re: Official In-Season Practice, Injury Reports and Press Conferences Thread: 12-0

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-- In case you missed it, yesterday’s game against Chattanooga was Nick Saban’s 46th career game coaching Alabama as the AP’s No. 1 team. That ties him with Woody Hayes (Ohio State) for the most at one school. Saban is 41-5 (.891), with one more victory than Hayes and Bobby Bowden (Florida State), the most by any head coach of top-ranked teams. Bowden was 40-5 at Florida State as No. 1 and Hayes went 40-6 with Ohio State.

-- With the win over Chattanooga, Alabama has defeated 65 consecutive unranked teams under Saban. The last loss to an unranked team came against Auburn to end the 2007 season. The current streak began with a win over Colorado on Dec. 30, 2007, in the Independence Bowl. Under Saban, Alabama holds a 69-3 (65-3 after vacated wins) record against unranked opponents, including a perfect mark in matchups with unranked teams since 2008.

-- Talk about dominance. the Alabama defense has not surrendered a touchdown in the last 207 minutes and 54 seconds of game action, dating back to the third quarter of the Texas A&M game on October 22 when Christian Kirk caught a 25-yard touchdown pass. The Crimson Tide blanked the Aggies over the final 27:54 of that game and then shut out No. 15 LSU, 10-0, in Baton Rouge the following week. The Tide then limited both Mississippi State and Chattanooga to field goals over the last two weeks.

-- In a rare occurrence, however, Alabama didn’t record a sack in Saturday’s game. It was the first time since Week 12 of last season (Charleston Southern) the Tide didn’t register a sack. Because of that, Alabama no longer leads the nation in that statistical category. UA trails Florida State (41) by one heading into the final regular-season game. With at least three games -- and the potential for four -- left in front of it, Alabama’s 3.64 sacks per game average could still allow the Tide to jump last year’s nation-leading 52 sacks.

-- Alabama’s nation-leading rush defense (68.91) will host the country’s No. 5 rushing offense this weekend, as Auburn averages 297.82 yards per game on the ground. Kamryn Pettway is the Tigers’ leading rusher with 1,106 yards (138.25 yards per game in eight contests), but the running back has missed the last two games with a leg injury, and his status for the 2016 Iron Bowl is uncertain.

-- In case you missed it, true freshman quarterback Jalen Hurts’ 68 rushing yards versus the Mocs gave him 803 yards on the season, breaking the Alabama single-season quarterback rushing record of 791, which was set by Steadman Shealy in 1979.

-- With his three first-half touchdown passes, Hurts moved into third place on the Alabama single-season touchdown responsibility list with 30. Hurts has thrown 19 touchdown passes and rushed for 11 scores so far this season. AJ McCarron (2012: 30 passing, 1 rushing) is second. Blake Sims holds the single-season record with 35 touchdowns (28 passing, 7 rushing) in 2014.

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