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SEC Top 10 for Week 4: Oklahoma makes debut against former Sooners hero
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SEC Top 10 for Week 4: Oklahoma makes debut against former Sooners hero

The fourth week of the SEC’s 92nd season brings the first byes of the season, as Alabama and Georgia have Saturday off before their Week 5 showdown. Week 4 features four conference games, including a ranked matchup between No. 6 Tennessee and No. 15 Oklahoma, which will be the Sooners’ first regular season game since joining the SEC. Here are 10 stats from SEC Football by the Numbers, along with the schedule, TV and betting lines, to help you prepare for Week 4:

0 Tennessee has scored touchdowns in each of the past four games against the defense. The most recent opposing offense to reach the end zone against the Volunteers was by Vanderbilt in a 48-24 victory for Tennessee on Nov. 25, 2023. The Vols closed out the 2023 season by blanking Iowa 35-0 in the Citrus Bowl. This season, Tennessee has defeated Chattanooga 69-3, North Carolina State 51-10 and Kent State 71-0. NC State’s touchdown came on an 87-yard interception return. The streak of four games without allowing an offensive touchdown is the longest for Tennessee since the Volunteers blanked 15 consecutive opponents in a streak that began with a 45-0 victory over Chattanooga on Nov. 5, 1938, and ended with a 14-0 loss to Southern Cal in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1, 1940. Tennessee visits Oklahoma on Saturday. The Sooners were last shutout on Oct. 8, 2022, when Texas posted a 49-0 win over Oklahoma in Dallas. That ended a 311-game scoring streak for the Sooners, which at the time was the ninth-longest in NCAA FBS history. Oklahoma last failed to score in a home game on Nov. 11, 1995, when Oklahoma State posted a 12-0 win over Norman.

1 Player in the country with at least 800 passing yards and 200 rushing yards this season — Arkansas QB Taylen Green, who has 806 passing yards and 245 rushing yards in 2024. Two other SEC quarterbacks — Missouri’s Brady Cook and Ole Miss’ Jaxson Dart — have reached milestones this season, joining eight others SEC players who have accumulated 7,000 career passing yards and 1,000 career rushing yards in the conference. The other SEC quarterbacks who have accumulated at least 7,000 passing yards and 1,000 career rushing yards are Vanderbilt’s Jay Cutler, Florida’s Tim Tebow, Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel, Mississippi State’s Dak Prescott, Tennessee’s Joshua Dobbs, Texas A&M’s Kellen Mond, Ole Miss’s Matt Corral and Arkansas’ KJ Jefferson.

1 SEC team has played two Big Ten opponents in the same regular season — LSU, which plays two new Big Ten members in the Tigers’ first four games this season. LSU lost 27-20 to Southern Cal in Las Vegas on Sept. 1 and will host UCLA on Saturday. SEC teams have played one Big Ten opponent in a regular-season game and another in a bowl game in the same campaign, but this is the first time two Big Ten members have appeared on an SEC member’s regular-season schedule in the same year. The SEC has a 38-34-2 record against the Big Ten in regular-season games. UCLA will become the first Big Ten member to visit Tiger Stadium since 1987, when Ohio State and LSU tied 13-13 in Baton Rouge.

4 Back-to-back 100-yard rushing games for Tennessee RB Dylan Sampson entering the Volunteers’ Saturday game against Oklahoma. Sampson closed the 2023 season with 133 rushing yards against Iowa in the Citrus Bowl and opened the 2024 season with 124 rushing yards against Chattanooga, 132 against North Carolina State and 101 against Kent State. Sampson is averaging 7.6 yards per carry through the four games. He’s the first Tennessee player with four straight 100-yard rushing games since Arian Foster had five in a row in 2005. Sampson sat out the second halves against Chattanooga and Kent State.

7 Missouri has won consecutive games, the longest winning streak in the country. The Tigers suffered their most recent loss on Nov. 4, 2023, when Georgia defeated Missouri 30-21. Since then, the Tigers have defeated Tennessee, Florida, Arkansas, Ohio State, Murray State, Buffalo and Boston College.

9 Auburn players have caught the most TD passes in the country this season, with Texas in second place with eight. No other team has more than six players with touchdown receptions this season. Keandre Lambert-Smith has three TD receptions for Auburn this season, and eight other players have one each – Camden Brown, Cam Coleman, Rivaldo Fairweather, Jarquez Hunter, Sam Jackson, Micah Riley-Ducker, Malcolm Simmons and Perry Thompson.

10 Mississippi State S Isaac Smith has more tackles than any other player in the SEC this season. With 43 tackles, Smith shares the national lead with Buffalo LB Shaun Dolack in 2024.

12 Back-to-back seasons have seen Vanderbilt lose in its first SEC game of the campaign. Vandy opens its conference schedule on Saturday at Missouri. The Commodores have not been 1-0 in the regular season since a 30-7 win over Ole Miss on Sept. 17, 2011. Since that win, Vanderbilt has lost its SEC opener three times to Georgia and South Carolina, twice to Alabama and Ole Miss, and once each to Texas A&M and Kentucky. Vanderbilt has also lost its first SEC road game in 13 consecutive seasons, beginning with a 28-14 win over Ole Miss on Sept. 18, 2010. In that losing streak, the Commodores have been defeated three times in Florida, twice to Georgia, Kentucky, Ole Miss and South Carolina, and once each to Alabama and Texas A&M.

16 It’s been years since Texas took the field as the No. 1 team in the Associated Press Poll. The Longhorns replaced Georgia at the top of the poll this week. Saturday’s game against Louisiana-Monroe will be Texas’ first as the No. 1 team since a 39-33 loss to No. 6 Texas Tech on Nov. 1, 2008. The Longhorns hold the No. 1 spot in an AP Poll for the 46th time, which is the 10th most. Texas has a 30-7-3 record when it plays as the No. 1 team. Its record is 15-2 at home, with its most recent loss a 14-13 defeat to Arkansas on Oct. 17, 1964.

24 Years since Tennessee coach Josh Heupel became Oklahoma’s first consensus All-American quarterback and led the Sooners to the BCS national championship. In the 2000 season, Heupel won the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award and finished runner-up for the Heisman Trophy for the undefeated Sooners. Tennessee plays at Oklahoma on Saturday.

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

Saturday

· Florida (1-2, 0-1) at Mississippi State (1-2, 0-0), 11 a.m. at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Mississippi (ESPN). Line: Florida with 6

· Ohio (2-1) at Kentucky (1-2), 11:45 a.m. at Kroger Field in Lexington, Kentucky (SEC Network). Line: Kentucky at 19.5

· Arkansas (2-1) at Auburn (2-1), 2:30 p.m. at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn (ESPN). Line: Auburn at 2.5

· UCLA (1-1) at No. 16 LSU (2-1), 2:30 PM at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (ABC). Line: LSU with 22.5

· Vanderbilt (2-1) at No. 7 Missouri (3-0), 3:15 p.m. at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri (SEC Network). Line: Missouri at 20.5

· Akron (1-2) at South Carolina (2-1), 6:30 p.m. at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina (ESPNU). Line: South Carolina at 27.5

· Bowling Green (1-1) at No. 25 Texas A&M, 6:30 p.m. at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas (ESPN+). Line: Texas A&M with 22.5

· No. 6 Tennessee (3-0) vs. No. 15 Oklahoma (3-0), 6:30 p.m. at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla. (ABC). Line: Tennessee with 7

· Georgia Southern (2-1) at No. 5 Ole Miss (3-0), 6:45 p.m. at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi (SEC Network). Line: Ole Miss with 35.5

· ULM (2-0) at No. 1 Texas (3-0), 7 p.m. at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas (ESPN+). Line: Texas with 44.5

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