SEC Football by the Numbers: Top 10 for Week 6

SEC Football by the Numbers: Top 10 for Week 6

The sixth Saturday of the SEC’s 90th season features seven conference contests, the first of two weeks in the 2022 campaign during which all 14 teams are involved in league play. Here are 10 numbers, along with the schedule, TV times and betting lines, to get ready for the SEC’s sixth week of 2022:

1 Major-college football rivalry will have been contested more than Auburn and Georgia after the Tigers and Bulldogs square off on Saturday for the 127th time. Minnesota and Wisconsin have met 131 times. North Carolina and Virginia will square off for the 127th time on Nov. 5. Georgia leads the series with Auburn 62-56-8, but the Tigers are 18-16 in Athens, the site of Saturday’s game.

3 Consecutive Tennessee-LSU games in Baton Rouge have gone down to the final play. The Volunteers and Tigers play again in Tiger Stadium on Saturday. On Sept. 30, 2000, LSU defeated Tennessee 38-31 in overtime when S Damien James broke up third- and fourth-down passes from the Tigers 4-yard line in the end zone to end the game. On Sept. 26, 2005, Tennessee defeated LSU 30-27 in overtime when RB Gerald Riggs scored from 1 yard out on the final play. On Oct. 2, 2010, LSU defeated Tennessee 16-14 when RB Stevan Ridley scored on a 1-yard TD run on the final play. The Tigers had the opportunity for the winning touchdown after Tennessee was flagged for having 13 defensive players on the field when it stopped LSU on what would have been the final snap of the game.

5 QBs in the nation has thrown at least 100 passes without an interception in 2022, including LSU’s Jayden Daniels and Tennessee’s Hendon Hooker, whose teams meet on Saturday. Daniels has completed 89-of-131 passes for 915 yards with six TDs, and Hooker has completed 81-of-113 passes for 1,193 yards with eight TDs. The other QBs with at least 100 passes and no interceptions this season are San Jose State’s Chevan Cordeiro, Oklahoma’s Dillon Gabriel and Kansas State’s Adrian Martinez.

6 Consecutive conference games have been lost by Florida, tied for the second-longest league losing streak in school history. The only SEC losing streak that has been longer for the Gators lasted 11 games between a 6-6 tie with Tulane on Oct. 6, 1945, and a 7-7 tie with Tulane on Nov. 15, 1947. Saturday’s game will be one day short of the one-year anniversary of Florida’s most recent SEC victory. The Gators defeated Vanderbilt 42-0 on Oct. 9, 2021, and have lost conference contests to LSU, Georgia, South Carolina, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee since.

7 Completions are needed by Mississippi State QB Will Rogers to become the SEC career leader. Georgia’s Aaron Murray established the conference record with 921 completions across 52 games from 2010 through 2013. Rogers has 915 completions in 26 games for the Bulldogs. Last season, Rogers completed 505 passes – 103 more than any other player in SEC history has in one campaign.

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8 Consecutive games at Tiger Stadium with pre-noon kickoffs have been won by LSU. The Tigers’ most recent home loss in a game that started before noon came on Oct. 18, 1997, when Ole Miss defeated LSU 36-21 in a contest that kicked off at 11:37 a.m. in Baton Rouge. During its winning streak, LSU beat Mississippi State three times and Appalachian State, Kentucky, Arkansas, Utah State and Florida once apiece.

10 Consecutive Vanderbilt seasons have included a loss in the Commodores’ first home conference game. After a 55-3 loss at Alabama in its conference opener on Sept. 24, Vanderbilt plays its first 2022 SEC home game on Saturday against Ole Miss. Since Vanderbilt defeated Ole Miss 30-7 in its first home SEC game of 2011, the Commodores have opened their home conference slate with losses to Georgia and South Carolina three times apiece, Ole Miss twice and Alabama and LSU once apiece. The 2011 season also is the most recent one in which Vanderbilt did not lose its first two conference games.

36 Consecutive home games have been won in October by Alabama. The Crimson Tide, which hosts Texas A&M on Saturday, hasn’t been beaten at Bryant-Denny Stadium in the 10th month since South Carolina took a 20-3 victory on Oct. 2, 2004.

64 Years since the Auburn-Georgia series had a six-game winning streak, with the Bulldogs entering Saturday’s contest having won the past five meetings with the Tigers. Auburn won six in a row from 1953 through 1958. The longest streak in the series lasted nine games, with Georgia winning annually from 1923 through 1931.

675 Passing yards have been averaged in Tennessee’s games this season. The Volunteers lead the nation in passing offense with an average of 365.75 yards per game, and Tennessee also ranks last in the SEC in passing defense by yielding an average of 309.25 yards per game.

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This week’s SEC schedule includes (all times are CDT with point spreads from vegasinsider.com):

Saturday

· Arkansas at Mississippi State, 11 a.m. at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Mississippi (SEC Network). Line: Mississippi State by 9.5.

· Missouri at Florida, 11 a.m. at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Florida (ESPNU). Line: Florida by 11.

· Tennessee at LSU, 11 a.m. at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (ESPN). Line: Tennessee by 2.5.

· Auburn at Georgia, 2:30 p.m. at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia (CBS). Line: Georgia by 30.

· Ole Miss at Vanderbilt, 3 p.m. at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee (SEC Network). Line: Ole Miss by 17.

· South Carolina at Kentucky, 6:30 p.m. at Kroger Field in Lexington, Kentucky (SEC Network). Line: Kentucky by 6.5.

· Texas A&M at Alabama, 7 p.m. at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa (CBS). Line: Alabama by 24.

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