In Week 5 of the 2024 SEC football season, Texas won its first conference contest as a member of the league on Saturday. In the other four conference games, the winner trailed in the fourth quarter. LSU had its only non-conference game of Week 5, and the Tigers’ win over South Alabama increased the league’s record against outside teams to 41-8 in 2024. Here are 10 stats from SEC Football by the Numbers over Week 5:

0 The SEC team was ranked higher in the Associated Press poll than Ole Miss entered Saturday when it had ever lost to Kentucky at its campus stadium. The No. 6 Rebels lost to Kentucky 20-17 at Vaught Hemingway Stadium in Oxford. Before Saturday, the Wildcats’ biggest upset against an SEC rival at their campus stadium was a 14-0 victory over No. 10 Vanderbilt at Dudley Field in Nashville on Oct. 18, 1947. Kentucky defeated No. 1 Ole Miss 27: 0. 21 away on September 26, 1964, but that game was played at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson rather than Hemingway Stadium in Oxford. After the Wildcats’ surprise against No.

1 The true freshman quarterback made his first start for Oklahoma in a road win. In the Sooners’ 27-21 win at Auburn on Saturday, Michael Hawkins Jr. completed 10 of 15 passes for 161 yards with no touchdowns and no interceptions and ran for 69 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries in his first start for Oklahoma. Hawkins had 100 of his passing yards on three fourth-quarter completions as the Sooners rallied from a 21-10 deficit. Hawkins was the seventh true freshman to start at quarterback for Oklahoma and the second to make his debut in an away game. The first was Troy Aikman in a 28-11 loss to Kansas on October 27, 1984.

1 Ole Miss had more punts in Saturday’s 20-17 loss to Kentucky than the Rebels had in their first four games combined. Ole Miss punter Fraser Masin entered Saturday’s contest averaging 38.5 yards on four punts during the 2024 season. Against Kentucky, Masin returned five punts for an average of 45.8 yards. Ole Miss led the nation in terms of scoring, scoring margin, total offense, passing offense, yards per play and first downs through the first four weeks of the season. But Kentucky held the Rebels to 353 yards — 317 fewer than Ole Miss’ average output through the first four games of the season.

3 Games with at least 176 receiving yards for Ole Miss WR Tre Harris this season, after there have been 15 such performances in school history prior to 2024. Harris had 11 receptions for 176 yards and a TD in the Rebels’ 20-17 loss to Kentucky on Saturday. That’s 3 more yards than the Wildcats allowed to any team in the 2024 season. Harris opened the season with eight receptions for 179 yards and two touchdowns in a 76-0 win over Furman on Aug. 31 and had 11 receptions for 225 yards and two touchdowns in a 52-13 win over Georgia Southern on Sept. 21 . With 804 yards and five touchdowns on 49 receptions, Harris has 157 more receiving yards than any other player in the country this season.

7 Arkansas’ possession began at the Razorbacks’ 15-yard line or worse, following punts by Texas A&M during a 21-17 loss to the Aggies on Saturday. Texas A&M’s Tyler White averaged 43.1 yards on nine punts in the game. Arkansas regained possession on punts at the 8-yard line in the first quarter, 9, 15 and 7 in the second quarter, 10 and 15 in the third quarter and 10 on the final possession of the game. The field position paid off for the Aggies in the second quarter, as an Arkansas fumble set up Texas A&M at the Razorbacks’ 10-yard line and a TD two snaps later tied the game at 14-14. Arkansas lost despite having a 379-297 yardage advantage. Texas A&M’s average starting position was the 33-yard line, although the Aggies had to travel 75 yards to score the go-ahead score with 9:00 left to play.

13 Seconds between touchdowns that changed the lead in the fourth quarter of the Georgia-Alabama game Saturday night. Georgia QB Carson Beck threw a 67-yard TD pass to wide receiver Dillon Bell to give the Bulldogs a 34-33 lead with 2:31 to play. Georgia scored three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to overcome an 18-point Alabama lead, with Beck passing for 259 yards in the final period. But Crimson Tide QB Jalen Milroe came back with a 75-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Ryan Williams with 2:18 left as the Crimson Tide regained the lead with a 41-34 win. The TD was Alabama’s fifth of the game after Georgia entered the contest as the only team in the country that had yet to allow a touchdown in the 2024 season.

63 Yards on an interception return by Oklahoma LB Kip Lewis against Auburn on Saturday. Lewis intercepted a third-and-4 pass from Tigers QB Payton Thorne and returned it for a touchdown as the Sooners took a 24-21 lead with 4:06 to play. Oklahoma began the fourth quarter trailing 21-10 but escaped with a 27-21 victory despite both teams’ offense gaining 119 yards in the final period and Auburn having a possession advantage of 4:42 in the fourth quarter. Oklahoma needed half as many plays as Auburn to gain its yards in the fourth quarter (12 for the Sooners, 24 for the Tigers) as it gained 100 yards on its three completions in the final period.

157 RB Caden Durham gained yards on the LSU offense’s first two snaps in Saturday night’s 42-10 win over South Alabama. Durham took a screen pass 71 yards for a touchdown on the first snap of the game and then ran 86 yards to the South Alabama 1-yard line on the first snap of LSU’s second possession. The freshman entered the game with 116 rushing yards and 41 receiving yards in his college career. Against the USA, Durham had 128 yards and a touchdown on seven carries and 89 yards and a touchdown on three receptions.

491 Yards gained for Alabama QB Jalen Milroe in the Crimson Tide’s 41-34 win over Georgia on Saturday, the second-most for a player in school history. Milroe had 374 passing yards and 117 rushing yards against the Bulldogs, a performance only surpassed once in a game by an Alabama player. QB Bryce Young had 548 yards — 559 passing and minus-11 rushing — in a 42-35 win over Arkansas on Nov. 20, 2021. Milroe had 100 more passing yards against Georgia on Saturday than the Bulldogs had given up in their first three games combined , and he became the first Alabama player with at least 350 passing yards and 100 rushing yards in the same game. Milroe completed 27 of 33 passes with two touchdowns and one interception and had two touchdowns among his 16 rushing attempts.

1,420 Days between Georgia’s regular season losses. The Bulldogs’ 41-34 loss to Alabama on Saturday was the first loss in a regular season game for Georgia since Nov. 7, 2020, when Florida defeated the Bulldogs 44-28. Georgia won 42 regular-season games between losses, including an SEC-record 28 consecutive league games. Georgia lost two postseason games during its regular-season winning streak, with those losses coming in the SEC Championship Game against Alabama in 2021 and 2023.

The SEC scoreboard for Week 5 included:

· No. 4 Alabama 41, No. 2 Georgia 34

· No. 24 Texas A&M 21, Arkansas 17

· Oklahoma 27, Auburn 21

· Kentucky 20, No. 6 Ole Miss 17

· No. 14 LSU 42, South Alabama 10

· No. 1 Texas 35, Mississippi State 13