Florida (5-5, 3-4) at No. 9 Missouri (8-2, 4-2)
6:30 p.m. CST Saturday (ESPN)
Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri
1 Player in SEC history has had at least 200 rushing yards and 100 receiving yards in the same game – Missouri RB Cody Schrader, who accomplished the feat in a 36-7 victory over Tennessee last week. Schrader is the 10th NCAA FBS player to reach those milestones in the same game. Schrader ran for 205 yards and one TD on 35 carries and caught five passes for 116 yards. Schrader is the first Missouri player with at least 100 rushing yards and 100 receiving yards in the same game.
4 Consecutive Florida games have included at least 30 points for the Gators’ opponent, tied for the longest such streak in school history. In its past four games, Florida defeated South Carolina 41-39 on Oct. 14 and lost to Georgia 43-20 on Oct. 28, Arkansas 39-36 on Nov. 4 and LSU 52-35 on Nov. 11. In 2021, Florida lost to LSU 49-42, Georgia 34-7 and South Carolina 40-17 before beating Samford 70-52 in consecutive games. Florida is the fourth SEC team with a streak of at least four games in which its opponents have scored 39 or more points. Vanderbilt in 1990 and Auburn in 2022 had four consecutive games in which they yielded at least 39 points. The only longer such streak lasted five games by Arkansas in 2019, when the Razorbacks lost to Auburn 51-10, Alabama 48-7, Mississippi State 54-24, Western Kentucky 45-19 and LSU 56-20 in consecutive games.
6 Victories for Florida and 6 victories for Missouri in the Gators-Tigers series. This is the first meeting for which Missouri is ranked and Florida is not since their first matchup – a 20-18 victory for the Tigers in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, 1966. That was the only meeting between the programs before Missouri joined the SEC in 2012.
6 Consecutive games with a sack for Missouri DE Darius Robinson.
10 Consecutive games with a TD pass for Florida QB Graham Mertz. Mertz has 18 TD passes this season with at least one in every game in 2023.
16 Receiving yards are needed by Missouri WR Luther Burden III to become the third player in the Tigers’ SEC era with 1,000 in a season. Burden has 68 receptions for 984 yards and eight TDs in 2023. Bud Sasser in 2014 and J’Mon Moore in 2016 and 2017 have recorded 1,000 receiving yards in a season since Missouri joined the SEC in 2012. Before the Tigers joined the SEC, they had six 1,000-yard receiving seasons by Victor Bailey in 1992, Justin Gage in 2002, Jeremy Maclin in 2007 and 2008 Danario Alexander in 2009 and T.J. Moe in 2010.
38 Consecutive red-zone possessions have resulted in points for Missouri. The Tigers have scored on 42 of their 43 trips inside their opponents’ 20-yard line in 2023 and have the best success rate in the nation with 28 TDs and 14 field goals.
38 Consecutive games with a reception for Florida WR Ricky Pearsall. The streak includes 15 games when Pearsall was at Arizona State. Pearsall has 62 receptions for 879 yards and four TDs this season.
76 Years since Florida posted three consecutive losing records. The Gators had 6-7 records in 2021 and 2022. After Missouri, 5-5 Florida faces No. 4 Florida State in its regular-season finale next week. Florida went 4-5-1 in 1945, 0-9 in 1946 and 4-5-1 in 1947 in its most recent streak of three losing seasons. Since then, the Gators have had back-to-back losing seasons twice — in 1978 and 1979 and the past two seasons. In 1980, Florida went 8-4 after an 0-10-1 record in 1979.
160 Rushing yards per game have been gained by the Missouri offense and given up by the Florida defense on average this season. The Tigers have 1,598 rushing yards. The Gators have yielded 1,600 rushing yards.
226 Consecutive passes have been thrown by Florida QB Graham Mertz since his most recent interception in a 33-14 loss to Kentucky on Sept. 30. Mertz surpassed the school record for consecutive passes without an interception as he added 38 to his total in last week’s 52-35 loss to LSU. The Florida record for consecutive passes without an interception had been 203 by Tim Tebow during the 2007 and 2008 seasons. The SEC record for consecutive passes without an interception is 348, reached this season by Missouri QB Brady Cook. Mertz’s streak is tied for the ninth-longest in SEC history.
446 Games have been played by Florida since it was most recently shut out, the longest scoring streak in major-college football history by 54 games. The Gators haven’t been blanked since losing to Auburn 16-0 on Oct. 29, 1988.
1,124 Rushing yards for Missouri RB Cody Schrader this season, the most in the SEC. Schrader is the eighth 1,000-yard rusher in the Tigers’ SEC era. Missouri has had 19 1,000-yard seasons recorded by 15 ball-carriers. Since the Tigers joined the SEC in 2012, the other 1,000-yard rushers have been Kendial Lawrence in 2012, Henry Josey in 2013, Russell Hansbrough in 2014, Damarea Crockett in 2016, Ish Witter in 2017, Larry Rountree III in 2018 and Tyler Badie in 2021.
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