SEC top 10 for Week 4: Oklahoma debuts versus 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 in advance of their Week 5 showdown. The Week 4 slate features four conference games, including a ranked matchup between No. 6 Tennessee and No. 15 Oklahoma that will be the Sooners’ first league contest since joining the SEC. Here are 10 stats from SEC Football by the Numbers, along with the schedule, TV and betting lines, to get ready for Week 4:

0 TDs have been scored in the past four games against the Tennessee defense. The most recent opposing offense to reach the end zone against the Volunteers was Vanderbilt’s in a 48-24 victory for Tennessee on Nov. 25, 2023. The Vols closed the 2023 season by blanking Iowa 35-0 in the Citrus Bowl. This season, Tennessee has beaten Chattanooga 69-3, North Carolina State 51-10 and Kent State 71-0. N.C. State’s touchdown came on an 87-yard interception return. The four-game streak without allowing an offensive touchdown is the longest for Tennessee since the Volunteers blanked 15 consecutive opponents in a streak that started 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 most recently shut out on Oct. 8, 2022, when Texas took a 49-0 victory over Oklahoma in Dallas. That ended a 311-game scoring streak by the Sooners that was the ninth-longest in NCAA FBS history at the time. Oklahoma most recently failed to score in a home game on Nov. 11, 1995, when Oklahoma State took a 12-0 victory on Norman.

1 Player in the nation has 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 a dual-threat milestone this season by joining eight other SEC players who have collected 7,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards in their careers in the conference. The other SEC quarterbacks who have had at least 7,000 passing yards and 1,000 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’ Matt Corral and Arkansas’ KJ Jefferson.

1 SEC team has played two Big Ten opponents in the same regular season – LSU, which is playing two new members of the Big Ten in the Tigers’ first four games this season. LSU lost to Southern Cal 27-20 in Las Vegas on Sept. 1 and hosts UCLA on Saturday. SEC teams have played a Big Ten opponent in a regular-season game and another in a bowl in the same campaign, but this is the first instance of two Big Ten members appearing 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 play. 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 Consecutive 100-yard rushing games for Tennessee RB Dylan Sampson entering the Volunteers’ Saturday contest against Oklahoma. Sampson closed the 2023 season with 133 rushing yards against Iowa in the Citrus Bowl, then started the 2024 campaign with 124 rushing yards against Chattanooga, 132 against North Carolina State and 101 against Kent State. Sampson has averaged 7.6 yards per carry across the four games. He’s the first Tennessee player with four consecutive 100-yard rushing games since Arian Foster had five in a row in 2005. Sampson did not play in the second half against Chattanooga and Kent State.

7 Consecutive games have been won by Missouri, the longest winning streak in the nation. Entering Saturday’s game against Vanderbilt, the Tigers’ most recent loss came on Nov. 4, 2023, when Georgia defeated Missouri 30-21. Since then, the Tigers have beaten Tennessee, Florida, Arkansas, Ohio State, Murray State, Buffalo and Boston College.

9 Auburn players have caught TD passes this season, the most in the nation, with Texas second 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 apiece – Camden Brown, Cam Coleman, Rivaldo Fairweather, Jarquez Hunter, Sam Jackson, Micah Riley-Ducker, Malcolm Simmons and Perry Thompson.

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

12 Consecutive seasons have featured a loss for Vanderbilt in its first SEC game of the campaign. Vandy opens its conference slate on Saturday at Missouri. The Commodores haven’t been 1-0 in league play since posting a 30-7 victory over Ole Miss on Sept. 17, 2011. Since that win, Vanderbilt has dropped its SEC opener to Georgia and South Carolina three times apiece, Alabama and Ole Miss twice each and Texas A&M and Kentucky once apiece. Vanderbilt also has lost its first SEC road game for 13 consecutive seasons, dating from a 28-14 victory at Ole Miss on Sept. 18, 2010. In that losing streak, the Commodores have been beaten at Florida three times, Georgia, Kentucky, Ole Miss and South Carolina twice apiece and Alabama and Texas A&M once each.

16 Years since Texas previously 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 the first for Texas 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 ranks as the 10th most. Texas has a 30-7-3 record when playing as the No. 1 team. At home, the record is 15-2, with the most recent loss a 14-13 setback against 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 as the 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 by 6

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

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

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

· No. 6 Tennessee (3-0) at No. 15 Oklahoma (3-0), 6:30 p.m. at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma (ABC). Line: Tennessee by 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 by 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 by 44.5