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

While four SEC teams prepare to compete in the regular season finale by playing non-conference victims this week, there are also six league games on the schedule, four of which have implications for the CFP rankings and the SEC Championship Game, although none one of them does not correspond to two ranked teams. Here are 10 stats from SEC Football by the Numbers, plus schedules, TV lineups and betting lines to prepare for Week 13:

0 Texas A&M has thrown interceptions in its last five games against Auburn. The last Auburn player to throw an interception against the Aggies was CB Noah Igbinoghene, who picked off QB Kellen Mond at the Tigers’ 29-yard line with 7:14 remaining in a 28-24 win over Texas A&M on November 3, 2018. year. The Aggies visit Auburn on Saturday.

4 Consecutive conference games were lost by Oklahoma, matching the Sooners’ longest league losing streak in program history. Oklahoma also lost four straight 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 for any player in the conference. Through the first eight weeks of the 2024 season, SEC players have returned 12 interceptions for touchdowns, including two from South Carolina quarterback Nick Emmanwory. But since Emmanwary and Florida DB Kormani McClain had TD interceptions on Oct. 19, no player in the conference has done so. In the 12 games in which an SEC player has picked a pick-six, his team has won every game.

8 Consecutive games with at least five receptions for Mississippi State champion Kevin Coleman Jr. The only game this season in which Coleman did not have at least five receptions came on Sept. 7, when he had four receptions for 103 yards in the Bulldogs’ 30th game. Lost -23 to Arizona State. Coleman had 62 receptions for 756 yards and five touchdowns in Mississippi State’s game against Missouri on Saturday. Missouri has had four opposing players catch at least five passes in the Tigers’ last three games, compared to just three in the first seven games of 2024.

9 The wins 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 coach of the Crimson Tide. In 1931, Frank Thomas led Alabama to a 9-1 record in the first of his 15 seasons as coach of the Crimson Tide.

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16 Alabama’s back-to-back wins heading into the Auburn game. The Crimson Tide and Tigers are scheduled to meet in the Iron Bowl on Nov. 30. Alabama’s 21–14 loss against Louisiana-Monroe on November 17, 2007 was its last loss in a game before the Iron Bowl. It was the latest loss in Alabama’s five-year losing streak in the game leading up to the Iron Bowl. The other four losses came to LSU. Before facing Auburn, the Tide played Mississippi State in 2008, Kentucky in 2020 and Arkansas in 2021. In 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 Evers. Evers has thrown a TD pass in every game he has played since Baylor threw him out of the game in the Longhorns’ 38-27 win on Nov. 25, 2022. He threw 44 TD passes in the 21-game streak. He has the longest active streak in NCAA FBS with Colorado QB Sheader Sanders, who has completed at least one pass in all 21 games with Buffalo.

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

73 Years have passed since the previous game between Kentucky and Texas. When the Wildcats and Longhorns meet on Saturday, they will meet for the second time. Their first contest came on September 22, 1951, when No. 11 Texas beat No. 6 Kentucky 7–6 in Austin. The 1951 season also marked Vanderbilt’s last win in Baton Rouge, where the Commodores will play LSU on Saturday. Vanderbilt has played at Tiger Stadium six times since winning there 20–13 on November 10, 1951. LSU also won its last nine games against Vanderbilt after the Commodores’ 24–21 victory in Nashville on Sept. 22, 1990.

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

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This week’s SEC schedule includes (times shown 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, Fla. (ABC). Line: Ole Miss at 11.5
• Massachusetts at No. 10 Georgia State, 11:45 a.m. at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga. (SEC Network). Line: Georgia at 42.5
• UTEP (2-8) at No. 11 Tennessee (8-2), noon at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn. (ESPN+). Line: Tennessee at 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 at 20.5
• Louisiana Tech (4-6) at Arkansas (5-5), 3:00 pm at Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Ark. (ESPN+). Line: Arkansas at 23.5
• Wofford (5-6) at No. 18 South Carolina (7-3), 3:00 p.m. at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, S.C. (ESPN+). Line: Nobody
• No. 23 Missouri (7-3, 3-3) at Mississippi State (2-8, 0-6), 3:15 p.m. at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Miss. (SEC Network). Line: Missouri at 7.5
• No. 7 Alabama (8-2, 4-2) at Oklahoma (5-5, 1-5), 6:30 p.m. at Gaylord-Oklahoma Family Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla. (ABC). Line: Alabama at 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 at 2.5
• Vanderbilt (6-4, 3-3) at LSU (6-4, 3-3), 6:45 p.m. at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La. (SEC Network). Line: LSU at 7.5

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