Sunday SEC Notebook

WEEK 13 NOTES

SEC games for Sat., Nov. 22:

Tennessee (3-7) at Vanderbilt (6-4) [11:30 a.m. CT / Raycom Sports]

The Citadel (4-7) at Florida (9-1) [1:30 p.m. ET / PPV - SUN Sports]

Arkansas (4-6) at Mississippi State (3-7) [1:30 p.m. CT]

Ole Miss (6-4) at LSU (7-3) [2:30 p.m. CT / CBS Sports]

The SEC's non-conference winning mark of 34-8 (81.0 percent) remains the highest of any NCAA FBS conference. In the era of 12 regular season games (six seasons), the SEC has won no fewer than 31 regular season non-conference games in a season.

This week, four SEC teams are ranked in the latest Harris, USA Today and AP Polls. Alabama is the top ranked team in each poll while Florida is the third ranked team in each poll. Georgia is ranked 12th in the Harris, 13th in the USA Today and AP polls and LSU is ranked 18th in all three polls. Ole Miss received votes in the AP poll, South Carolina received votes in all three and Vanderbilt received votes in the Harris poll. The BCS poll is set to be released on Sunday around 3-3:30 p.m. CT.

In 73 home games this season, more than 5.6 million fans (5,639,561) have watched SEC football in the 12 league stadiums this season. The average capacity this season is 98.39 percent. 42 of the SEC games this season have been sold out.

Since 2003, LSU has the best record in the SEC at 63-13 (.829) while Georgia has the best record in the SEC since 1998 (106-32, 76.8 percent).

Vanderbilt senior safety Reshard Langford is this week's SEC Community Service Team Player of the Week. The Tanner, Ala. native will be featured during Raycom Sports telecast of the Tennessee at Vanderbilt game this Saturday.

South Carolina WR Kenny McKinley has moved into a tie for 7th in career receptions in the SEC with 194. More movers in the SEC career record books: Florida QB Tim Tebow is now 8th in touchdowns scored (43), LSU PK Colt David is not the all-time leader in PATs made (192) and has moved into 6th in scoring by kicking (336), Alabama RS Javier Arenas is now 7th in punt return yards (1,133), Mississippi State RS Derek Pegues is now 3rd in total kick return yards (kickoff + punt) (3,222) and Florida RS Brandon James has moved into fifth in the same category with 2,736 yards.

Eight SEC teams are now eligible for post-season bowl games, reaching the six-win benchmark. Arkansas needs to defeat Mississippi State and LSU while Auburn needs to win at Alabama to both be bowl eligible in 2008.

The average SEC game times this season are at 3:11 while the national average is 3:13.
SEC defenses are averaging giving up 20.0 points and 305.8 yards per game. The point total is the lowest sine 19.4 in 2006 and the second lowest since 1994. The yardage total is lowest of the 12-team area in the SEC (since 1992). Offensively, the SEC is averaging 25.5 points (9th in FBS) and 343.7 yards per game (10th in FBS).

The trend this past weekend was quick scores. There were 19 offensive scoring drives that lasted two minutes or less while only four that lasted more than five minutes. This season, there have been 154 offensive drives of less than two minutes each and 78 lasting for more than five minutes each.

Florida leads the SEC, averaging 3.44 points per offensive drive. The Gators have scored points (TDs & FGs) on 52.59 percent of their offensive drives, and have scored TDs on 44.83 percent of offensive drives, both tops in the SEC.

Defensively, the two SEC championship game participants this year, are 1-2 in stopping opponents three-downs-and-out. Florida leads the SEC at 44.35 percent (55 of 124 drives) while Alabama is second at 42.22 percent (57 of 135 drives).

This season, the SEC has scored 159 passing TDs compared to 197 rushing TDs. SEC teams have scored 28 defensive touchdowns.

In intra-conference games this season, the home team has a 23-19 (54.76 percent) advantage over the visiting team (includes UF-UGA game for both teams). Alabama and Florida are the only SEC teams to be perfect on the road in intra-conference games.

In 41 intra-conference games this season, the average winning margin in the SEC is 13.68, which is fourth lowest among NCAA FBS conferences. The SEC has had 25 of its intra-conference games decided by 10-points-or-less. That 1.0 percentage is the second highest among NCAA FBS conferences (ACC - 27 of 38 games, 71.1 percent).

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