Numbers game: 11 stats you need to know from Week 8

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 8.

3: Three undefeated teams lost Saturday – Ole Miss to LSU, UCLA to Oregon and Syracuse to Clemson). The six remaining undefeated FBS teams are No. 1 Georgia, No. 2 Ohio State, No. 3 Tennessee, No. 4 Michigan, No. 5 Clemson and No. 7 TCU.

4: Weber State set an FCS record with four safeties during the Wildcats’ 43-38 loss to Montana State in a matchup between two top-five FCS teams. All four safeties came because of botched snaps during attempted punts.

5: Vanderbilt CB Jaylen Mahoney posted 12 tackles, including five tackles for loss, during the Commodores’ 17-14 loss to Missouri. It’s the highest TFL total in a Power 5 game this season.

8: Miami had eight turnovers during a 45-21 loss to Duke, the most turnovers in a Power 5 game since 2009.

9: Tennessee WR Jalin Hyatt is up to nine touchdowns in the Vols’ past three games after posting seven catches, 174 yards and two scores in a 65-24 rout of FCS opponent UT Martin. Hyatt had two touchdown catches in a 40-13 win over LSU and five during Tennessee’s 52-49 victory over Alabama.

22: Old Dominion LB Jason Henderson had 22 tackles during a 28-23 loss to Georgia Southern. Henderson is just the second player in the past eight seasons and the first since California’s Evan Weaver in 2019 with multiple 20-tackle games in a season. Henderson is the only FBS player with more than 88 tackles this year. He has 112.

24: Texas A&M, which fell to 3-4 with a 30-24 loss to South Carolina, has yet to score more than 24 points in any of its first six games against FBS opponents. The Aggies have been limited to 24 points in each of their past three games – losses to South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi State. In addition, dating to last season, the Aggies haven’t scored more than 24 points against an FBS foe in nine consecutive games.

41: Oregon, which beat then-No. 9 UCLA 45-30, has scored at least 41 points in each of its six games since its 49-3 loss to Georgia in Week 1.

91: Toledo’s Jonathon Batzke had a 91-yard punt during the Rockets’ 34-27 loss to Buffalo, the longest punt from an FBS player since 2017. His previous long this season was 54 yards.

197: One of the nation’s top under-the-radar running backs, UAB’s DeWayne McBride, ran for 197 yards on 24 carries during a 20-17 loss to Western Kentucky. McBride has run for at least 120 yards in each of his first six games this season. He leads the nation at 162.5 rushing yards per game.

1,813: Rutgers’ win over Indiana was the Scarlet Knights’ first home victory in a Big Ten game since 2017 – more specifically, 1,813 days.