Who doesn’t like some quick schedule facts?

They’re quick, easy and most importantly … they’ll make you sound really smart when you drop them into casual conversations.

A few weeks ago, we took a look at 50 interesting facts about the 2015 SEC schedule.

Today, we’ll narrow our focus to 10 interesting tidbits about Week 1 of the SEC schedule:

  1. The combined series record of the SEC in its Week 1 matchups is 34-49-5. All but three of those losses come from the South Carolina/North Carolina series.
  2. The Gamecocks and Mississippi State are responsible for 48 of the league’s 49 losses. To be fair, they are also the only teams to have played their Week 1 opponent more than three times.
  3. Just one of the 14 games on the Week 1 schedule would be classified as a true road game for the SEC (Mississippi State at Southern Miss). There are eight games in SEC stadiums, and five being played in what could be construed as neutral sites.
  4. Speaking of the five Week 1 neutral-site, each will be played at a different NFL team’s home venue (Texans, Cowboys, Panthers, Falcons, Titans).
  5. South Carolina, Auburn and Alabama are the only three SEC teams that will leave their home state for a Week 1 game.
  6. There are no conference games being played in Week 1 this year. There were two in 2014 (Texas A&M at South Carolina and Arkansas at Auburn).
  7. Kentucky (UL-Lafayette), Texas A&M (Arizona State), Tennessee (Bowling Green) and Ole Miss (UT-Martin) are squaring off with opponents that each program has previously never played.
  8. Though typically viewed as a tune-up week, only three of the SEC’s 13 scheduled meetings with FCS opponents will occur in Week 1 (Ole Miss vs. UT-Martin, LSU vs. McNeese State, Missouri vs. Southeast Missouri).
  9. The Texas A&M vs. Arizona State game will be the only meeting between the SEC and Pac-12 in the 2015 regular season.
  10. Three of the SEC’s 10 games against Conference USA will take place in Week 1. It is the conference that the league will play most frequently in 2015.