Numbers game: 7 stats you need to know from Week 10

On3 imageby:Matt Zenitz•11/07/22•

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Each week, On3’s Matt Zenitz takes a look at some interesting stats coming out of that weekend’s games. Here are seven such stats coming out of Week 10.

2: For just the second time since a 10-3 season in 2010, Nick Saban and Alabama have two regular-season losses. The Crimson Tide last lost two regular-season games in 2019.

6a: Notre Dame’s first touchdown during its 35-14 win over Clemson came on a blocked punt that was returned 17 yards for a score. It was the Fighting Irish’s FBS-leading sixth block of the season under new special teams coordinator Brian Mason. Only two teams reached that number last season – and one was Cincinnati, which was led by Mason.

6b: After posting just 10 sacks total in its first eight games, Georgia wasn’t far off from matching that number during its 27-13 win over then-No. 1 Tennessee. The Bulldogs finished with six sacks of Vols star QB Hendon Hooker.

18: The two quarterbacks in the Houston-SMU game, SMU’s Tanner Mordecai and Houston’s Clayton Tune, accounted for a combined 18 touchdowns during a 77-63 win for Mordecai and the Mustangs. Mordecai, a former Oklahoma transfer, finished with 387 passing yards, an additional 54 rushing yards, nine passing touchdowns, one rushing score and zero interceptions. Eight of his 10 touchdowns came in the first half, which ended with SMU leading 56-35.

24: Texas A&M suffered its fifth consecutive loss, falling 41-24 to Florida. The Aggies have scored 24 or fewer points in 10 of their past 11 games against FBS opponents dating to last season and haven’t scored more than 28 in a game since October of last year.

243: Texas running back Bijan Robinson accumulated 243 scrimmage yards (209 rushing, 34 receiving) during a 34-27 win over then-No. 13 Kansas State. Robinson has posted at least 111 scrimmage yards in all nine of the Longhorns’ games, including at least 171 in each of the past three.

334: During a 37-16 win over then-No. 18 Oklahoma State, Kansas running back Devin Neal not only recorded the highest rushing output from a Big 12 player this season (224), he added 110 receiving yards on six catches. His overall tally: 38 touches, 334 total scrimmage yards and a touchdown.