1 Missouri game in the Tigers' past 21 has not featured at least one TD pass by QB Drew Lock -- a 35-3 loss to Purdue on Sept. 16. Lock threw for 61 touchdowns in the other 20 games. Missouri visits Purdue on Saturday.
13 Victories without a loss for LSU under coach Ed Orgeron when the Tigers have a 100-yard rusher. When LSU doesn't have a player with 100 rushing yards, the Tigers have a 4-6 record under Orgeron. This season, LSU RB Nick Brossette ran for 125 yards in a 33-17 victory over Miami (Fla.) on Sept. 2 and 137 yards in a 31-0 victory over Southeastern Louisiana on Sept. 8. LSU visits Auburn on Saturday.
14 Consecutive victories for Alabama when the Crimson Tide opens its SEC schedule on the road. Alabama will kick off its 2018 conference schedule at Ole Miss on Saturday. Alabama most recently had an 0-1 conference record after a road game in 1991, when the Tide lost its league opener at Florida.
14 Consecutive losses have been suffered by UTEP, giving the Miners the longest losing streak in the nation entering their game against Tennessee on Saturday. UTEP's most recent victory came 52-24 over North Texas in the final game of the 2016 season. The Miners went 0-12 in 2017 and have lost their first two games of 2018, falling to Northern Arizona 30-10 and UNLV 52-24.
16 Miles is the approximate distance between the high schools of Saturday's expected starting quarterbacks in the Alabama-Ole Miss game -- the Crimson Tide's Tua Tagovailoa, who attended Saint Louis School in Honolulu, and Jordan Ta'amu, who attended Pearl City High School in Pearl City, Hawaii. In Oxford, the site of Saturday's game, the quarterbacks will be about 4,200 miles from home.
17 Consecutive games have been won by Florida when playing an opponent for the first time. The Gators will square off against Colorado State for the first time on Saturday. Florida's most recent first-time opponent to post a victory was Michigan, which defeated the Gators 38-30 in the Outback Bowl on Jan. 1, 2003. Florida has one other first-time opponent on its schedule this season when Idaho visits Gainesville on Nov. 17.
42 Losses without a victory for Louisiana-Lafayette in games against SEC opponents. The Ragin' Cajuns visit Mississippi State on Saturday. Louisiana-Lafayette owns a victory against a current SEC team -- a 29-22 win over Texas A&M on Sept. 14, 1996 -- but that came before the Aggies joined the SEC. Texas A&M was ranked No. 25 in the AP poll at the time of the Cajuns' upset, and it's the only victory for Louisiana-Lafayette against a ranked opponent.
77 Years since the previous game for an SEC team in West Lafayette, which will be visited by the conference again on Saturday when Missouri takes on Purdue. Vanderbilt defeated Purdue 3-0 on the Boilermakers' home field on Sept. 27, 1941. Since then, Purdue has played five games against SEC opponents. The Boilermakers lost at Vanderbilt 26-0 on Oct. 3, 1942; defeated Tennessee 27-22 in the Bluebonnet Bowl on Dec. 31, 1979; lost to Georgia 28-25 in the Outback Bowl on Jan. 1, 2000, and 34-27 in the Capital One Bowl on Jan. 1, 2004; and defeated Missouri 35-3 on Sept. 16, 2017. Vanderbilt is scheduled to visit Purdue on Sept. 7, 2019.
234 Consecutive extra-point attempts have been made by Auburn place-kickers. That's the longest active streak in the nation and tied for the longest in SEC history with Texas A&M, which hit its streak from 2013 through 2017. The NCAA record is 302 in a row by Florida State from 2012 through 2016. Auburn most recently missed a PAT on Nov. 9, 2013, against Tennessee.
264 Consecutive Notre Dame home games have been sellouts. The most recent game at Notre Dame Stadium that wasn't a sellout was the Fighting Irish's 48-15 victory over Air Force on Thanksgiving in 1973. That's the second-longest sellout streak in NCAA history. The longest home sellout streak belongs to Nebraska, which will have its 363rd in a row against Troy on Saturday. The most recent Nebraska game in Lincoln that wasn't a sellout was the Cornhuskers' 26-6 victory over Kansas State on Oct. 20, 1962. Vanderbilt visits Notre Dame on Saturday. On Vanderbilt's previous visit to South Bend in 1995, the capacity of Notre Dame Stadium was 59,075. Now the stadium's capacity is 80,795.
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This week's SEC schedule includes (all times are CDT and with point spreads from vegasinsider.com):
Saturday
- Middle Tennessee (1-1) at No. 3 Georgia (2-0), 11 a.m. at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia (ESPN News) Line: Georgia by 33
- Murray State (0-2) at Kentucky (2-0), 11 a.m. at Kroger Field in Lexington, Kentucky (SEC Network alternate channel) Line: None
- UTEP (0-2) at Tennessee (1-1), 11 a.m. at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee Line: Tennessee by 31
- Vanderbilt (2-0) at No. 8 Notre Dame (2-0), 1:30 p.m. at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana (NBC) Line: Notre Dame by 14
- No. 12 LSU (2-0) at No. 7 Auburn (2-0), 2:30 p.m. at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn (CBS) Line: Auburn by 10.5
- North Texas (2-0) at Arkansas (1-1), 3 p.m. at Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas (SEC Network alternate channel) Line: Arkansas by 7
- Colorado State (1-2) at Florida (1-1), 3 p.m. at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Florida (SEC Network) Line: Florida by 20
- No. 1 Alabama (2-0) at Ole Miss (2-0), 6 p.m. at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi (ESPN) Line: Alabama by 21.5
- Louisiana-Lafayette (1-0) at No. 16 Mississippi State (2-0), 6:30 p.m. at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Mississippi (SEC Network alternate channel) Line: Mississippi State by 33
- Louisiana-Monroe (2-0) at Texas A&M (1-1), 6:30 p.m. at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas (SEC Network) Line: Texas A&M by 27
- Missouri (2-0) at Purdue (0-2), 6:30 p.m. at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana (Big Ten Network) Line: Missouri by 6
- The Marshall-South Carolina game scheduled for Saturday in Columbia, South Carolina, was canceled because of Hurricane Florence.
Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @AMarkG1.
from Auburn Sports Impact http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2018/09/sec_football_by_the_numbers_to_94.html
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