Hear what Saban said after Alabama"s thrilling win over Ole Miss
No. 1 Alabama(2-0, 0-0) at No. 19 Ole Miss (1-1, 0-0)
2:30 p.m. CDT Saturday (CBS)
Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, Miss.
0 Victories in 10 games against the No. 1 team in the AP poll for Ole Miss. The Rebels will be playing a top-ranked Alabama team for the fourth time: The No. 1 Crimson Tide beat Ole Miss 59-35 in 1980, 33-14 in 2012 and 25-0 in 2013. In the Rebels" other games against the top-ranked team, they lost 27-7 to Tennessee in 1956, 14-0 to LSU in 1958, 7-3 to LSU in 1959, 38-14 to Florida in 1994, 41-24 to LSU in 2007, 51-31 to Auburn in 2010 and 42-3 to LSU in 2011. Ole Miss defeated Alabama 23-17 in 2014 when the Crimson Tide was No. 1 in the coaches poll and No. 3 in the AP poll.
1 Opponent has beaten a Nick Saban-coached team in three consecutive seasons. Purdue defeated Saban"s Michigan State teams 22-21 in 1997, 25-24 in 1998 and 52-28 in 1999. Ole Miss hosts Alabama on Saturday and has beaten the Crimson Tide in each of the past two seasons. The Rebels are the third SEC team with an opportunity to defeat Saban in three consecutive seasons. After Florida beat LSU in 2000 and 2001, the Tigers defeated the Gators 36-7 in 2002. After LSU defeated Alabama in 2010 and 2011, the Tide defeated the Tigers 21-17 in 2012. (Alabama also defeated LSU 21-0 in the BCS national-championship game to end the 2011 season.)
3 Interceptions have been returned for touchdowns by Alabama SS Eddie Jackson after he took one back 55 yards against Western Kentucky last week. Jackson tied the Alabama career record for interception-return TDs held by Antonio Langham and C.J. Mosley. It"s also tied for the third-most in SEC history. Jackson moved into a tie for ninth with former Georgia DB Scott Woerner in SEC history for interception-return yards with 303.
6 Consecutive Ole Miss games have featured at least 30 points for the Rebels, tied for the longest such streak in school history. Ole Miss scored at least 30 points in the final four games of 2008 and the first two of 2009 and equaled that with at least 30 points in the final three games of 2012 and the first three of 2013.
7 Consecutive victories for Alabama when playing on the home field of an opponent ranked in the AP poll. The streak started after a 34-28 loss to Auburn in 2013.
8 Opponents have beaten Alabama in at least three consecutive seasons in the past century, with Tennessee owning six such streaks and Auburn having three. Ole Miss enters Saturday"s game having beaten Alabama in each of the past two seasons. The other teams with three-season winning streaks against the Crimson Tide had one apiece Georgia Tech, LSU, Mississippi State, TCU, Tulane and Vanderbilt. Alabama"s most recent losing streaks of at least three straight games ended in the 2008 season, when the Tide defeated LSU for the first time since 2002 and Auburn for the first time since 2001.
8 Consecutive victories for Alabama in games against teams ranked in the AP poll. The Crimson Tide hasn"t fallen to a ranked foe since last year"s 43-37 loss to No. 15 Ole Miss on Sept. 19.
9 Previous Alabama-Ole Miss games have featured two ranked teams, a situation occurring for the fourth straight season. Alabama has a 6-3 record in these games, with two straight losses. The No. 7 Rebels defeated the No. 17 Crimson Tide 48-23 in 1970, the No. 11 Rebels defeated the No. 3 Tide 23-17 in 2014 and the No. 15 Rebels defeated the No. 2 Tide 43-37 in 2015. No. 8 Alabama defeated No. 7 Ole Miss 12-7 in 1964, No. 15 Alabama defeated No. 20 Ole Miss 33-32 in 1969, No. 11 Alabama defeated No. 22 Ole Miss 30-24 in 1999, No. 24 Alabama defeated No. 21 Ole Miss 42-7 in 2002, No. 3 Alabama defeated No. 16 Ole Miss 22-3 in 2009 and No. 1 Alabama defeated No. 21 Ole Miss 25-0 in 2013.
12 Consecutive victories for Alabama when the Crimson Tide opens its SEC schedule on the road. Alabama most recently had an 0-1 conference record after a road game in 1991, when the Tide lost its league opener at Florida. This is only the third time since 2003 that Ole Miss" first SEC contest has been a home game. The Rebels lost the past two times that they opened their conference schedule in Oxford.
12 Consecutive seasons have featured at least 31 points for Alabama in the Crimson Tide"s third game of the year. The most recent season in which Alabama failed to score at least 31 points was 2003, when the Tide defeated Kentucky 27-17 in Game No. 3. Alabama has averaged scoring 45 points per game during the 12-year streak.
14 Consecutive games have been won by Alabama, the longest winning streak in the nation. The Crimson Tide hasn"t lost since falling to Ole Miss 43-37 on Sept. 19.
15 Consecutive games with a TD pass for Ole Miss QB Chad Kelly. Kelly has thrown for at least one TD in every game he"s played in a Rebels" uniform. The school record for consecutive games with a TD pass is 16, established by Eli Manning, starting with the last game of the 2000 season and extending into 2002.
50 Percent as many rushing yards lost by Alabama"s opponents as they have gained this season. The Crimson Tide"s opponents have gained 174 rushing yards in two games. But they"ve also lost exactly half that amount 87 yards on negative plays, giving them a net of 87 rushing yards for the season.
52 Victories and 10 losses for Alabama when playing as the No. 1 team in the AP poll.
63 Previous games have been played between Alabama and Ole Miss, with the Crimson Tide holding a 51-10-2 on-the-field series lead.
77 AP polls have had Alabama in the top spot. The Crimson Tide ranks fifth all-time in No. 1 rankings, with Ohio State first with 105 No. 1 appearances, followed by Oklahoma with 101, Notre Dame with 98 and Southern Cal with 91. Second to Alabama among SEC teams is Florida, with 41 No. 1 rankings, 10th-most all-time. Forty-six of Alabama"s appearances at No. 1 have come in past 124 AP polls after the Tide made 31 appearances at No. 1 in the previous 984.
120 Games have been played by Alabama since the Crimson Tide failed to score in the first half, the longest streak in the nation. On Sept. 29, 2007, Alabama and Florida State headed into halftime tied at 0-0. The Tide has scored in the first half of every game since. Alabama has a 104-16 record during the streak.
134 Consecutive AP polls have included Alabama, the longest current streak. Second on the active list is Florida State at 72 straight polls. The most recent AP poll that did not include Alabama is the final one of the 2007 season. The Crimson Tide"s streak is the ninth longest in the poll"s history and the second longest in SEC history. Nebraska set the record by being ranked in 348 consecutive polls from 1981 through 2002. Florida set the SEC record by being ranked in 209 consecutive polls from 1990 through 2002.
200 Consecutive games without being shut out for Alabama, a school record. Alabama"s most recent shutout loss came 9-0 to Auburn on Nov. 18, 2000.
233 Rushing yards were gained by Wofford in the Terriers" 38-13 loss to Ole Miss last week. That was the most rushing yards yielded by the Rebels since Auburn had 248 in a 35-31 victory over Ole Miss on Nov. 1, 2014.
64,232 Spectators attended last week"s Wofford-Ole Miss game a record for Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.
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