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195 consecutive games? All the numbers behind Auburn's wild upset of No. 1 Georgia

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A wild college football season got even wilder on Saturday. Just one week after Texas lost its spot as the AP poll's No. 1 team in the land, the team that supplanted it, Georgia, was toppled by unranked Auburn 27-24 in Athens. Another shakeup atop the polls is due to come this week.

A wild college football season got even wilder on Saturday. Just one week after Texas lost its spot as the AP poll's No. 1 team in the land, the team that supplanted it, Georgia, was toppled by unranked Auburn 27-24 in Athens. Another shakeup atop the polls is due to come this week. But before that happens, the extent of the magnitude of the Tigers' upset bears a closer look. A taste of its unlikeliness? A 65-0 record and a 195-game streak that both existed before Saturday were snapped. Those marks are just one of the many numbers that pop out from the Bulldogs' defeat. Here are the top stats from the upset, courtesy of ESPN Research. 1996: Three of the SEC's biggest powers lost in Week 7, with Auburn taking down Georgia, Tennessee defeating Alabama 26-10 and Florida upsetting Texas 27-24. All three of those programs losing in one week is rare -- before Saturday, it hadn't happened in 30 years. The last time Georgia, Alabama and Texas lost on the same day was in 1996, when Georgia fell to Kentucky, Texas was beat by Colorado and Alabama lost to ... Tennessee. 195: The Tigers fell behind the Bulldogs 14-0 early, a deficit that in most cases has proved to be a death knell. Entering this week, unranked teams trailing the AP No. 1 team by at least 14 points had lost 195 consecutive games. The last time an unranked team overcame a 14-point deficit against the AP No. 1 team? Nick Saban's Michigan State Spartans -- in 1998. Saban & Co. trailed No. 1 Ohio State 24-9 before coming back to win 28-24. 115: Auburn quarterback Byrum Brown had a key role in the Tigers' upset, flexing his dual-threat muscles and making an impact as both a runner and passer. Brown finished with 115 yards on the ground to go with 150 in the air, becoming the first quarterback with 100-plus rushing yards in a win over an AP No. 1 since Vince Young posted 200 against USC in the iconic 2005 BCS National Championship. 95: Georgia is a particularly surprising opponent to have fallen victim to this sort of defeat -- the Bulldogs haven't been particularly susceptible to a comeback upset under Kirby Smart's tutelage. The Bulldogs entered their matchup with Auburn boasting a 95-3 record under Smart when leading by at least 14 points, including a gaudy 65-0 mark in such games against unranked opponents. 93: In general, top-ranked teams have been Teflon against unranked opposition at home in recent memory. Before Saturday, AP No. 1 teams had won 93 straight home games against unranked opponents. The last loss had been suffered by LSU against Darren McFadden and unranked Arkansas all the way back in 2007. That tidbit comes with a silver lining for Bulldogs fans, though -- LSU went on to win the national championship later that season. 5: Between Texas' loss in Week 6 and Georgia's in Week 7, the last two weeks in college football have marked just the fifth time ever a No. 1 lost to an unranked opponent in consecutive weeks. It previously occurred in 1990, 1981, 1960 and 1942. 3: It has been a particularly chaotic year so far when it comes to the sport's top-ranked teams. Georgia is the third No. 1 team to lose this season (Ohio State, Texas), making this year just the third time that three No. 1 teams have lost by Week 7, along with 1984 (3 losses, 1 tie) and 1981 (4 losses). 1: The manner of Texas and Georgia's losses made history. The final play of both losses was a walk-off field goal, making the last two weeks the first time in AP poll history (since 1936) that the No. 1 team has lost on the final play of the game in consecutive weeks.
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