After Vanderbilt lifted the lid on the SEC’s 91st football season with a 35-28 victory over Hawaii on Saturday night, the conference’s other 13 teams will kick off their 2023 campaigns this week. SEC Football by the Numbers warms up for the new season with 10 numbers:

0 Programs have won three national championships in a row during the poll era, which started with the first AP poll in 1936 and includes national titles award by the AP, coaches, FWAA and NFF polls and the BCS and CFP championship games. Georgia has won the past two national championships to extend the SEC’s streak of crowns to four seasons. Georgia defeated TCU 65-7 in the CFP championship game on Jan. 9 to give the SEC its 28th national title of the poll era. Other conference members who have finished atop a final poll or captured the playoff finale have been Alabama in 1961, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1992, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2020, Auburn in 1957 and 2010, Florida in 1996, 2006 and 2008, Georgia in 1980 and 2021, LSU in 1958, 2003, 2007 and 2019, Ole Miss in 1960 and Tennessee in 1951 and 1998.

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2 SEC teams have new coaches in 2023. At Auburn, Hugh Freeze replaced Bryan Harsin. At Mississippi State, Zach Arnett stepped up from defensive coordinator after Mike Leach died on Dec. 12 and guided the Bulldogs to a 19-10 victory over Illinois in the ReliaQuest Bowl. In SEC history, 75 coaches have had a better record in their first seasons than their predecessors had in their last, 63 have had a worse record and 27 have had the same record. Freeze had a 103-47 record at Lambuth, Arkansas State, Ole Miss and Liberty before coming to Auburn. The past eight Auburn coaches have guided their first teams to at least as many victories as their predecessor did in his final season, dating to Earl Brown in 1948, whose first team when 1-8-1 after the Tigers went 2-7 under Carl Voyles in 1947. In the SEC era, eight Mississippi State coaches won more games in their first season than their predecessor did in his last, eight lost more and two had the same number of victories. The record for victories by a first-year MSU coach in the SEC era is eight by Ralph Sasse in 1935, Allyn McKeen in 1939 and Joe Moorhead in 2018. Sasse and McKeen showed the greatest increase in victory total over the previous season with four more. The Auburn record for victories by a first-year coach is 12 by Gus Malzahn, whose 2013 Tigers won nine more games than the 2012 version.

2 SEC players have scored more points than Alabama K Will Reichard, who enters the 2023 season with 426. Auburn’s Daniel Carlson holds the SEC record with 480 points from 2014 through 2017, and Georgia K Rodrigo Blankenship scored 440 points from 2016 through 2019.

3 Of Florida’s eight conference games will come against opponents coming off open dates. When the Crimson Tide plays Georgia on Oct. 28, both teams will be two weeks from their previous game. Florida also plays South Carolina on Oct. 14 and Arkansas on Nov. 4 with those teams coming off open dates. Georgia, LSU and Tennessee will play two SEC opponents apiece coming off open dates, and Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Ole Miss, South Carolina and Texas A&M have one league opponent coming off an open date in 2023. None of the eight conference opponents on the schedules of Kentucky, Mississippi State, South Carolina and Vanderbilt have an open date before facing those teams. Vanderbilt is the only SEC team that will play twice during the season coming off an open date after the Commodores started the season a week before the rest of the league. Vanderbilt has an open date before playing Ole Miss on Oct. 28 and Tennessee on Nov. 25.

6 Players have led the SEC in rushing in consecutive seasons, which Ole Miss RB Quinshon Judkins could accomplish in 2023. Judkins topped the SEC with 1,565 yards and 16 touchdowns on 274 carries in 2022. The SEC players with consecutive rushing titles include Ole Miss’ John Dottley in 1948 and 1949, Alabama’s Johnny Musso in 1970 and 1971, Kentucky’s Sonny Collins in 1973 and 1974, Georgia’s Herschel Walker in 1980, 1981 and 1982, LSU’s Kevin Faulk in 1997 and 1998 and Arkansas’ Darren McFadden in 2006 and 2007.

16 Seasons since Alabama lost to a team that finished the season with a losing record, 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 Crimson Tide’s opponent in each of those setbacks went on to have at least a .500 season. Alabama has several other national-best streaks entering the 2023 season. The Tide’s streak of 15 seasons with at least 10 victories is the longest in major-college history. Alabama’s 56 consecutive victories in non-conference regular-season games is the longest streak in the nation during the SEC era. The Tide has played 127 games since it most recently lost two in a row, has won 28 consecutive September games and has scored at least 30 points in seven straight games. (The latter is tied with Penn State for the longest active streak in the nation.)

27 Consecutive regular-season games have been won by Georgia, the third-longest streak in SEC history. The Bulldogs haven’t lost in the regular season since 44-28 setback against Florida on Nov. 7, 2020. The longest regular-season winning streak in SEC history lasted 33 games, which Tennessee achieved between a 13-7 loss to Vanderbilt on Nov. 13, 1937, and a 19-0 loss to Duke on Oct. 4, 1941. The only other regular-season winning streak in the SEC that stretched longer than Georgia’s current one reached 29 games, achieved by Alabama between a 17-10 loss to Auburn on Nov. 24, 2007, and a 35-21 loss to South Carolina on Oct. 9, 2010. Overall, Georgia has won 17 consecutive games since a 41-24 setback against Alabama in the SEC Championship Game on Dec. 4, 2021. That’s tied for the school-record 17-game winning streak, achieved between a 28-14 loss to Alabama on Oct. 27, 1945, and a 14-7 setback against North Carolina on Sept. 27, 1945.

48 Victories and nine losses in SEC regular-season games for Georgia’s Kirby Smart for an .842 winning percentage that is the best in conference history for any coach with at least five seasons. During the 2022 campaign, Smart guided Georgia to an 8-0 record in league regular-season play, which allowed him to overtake Nick Saban for the SEC’s best rate. Saban’s on-the-field record in SEC regular-season games with LSU and Alabama is 140-30 – an .824 winning percentage. Saban still holds the top spot for SEC coaches in all games with a 242-43 record – an .849 winning percentage. With an overall record of 81-15, Smart has a career winning percentage of .844.

76 Years since Florida posted three consecutive losing records. The Gators had 6-7 records in 2021 and 2022. Florida went 4-5-1 in 1945, 0-9 in 1946 and 4-5-1 in 1947 in its most recent streak of three losing seasons. Since then, the Gators have had back-to-back losing seasons twice — in 1978 and 1979 and the past two seasons. In 1980, Florida went 8-4 after an 0-10-1 record in 1979.

3,177 Passing yards are needed by Mississippi State QB Will Rogers to become the SEC career leader. Georgia QB Aaron Murray had 13,562 passing yards from 2010 through 2013 to set the conference mark. Rogers had 3,974 passing yards in the 2022 season. Rogers also needs 2,478 yards to total offense (passing yards plus rushing yards) to break Murray’s conference career record of 13,166.

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