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SEC top 10 for Week 11: Tennessee carrying championship credential

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November 8, 2024

SEC top 10 for Week 11: Tennessee carrying championship credential

SEC teams will play carrying CFP rankings for the first time this season on Saturday, and two of the six league games for Week 11 will match ranked teams. No. 3 Georgia visits No. 16 Ole Miss, and No. 11 Alabama visits No. 15 LSU. Twelve teams will qualify for the CFP field this season. Here are 10 stats from SEC Football by the Numbers, along with the schedule, TV and betting lines, to get ready for Week 11:

4 Consecutive Alabama coaches have lost their first game against LSU. Kalen DeBoer will be in his first LSU game as the Crimson Tide’s coach on Saturday. The most recent Alabama coach to win in his first meeting with LSU was Gene Stallings, who guided the Tide to a 24-3 victory over the Tigers on Nov. 10, 1990. Since then, LSU defeated Mike DuBose 27-0 on Nov. 8, 1997, Dennis Franchione 35-21 on Nov. 3, 2001, Mike Shula 27-3 on Nov. 15, 2003, and Nick Saban 41-34 on Nov. 3, 2007. All those games were in Tuscaloosa. The two Alabama coaches who took the Tide to Baton Rouge in their first seasons during the SEC era won – Ray Perkins 32-26 on Nov. 5, 1983, and Bill Curry 22-10 on Nov. 7, 1987.

5 SEC teams have held their first eight opponents to fewer than 20 points in a season this century, with Tennessee joining the list in 2024. The other teams – LSU in 2003, Alabama in 2011 and 2012 and Georgia in 2021 – went on to win the national-championship game. Georgia didn’t allow its first 12 opponents to reach 20 points in 2021, LSU didn’t allow its first 11 opponents to reach 20 points in 2003 and Alabama didn’t allow its first 10 opponents to reach 20 points in 2011 or first nine in 2012. This is the first season in which the Volunteers have held their first eight opponents to fewer than 20 points apiece since 1966, when Tennessee did so in all 11 of its games. The Vols have kept their past nine opponents from reaching 20 points, including their 35-0 shutout of Iowa in the Citrus Bowl to cap the 2023 season. It’s the longest stretch of games without any of Tennessee’s opponents reaching 20 points since doing so in the final nine games of the 1985 season. Tennessee’s Saturday opponent, Mississippi State, has averaged scoring 29.1 points per game this season and has been held to fewer than 20 points twice in nine games.

13 Victories without a loss for LSU in Saturday night games at Tiger Stadium under coach Brian Kelly. The Tigers also won their final two night home games before Kelly came aboard, so the winning streak is at 15 in a row at night at Tiger Stadium since a 16-13 overtime setback against Arkansas on Nov. 20, 2021. The wins include a 32-31 overtime victory against Alabama in 2022. Overall, LSU has a 14-game home winning streak that dates from a 40-13 loss to Tennessee on Oct. 8, 2022. That game is LSU’s only home loss in 18 games under Kelly. LSU hosts Alabama on Saturday night.

15 Consecutive victories for South Carolina against Vanderbilt entering their meeting on Saturday. The Commodores most recently defeated the Gamecocks 24-17 on Sept. 4, 2008. South Carolina leads the series 29-4. At No. 24 in this week’s Associated Press Poll, Vanderbilt is playing South Carolina as a ranked team for the first time. The Commodores’ most recently won a game while ranked in the AP Poll on Oct. 4, 2008, when No. 19 Vanderbilt defeated Auburn 14-13. The Commodores have played three games as a ranked team since then.

17 Consecutive victories have been tallied by Georgia in the game after its annual contest against Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. Georgia defeated Florida 34-20 last week and plays Ole Miss on Saturday. Since Kentucky beat the Bulldogs 24-20 after the Florida game in 2006, Georgia has defeated Kentucky five times, Missouri three, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina and Tennessee once apiece in SEC games and also beaten five non-conference opponents on the Saturday after playing the Gators.

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20 Rushing yards are needed for Tennessee RB Dylan Sampson to become the first SEC player to reach 1,000 for the 2024 season. Sampson enters Saturday’s game against Ole Miss with 980 yards and 19 TDs on 171 rushing attempts. There have been 19 1,000-yard rushing seasons recorded by Tennessee players, with Johnnie Jones in 1983 and 1984 as the Volunteers’ only two-time 1,000-yard rusher. Sampson’s TD total for this season is a school record, and he’s run for at least one TD in every game this season. The Ole Miss defense has yielded four rushing TDs this season, tied with Tennessee for the fewest in the SEC.

25 Victories and seven losses for Missouri coach Eliah Drinkwitz on Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium entering Oklahoma’s visit on Saturday. Drinkwitz’s .781 home winning percentage is the best of any Missouri coach with at least four seasons with the Tigers. Missouri is 5-0 at home this season with two games left at Memorial Stadium on the 2024 schedule. The Tigers haven’t completed a season without a home loss since they went 6-0 in Columbia in 2007. Missouri has won eight consecutive home games since a 49-39 loss to LSU on Oct. 7, 2023.

36 Yards of total offense are needed by Ole Miss QB Jaxson Dart in Saturday’s game against Georgia to reach the top 10 on the SEC’s career list. With 562 yards of total offense in last week’s 63-31 victory over Arkansas, Dart passed Bo Wallace as Ole Miss’ career leader with 10,805 yards of total offense – 9,548 passing yards and 1,257 rushing yards. Georgia QB Eric Zeier (1991-94) ranks 10th in SEC history with 10,841 yards of total offense (11,153 passing yards and minus-312 rushing yards). The SEC career leader in yards of total offense is Georgia QB Aaron Murray (2010-13), who had 13,562 yards (13,166 passing and 396 rushing).

100 Years since the first Florida-Texas game and the Longhorns’ first game at what is now Darrel K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. On Oct. 25, 1924, Texas and Florida tied 7-7 in the Longhorns’ final game at Clark Field. In its next home game, Texas lost to Baylor 28-10 at Texas Memorial Stadium on Nov. 8, 1924, in a Southwest Conference game attended by 13,500 fans. The Longhorns and Gators played in Austin again on Sept. 30, 1939, with Texas taking a 12-0 victory. Saturday’s game will be the programs’ first meeting since Dec. 7, 1940, when the Longhorns defeated the Gators 26-0 in Gainesville.

1,300 Games in South Carolina history when the Gamecocks take the field against Vanderbilt on Saturday. South Carolina has a 639-616-44 record. The Gamecocks’ 1,300th game could be doubly notable for South Carolina with a victory over Vanderbilt. The Gamecocks have road victories over Kentucky and Oklahoma in 2024 and have not won three SEC games on the road in the same season since 2013, when South Carolina defeated Georgia, Mississippi State and Tennessee away from home.

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This week’s SEC schedule includes (all times are CDT with point spreads from BetMGM):

Saturday

Florida (4-4, 2-3) at No. 5 Texas (7-1, 3-1), 11 a.m. at Darrel K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas (ABC). Line: Texas by 21.5
No. 3 Georgia (7-1, 5-1) at No. 16 Ole Miss (7-2, 3-2), 2:30 p.m. at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi (ABC). Line: Georgia by 2.5
South Carolina (5-3, 3-3) at Vanderbilt (6-3, 3-2), 3:15 p.m. at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee (SEC Network). Line: South Carolina by 6.5
Mississippi State (2-7, 0-5) at No. 7 Tennessee (7-1, 4-1), 6 p.m. at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee (ESPN). Line: Tennessee by 24.5
No. 11 Alabama (6-2, 3-2) at No. 15 LSU (6-2, 3-1), 6:30 p.m. at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (ABC). Line: Alabama by 3
Oklahoma (5-4, 1-4) at No. 24 Missouri (6-2, 2-2), 6:45 p.m. at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri (SEC Network). Line: Oklahoma by 2.5

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.

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Tennessee basketball freshman guard plans to transfer

The 2025-26 college basketball season will conclude Monday with a national championship game between Michigan and UConn at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Tipoff is slated for 8:50 p.m. EDT (TBS).

Tennessee advanced to its third consecutive NCAA Tournament Elite Eight in 2026.

The NCAA transfer portal will open Tuesday after the national title game.

Tennessee freshman guard Clarence Massamba plans to enter the NCAA transfer portal, according to Joe Tipton of On3.

“Tennessee guard Clarence Massamba plans to enter the NCAA transfer portal, Joe Tipton reports,” On3 announced Monday.

Three players from Tennessee’s 2025-2026 roster are graduating: point guard Ja’Kobi Gillespie, shooting guard Amaree Abram and center Felix Okpara. Tennessee has three commitments in its 2026 basketball recruiting class: small forward Ralph Scott, power forward Manny Green and point guard Marquis Clark.

Former Belmont shooting guard Tyler Lundblade committed to the Vols on April 1. Power forward Cade Phillips was the first member of Tennessee’s 2025-2026 basketball team to declare his entry into the transfer portal on Friday.

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Dave Burge slept in his truck overnight in frigid weather for a dental appointment.

Burge needed dentures, but was unable to afford them. He was one of more than 1,200 patients, some of whom waited in line for days, to get a free appointment at a Remote Area Medical pop-up clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee. RAM provides medical, dental and vision care to uninsured and underinsured Americans around the country.

“When they hand you your life back, that’s life changing,” Burge said. “That’s what teeth mean to me. I could be a normal human again.”

The people who need help

Burge already spent around $140,000 on medical bills after an uninsured drunk driver ran a red light and nearly killed him in 2012, he said. Then, one day, a construction accident while at work wrecked his teeth again.

“By then I was pretty thin on money to do much about it. So I didn’t have a lot of choices. I just kept working.”

Sandra Tallent, who drove more than 200 miles from Alabama and spent two nights sleeping in her car for a dental appointment with RAM, said she would also be unable to afford dentures if not for the free clinic.

Sandra Tallent drove from Alabama and spent two nights sleeping in her car for a dental appointment with RAM.

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Health care is a major cost across the U.S., and one many cannot afford. About a third of Americans say they’ve skipped meals, borrowed money or cut back on utilities to pay for health care, according to a March Gallup poll.

And while the Trump administration has lowered prices on more than 50 drugs, it has also let premiums rise in the Affordable Care Act marketplace, and made the biggest cuts ever under Medicaid. Around 3 million people have lost insurance under the Trump administration, according to government data, and it’s estimated up to 10 million could lose insurance in the next three years.

About half of the patients at RAM clinics have no insurance. The rest have insurance they can’t afford to use because of co-pays and deductibles – or they can’t find a provider who will take their insurance.

According to RAM CEO Chris Hall, approximately 60% of patients need dental care. About 30% request eye exams and glasses, with around 5% asking for medical care. There’s also screenings for blood sugar, blood pressure, breast cancer, skin cancer and more.

The volunteers helping

RAM, which got its start decades ago parachuting doctors into South American jungles, today operates clinics nearly every weekend around the U.S.

“Nobody here that’s working or volunteering today is going to judge any person that comes through that door. We are here to help,” Brad Sands, a former paramedic who coordinates RAM clinics, said.

There were 887 volunteers at the Knoxville weekend. Medical professionals pay their own way to come and bring medical students with them.

“I’ve said it a million times, if you ever lose faith in humanity, go spend ten minutes at a RAM clinic. You’re going to see hundreds of people there that are donating their time,” Sands said. “They’re coming out and they’re donating large swaths of their own money, slash time, to help their neighbors.

Dr. Glen Goldstein, a New Jersey dentist, started volunteering with RAM after seeing a 60 Minutes report in 2008 on the organization.

“And as soon as your segment was over, about this organization, I immediately went online, looked it up and registered down here,” he said.

In the years since, volunteering with RAM has become a regular event in his family, with his wife, his children and his daughter-in-law volunteering as well.

Goldstein said he sees patients who’ve suffered without health care, and who have no hope for the future. He’s had young patients who’ve asked him to remove all their teeth, because they don’t have money to get them fixed.

“And it’s heartbreaking to take all the teeth out,” Golden said. “It’s terrible.”

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Depending on the size of the clinic, RAM will spend between $100,000 and $500,000 over a weekend. The money comes from donations, Hall, the CEO, said.

“Over 81% of our supporters are individual donors, people that write $5, $10, $20 checks every month,” Hall said.

RAM also gets supplies and clinic space donated.

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The charity got its start under the late Stan Brock, an eccentric Englishman, who was a cowboy in the Amazon, a pilot, and later one of the stars of TV’s “Wild Kingdom.” When 60 Minutes met Brock in 2008, he was 73, had no family, took no salary, lived in an office he donated to RAM, and showered with a garden hose.

At the time, he was staging 12 clinics a year. After the broadcast, $4 million in donations poured in, along with thousands more volunteers. RAM now runs 90 clinics a year.

RAM has now treated more than a million patients since its start, thanks to more than a quarter-million volunteers.

Across the Knoxville weekend, RAM provided over a million dollars in medical care, at no cost to the patients. RAM volunteers treated 1,224 patients, made 588 pairs of glasses, pulled 1,467 teeth, filled 283 cavities, did 342 dental cleanings and conducted 247 medical exams.

And then there were the denture patients, including Dave Burge and Sandra Tallent.

At the Knoxville clinic, there was a trailer where 3D printers were used to make and print dentures. Connor Gibson, the 22-year-old engineer who helped build it, has slept in the trailer to keep the printers running nonstop. He’s inspired by something he calls the mirror moment: when a patient with a new set of dentures sees themselves in the mirror.

“You just see all that stress melt away. And no matter if they’re 18 or 80, we see grown men cry sitting in the chair,” Gibson said.

Burge and Tallent, with their new sets of dentures, both smiled when they had their mirror moments.

“I don’t know what I’d do [without RAM,]” Tallent said. “You know, the Lord would make a way. But I feel like he has made a way through RAM.”