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SEC Top 10 for Week 8: Rare game in Austin

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.

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