Georgia’s 31-17 victory over Tennessee on Saturday kept the Bulldogs relevant in the College Football Playoff competition and pinned the second league loss of the season on the Volunteers. That left Texas and Texas A&M as the only teams with a single conference defeat in 2024. They’ll square off on the final Saturday of the season, but first the Longhorns play Kentucky and the Aggies play Auburn in Week 13 games. On Saturday, Texas defeated Arkansas 20-10 and Texas A&M won a non-conference matchup with New Mexico State 38-3. The Aggies had one of the league’s four non-conference victories on Saturday as the SEC improved its mark against outside opponents to 50-8 in 2024. Here are 10 stats from SEC Football by the Numbers about Week 12’s games:

3 Consecutive victories over opponents ranked in The Associated Press poll for South Carolina for the first time in program history after the Gamecocks defeated No. 24 Missouri 34-30 on Saturday. South Carolina defeated No. 10 Texas A&M 44-20 on Nov. 2 and No. 24 Vanderbilt 28-7 on Nov. 9. This was the eighth time in program history that the Gamecocks had played three ranked opponents consecutively. Adding its 35-9 victory over Oklahoma on Oct. 19, South Carolina completed its conference schedule for 2024 with its first four-game winning streak against SEC competition since 2012, when the Gamecocks defeated Vanderbilt, Missouri, Kentucky and Georgia to open their league slate.

5 TD passes by South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers in a 34-30 victory over Missouri and by Auburn QB Payton Thorne in a 48-14 victory over ULM on Saturday. Sellers had never had more than two TD passes in a game before Saturday, when he completed 21-of-30 passes for 353 yards with five TDs and one interception. It’s the eighth time that a South Carolina player has had five TD passes in a game. The Gamecocks’ record is six by Spencer Rattler in a 63-38 victory over Tennessee on Nov. 19, 2022. Thorne completed 22-of-32 passes for 286 yards with five TDs and no interceptions. Thorne equaled Auburn’s single-game record set by Daniel Cobb, who had five TD passes in a 48-41 overtime victory against Louisiana Tech on Oct. 20, 2001. Chris Todd became the first Auburn QB to throw five TD passes in a non-overtime game in a 54-30 victory over Ball State on Sept. 26, 2009. Jarrett Stidham also had five TD passes in the Tigers’ 63-14 victory over Purdue in the Music City Bowl on Dec. 28, 2018.

6 TDs were scored by the Alabama offense against Mercer on Saturday, equaling the number of TDs that the Bears defense had yielded in the first 10 games of the 2024 season. The Crimson Tide defeated Mercer 52-7. Alabama also got a 68-yard fumble return by cornerback Zabien Brown for the Crimson Tide defense’s first touchdown of the season.

7 Sacks of LSU QB Garrett Nussmeier by Florida in the Gators’ 27-16 victory over the Tigers on Saturday. LSU had allowed six sacks in its first nine games of the 2024 season. LB James Shemar had two sacks for the Gators on Saturday.

10 Consecutive games with at least one rushing TD for Tennessee RB Dylan Sampson after he scored on a 27-yard run with 1:54 left in the third quarter of a 31-17 loss to Georgia on Saturday. Sampson has run for a least one TD in every game this season, with a total of 21 in 2024. Sampson has tied the Tennessee single-season record for total touchdowns set by Gene McEver in 1929.

11 Players registered a rushing attempt in Alabama’s 52-7 victory over Mercer on Saturday, the most in one game for the Crimson Tide in this century. Since 2000, Alabama had 10 games in which it had nine ball-carriers. As it ran for 189 yards on 42 carries on Saturday, the Crimson Tide became the sixth SEC team in this century to have at least 11 players carry the football in the same game. The only team with more was Georgia with 13 in a 66-27 victory over Massachusetts on Nov. 17, 2018.

15 Seconds remained to be played when South Carolina RB Raheim Sanders took a shovel pass from QB LaNorris Sellers 15 yards to the end zone to lift the Gamecocks to a 34-30 victory over Missouri. The previous week, Missouri had scored the winning touchdown with 22 seconds to play as DE Zion Young returned a fumble 17 yards in a 30-23 victory over Oklahoma. Sanders’ TD produced the fourth lead change of the final 9:12 of Saturday’s game and ended the Tigers’ eight-game winning streak in one-score contests.

25 Consecutive games that kicked off at 6 p.m. or later at Sanford Stadium have been won by Georgia after the Bulldogs downed Tennessee 31-17 on Saturday night. The most recent game with a night kickoff in Athens lost by Georgia was a 34-27 setback against Kentucky on Nov. 21, 2009. That’s also the most recent November game the Bulldogs lost at home to an SEC opponent. In extending its overall home winning streak to a national-best 29 games, Georgia became the first Tennessee opponent to reach 20 points since the Volunteers’ 48-24 victory over Vanderbilt on Nov. 25, 2023. Tennessee had held 10 consecutive opponents to 19 or fewer points.

30 Years since the previous game in which Auburn had two players with 100 receiving yards and another player with 100 rushing yards as the Tigers did in Saturday’s 48-14 victory over ULM. Against the Warhawks, KeAndre Lambert-Smith had six receptions for 104 yards and one TD and Cam Coleman had eight receptions for 100 yards and three TDs and Jarquez Hunter ran for 102 yards on 14 carries. In a 36-33 victory over Florida on Oct. 15, 1994, Thomas Bailey had 10 receptions for 117 yards and one TD and Andy Fuller had seven receptions for 115 yards and one TD while Stephen Davis ran for 113 yards on 20 carries for Auburn. Saturday’s game was the fifth since the 1994 Florida contest in which the Tigers had two 100-yard receivers. On Saturday, Coleman became the first Auburn player with at least three TD receptions in one game since Darius Slayton had three receptions for 160 yards and three TDs in a 63-14 victory over Purdue in the Music City Bowl on Dec. 28, 2018.

92 Plays for the LSU offense and 43 plays for the Florida offense in the Gators’ 27-16 victory over the Tigers on Saturday. LSU lost even though it had the football 22:56 more than Florida. The Gators averaged gaining 7.9 yards per snap while the Tigers averaged 4.3. Florida’s victory allowed the Gators to tie their series with LSU at 34 victories for each team, with three ties.

The SEC scoreboard for Week 12 included:

• No. 10 Alabama 52, Mercer 7
• No. 3 Texas 20, Arkansas 10
• Auburn 48, ULM 14
• No. 12 Georgia 31, No. 7 Tennessee 17
• Florida 27, No. 22 LSU 16
• Kentucky 48, Murray State 6
• No. 21 South Carolina 34, No. 23 Missouri 30
• No. 15 Texas A&M 38, New Mexico State 3

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