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SEC Top 10 for Week 8: Rare game in Austin

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SEC Top 10 for Week 8: Rare game in Austin

Week eight of the SEC's 92nd season includes seven conference games and one non-conference contest. League play features two ranking matchups, with No. 5 Georgia and No. 1 Texas facing off in Austin and No. 7 Alabama and No. 11 Tennessee meeting in Knoxville. Ole Miss has an open date on Saturday. Here are 10 stats from SEC Football by the Numbers, along with the schedule, TV and betting lines to prepare for Week 8:

1 Lost in the last 25 seasons for Oklahoma in its game following its annual Red River Rivalry meeting with Texas. In 2014, Kansas State defeated the Sooners 31-30, a week after Oklahoma beat Texas 31-26. The Sooners play South Carolina on Saturday after losing to Texas 34-3 last week.

2 Previous games at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium have featured teams ranked in the top five of the AP Poll. No. 1 Texas beat No. 4 Arkansas 42-7 on Dec. 5, 1970, and No. 1 Ohio State beat No. 2 Texas 24-7 on Sept. 9, 2006 in Austin, where No. 5 Georgia and No. 1 Texas will face off on Saturday. Texas has a home record of 5-9-1 against top-five opponents. Playing in Austin for the first time since 1958, Georgia has a 2-5 record against the No. 1 team in the AP poll. The No. 17 Bulldogs defeated No. 1 Florida 24-3 on Nov. 9, 1985, and No. 3 Georgia defeated No. 1 Alabama 33-18 in the CFP national championship game on Jan. 10, 2022. The Bulldogs compete Saturday to showdown following a 14-game winning streak in October, the longest in the SEC. Georgia's most recent loss in the 10th month is a 41-24 setback against Alabama on October 17, 2020.

4 Consecutive Arkansas-LSU games were decided by three points. The Tigers defeated the Razorbacks 27-24 in 2020, 13-10 in 2022 and 34-31 in 2023, and Arkansas defeated LSU 16-13 in 2021. Entering their meeting on Saturday, LSU leads the series after the win at 44-23-2 in seven of the last eight games.

4 Wins and six losses for Alabama coaches in their first game against Tennessee in the SEC era. Red Drew in 1947, Bill Curry in 1987, Gene Stallings in 1990 and Nick Saban in 2007 won against Tennessee in their first season with the Crimson Tide. Ears Whitworth in 1955, Bear Bryant in 1958, Ray Perkins in 1983, Mike DuBose in 1997, Dennis Franchione in 2001 and Mike Shula in 2003 lost to the Vols in their first season as Alabama's coach. Kalen DeBoer will lead the No. 7 Tide for the first time against No. 11 Tennessee on Saturday. DeBoer will be the second first-year Alabama coach to lead a ranked team against the Volunteers, the seventh in a row to face a ranked Tennessee team and the first to face the Vols in a ranked-versus-ranked game. On October 15, 1983, Perkins' No. 11 Tide lost to unranked Tennessee 41-34. Since then, the Volunteers have been listed for every meeting with a first-year Alabama coach, with Curry defeating No. 8 Tennessee 41-22 in 1987, Stallings defeating No. 3 Tennessee 9-6 in 1990 and Saban defeating No. 20 Tennessee 41- 17 in 2007.

8 Oklahoma has recovered 10 fumbles by its opponents this season. The Sooners are tied with Memphis for the national lead in recovering opponents' fumbles. South Carolina lost eight of its 14 fumbles in 2024. Nationally, the Gamecocks are tied with Louisiana Tech, Southern Miss, Temple and TCU for the most lost fumbles this season. South Carolina and Oklahoma play on Saturday.

19 Points are the most scored in the Volunteers' last seven games against Tennessee. It is the longest game in which Tennessee's opponents have not scored 20 points since 1998, lasting seven games and including a 35:18 win over Alabama. Tennessee has not held more than seven consecutive opponents to fewer than 20 points since the final nine games of the 1985 season. Alabama, Tennessee's opponent on Saturday, has scored at least 20 points in 17 consecutive games and has scored at least 34 points in each of its last eight games against Tennessee.

73 Kentucky last had a four-game winning streak against Florida years ago. The Wildcats and Gators meet on Saturday, with Kentucky coming off three straight wins over Florida. Kentucky's only four-game winning streak in the series came from 1948 to 1951. Florida had a 31-game winning streak against Kentucky from 1987 to 2017 and holds a 53-21 lead in the series.

148 Games have been played by Auburn since it was last suspended, the second-longest streak in school history. Auburn's last shutout loss came on November 17, 2012, 49-0 against Alabama. Auburn's record scoring streak spanned 149 games, starting with a 55-16 victory over Richmond on October 4, 1980 and ending with a 17-0 loss to Alabama on November 26, 1992. Auburn's current scoring streak is the tenth longest in the history of the SEC and their record streak is the ninth longest. The Tigers will look to match their school's best scoring streak on Saturday against Missouri.

200 After Saturday's game between Arkansas and LSU, the winning team will lift pounds in celebration. That's the weight of the Golden Boot, the name of the trophy that has been awarded annually since 1996 to the winner of the Razorbacks-Tigers game. LSU has a 19-9 edge over Arkansas in Golden Boot games.

1,138 Passing yards in Georgia's last three games for QB Carson Beck. Texas, the Bulldogs' opponent on Saturday, has accumulated 756 passing yards in six games this season. Only one player has reached 150 passing yards against the Longhorns in 2024 – QB Davis Warren with 204 in Michigan's 31-12 loss to Texas on Sept. 7. Beck had 439 passing yards in a 41-38 loss to Alabama on Sept. 28. 240 passing yards in a 31-13 win over Auburn on October 5th and 459 passing yards in a 41-31 win over Mississippi State on October 12th.

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This week's SEC schedule includes (all times are CDT with point spreads from BetMGM):

Saturday

· Auburn (2-4, 0-3) at No. 19 Missouri (5-1, 1-1), 11 a.m. at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri (ESPN). Line: Missouri by 4.5

· South Carolina (3-3, 1-3) at Oklahoma (4-2, 1-2), 11:45 a.m. at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla. (SEC Network). Line: Oklahoma at 1

· No. 7 Alabama (5-1, 2-1) at No. 11 Tennessee (5-1, 2-1), 2:30 p.m. at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn. (ABC). Line: Tennessee at 3

· No. 14 Texas A&M (5-1, 3-0) at Mississippi State (1-5, 0-3), 3:15 p.m. at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Miss. (SEC Network). Line: Texas A&M through May 18th

· Ball State (2-4) at Vanderbilt (4-2), 6 p.m. at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee (ESPN+). Line: Vanderbilt until May 27th

· No. 8 LSU (5-1, 2-0) at Arkansas (4-2, 2-1), 6 p.m. at Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas (ESPN). Line: LSU by 2.5

· No. 5 Georgia (5-1, 3-1) vs. No. 1 Texas (6-0, 2-0), 6:30 p.m. at Darrel K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas (ABC). Line: Texas by 4.5

· Kentucky (3-3, 1-3) at Florida (3-3, 1-2), 6:45 p.m. at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla. (SEC Network). Line: Kentucky by 1.5.

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

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