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SEC Week 10 top 10: Jaxson Dart passes Archie Manning against Alabama

Every team in the SEC has at least one division loss after Week 10 of the 2024 season; South Carolina’s 44-20 victory over Texas A&M on Saturday broke the Aggies’ perfect conference record with four Saturdays remaining until the SEC Championship Game. In addition to Saturday’s five league games, the SEC picked up two non-conference wins to improve its mark against outside opponents to 46-8 in 2024. Here are 10 stats from SEC Football by the Numbers for Week 10:

0 Snaps were taken in the red zone. Brown-haired offense during the Tigers’ 17-7 loss to Vanderbilt on Saturday. Vanderbilt’s 26-yard line was the closest the Tigers came to the red zone, and Auburn’s touchdown came on a 30-yard pass. Vanderbilt did not make its first move into the red zone until 7:40 left in the game. The Commodores’ seven red zone kicks came on a 14-play, 78-yard drive that lasted 8:53 and helped Vanderbilt gain a time-of-possession advantage from 11:03 to 3:57 in the fourth quarter. During the drive, an Auburn personal foul penalty on a 26-yard field goal allowed the Commodores to convert a field goal at the Tigers 4-yard line with a first down to turn three points into seven. The Commodores won for the first time in 10 tries at Jordan-Hare Stadium despite Auburn outgaining them by 100 yards and Vanderbilt having the shortest and longest game in the SEC this season. The Commodores’ longest offensive run of the game came on their first red zone kick as QB Diego Pavia went 7 yards.

5 Ole Miss WR Jordan Watkins had 254 yards on TDs and eight receptions in a 63-28 victory over Arkansas on Saturday. Watkins had six TD receptions in 33 games at Ole Miss heading into Saturday’s contest. LSU’s Carlos Carson broke the SEC single-game record with five TD receptions in a 77-0 victory over Rice on September 24, 1977. Carson’s record was held by Vanderbilt’s Earl Bennett in a 48-43 loss to Kentucky on Nov. 12. 2005, South Carolina’s Sidney Rice earned a 45-6 victory over Florida Atlantic on September 23, 2006. AlabamaDeVonta Smith beat Ole Miss 59-31 on September 28, 2019, and Tennessee’s Jalin Hyatt beat Alabama 52-49 on October 15, 2022. Watkins’ receiving yards rank 12th in the SEC for a game. He broke AJ Brown’s school record with 233 receiving yards in a 47-27 win over South Alabama on September 2, 2017.

11 Georgia QB Carson Beck’s interceptions in his last five games come after he was ejected six times in his previous 17 starts. In the Bulldogs’ last five games, Beck was intercepted three times by Alabama, Texas and Florida and twice by Mississippi State (Auburn failed to make an interception). In addition to three interceptions during Georgia’s 34-20 victory over Florida on Saturday, Beck passed for 309 yards and a touchdown as the game was tied at 13-13 and 20-20.

19 TD will be a contender for Tennessee RB Dylan Sampson in 2024 after throwing for two touchdowns in the Volunteers’ 28-18 victory over Kentucky on Saturday. Sampson broke the school’s single-season record for TD runs since 1929, when Gene McEver ran for 18. Sampson also became the second Tennessee player to rush for a TD in eight games and the first to do so in a season. Jimmy Wade had a rushing TD in each of the final seven games of the 1953 season and the first game of the 1954 season. Sampson rushed for 142 yards on 27 carries against Kentucky, tying the most rushing attempts for an SEC player this season. He also had 27 points in a 23-17 overtime victory over Florida on October 12.

31 Florida lost yards on a single carry in the Gators’ 34-20 loss to Georgia on Saturday. With Florida in field goal formation at the Bulldogs’ 33-yard line, the snap was returned past catcher Jeremy Crawshaw to the Gators 36-yard line. Georgia took a 20-13 lead with three snaps with 1:30 left in the third quarter.

54 Vanderbilt CB Martel Hight had more yards on Saturday’s single punt return against Auburn than the Tigers have had on punt returns all season. Auburn’s opponents returned five punts for minus-15 yards entering Saturday’s game, but Hight converted a 39-yard return to the Tigers’ 21-yard line for a tie-breaking field goal with 1:05 left in the third quarter. and sent Vanderbilt to a 17-7 victory. On the other side of the punt game, Vanderbilt’s Jess Micro had the most punt yards of any SEC player this season with 374 on eight punts against Auburn. The Tigers regained 29 of those yards on three returns.

69 It’s been years since Vanderbilt defeated Alabama and Auburn in the same season. The Commodores added a 17-7 victory over the Tigers on Saturday to their 40-35 victory over the Crimson Tide on Oct. 5. In 1955, Vanderbilt defeated Auburn 25-13 in the Gator Bowl on December 31 by a score of 21-21. 6 regular season wins against Alabama on October 1st. Since the victories in 1955, Vanderbilt has compiled a 5-47 record against Alabama and a 3-14 record against Auburn. This season was the 12th season since the 1955 season that Vanderbilt played both Alabama and Auburn. Before 1955, Vanderbilt played Alabama and Auburn in the same season 13 times, winning those games in eight seasons (1905, 1919, 1929, 1930, 1934, 1947, 1949 and 1950).

74 Oklahoma RB Jovantae Barnes’ yard rushing attempt in the first quarter of the Sooners’ 59-14 win over Maine on Saturday. That was 4 more yards than any Oklahoma player had gained on the ground this season, surpassing Barnes’ 70-yard rushing score in Oklahoma’s 35-9 loss to South Carolina on Oct. 19. Barnes finished the game with the SEC’s second 200 yards receiving. He had a rushing performance in 2024, rushing for 203 yards and three TDs on 18 carries. Barnes’ 74-yard run was the second-longest scoreless rushing attempt in Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium history, behind Max Boydston’s 76-yard run in a 47-0 victory over Iowa State on Nov. 14. 1953.

144 RB Raheim Sanders had 20 yards on carries and two TDs in South Carolina’s 44-20 victory over Texas A&M on Saturday after rushing for 129 yards on 34 carries and no TDs in three games against the Aggies at Arkansas. hunter Sanders’ total on Saturday included a 52-yard touchdown run with the score tied at 20-20. South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers rushed for 106 yards and a TD on 15 carries as the Gamecocks totaled 286 rushing yards against Texas A&M.

562 Ole Miss QB Jaxson Dart’s yards of total offense in Saturday’s 63-28 victory over Arkansas. Dart’s totals of 515 passing yards and 47 rushing yards were tied for the fourth-most in SEC history and broke the school single-game record set by Archie Manning with 540 yards (436 passing, 104 rushing) on ​​October 4, 1969 . ) lost to Alabama 33-32. Darts beat South Carolina 59-42 on Nov. 14, 2020, breaking the Ole Miss single-game rushing record of 513 yards by Matt Corral. With six TD passes against Arkansas, Dart tied the school’s single-game record. Eli Manning homered in a 58-56 seven-overtime loss to Arkansas and Corral in a 54-21 victory over Vanderbilt on Oct. 31, 2020.

The SEC standings for Week 10 included:

· No. 19 Ole Miss 63, Arkansas 31

· Vanderbilt 17, Auburn 7

· No. 2 Georgia 34, Florida 20

· No. 7 Tennessee 28, Kentucky 18

· Mississippi State 45, Massachusetts 20

· Oklahoma 59, Maine 14

· South Carolina 44, No. 10 Texas A&M 20

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