SEC top 10 for Week 13: Sooners must beat Tide to avoid historic league slump

While four SEC teams warm up for rivalry games in their regular-season finales by playing non-conference victims this week, the schedule also has six league games, with four carrying meaning for the CFP rankings and the SEC Championship Game, although none match two ranked teams. Here are 10 stats from SEC Football by the Numbers, along with the schedule, TV and betting lines, to get ready for Week 13:

0 Interceptions have been thrown by Texas A&M in its past five games against Auburn. The most recent Auburn player with an interception against the Aggies is CB Noah Igbinoghene, who picked off QB Kellen Mond at the Tigers 29-yard line with 7:14 remaining in a 28-24 victory over Texas A&M on Nov. 3, 2018. The Aggies visit Auburn on Saturday.

4 Consecutive conference games have been lost by Oklahoma, equaling the Sooners’ longest in-season league losing streak in program history. Oklahoma also lost four consecutive conference contests in 1960, 1997 and 1998. The Sooners were members of the Big Eight in 1960 and the Big 12 in 1997 and 1998. Oklahoma plays Alabama on Saturday.

4 Weeks of SEC football without a pick-six by any player in the conference. In the first eight weeks of the 2024 season, SEC players returned 12 interceptions for touchdowns, including two by South Carolina DB Nick Emmanwori. But since Emmanwori and Florida DB Cormani McClain had interception-return TDs on Oct. 19, no player in the conference has had one. In the 12 games that had a pick-six by an SEC player, his team won each game.

8 Consecutive games with at least five receptions for Mississippi State WR Kevin Coleman Jr. The only game this season in which Coleman didn’t have at least five receptions came on Sept. 7, when he had four receptions for 103 yards in the Bulldogs’ 30-23 loss to Arizona State. Coleman has 62 receptions for 756 yards and five TDs entering Mississippi State’s game against Missouri on Saturday. Missouri has had four opposing players catch at least five passes in the Tigers’ past three games after only three did so in the first seven contests of 2024.

9 Victories are the most for an Alabama coach in his first season. Kalen DeBoer enters Saturday’s game against Oklahoma with an 8-2 record in his first season as the Crimson Tide’s coach. In 1931, Frank Thomas guided Alabama to a 9-1 record in the first of his 15 seasons as the Crimson Tide’s coach.

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16 Consecutive victories for Alabama in the game before it plays Auburn. The Crimson Tide and Tigers are scheduled to square off in the Iron Bowl on Nov. 30. Alabama’s 21-14 setback against Louisiana-Monroe on Nov. 17, 2007, was its most recent loss in the game before the Iron Bowl. That was the final defeat in a five-year losing streak for Alabama in the game preceding the Iron Bowl. The other four losses came against LSU. The Tide played Mississippi State in 2008, Kentucky in 2020 and Arkansas in 2021 in the game before facing Auburn. In the other games in the winning streak, Alabama defeated non-conference opponents – Chattanooga four times, Western Carolina three times and Georgia State, Georgia Southern, Charleston Southern, Mercer, the Citadel and Austin Peay once each.

21 Consecutive games with at least one TD pass for Texas QB Quinn Ewers. Ewers has had a TD pass in every game he’s played since being blanked by Baylor in the Longhorns’ 38-27 victory on Nov. 25, 2022. He has thrown 44 TD passes in the 21-game streak. He’s tied for the longest active streak in NCAA FBS with Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders, who has thrown at least one TD pass in all 21 of his games with the Buffaloes.

69 Receiving yards are needed by Arkansas WR Andrew Armstrong to become the first SEC player with 1,000 in the 2024 season and the fifth Razorbacks player with 1,000 in a single season. Armstrong enters Saturday’s game against Louisiana Tech with 931 yards and one TD on 61 receptions this season. Arkansas’ 1,000-yard receivers have been Anthony Lucas with 1,004 in 1998, Jarius Wright with 1,117 in 2011, Cobi Hamilton with 1,335 in 2012 and Treylon Burks with 1,104 in 2021.

73 Years since the previous game between Kentucky and Texas. When the Wildcats and Longhorns square off on Saturday, they’ll be meeting for the second time. Their first contest occurred on Sept. 22, 1951, when No. 11 Texas edged No. 6 Kentucky 7-6 in Austin. The 1951 season also was the last time that Vanderbilt won in Baton Rouge, where the Commodores will play LSU on Saturday. Vanderbilt has played at Tiger Stadium six times since a 20-13 win there on Nov. 10, 1951. LSU also has won the past nine games against Vanderbilt, since the Commodores’ 24-21 victory in Nashville on Sept. 22, 1990.

373 Passing yards are needed by Ole Miss QB Jaxson Dart to replace Eli Manning as the Rebels’ career leader. Manning had 10,119 passing yards for Ole Miss from 2000 through 2003. Dart has 9,747 passing yards in three seasons with the Rebels, including an SEC-leading 3,409 in the 2024 campaign. Dart has exceeded 373 passing yards in five games this season – the Rebels’ four non-conference contests and a season-high 515 passing yards against Arkansas. One player has had at least 373 passing yards against Florida this season – Miami (Fla.) QB Cameron Ward in a 41-17 victory on Aug. 31. Dart will become the first Ole Miss QB to lead a ranked team of Rebels against an unranked team of Gators. The Ole Miss-Florida series is tied 12-12-1.

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

Saturday

  • No. 9 Ole Miss (8-2, 4-2) at Florida (5-5, 3-4), 11 a.m. at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Florida (ABC). Line: Ole Miss by 11.5
  • Massachusetts at No. 10 Georgia, 11:45 a.m. at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia (SEC Network). Line: Georgia by 42.5  
  • UTEP (2-8) at No. 11 Tennessee (8-2), noon at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee (ESPN+). Line: Tennessee by 40.5  
  • Kentucky (4-6, 1-6) at No. 3 Texas (9-1, 5-1), 2:30 p.m. at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin Texas (ABC). Line: Texas by 20.5
  • Louisiana Tech (4-6) at Arkansas (5-5), 3 p.m. at Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas (ESPN+). Line: Arkansas by 23.5
  • Wofford (5-6) at No. 18 South Carolina (7-3), 3 p.m. at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina (ESPN+). Line: None
  • No. 23 Missouri (7-3, 3-3) at Mississippi State (2-8, 0-6), 3:15 p.m. at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Mississippi (SEC Network). Line: Missouri by 7.5
  • No. 7 Alabama (8-2, 4-2) at Oklahoma (5-5, 1-5), 6:30 p.m. at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma (ABC). Line: Alabama by 13.5
  • No. 15 Texas A&M (8-2, 5-1) at Auburn (4-6, 1-5), 6:30 p.m. at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn (ESPN). Line: Texas A&M by 2.5  
  • Vanderbilt (6-4, 3-3) at LSU (6-4, 3-3), 6:45 p.m. at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (SEC Network). Line: LSU by 7.5

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