Week 11: How well do these teams know each other?

After looking through history, Week 11 is going to feature one SEC team out for a unique sort of redemption and revenge. It’s not Florida for its two consecutive losses to South Carolina, and it’s not LSU for its shutout loss at Arkansas last year.

Shockingly, it’s the Tennessee Volunteers.

Forty years ago, Tennessee lost to little-known North Texas 21-14 in Knoxville.  The upstart program was coached by Hayden Fry, who would go on to great success at Iowa. How shocking was this? The Vols had been ranked as high as No. 10 in the country that year and had already beaten Auburn and LSU before losing to North Texas. Saturday, it’s revenge time, 40 years later. Time to tie up this series.

And speaking of tied records, Georgia and Auburn have each beaten the other 55 times. Who will get the advantage in their 119th meeting?

Read on to discover more interesting tidbits about how well these teams know each other in Week 11:

OLD FRIENDS

GEORGIA at AUBURN (Auburn, Ala., noon ET) – 119th meeting

• All-time series record: Tied, 55-55-8
• Last time played: 2014
• Longest streak: Georgia, 9 games (1923-1931)
• Current streak: Georgia, 1 game
• Largest margin of victory: Auburn, 44 points

ALABAMA at MISSISSIPPI STATE (Starkville, Miss., 3:30 pm ET) – 99th meeting

• All-time series record: Alabama leads, 77-18-3
• Last time played: 2014
• Longest streak: Alabama, 22 games (1958-1979)
• Current streak: Alabama, 7 games
• Largest margin of victory: Alabama, 59 points

KENTUCKY at VANDERBILT (Nashville, Tenn., 4 pm ET) – 88th meeting

• All-time series record: Kentucky leads, 42-41-4
• Last time played: 2014
• Longest streak: Vanderbilt, 9 games (1896-1918)
• Current streak: Kentucky, 1 game
• Largest margin of victory: Kentucky, 51 points

ARKANSAS at LSU (Baton Rouge, La., 7:15 pm ET) – 61st meeting

• All-time series record: LSU leads, 37-21-2
• Last time played: 2014
• Longest streak: LSU, 7 games (1930-1936)
• Current streak: Arkansas, 1 game
• Largest margin of victory: Arkansas, 51 points

FLORIDA at SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, S.C., noon ET) – 36th meeting

• All-time series record: Florida leads, 24-8-3
• Last time played: 2014
• Longest streak: Florida, 14 games (1964-2004)
• Current streak: South Carolina, 2 games
• Largest margin of victory: Florida, 56 points

ACQUAINTANCES

NORTH TEXAS at TENNESSEE (Knoxville, Tenn., noon ET) – second meeting

• All-time series record: North Texas leads, 1-0
• Last time played: 1975
• Longest streak: North Texas, 1 game (1975)
• Current streak: North Texas, 1 game
• Largest margin of victory: North Texas, 7 points

BYU vs. MISSOURI (Kansas City, Mo., 7:30 pm ET) – second meeting

• All-time series record: BYU leads, 1-0
• Last time played: 1983
• Longest streak: BYU, 1 game (1983)
• Current streak:BYU, 1 game
• Largest margin of victory: BYU, 4 points

STRANGERS

WESTERN CAROLINA at TEXAS A&M (College Station, Tex., 7 pm ET) – first meeting

Christine Wang

Christine Wang is a contributing writer for Saturday Down South. She covers Auburn, Arkansas and Ole Miss.