards and three TDs. Gibbs became the second Alabama player with 900 rushing yards and 400 receiving yards in the same season, following RB Najee Harris in 2020. The only other player in the nation in the 900/400 club this season was Northwestern RB Evan Hull, who had 913 yards and five TDs on 221 carries and 55 receptions for 546 yards and two TDs.

5 TD passes by QB Bryce Young in Alabama’s 55-0 victory over Utah State to start the season and in the Crimson Tide’s 45-20 victory over Kansas State in the Sugar Bowl to end it. With a TD run against Utah State, too, Young became the second Alabama player responsible for at least six TDs in a game, joining Tua Tagovailoa, who did so twice. In the Sugar Bowl, Young tied the Tide bowl record for TD passes set by Mac Jones in the CFP championship game for the 2020 season. Young also extended his streak of games with a TD pass to 27 and recorded his fifth five-TD performance during that streak. That allowed him to move one ahead of Tagovailoa for the most games with at least five TD passes in school history.

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7 Consecutive Alabama-Arkansas games have featured at least 40 points for the Crimson Tide, the school’s only such streak against an SEC rival. Alabama defeated Arkansas 49-26 on Oct. 1 after downing the Razorbacks 49-30 in 2016, 41-9 in 2017, 65-31 in 2018, 48-7 in 2019, 52-3 in 2020 and 42-35 in 2021.

8 Alabama games this century have included fewer than 325 yards for the Crimson Tide offense and at least 400 yards for the opponent’s offense. Alabama lost the first seven, but the Tide defeated Ole Miss 30-24 on Nov. 12 with those stats. Against the Rebels, Alabama gained 317 yards while Ole Miss gained 403. The other Alabama games since 2000 that met those numbers include losses to Auburn in 2017, LSU in 2007, Oklahoma State in 2006, LSU and Auburn in 2003 and LSU and Mississippi State in 2000.

15 Consecutive seasons with at least 10 victories for Alabama, the major-college record. By going 11-2 in 2022, Alabama broke the record for consecutive 10-win seasons that Florida State established from 1987 through 2000 and extended its record of consecutive 11-win seasons to 12. Alabama most recently failed to win 10 games in a season in 2007, when the Tide went 7-6. Alabama won 12 games in 2008, 14 in 2009, 10 in 2010, 12 in 2011, 13 in 2012, 11 in 2013, 12 in 2014, 14 in 2015, 14 in 2016, 13 in 2017, 14 in 2018, 11 in 2019, 13 in 2020 and 13 in 2021.

16 Years since Alabama lost to a team that finished the season with a losing record. The Crimson Tide owns the longest such streak in the nation. Alabama lost to Mississippi State 24-16 on Nov. 4, 2006, a season in which the Bulldogs posted a 3-9 record. Since that defeat, Alabama has lost 30 games, and the Tide’s opponent in each of those setbacks went on to have at least a .500 record in the season in which it beat Alabama. In 2022, the Tide lost to Tennessee 52-49 on Oct. 15 and 32-31 in overtime to LSU on Nov. 5. The Volunteers finished with an 11-2 record, and the Tigers went 10-4 in 2022.

56 Consecutive non-conference regular-season games have been won by Alabama — the longest streak in the nation during the SEC era. The Crimson Tide’s most recent loss in a non-conference regular-season game came on Nov. 17, 2007, when Alabama fell to Louisiana-Monroe 21-14. The Tide surpassed LSU’s mark of 52 consecutive non-conference regular-season victories, which ran from 2002 through the 2015 campaign, when it defeated Utah State 55-0 on Sept. 3. During the 2022 regular season, Alabama also defeated Texas 20-19, Louisiana-Monroe 63-7 and Austin Peavy 34-0 in non-conference contests.

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