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Mark Inabinett |
Every football season produces stats that are head-scratching, wildly coincidental or so out of the ordinary that they appear to be typos. Here are 10 from the SEC's 2016 campaign.
0 SEC Defensive Lineman of the Week awards were won by Alabama players during the 2016 season, even though the Crimson Tide led the nation in rushing defense and scoring defense, topped the SEC in sacks and had Jonathan Allen, the winner of the two major national Defensive Player of the Year awards, at defensive end. Allen was the SEC Defensive Player of Week twice during the season, but neither he nor any of his linemates won the conference's weekly position award. Tennessee DE Derek Barnett was the SEC Defensive Player of the Week once and the SEC Defensive Lineman of the Week three times during the 2016 season. Alabama led the SEC with 15 weekly awards - four for Defensive Player, four for Freshman, three for Special Teams Player, two for Offensive Player and two for Offensive Lineman.
1 SEC team won at least 10 games this season - Alabama, which posted a 14-1 record. This is the first time since the 2000 season that the SEC had only one team reach 10 victories. Florida went 10-3 in 2000. In the 15 seasons in between, the SEC had two double-digit winners in two of them and reached a high of six in 2012. At least four SEC teams had won 10 or more games in each of the previous six seasons.
1 SEC team played the entire season without being involved in an onside kick. Vanderbilt didn't attempt an onside kick or have one attempted against it during the 2016 campaign.
2 Consecutive seasons have featured a team breaking an 11-game SEC losing streak in the Missouri-Vanderbilt contest. The Tigers' 26-17 victory over the Commodores on Nov. 12 was Missouri's first conference win since a 24-10 decision over South Carolina on Oct. 3, 2015. Vanderbilt's 10-3 victory over Missouri on Oct. 24, 2015, was the Commodores' first league win since a 14-10 decision against Tennessee on Nov. 23, 2013.
3 Arkansas games have been played on Nov. 5 against the No. 10 team in the AP poll, and all were won by the Razorbacks. Otherwise, Arkansas has an 0-11 record against the No. 10 team. Arkansas added a 31-10 victory over Florida in 2016 to its 3-0 win over Rice in 1960 and its 44-28 victory over South Carolina in 2011 for its No. 10 conquests on Nov. 5.
4 SEC players finished the 2016 season with more rushing yards than conference rushing leader Kamryn Pettway of Auburn. Pettway had 1,224 rushing yards while LSU RB Derrius Guice ran for 1,387, Mississippi State QB Nick Fitgerald 1,375, Arkansas RB Rawleigh Williams III 1,360 and Vanderbilt RB Ralph Webb 1,283 this season. Since the 1970 season, the SEC rushing leader has been determined by rushing yards per game and not by total rushing yards. Pettway missed three games with injuries and averaged of 122.4 rushing yards per game in 2016. Fitzgerald, Williams and Webb played in 13 games, and Guice was in 12. The SEC's best average behind Pettway's was Guice's 115.6 yards per game.
6 Field goals were made by Auburn PK Daniel Carlson in one game and six field goals were made by Missouri during the 2016 season. Carlson tied an SEC record by making six field goals in Auburn's 18-13 victory over LSU on Sept. 24. Missouri's place-kickers made 6-of-13 field-goal attempts this season. Every other SEC team made at least 11 field goals in 2016. Missouri also was 45-for-51 on extra-point attempts. No other SEC team missed more than two PATS, and seven made all of their extra-point kicks this season.
29 Passing yards were gained by Georgia against South Carolina on Oct. 9 - the fewest yards through the air for an SEC team during the 2016 season - yet the Bulldogs beat the Gamecocks 28-14. Georgia completed 5-of-17 passes with a TD and an interception, and its longest completion gained 9 yards. The Bulldogs ran for 326 yards, started scoring drives on the South Carolina 28- and 39-yard lines and returned an onside kick 43 yards for a touchdown. South Carolina had only 30 rushing yards and lost three turnovers in the game.
44 Rushing attempts were made by Auburn RB Kam Martin during the 2016 season, and none of them resulted in a loss. No other player in the SEC had more than 10 rushing attempts without being tackled for negative yardage at least once. The 177-pound freshman picked up 320 yards on his 44 carries for the Tigers this season. Ole Miss RB Akeem Judd opened the season with 153 carries without being tackled for a loss, then was taken down for 1-yard losses twice in his final 11 carries of the season in the Egg Bowl.
69 Punts were booted by Texas A&M's Shane Tripucka during the 2016 season without any of them resulting in touchbacks, even though he finished tied for second in the SEC with 27 punts downed inside the opponent's 20-yard line. For contrast, Alabama's JK Scott, the All-SEC punter, had 12 touchbacks on 64 punts, and Tennessee's Johnny Townsend, the All-SEC second-team punter, had seven touchbacks on 64 punts.
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0 SEC Defensive Lineman of the Week awards were won by Alabama players during the 2016 season, even though the Crimson Tide led the nation in rushing defense and scoring defense, topped the SEC in sacks and had Jonathan Allen, the winner of the two major national Defensive Player of the Year awards, at defensive end. Allen was the SEC Defensive Player of Week twice during the season, but neither he nor any of his linemates won the conference's weekly position award. Tennessee DE Derek Barnett was the SEC Defensive Player of the Week once and the SEC Defensive Lineman of the Week three times during the 2016 season. Alabama led the SEC with 15 weekly awards - four for Defensive Player, four for Freshman, three for Special Teams Player, two for Offensive Player and two for Offensive Lineman.
1 SEC team won at least 10 games this season - Alabama, which posted a 14-1 record. This is the first time since the 2000 season that the SEC had only one team reach 10 victories. Florida went 10-3 in 2000. In the 15 seasons in between, the SEC had two double-digit winners in two of them and reached a high of six in 2012. At least four SEC teams had won 10 or more games in each of the previous six seasons.
1 SEC team played the entire season without being involved in an onside kick. Vanderbilt didn't attempt an onside kick or have one attempted against it during the 2016 campaign.
2 Consecutive seasons have featured a team breaking an 11-game SEC losing streak in the Missouri-Vanderbilt contest. The Tigers' 26-17 victory over the Commodores on Nov. 12 was Missouri's first conference win since a 24-10 decision over South Carolina on Oct. 3, 2015. Vanderbilt's 10-3 victory over Missouri on Oct. 24, 2015, was the Commodores' first league win since a 14-10 decision against Tennessee on Nov. 23, 2013.
3 Arkansas games have been played on Nov. 5 against the No. 10 team in the AP poll, and all were won by the Razorbacks. Otherwise, Arkansas has an 0-11 record against the No. 10 team. Arkansas added a 31-10 victory over Florida in 2016 to its 3-0 win over Rice in 1960 and its 44-28 victory over South Carolina in 2011 for its No. 10 conquests on Nov. 5.
4 SEC players finished the 2016 season with more rushing yards than conference rushing leader Kamryn Pettway of Auburn. Pettway had 1,224 rushing yards while LSU RB Derrius Guice ran for 1,387, Mississippi State QB Nick Fitgerald 1,375, Arkansas RB Rawleigh Williams III 1,360 and Vanderbilt RB Ralph Webb 1,283 this season. Since the 1970 season, the SEC rushing leader has been determined by rushing yards per game and not by total rushing yards. Pettway missed three games with injuries and averaged of 122.4 rushing yards per game in 2016. Fitzgerald, Williams and Webb played in 13 games, and Guice was in 12. The SEC's best average behind Pettway's was Guice's 115.6 yards per game.
6 Field goals were made by Auburn PK Daniel Carlson in one game and six field goals were made by Missouri during the 2016 season. Carlson tied an SEC record by making six field goals in Auburn's 18-13 victory over LSU on Sept. 24. Missouri's place-kickers made 6-of-13 field-goal attempts this season. Every other SEC team made at least 11 field goals in 2016. Missouri also was 45-for-51 on extra-point attempts. No other SEC team missed more than two PATS, and seven made all of their extra-point kicks this season.
29 Passing yards were gained by Georgia against South Carolina on Oct. 9 - the fewest yards through the air for an SEC team during the 2016 season - yet the Bulldogs beat the Gamecocks 28-14. Georgia completed 5-of-17 passes with a TD and an interception, and its longest completion gained 9 yards. The Bulldogs ran for 326 yards, started scoring drives on the South Carolina 28- and 39-yard lines and returned an onside kick 43 yards for a touchdown. South Carolina had only 30 rushing yards and lost three turnovers in the game.
44 Rushing attempts were made by Auburn RB Kam Martin during the 2016 season, and none of them resulted in a loss. No other player in the SEC had more than 10 rushing attempts without being tackled for negative yardage at least once. The 177-pound freshman picked up 320 yards on his 44 carries for the Tigers this season. Ole Miss RB Akeem Judd opened the season with 153 carries without being tackled for a loss, then was taken down for 1-yard losses twice in his final 11 carries of the season in the Egg Bowl.
69 Punts were booted by Texas A&M's Shane Tripucka during the 2016 season without any of them resulting in touchbacks, even though he finished tied for second in the SEC with 27 punts downed inside the opponent's 20-yard line. For contrast, Alabama's JK Scott, the All-SEC punter, had 12 touchbacks on 64 punts, and Tennessee's Johnny Townsend, the All-SEC second-team punter, had seven touchbacks on 64 punts.
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