SEC top 10 from Week 4: Interceptions and missed field goals

Arkansas, Missouri and Tennessee won their conference openers while Florida also got its first league win of the 2024 season on Saturday. SEC teams swept their non-conference competition during six games on Saturday to bring the league’s mark against outside teams to 40-8 in 2024. Here are 10 stats from SEC Football by the Numbers about Week 4:

1 More TD pass than incompletion for Florida’s quarterbacks during the Gators’ 45-28 victory over Mississippi State on Saturday. Florida starter Graham Mertz completed 19-for-21 passes for 201 yards with three TDs and no interceptions, and freshman DJ Langway completed 7-for-7 passes for 76 yards with no touchdowns and no interceptions against the Bulldogs.

2 Times in a three-game span, Auburn passers have thrown four interceptions. Arkansas intercepted four passes during its 24-14 victory over the Tigers on Saturday after California had intercepted four Auburn passes during the Golden Bears’ 21-14 victory on Sept. 7. Before the contest against California, Auburn had played 163 games in a row without losing more than three interceptions in any of them. Also as it did against California, Arkansas lost a fumble against Arkansas for two five-turnover games in a three-game stretch. Auburn had gone 87 straight games without losing five turnovers in one until this month.

3 Consecutive games with an interception for Texas A&M CB Marcus Ratcliffe after he picked off a pass by Bowling Green QB Connor Bazelak in the end zone with 1:38 to play in the Aggies’ 26-20 victory on Saturday. Ratcliffe also had an interception in the Aggies’ 52-10 victory over McNeese State on Sept. 7 and 33-20 victory over Florida on Sept. 14.

5 Field-goal attempts were missed during Missouri’s 30-27 double-overtime victory over Vanderbilt on Saturday. Brock Taylor missed a 31-yard attempt in the second overtime period to end the game. The miss came after Taylor had set a Vanderbilt record with a 57-yard field goal earlier in the contest. He also connected from 27 yards and missed from 50 against Missouri. Tigers K Blake Craig made a 37-yard field-goal attempt in the second overtime that Taylor couldn’t match. Craig also made field goals of 23 and 54 yards while missing from 24, 40 and 46 yards.

8 Consecutive victories for Missouri, the longest active winning streak in the nation and the second-longest in school history. The Tigers kept the streak going with a 30-27 double-overtime victory against Vanderbilt on Saturday. It’s tied with a streak in the 1941 season – between an opening 12-7 loss to Ohio State and an ending 2-0 loss to Fordham in the Sugar Bowl – for the second-longest in school history. The longest is 13 games, but Missouri is actually one victory short of tying the longest on-the-field winning streak in school history. In 1960, Missouri won its first nine games before falling to Kansas 23-7 in the season finale. The Big Eight later rules the Jayhawks must forfeit that game because of the use of an ineligible player. After losing to Kansas, Missouri defeated Navy 21-14 in the Orange Bowl and won its first two games of the 1961 season for a forfeit-aided 13-game winning streak.

85 Years between victories for Tennessee over Oklahoma. The Volunteers’ 25-14 victory over the Sooners on Saturday was the first for Tennessee against Oklahoma since a 17-0 win in a battle of unbeatens in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 2, 1939. Between the Volunteers’ victories, the Sooners defeated Tennessee 26-24 in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 1, 1968, 34-10 on Sept. 13, 2014, and 31-24 on Sept. 12, 2015.

89 Second-half yards were gained by UCLA in the Bruins’ 34-17 loss to LSU on Saturday after the game had been tied 17-17 at halftime. The UCLA offense had 22 plays for 89 yards and converted 1-of-5 third-down opportunities after halftime. In the first half, the Bruins had 206 yards on 36 plays and converted 4-of-7 third-down snaps into first downs. LSU recorded four of its game total of five sacks in the second half. The LSU offense produced 210 yards in the first half and 244 in the second half.

225 Receiving yards by Ole Miss WR Tre Harris and 199 rushing yards by Missouri RB Nate Noel on Saturday, the most in one game in the SEC this season. Harris had 11 receptions for 225 yards and two TDs in the Rebels’ 52-13 victory over Georgia Southern. The 10th 200-yard receiving game in Ole Miss history ranks as the sixth-best individual output nationally in 2024. Noel ran for 199 yards on 24 carries in Missouri’s 30-27 double-overtime victory against Vanderbilt. Noel’s yardage ranks ninth among individual rushing totals in 2024.

466 Rushing yards in the Florida-Mississippi State game on Saturday without any player reaching 80 rushing yards in the game. The Gators defeated the Bulldogs 45-28, with RB Montrell Johnson Jr. topping Florida’s 226 rushing yards with 68 on 15 carries. With 240 rushing yards, MSU got 77 and one TD on 14 carries by RB Johnnie Daniels and 75 and one TD on 16 carries by RB Davon Booth.

67,505 Was the attendance at the Georgia Southern-Ole Miss game on Saturday to set a Vaught-Hemingway Stadium record. The previous record had been 66,703 for Ole Miss 55-49 victory over LSU on Sept. 30, 2013. The stadium has a listed capacity of 64,038.

The SEC scoreboard for Week 4 included:

· Arkansas 24, Auburn 14

· Florida 45, Mississippi State 28

· Kentucky 41, Ohio 6

· LSU 34, UCLA 17

· Missouri 30, Vanderbilt 27 (2OT)

· Tennessee 25, Oklahoma 15

· Ole Miss 52, Georgia Southern 13

· South Carolina 50, Akron 7

· Texas 51, ULM 3

· Texas A&M 26, Bowling Green 20