Numbers game: 11 stats you need to know from Week 6

Each week, On3’s Matt Zenitz takes a look at some interesting stats coming out of that weekend’s games. Here are 11 such stats coming out of Week Six.

2.08: No interior defensive lineman at the FBS level has averaged at least two tackles for loss per game since Pitt’s Aaron Donald in 2013. USC’s Tuli Tuipulotu is averaging 2.08. Tuipulotu had four tackles for loss and three sacks in the Trojans’ 30-14 win over Washington State. He ranks first nationally with seven sacks and leads Power 5 players with 12.5 tackles for loss.

4a: After zero interceptions in his first 24 games at Toledo, Rockets cornerback Quinyon Mitchell had four interceptions and two pick-sixes during a 52-32 win over Northern Illinois. He became the first FBS player since Middle Tennessee’s Damon Nickson in 2006 with four interceptions in a game.

4b: All four interim coaches whose teams played this past weekend won their games — Georgia Tech’s Brent Key, Nebraska’s Mickey Joseph, Wisconsin’s Jim Leonhard and Arizona State’s Shaun Aguano. They’re now a combined 6-3 as interims — Key (2-0), Joseph (2-1), Leonhard (1-0) and Aguano (1-2). All three games for Aguano have been against ranked opponents.

8a: Alabama outside linebacker Will Anderson had eight quarterback hurries to go along with two tackles and a tackle for loss during the Crimson Tide’s 24-20 win over Texas A&M.

8b: Just two years removed from ranking 97th nationally in scoring defense at 34.9 points per game, Illinois is No. 1 nationally in scoring defense, allowing just 8.0 points per game under second-year DC Ryan Walters. The  Fighting Illini (5-1), who beat Iowa 9-6 on Saturday, have limited five of their first six opponents to 10 or fewer points.

8.3: Alabama running back Jahmyr Gibbs, who ran for 154 yards on 21 carries during the Crimson Tide’s win over Texas A&M, is averaging 8.3 yards per carry for the year. Only one other Power 5 running back with at least 50 carries is averaging better than 7.4 yards per carry (Ohio State’s Miyan Williams at 7.8). Of Gibbs’ 86 offensive touches (64 carries, 22 catches), 23 have gained at least 10 yards and 10 have gone for at least 20 yards. 

12 : Ohio State wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. is up to 12 touchdown catches in his past seven games after posting seven catches for 131 yards and three TDs during Ohio State’s 49-20 win over Michigan State.

120: Michigan running back Blake Corum is the first Wolverines running back in at least 25 years with 120 or more rushing yards in each of Michigan’s first three Big Ten games. Corum rushed for 124 yards and a TD in the Wolverines’ 31-10 win over Indiana on Saturday.

146: Illinois running back Chase Brown ran for 146 yards during the Fighting Illini’s win over Iowa. Brown is just the seventh Power 5 running back in the past 14 seasons to start a year with six consecutive 100-yard games.

320: Pitt’s Israel Abanikanda rushed for 320 yards and six touchdowns during a 45-29 win over Virginia Tech. He’s one of just four FBS players since 2000 (and the only Power 5 player) to run for 300 yards and score six touchdowns in a game.

363: TCU QB Max Duggan had 363 total yards (308 passing, 55 rushing) and four total touchdowns (three passing, one rushing) in leading the Horned Frogs to a 38-31 win over then-No. 19 Kansas. Since 2000, Duggan is the only quarterback from a current Power 5 team to post at least 300 passing yards, at least 50 rushing yards and at least four total touchdowns in each of a team’s first two conference games.