SEC Football in numbers: Top 10 for week 3



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1 Missouri's game in the Tigers' previous win was not played by at least one DBC Drew Lock pass – a 35-3 loss to Purdue on Sept. 16. Missouri visits Purdue on Saturday.

13 Lossless wins for the LSU under coach Ed Orgeron when the Tigers have a 100-meter. When LSU does not have a player with 100 yards on the ground, the Tigers are 4 to 6 under Orgeron. This season, RB LSU Nick Brossette won 125 yards against Miami (Fla.) On Sept. 33 against Southeast Louisiana on Sept. 8 against a win of 33-17. The LSU heads to Auburn on Saturday.

14 Consecutive wins for Alabama when the Crimson Tide opens its SEC calendar on the road. Alabama will launch its 2018 conference program at Ole Miss on Saturday. Alabama recently recorded a 0-1 record after a road game in 1991, when the Tide lost its first league game in Florida.

14 UTEP suffered consecutive losses, giving the Miners the longest streak of defeats in the country that engaged in the match against Tennessee on Saturday. UTEP's most recent win came from 52 to 24 over North Texas in the final game of the 2016 season. The Miners went from 0 to 12 in 2017 and lost their first two Matches in 2018 against North Arizona 30-10 and UNLV 52-24.

16 Miles is the approximate distance between high schools from Saturday's expected starting quarterbacks in the Alabama-Ole Miss game – Tua Tagovailoa, of Crimson Tide, who attended the Saint Louis School in Honolulu and Jordan Ta 'amu, who attended Pearl City High School. Pearl City, Hawaii. At Oxford, Saturday's game site, the quarterbacks will be about 4,200 miles from home.

17 The consecutive games were won by Florida in the first game of an opponent. The Gators will face Colorado State for the first time on Saturday. Michigan, which defeated the 38-30 Gators in the Outback Bowl on Jan. 1, 2003, was Florida's newest opponent to a win. Idaho will visit Gainesville on January 1st. November 17.

42 Defeats without a win for Louisiana-Lafayette in the games against opponents of the SEC. The Ragin & Cajuns visit the state of Mississippi on Saturday. Louisiana-Lafayette took a win against a current SEC team – a 29-22 win over Texas A & M on September 14, 1996 – but that happened before the Aggies joined the SEC. Texas A & M was ranked No. 25 in the AP poll at the time of the Cajuns' defeat, and this is Louisiana-Lafayette's only win against a ranked opponent.

77 Years after the previous match for a SEC team at West Lafayette, which will be visited again by the conference on Saturday when Missouri will face Purdue. Vanderbilt defeated Purdue 3-0 on the Boilermakers' field on September 27, 1941. Since then, Purdue has played five games against SEC opponents. The Boilermakers lost to Vanderbilt 26-0 on October 3, 1942; defeated Tennessee 27-22 in the Bowl Bluebonnet on December 31, 1979; lost to Georgia 28-25 at the Outback Bowl on January 1, 2000 and 34-27 at Capital One Bowl on January 1, 2004; and defeated Missouri 35-3 on September 16, 2017. Vanderbilt is scheduled to visit Purdue on September 7, 2019.

233 Attempts for consecutive extra points were made by Auburn kickers. It's the longest running series in the country and the longest in the history of the SEC with Texas A & M, which had its period from 2013 to 2017. The NCAA record is 302 by Florida State from 2012 to 2016. PAT on November 9, 2013 against Tennessee.

264 The consecutive home games of Notre Dame have been sell-outs. The most recent match at Notre Dame Stadium, which was unsuccessful, was the Fighting Irish victory over Air Force on Thanksgiving in 1973. This is the second longest run of NCAA victories. The longest run of home sales belongs to Nebraska, which will have 363rd against Troy on Saturday. Nebraska's last game in Lincoln, which was unsuccessful, was the Cornhuskers' win over Kansas State on October 26, 1962. Vanderbilt traveled to Notre-Dame on Saturday. At Vanderbilt's previous visit to South Bend in 1995, the stadium's Notre-Dame stadium capacity was 59,075. Now the stadium capacity is 80,795.

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

Saturday

  • Middle Tennessee (1-1) at Georgia No. 3 (2-0), 11am at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia (ESPN News) Line: Georgia by 33
  • Murray State (0-2) in Kentucky (2-0), 11 am at Kroger Field in Lexington, Kentucky (SEC secondary channel) Line: No
  • UTEP (0-2) in Tennessee (1-1), 11h at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee Line: Tennessee by 31
  • Vanderbilt (2-0) at No. 8 Notre Dame (2-0), 1:30 pm at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana (NBC) Line: Our Lady by 14
  • No. 12 LSU (2-0) at No. 7 Auburn (2-0), 2:30 pm at the Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn (CBS) Line: Auburn by 10.5
  • North Texas (2-0) to Arkansas (1-1), 3 pm at Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas (SEC secondary channel) Line: Arkansas by 7
  • Colorado State (1-2) to Florida (1-1), 3pm at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, FL (SEC network) Line: Florida by 20
  • Alabama No. 1 (2-0) at Ole Miss (2-0), 6 pm at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi (ESPN) Line: Alabama by 21.5
  • Louisiana-Lafayette (1-0) at 16th Mississippi State (2-0) at 6:30 pm at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Mississippi (another SEC channel) Line: Mississippi State by 33
  • Louisiana-Monroe (2-0) at Texas A & M (1-1), 6:30 pm at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas (SEC Network) Line: Texas A & M by 27
  • Missouri (2-0) at Purdue (0-2), 6:30 pm at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana (Big Ten Network) Line: Missouri by 6
  • The Marshall-South Carolina match scheduled for Saturday in Columbia, South Carolina, was canceled due to Hurricane Florence.

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

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