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    Auburn at Kentucky by the numbers: Can Hugh Freeze match Bryan Harsin?

    Kathleen William Posted on

    Auburn (2-5, 0-4) at Kentucky (3-4, 1-4)

    6:45 p.m. CDT Saturday (SEC Network)

    Kroger Field in Lexington, Kentucky

    1 The program did not receive an SEC Player of the Week award in the 2024 season – Auburn. The Tigers became the last team to go without an award when Florida RB Jadan Baugh won SEC Freshman of the Week honors in Week 8 after scoring five touchdowns in the Gators' 48-20 win over Kentucky on Oct. 19. The SEC awards honors in six categories – offensive player, defensive player, special teams player, offensive lineman, defensive lineman and rookie of the week. Tennessee and Texas are tied for the most weekly awards with seven each in 2024.

    3 Consecutive seven-loss seasons for Auburn. The Tigers have never had four consecutive seasons with at least six losses, but they enter Saturday with a record of 2-5. Auburn achieved a 6-7 record in 2021, a 5-7 record in 2022 and a 6-7 record in 2023. Auburn had two other three-season streaks with at least six losses – 1928-30 and 1946-48.

    5 Punt returns have given Auburn's opponents minus-15 yards this season, the fewest in the country. Kentucky has 52 yards on 10 punt returns this season.

    5 Kickoffs were returned for touchdowns by Kentucky WR Barion Brown, who broke the SEC career record with a 99-yard return in a 48-20 loss to Florida last week. Seven other SEC players had four kickoff return TDs — Willie Gault of Tennessee, Felix Jones of Arkansas, Brandon Boykin of Georgia, Andre Debose of Florida, Marcus Murphy of Missouri, Evan Berry of Tennessee and Deebo Samuel of South Carolina.

    9 Wins in 21 games for Bryan Harsin when he was fired from his job as Auburn's coach during the 2022 season. Current coach Hugh Freeze enters his 21st game with the Tigers on Saturday with a record of 8-12. Harsin's last game – Auburn's 41-27 loss to Arkansas on Oct. 29, 2022 – was the Tigers' fourth straight and left the coach with an SEC record of 4-9. Auburn enters Saturday's game on a four-game losing streak, with Freeze's conference record at 3-9.

    9 Back-to-back wins for Auburn at Kentucky. The Tigers haven't lost on the Wildcats' home field since a 17-7 setback on October 1, 1966. Since then, Auburn has won in Lexington in 1968, 1970, 1975, 1983, 1989, 1995, 2005, 2010, etc. In that span, Auburn also has a 10-1 home record against Kentucky, with the Wildcats' only win coming against the Tigers in the previous 57 seasons on October 17, 2009 with a score of 21:14.

    10 Auburn players have caught touchdown passes this season, tied with BYU and Vanderbilt for the most passes nationally. KeAndre Lambert-Smith has six TD receptions for Auburn this season, Cam Coleman and Malcolm Simmons have two each, and seven other players have one each – Camden Brown, Luke Deal, Rivaldo Fairweather, Jarquez Hunter, Sam Jackson, Micah Riley-Ducker and Perry Thompson.

    10 More turnovers than takeaways for Auburn this season, the worst margin in the SEC by five points. The Tigers lost seven fumbles and nine interceptions while intercepting four of their opponents' passes and recovering two of their opponents' six fumbles. Kentucky has nine turnovers and eight takeaways this season.

    11 Field goal attempts without a miss for Kentucky K Alex Raynor. Only UAB's Jonah Delange, who is 14 of 14, has more attempts without a miss nationally. At 5 of 10, Auburn is one of eight teams in the country to have missed half or more of its field goal attempts in 2024.

    13 Auburn's completions have gained at least 40 yards this season, three more than any other team in the country except Ole Miss, which has 12. Kentucky's defense has allowed seven completions that gained at least 40 yards, which is the most in the SEC in 2024. Auburn WRs Cam Coleman and KeAndre Lambert-Smith each have four receptions that gained at least 40 yards, and all of Lambert-Smith gained at least 50 yards. Auburn is tied with Ole Miss, Oregon and UTEP for most completions of 50 or more yards in 2024 with six.

    13 Wins without a loss for Auburn when it holds its opponent to 20 or fewer points and 19 losses without a win for the Tigers when its opponent scores at least 21 points since the start of the 2022 season. Auburn has lost 22 straight games in which its opponent scored at least 21 points, since a 38-23 win over Arkansas on Oct. 16, 2021. Kentucky has averaged 20.4 points per game and has scored 20 or fewer points in five of its seven competitions this season.

    27 Wins for Auburn, six wins for Kentucky and a tie in the Tigers-Wildcats series. The teams will meet for the first time since Auburn opened the 2020 season with a 29-13 victory over Kentucky.

    28 Consecutive games with at least one reception for Auburn WR Robert Lewis. Lewis played for Georgia State in all but the final seven of those games.

    34 RB Jarquez Hunter needs rushing yards to tie for ninth in Auburn history. Hunter has accumulated 2,755 yards on 449 rushing attempts in his career. Brent Fullwood (1983-86) is No. 9 on Auburn's career rushing list with 2,789 yards.

    149 Games have been played by Auburn since the last suspension, marking the longest streak in school history. Auburn's last shutout loss came on November 17, 2012, 49-0 against Alabama. Auburn's original 149-game streak began with a 55-16 victory over Richmond on October 4, 1980 and ended with a 17-0 loss to Alabama on November 26, 1992. Auburn's two-goal streak is the ninth-longest in SEC history .

    338 Auburn QB Peyton Thorne needs passing yards to reach 10,000 in his career. That's also the number of passing yards Thorne put up in his big game at Auburn in a 32-21 loss to Oklahoma on Sept. 28. Thorne accounted for 6,493 of his passing yards in three seasons at Michigan State before joining the Tigers in 2023.

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

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