SEC Football by the Numbers: Top 10 for Week 9

SEC Football by the Numbers: Top 10 for Week 9

The ninth Saturday of the SEC’s 90th season features five conference contests and four teams – Alabama, LSU, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt – with open dates. Here are 10 numbers, along with the schedule, TV times and betting lines, to get ready for the SEC’s ninth week of 2022:

2 Previous games for Georgia against Florida with the Bulldogs ranked No. 1 in the AP Poll. The first resulted in the most lopsided league game in SEC history when No. 1 Georgia defeated Florida 75-0 on Nov. 7, 1942. Last year, No. 1 Georgia defeated Florida 34-7. The Bulldogs are No. 1 again for Saturday’s meeting with the Gators.

5 Ole Miss games have included at least two rushing TDs by RB Quinshon Judkins this season. Nationally, he’s tied for the most games with multiple rushing TDs with Marshall’s Khalan Laborn. The only other player with more than three is Clemson’s Will Shipley with four. No other SEC player has more than two. Judkins is the third Ole Miss player to record five games with multiple rushing TDs, joining Deuce McAllister, who did it in 1999 and 2000, and Brandon Bolden, who accomplished the feat in 2010. Texas A&M has allowed one of its opponents to score more than one rushing TD in a game this season. South Carolina ran for three TDs in last week’s 30-24 victory over the Aggies, including two by RB Marshawn Lloyd.

6 Points are needed by Anders Carlson for the Auburn kicker to become the sixth player in SEC history to reach 400. Auburn’s Daniel Carlson holds the SEC record with 480 points from 2014 through 2017. The conference’s other 400-point scorers are former Georgia kickers Rodrigo Blankenship, Blair Walsh, Billy Bennett and Marshall Morgan.

6 Consecutive games with at least one 100-yard receiver for Tennessee. During the streak, Jalin Hyatt has had three 100-yard games, Bru McCoy two and Cedric Tillman and Squirrel White one apiece. One player has had a 100-yard receiving game against Tennessee’s Saturday opponent, Kentucky, this season. Ole Miss WR Malik Heath had six receptions for 100 yards in the Rebels’ 22-19 win over the Wildcats on Oct. 1.

8 Consecutive Arkansas games have featured a 100-yard rusher for the Razorbacks – five by RB Raheim Sanders, two by QB KJ Jefferson and one by QB Malik Hornsby. Auburn has allowed five players to run for at least 100 yards this season, including three in the Tigers’ 48-34 loss to Ole Miss on Oct. 15.

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9 Consecutive games against Arkansas have featured at least 30 points for Auburn. The Tigers have won eight of the games, with the loss coming by a 54-46 score in 2015. Auburn faces the Razorbacks again on Saturday. The streak against Arkansas is Auburn’s longest against a conference opponent. The next-longest is a five-game streak against Vanderbilt that started in 1978 and included victories over the Commodores in 1979, 1986, 1987 and 1990.

11 Consecutive opponents have failed to reach 400 yards of total offense against Kentucky. Tennessee, which plays Kentucky on Saturday, leads the nation in total offense with an average of 571.7 yards per game. The most recent team to reach 400 yards against the Wildcats was Tennessee, which had 612 in its 45-42 victory last season.

20 Games for Auburn on Oct. 29 when the Tigers take the field against Arkansas. It will be the first calendar date on which Auburn has played 20 games. The Tigers have played 19 games on Oct. 14, Nov. 15 and Nov. 19, but those dates are not on this season’s schedule. Auburn has an 11-7-1 record on Oct. 29, but the Tigers have won their past seven games and are 6-0 at home on the date.

41 Consecutive losses for Kentucky when playing a top 10 SEC opponent on the road. Kentucky visits No. 3 Tennessee on Saturday. The losing streak started after the Wildcats upended No. 1 Ole Miss 27-21 in Jackson, Mississippi, on Sept. 26, 1964. Kentucky has beaten a top-10 opponent on the road since then, but the victory came in a non-conference game when the Wildcats downed No. 4 Penn State 24-20 in State College on Oct. 1, 1977.

71 Years since the previous time the Kentucky-Tennessee game featured two ranked teams. No. 1 Tennessee defeated No. 9 Kentucky 28-0 on Nov. 24, 1951. The Wildcats and Volunteers have squared off 85 times in the AP Poll era, and that’s one of the two games that featured two ranked teams. On Nov. 25, 1950, No. 9 Tennessee defeated No. 3 Kentucky 7-0. No. 19 Kentucky and No. 3 Tennessee square off on Saturday.

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

Saturday

· Arkansas at Auburn, 11 a.m. at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn (SEC Network). Line: Arkansas by 3.5.

· Florida vs. No. 1 Georgia, 2:30 p.m. at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida (CBS). Line: Georgia by 22.5.

· Missouri at No. 25 South Carolina, 3 p.m. at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina (SEC Network). Line: South Carolina by 3.5.

· No. 19 Kentucky at No. 3 Tennessee, 6 p.m. at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee (ESPN). Line: Tennessee by 11.5.

· No. 15 Ole Miss at Texas A&M, 6:30 p.m. at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas (SEC Network). Line: Ole Miss by 1.5.

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