Tennessee football is set to play its first true road game of the year tomorrow when it meets Mississippi State in Starkville. The Vols and Bulldogs will square off inside Davis Wade Stadium at 4:15 p.m. ET with the game airing on SEC Network.

Before kick-off, I dove into the numbers, with the help of UT’s game notes, to get a better look at what to expect in the game.

Here are three numbers to keep in mind as you’re watching the game.

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Tennessee has given up just 2 sacks this year. This mark is tied for the fewest in the SEC to this point. It took three games for a team to record a sack on Joey Aguilar, as well.

The only sack that Aguilar has taken was on an intentional grounding in the game against Georgia. The call was contested by Aguilar, who thought he had a receiver in the area, but it still went down as a sack. Other than that, he hasn’t been sacked and rarely hurried.

The other sack came against UAB when Jake Merklinger took over. This also meant the backups on the offensive line hit the field instead of the starting unit.

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Josh Heupel and Jeff Lebby have spent 7 seasons together on the same staff. This started from 2002-06 when Heupel was a full-time assistant and Lebby was a student assistant at Oklahoma. Lebby intended to play football for the Sooners, but an injury cut his career short.

When Heupel got the head coaching job at Central Florida, he paired back up with Lebby. In 2018, he hired him as the quarterbacks coach. In 2019, he promoted him to offensive coordinator before Lebby departed for the same role at Ole Miss, then Oklahoma, before getting the head job at MSU.

This is the second time Heupel will ever play Mississippi State with no matchups as a player or a coach at any other stop. Last year, the Vols beat Lebby and MSU at home.

100

Tennessee and Mississippi State have been very different teams in the red zone. So far, the Bulldogs are at a 100% clip in the red zone on offense. Defensively, the Vols are at a 92.3% spot, which is 15th in the SEC and 101st in the country.

On the other side of the ball, Mississippi State is at 66.7% in red zone defense. This is second in the SEC and 13th in the country. Tennessee’s offense is at just 91.7%, 13th in the SEC and 46th in the country.