The ninth week of the SEC’s 88th season features six conference games – Kentucky at Alabama, LSU at Arkansas, Tennessee at Auburn, Florida at Vanderbilt, Mississippi State at Georgia and Missouri at South Carolina. Here are 10 numbers, along with the schedule, TV and odds, to get ready for the SEC’s ninth football Saturday of 2020:

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2 Current SEC members have fewer than 400 losses on their all-time football record – Alabama and Tennessee. The Volunteers enter Saturday’s game against Auburn with 399 losses. Tennessee has an all-time record of 848-399-53 heading into its 1,301st game.

13 Consecutive victories have been tallied by Georgia in the game after its annual contest against Florida in Jacksonville. Since Kentucky beat the Bulldogs 24-20 after the Florida game in 2006, Georgia has defeated Kentucky five times, Missouri, Ole Miss and South Carolina once apiece and five non-conference opponents in the game after playing the Gators. Saturday’s game against Mississippi State will be Georgia’s first since its 44-28 loss to Florida on Nov. 7.

14 Consecutive victories for LSU after losing its previous game. The Tigers’ game against Arkansas on Saturday will be their first since a 48-11 loss to Auburn on Oct. 31. LSU hasn’t had back-to-back losses since dropping three games in a row to Alabama, Arkansas and Ole Miss in 2015. The past 12 of the victories have come under current coach Ed Orgeron, who took the reins at LSU in the fifth game of the 2016 season with the Tigers coming off an 18-13 loss to Auburn.

16 Years since Florida lost to a team that finished the season with a losing record. The Gators own the longest such streak in the nation. Florida lost 38-31 at Mississippi State on Oct. 23, 2004, a season in which the Bulldogs posted a 3-8 record. Since that defeat, Florida has lost 59 games, and the Gators’ opponent in each of those setbacks went on to have a winning record in the season in which it beat Florida (with the outcome still pending on Texas A&M, which defeated the Gators 41-38 on Oct. 10 and has a 5-1 record this season). Vanderbilt, Florida’s Saturday opponent, has an 0-6 record in 2020.

18 Consecutive seasons have featured an Alabama victory in the Crimson Tide’s seventh game. Alabama’s most recent loss in Game No. 7 came in a 35-24 defeat by Tennessee on Oct. 20, 2001. During the streak, the Tide has beaten Ole Miss six times, Tennessee four, Arkansas, Southern Miss and Texas A&M twice apiece and Missouri and South Carolina once each. If Alabama defeats Kentucky on Saturday, the current Tide squad will be the 34th in a row to improve a 6-0 record to 7-0. The most recent Alabama team to win its first six games in a season and lose in Game No. 7 was the 1916 squad, which started 6-0 but lost to Georgia Tech 13-0 on Nov. 11 (then was shut out by Tulane and Georgia in its remaining two games).

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20 Consecutive seasons have featured at least eight victories for LSU, the longest such streak in SEC history and tied with Oklahoma for the longest active streak in the nation. The Tigers most recently failed to win at least eight games in a season in 1999, when they went 3-8. To keep the streak going, LSU will need to win the four games remaining on its schedule as well as a yet-to-be-rescheduled game against Alabama and a bowl.

31 SEC players have more rushing yards than Mississippi State this season, including Mississippi State RB Jo’quavious Marks. Marks has 131 rushing yards for MSU while the team total for 2020 is 129. The Bulldogs have lost 149 yards off their rushing total due to sacks. At 21.5 rushing yards per game, Mississippi State has the lowest average in the nation. Georgia, MSU’s Saturday opponent, ranks fourth in the nation in rushing defense, allowing an average of 82.8 rushing yards per game.

32 Years since Tennessee lost five consecutive games in the same season, a streak that the Volunteers will own again if they lose to Auburn on Saturday. Tennessee started the 1988 season with six consecutive losses before rebounding to win their final five games of the campaign. The Vols’ current slide is their seventh four-game losing streak since 1988. Tennessee avoided five-game losing streaks by beating Memphis in 2005 and 2010, Middle Tennessee in 2011, Troy in 2012, Kentucky in 2013 and Southern Miss in 2017.

100 Games as Auburn’s head coach for Gus Malzahn when the Tigers take the field against Tennessee on Saturday night. Malzahn will become the fifth coach with 100 games at Auburn. He has a 66-33 record directing the Tigers. The 100-game records for the other Auburn coaches who have reached that milestone were 72-23-5 for Mike Donahue, 67-30-3 for Ralph “Shug” Jordan, 74-24-2 for Pat Dye and 71-29 for Tommy Tuberville. Donahue (1904-06, 1908-22) had a 99-35-5 overall record at Auburn, Jordan (1951-75) went 176-83-6, Dye (1981-92) went 99-39-4 and Tuberville (1999-2008) went 85-40.

129 Years since the previous time that Tennessee had a November schedule without a home game. The Volunteers lost to Arkansas 24-13 on Nov. 7, then had their home game against Texas A&M on Nov. 14 rescheduled for Dec. 12 because of COVID-19 concerns. After visiting Auburn on Saturday, Tennessee plays Vanderbilt in Nashville on Nov. 28. In 1891, Tennessee played its first football game on Nov. 21 and lost to Sewanee 24-0 in Chattanooga. Since then, every Tennessee season has included at least one November home game until this one.

This week’s SEC schedule includes (all times are CST with point spreads from vegasinsider.com):

Saturday

1/4 u00b7 No. 6 Florida (5-1) at Vanderbilt (0-6), 11 a.m. at Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee (ESPN). Line: Florida by 31.5.

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1/4 u00b7 LSU (2-3) at Arkansas (3-4), 11 a.m. at Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas (SEC Network). Line: LSU by 1.

1/4 u00b7 Kentucky (3-4) at No. 1 Alabama (6-0), 3 p.m. at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa (ESPN). Line: Alabama by 30.

1/4 u00b7 Tennessee (2-4) at No. 23 Auburn (4-2), 6 p.m. at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn (ESPN). Line: Auburn by 11.

1/4 u00b7 Mississippi State (2-4) at No. 13 Georgia (4-2), 6:30 p.m. at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia (SEC Network). Line: Georgia by 25.

1/4 u00b7 Missouri (2-2) at South Carolina (2-5), 6:30 p.m. at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina (SEC Network alternate channel). Line: Missouri by 6.5.

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