SEC Top 10 for Week 9: Which streak applies to the showdown for the standings?

Half of the SEC's six games for Week 9 involve two teams, and when Saturday's results come in, the league will only have one team that is undefeated in conference competition. No. 8 LSU and No. 14 Texas A&M will face off Saturday, and the loser will suffer its first SEC setback of the season. The other ranking games pit No. 21 Missouri against No. 15 Alabama and No. 5 Texas against No. 25 Vanderbilt. The Longhorns' first game against the Commodores in Nashville since 1925 will also be Vanderbilt's first game since 2008 with both teams ranked in the AP poll. Here are 10 stats from SEC Football by the Numbers, along with the schedule, TV and betting lines to get you ready for Week 9:

5 Wins without losses for Oklahoma when playing on the home field of an SEC opponent. The Sooners won 24-3 at Vanderbilt on September 11, 1976; 29-8 at Kentucky on September 18, 1982; 20-13 at Alabama on September 6, 2003; 31-24 at Tennessee on September 12, 2015; and 27-21 at Auburn on Sept. 28. Only this year's game against Auburn was a conference contest for Oklahoma, which joined the SEC this season. The Sooners visit Ole Miss on Saturday for their first game in Mississippi.

8 Wins without losses for LSU when a ranked Tigers team faces a ranked Texas A&M team. No. 8 LSU visits No. 14 Texas A&M on Saturday. In ranked games, the Tigers defeated the Aggies in 1968, 1986, 1987, 1988, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016. The home team has won the last seven games in the series. The Tigers have lost three straight at Kyle Field since a 54-39 road win in 2016.

13 Auburn has gained at least 40 yards this season, three more than any team in the country except Ole Miss, which has 12. Auburn plays Kentucky on Saturday. Kentucky's defense has allowed seven completions that gained at least 40 yards, tied for the most in the SEC in 2024. Auburn WRs Cam Coleman and KeAndre Lambert-Smith each have four receptions that gained at least 40 yards, and all of Lambert-Smith's gained at least 50 yards. Auburn is tied with Ole Miss, Oregon and UTEP for most completions of 50 or more yards in 2024 with six.

13 Receiving yards are needed for WR Tre Harris to become the sixth Ole Miss player to reach 1,000 yards in a season. Harris has 59 receptions for 987 yards and six touchdowns in 2024. AJ Brown recorded the two best receiving seasons in Ole Miss history with 1,320 yards in 2018 and 1,252 yards in 2017. Elijah Moore had 1,193 receiving yards in 2020, Laquon Treadwell had 1,153 in 2015, Shay Hodge had 1,135 in 2009 and Dontario Drummond had 1,028 in 2021 for Ole Miss. Harris leads the nation in receiving yards with 83 more than San Jose State WR Nick Nash and the SEC with 341 more than Arkansas WR Andrew Armstrong.

13 Wins without a loss for Auburn when it holds its opponent to 20 or fewer points and 19 losses without a win for the Tigers when its opponent scores at least 21 points since the start of the 2022 season. Auburn has lost 22 straight games in which its opponent scored at least 21 points, since a 38-23 win over Arkansas on October 16, 2021. Kentucky, the Tigers' Saturday opponent, has averaged 20.4 points per game and has Scored 20 or fewer points in five of his seven contests this season.

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17 It's been years since the SEC reached the October Saturday finals without an undefeated team. Georgia's 30-15 victory over Texas on Saturday marked a loss for the SEC's last undefeated team in 2024. In 2007, the SEC closed following LSU's 43-37 triple-overtime loss to Kentucky on Oct. 13 At this point there will no longer be an undefeated team in the season. Every season since then, at least one SEC team has gone undefeated entering the final Saturday in October. The SEC will enter November with a team undefeated in conference play. LSU and Texas A&M are undefeated in the league this season and will meet on Saturday. The 2007 season was also the last in which every SEC team suffered at least one league loss before November.

41 Back-to-back home games in October were won by Alabama, which hosts Missouri on Saturday. The Crimson Tide have not been beaten at Bryant-Denny Stadium in the 10th month since South Carolina won 20-3 on October 2, 2004. During this winning streak, Alabama has a road record of 27-8 in October.

99 It's been years since Texas last played Vanderbilt in Nashville. The Commodores defeated the Longhorns 14-6 on October 10, 1925. Texas will be back in Nashville on Saturday for its 13th meeting with Vanderbilt, but for the first time since the Longhorns' 13-12 win in Dallas on Oct. 13, 1928, cut the Commodores' lead in the series to 8-3- 1. Vanderbilt will put its first four-game home winning streak on the line against the Longhorns since the 1987 and 1988 seasons. The Commodores have beaten Virginia Tech, Alcorn State, Alabama and Ball State at FirstBank Stadium this season. Vanderbilt defeated Rutgers, Kentucky and Maryland in its final three home games of 1987 and defeated Mississippi State in its first home game of 1988, making it four straight home wins. The Commodores' most recent home winning streak of more than four games came in 1981, when they defeated Memphis and Chattanooga, and in Nashville in 1982, Tulane, Florida, Ole Miss, Virginia Tech, Chattanooga and Tennessee.

112.1 The Oklahoma offense averaged rushing yards per game this season, the lowest in the SEC. On Saturday, the Sooners will face the toughest defense in the country. The Ole Miss defense averaged 66.6 rushing yards per game in 2024.

195 Vanderbilt has played consecutive games without being ranked in the Associated Press poll. That series ends Saturday when the No. 25 Commodores take on No. 5 Texas. Vanderbilt will play as an AP ranked team for the first time since the No. 22 Commodores' 24-14 loss to No. 10 Georgia on Oct. 18, 2008. Vanderbilt has since been ranked in two AP polls. The Commodores were ranked No. 23 in the final 2012 season poll after finishing the campaign with a 38-24 victory over North Carolina State in the Music City Bowl, and No. 24 in the final 2013 season poll after finishing the campaign with had a 41-24 victory over Houston in the BBVA Compass Bowl in Birmingham. Saturday's game will be the first for Vanderbilt to feature two teams ranked in the AP Poll since the game against Georgia in 2008.

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

Saturday

· Oklahoma (4-3, 1-3) at No. 18 Ole Miss (5-2, 1-2), 11 a.m. at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi (ESPN). Line: Ole Miss until May 20th

· Arkansas (4-3, 2-2) at Mississippi State (1-6, 0-4), 11:45 a.m. at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Miss. (SEC Network). Line: Arkansas at 7

· No. 21 Missouri (6-1, 2-1) at No. 15 Alabama (5-2, 2-2), 2:30 p.m. at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa (ABC). Line: Alabama until May 17th

· No. 5 Texas (6-1, 2-1) vs. No. 25 Vanderbilt (5-2, 2-1), 3:15 p.m. at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee (SEC Network). Line: Texas until May 18th

· No. 8 LSU (6-1, 3-0) at No. 14 Texas A&M (6-1, 4-0), 6:30 p.m. at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas (ABC). Line: Texas A&M by 1

· Auburn (2-5, 0-4) at Kentucky (3-4, 1-4), 6:45 p.m. at Kroger Field in Lexington, Ky. (SEC Network). Line: Kentucky by 2.5

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