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New Mexico at Auburn in numbers: Homecoming date good for Tigers

New Mexico (0-2) at Auburn (1-1)

6:30 p.m. CDT Saturday (ESPN2)

Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn

0 Previous games between Auburn and New Mexico.

0 New Mexico has won two games this season. The Lobos began the 2024 season with a 35-31 home loss to Montana State on Aug. 24 and lost 61-39 on the road to Arizona on Aug. 31. New Mexico did not play last week.

2 Sacks on consecutive snaps for Auburn DE Keldric Faulk in last week's game against California. Faulk became the first Auburn player since 2003 to record sacks on consecutive snaps when Reggie Torbor did it against Ole Miss. Faulk has three of the Tigers' five sacks this season.

4 Wins and losses for Auburn in games against Mountain West Conference opponents. The Tigers defeated Wyoming in 2000 and San Jose State in 2014, 2015 and 2022. All games were played at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

4 Two consecutive seasons with a game against an SEC opponent for New Mexico. The Lobos lost to Texas A&M in 2021 and 2023 and LSU in 2022, dropping their record against the SEC to 0-8. All games were on the road.

7 Wins and losses for Auburn on Sept. 14. The Tigers have played eight games without losing in just one day — Sept. 10, when Auburn was 8-0. On Sept. 14, the Tigers have beaten Southern Miss, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State and Kent State at home, Louisville at Birmingham and Ole Miss at Oxford. New Mexico has a 4-5 record on Sept. 14, including an 0-4 record on the road.

7 New Mexico's offense has scored touchdowns this season – three touchdown runs and four touchdown passes from QB Devon Dampier.

9 The teams in the country have not recovered a single turnover this season. Of those nine teams, only one – Temple with nine – has suffered more turnovers than Auburn, which has had four passes intercepted and three turnovers recovered by the opponent.

9 Auburn RB Jarquez Hunter still needs rushing yards to become the 15th Auburn player with 2,300.

19 Years have passed since the last game in which a New Mexico player had at least 200 passing yards and 100 rushing yards, which QB Devon Dampier did in the Lobos' last game. In New Mexico's 61-39 loss to Arizona on Aug. 31, Dampier completed 24 of 42 passes for 260 yards with three touchdowns and two interceptions and ran for 130 yards and two touchdowns on 15 carries. It was the first 200/100 game for the Lobos since QB Kole McKamey accomplished the feat in a 27-24 loss to BYU on Oct. 8, 2005.

19.25 Auburn has averaged yards per completed pass this season, ranking second nationally behind Washington's 20.31. The Tigers have ranked 13th in the SEC with a pass completion percentage of 58.2 percent.

23 Consecutive games with at least one pass reception for Auburn WR Robert Lewis. All but the last two of those games came when Lewis played for Georgia State. He had 70 pass receptions for 877 yards and seven touchdowns for the Panthers in 2023.

32 Auburn has won two consecutive home games. The Tigers have not lost a home game since 1991, when Mississippi State spoiled the celebration with a 24-17 victory. Auburn has a home record of 85-8-4.

144 Auburn has played games since its last shutout, the second-longest streak in school history. Auburn's last shutout loss was 49-0 to Alabama on Nov. 17, 2012. Auburn's record scoring streak lasted 149 games, beginning with a 55-16 win over Richmond on Oct. 4, 1980, and ending with a 17-0 loss to Alabama on Nov. 26, 1992. Auburn's current scoring streak is the 10th longest in SEC history and its record streak is the ninth longest.

193 Auburn has played games since the Tigers last blocked a punt, the longest active streak in the nation. Mississippi State was the last opponent to block an Auburn punt in the Tigers' 49-24 win on Sept. 12, 2009. New Mexico last blocked an opponent's punt in a 23-20 loss to San Diego State on Oct. 31, 2009. The Lobos have played 172 games since they last blocked a punt, the longest active streak in the nation.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.

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