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Title: "SEC Football by the Numbers: Week 3 -- Clemson's No. 1 omen"
Post by: Chechem on September 16, 2011, 05:11:02 AM
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0 Losses for South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier in 42 games against teams that aren't members of BCS automatic-qualifier conferences. The Gamecocks play such a team on Saturday when they host Navy.

0 Points scored in the first quarter this season by South Carolina even though the Gamecocks have scored 101 points in their first two games.

1 Time in the 10 previous seasons in which Georgia lost its first two games that the Bulldogs went on to have a winning record. Georgia came back from an 0-3 start in 1979 to finish 6-5. The Bulldogs are 0-2 this season for the first time since 1996.

1 Player in Auburn history who has had at least 100 kickoff-return yards in consecutive games -- freshman RB Tre Mason, who did it in his first two games with the Tigers. Mason ranks second nationally in kickoff-return yards.

1 Game in their 105 meetings in which both LSU and Mississippi State have been ranked -- their game Thursday night in Starkville. The Tigers are No. 3 and Mississippi State No. 25 in the AP poll.

2 Victories without a loss for Clemson when hosting the previous season's No. 1 team. On Saturday, the Tigers entertain Auburn, last year's No. 1 team, for their third game of the season -- the same spot on the schedule that Clemson knocked off the other two former No. 1 teams. Clemson beat 1990 coaches poll top team Georgia Tech 9-7 in the third game of the 1991 season and beat consensus 1980 No. 1 team Georgia 13-3 in the third game of the 1981 season. Those wins came after Clemson lost to Georgia Tech 21-19 in 1990 and to Georgia 20-16 in 1980. Last year, Clemson lost 27-24 in overtime to Auburn.

2 Tennessee QBs who have thrown for at least 400 yards in a game -- Peyton Manning and Tyler Bray, who passed for 405 yards last week against Cincinnati. In that game, the Volunteers had a 400-yard passer, a 100-yard rusher (Tauren Poole) and two 100-yard receivers (Justin Hunter an Da'Rick Rogers) in the same contest for the second time in school history. The other occurred in a 1997 win over Kentucky. Manning was Tennessee's QB in that game, one of three in which he threw for at least 400 yards.

2 Shutout victories in two games for coach John Heisman in the Auburn-Clemson series. Heisman guided Auburn to a 34-0 win in 1899 over Clemson, then led Clemson to a 16-0 victory over Auburn in 1902. Heisman was Auburn's coach from 1895 through 1899 and Clemson's coach from 1900 through 1903.

2 Teams in the nation that have not given up a TD this season - Florida and Central Florida.

2 Receivers with 10 receptions apiece for Tennessee last week, the first time that had happened in the same game in Volunteers' history. Justin Hunter caught 10 passes for 156 yards and Da'Rick Rogers caught 10 passes for 100 yards against Cincinnati. Before Saturday, the most recent Tennessee player with at least 10 receptions in a game was Kelley Washington in 2001. Both Hunter and Rogers also had 100 receiving yards in Tennessee's opener against Montana, giving the Volunteers a pair of 100-yard receivers in back-to-back games for the second time in school history.

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