A little bit of this and a little bit of that as we point toward first full day of college football this season in the SEC:
- Alabama’s defense has gone 34 straight games without allowing a player to rush for 100 or more yards. The last player to do it was Ole Miss’ BenJarvus Green-Ellis, who had 131 yards on Oct. 13, 2007.
- Alabama is trying to become the first team to win back-to-back BCS titles. Since the coaches’ poll began in 1950, only two teams – Oklahoma in 1955-56 and Nebraska in 1994-1995 – have been crowned national champion by both the AP and coaches in consecutive seasons.
- Over the past five seasons, Florida has the SEC’s best record with a 57-10 mark. LSU is second at 51-15, Alabama third at 49-17, Georgia fourth at 48-17 and Auburn fifth at 42-21.
- Georgia has won eight or more games in each of the past 13 seasons. No other FBS school can match that streak over that same span.
- The SEC’s six BCS national championships are as many as the other conferences combined.
- LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson was sacked 32 times last season, and 11 of those sacks came in the two games against Alabama and Florida. LSU coach Les Miles said only about 11 of the 32 sacks last season were Jefferson’s fault.
- Of Tennessee’s top 44 players on the two-deep entering Saturday’s opener, 15 are first-year players.
- Alabama enters the 2010 season having gone 22 straight quarters (5 ½ games) without an offensive turnover and 38 quarters (9 ½ games) without being penalized for offensive holding.
- Vanderbilt coach Robbie Caldwell has joined the Twitter ranks. His first tweet: “Tweeting like a bird on the twitter … This ship is about to set sail?”
- Auburn is the only school in the SEC that returns its entire full-time coaching staff intact from the 2009 season.
- Auburn’s senior class consists of 24 players, which is the largest senior class in school history.
- Mississippi State faces the past four national champions all on the road this season -- at LSU (2007) on Sept. 18, at Florida (2006 and 2008) on Oct. 16, and at Alabama (2009) on Nov. 13.
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Low joined ESPN.com in 2007 after 10 years with The (Nashville) Tennessean covering the University of Tennessee and SEC. The Rock Hill, S.C., native lives with his wife in Knoxville and has three sons.
Edward Aschoff
Aschoff joined ESPN.com in 2011 after spending four years covering the University of Florida for The Gainesville Sun. He grew up in Oxford, Miss., before attending UF, graduating with a B.S. in journalism.
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