Tennessee vs. Florida by the numbers
No. 11 Tennessee (2-0) at Florida (1-1)
6 p.m. CDT Saturday (ESPN)
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Florida
3 100-yard rushing performances for Tennessee RB Jaylen Wright in the Volunteers’ past three regular-season games. Wright ran for 160 yards and two touchdowns on five carries in a 56-0 victory over Vanderbilt in Tennessee’s 2022 regular-season finale, 115 yards on 12 carries in a 49-13 victory over Virginia to start the 2023 season and 118 yards on 13 carries in a 30-13 victory over Austin Peay last week. Wright had 89 yards on 11 carries in Tennessee’s 31-14 victory over Clemson in the Orange Bowl to close the 2022 season.
3 Florida running backs gained at least 70 yards on the ground in last week’s 49-7 victory over McNeese State after the Gators totaled 13 rushing yards in their season-opening 24-11 loss to Utah. Montrell Johnson ran for 119 yards and two TDs on 15 carries, Trevor Etienne ran for 85 yards and one TD on 11 carries and Treyaun Webb ran for 71 yards and two TDs on 14 carries for Florida last week.
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9 Consecutive losses for Tennessee in Gainesville. The Volunteers haven’t won on Florida’s home field since a 24-10 victory over the Gators in 2003. Florida leads the series 16-5 at home.
20 Victories without a loss for Tennessee under coach Josh Heupel when the Volunteers are ahead at halftime. Tennessee is 0-8 under Heupel when it hasn’t led at halftime.
31 Victories for Florida and 21 for Tennessee in the Gators-Volunteers series.
52 Years since the previous time a ranked Tennessee team played an unranked Florida team. On Oct. 2, 1971, No. 12 Tennessee defeated Florida 20-13. Since then, the Volunteers have been ranked 23 times while playing Florida, and the Gators also were ranked for all those games. Tennessee has a 5-0 record when playing as a ranked team against unranked Florida, with the other victories coming in 1940, 1944, 1953 and 1970.
239 Consecutive passes without an interception for Tennessee QB Joe Milton III, which is the second-longest streak in the nation behind the 243 of Missouri QB Brady Cook. Milton’s most recent interception came on Nov. 14, 2020, when he was playing at Michigan. The past 207 passes in Milton’s streak have come at Tennessee, giving the Tennessee QB the 11th-longest interception-less streak in SEC history. Cook’s streak ranks sixth on the league list.
438 Games have been played by Florida since it was most recently shut out, the longest scoring streak in major-college football history by 56 games. The Gators haven’t been blanked since losing to Auburn 16-0 on Oct. 29, 1988.
526 Passing yards for QB Graham Mertz in Florida’s first two games this season. A transfer from Wisconsin, Mertz has the second-most passing yards for a player in his first two games with the Gators behind the 599 collected by Shane Matthews in 1990.
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