Stats Crunch: 2021 SEC Championship

For the fourth time under Kirby Smart, Georgia will be playing in the SEC Championship. The Bulldogs are 3-5 all-time in SEC Championship games. The Dawgs are also looking for their 14th SEC Championship overall. The 14 would move Georgia into second place by themselves for the most SEC titles overall.

Georgia is also looking for its 17th straight win, which would tie the team record originally set from 1945 to 1947. The Bulldogs will look to go 13-0 for the first time in school history, and the 13 wins would tie Georgia's highest win total in a season. The Dawgs had 13 wins in both 2002 and 2017.

Win No. 12 came against Georgia Tech last week. It was Georgia's 69th win all-time against its state rival which is the most against any team. The Bulldogs won 45-0, and it tied for the largest margin of victory by the Dawgs in the series.

The 45-0 win was Georgia's third shutout of the season (Arkansas and Vanderbilt). Over the last 50 seasons, Georgia has posted three shutouts in a season in 1980, 1981, 2019, and 2021, with four shutouts in 1971 and 1976. Since 2016, when Smart took over, the Bulldogs have had eight shutouts, which leads the FBS during that time period.

Georgia continues to lead the nation in these important defensive categories.

Georgia has allowed seven scrimmage touchdowns ALL SEASON. An FBS team has allowed eight or more scrimmage touchdowns in one game 30 times this season.

The 83 points allowed is the second fewest in FBS since 1980 through the first 12 games. Only the Oklahoma Sooners' 81 points through the first 12 games in 1986 is lower.

The Bulldogs also lead the nation with a plus-405 scoring margin this season. No other team in the FBS has over 300. Ohio State is next on this list at plus-295. The plus-405 is a lot better than Smart's first season, when the Dawgs were just plus-7, and that was after the 8-point Liberty Bowl win over TCU.

Since 1980, the 2008 Florida team and the 2018 Alabama team are the only SEC teams with a better scoring margin differential through 12 games.

Georgia has 41 sacks on defense this season. Seventeen different Dawgs have had at least a half-sack this season. The 41 sacks is the fifth most in a season by the Bulldogs, and with another good performance, they can climb even higher after this weekend.

Alabama's quarterback Bryce Young has been sacked 33 times this season, including a career-high seven times last week in the Iron Bowl.

Georgia quarterbacks have been sacked eight times all season.

Speaking of the Bulldog signal callers, both of the main quarterbacks have played well this season. Check out how they've fared compared to the other Georgia quarterbacks that led the Dawgs to an SEC Championship.

Last week, Georgia had 255 yards passing and 208 yards rushing against Georgia Tech (who had 171 total yards). It was the fifth time this season and the 22nd time overall that Georgia had at least 200 pass yards and 200 rush yards in the same game. To no one's surprise, the Dawgs are 22-0 in those games. The last time the Bulldogs lost in this situation was the season-opener against Clemson in 2013.

Zamir White needs 122 more yards rushing to become the 18th different Dawg with 2,000 for his career.

Georgia is tied for the SEC lead with four players this season with at least three touchdown rushes. Here are the Dawgs' top five running backs in our weekly look at how they fare quarter-by-quarter.

On the receiving end, Brock Bowers did it again. Bowers is the only player in the nation with five games with multi-TD receptions. He's tied for the FBS lead for most touchdown receptions by a tight end this season.

He already has the most yards receiving and touchdown receptions in a single season by a Georgia tight end and needs 12 more receptions to tie Shannon Mitchell's mark of 49 in 1993 for the reception record. In a chart Stats Crunch was the first to offer, Bowers needs just one reception to tie the single-season Bulldog touchdown reception mark by any player.

Bowers' ten touchdown receptions is part of Georgia's total of 19 touchdown receptions by freshmen. That leads the FBS and is three ahead of second place Akron. The next highest in the SEC is LSU with ten.

Bowers now has three 100-yard receiving games this seasons. Another Bulldog with three career 100-yard receiving games is George Pickens. Pickens returned to action and played seven snaps last week against the Yellow Jackets. He had one reception for five yards. He became the 20th different Dawg to have a reception this season. The Dawgs are tied for fifth in the nation in that category.

Another crazy stat in last week's game: Georgia was not penalized. The last time the Bulldogs did not have a penalty count in a game was the previous time the Bulldogs played the Jackets (Pickens' penalty was off-setting). The time prior to that was in 1997 against Louisiana-Monroe. Last week, Alabama tied its season-high with 11 penalties against Auburn.

Speaking of Alabama, the Bulldogs and the Crimson Tide have played four mutual opponents this season. Both teams are 4-0 in those games, but the margins of victory are a little different.