Scoring is so sky-high in college football nowadays that shutouts are rare.

Leave it to Alabama to be the exception to every rule.

Only eight FBS teams have been shut out this season (it has happened to UTEP twice) and only four FBS teams have been blanked at home, according to sports-reference.com research. One SEC team is on that list: LSU, thanks to Saturday’s 29-0 loss to the Crimson Tide.

How high is scoring? In 24 games this season, a team has scored at least 41 points and lost, including four FCS teams facing FBS opposition. A team scoring six touchdowns and losing is nearly three times as common as a team being shut out. So what happened to LSU on Saturday night is very rare. Unless it is playing Bama (more on that later).

LSU getting blanked in Baton Rouge got us wondering: When was the last time each SEC team was shut out at home? The team that has gone longest without suffering that fate might surprise you.

Some of these are very recent but a few go back a pretty long way.

Alabama: 2000

Yes, it has happened in the 2000s. It just seems like forever ago. In fact the Crimson Tide was shut out twice in 2000, both at home. Southern Miss blanked Bama 21-0 on Sept. 16 at Legion Field and Auburn won the Iron Bowl 9-0 in Tuscaloosa. The Tide finished 3-8 under coach Mike DuBose. (The fewest points the Tide have scored at home under Nick Saban? That would be 6, in the 9-6 loss to LSU in 2011.)

Arkansas: 2012

Alabama was ranked No. 1 and steamrolled the Razorbacks, 52-0, in John Smith’s final season as Arkansas coach. Just to prove it was no fluke, Alabama hosted Arkansas the following season, again ranked No. 1, and trounced Bret Bielema’s Hogs by the exact same score.

Auburn: 2012

The Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry left a pretty deep scar for Tigers fans six years ago. Georgia outgained Auburn 497-238 and crushed the Tigers 38-0 at Jordan-Hare Stadium in the final season of Gene Chizik’s reign as coach.

Florida: 1988

This was so long ago that it predates Steve Spurrier’s coaching reign in Gainesville. Old rival Auburn rolled into The Swamp and beat Galen Hall’s Gators 16-0. Give UF credit — 30 years is a long time to go without being blanked at home.

Georgia: 1995

The culprit, once again, is Alabama. This was the Bulldogs’ last season with Ray Goff as coach. UGA was on its way to a forgettable 6-6 season when the Crimson Tide rocked the Dawgs 31-0. Before this you’d have to go back to 1979 against Virginia (not counting a 27-0 loss to UF in Jacksonville in 1984).

Kentucky: 2012

You’ll notice a trend here: A lot of coaches in their final seasons. So it was with Joker Phillips, on his way to a 2-10 finale in Lexington when Vanderbilt came to town. The Commodores outgained Kentucky 447-260 on their way to a 40-0 rout.

LSU: Saturday

This stat is amazing: In the past 25 years, LSU has been shut out at home just four times. The opponent for all four games? Yep, the Crimson Tide, including this year and 2016. The Tigers gained just 196 yards and punted nine times Saturday. LSU last scored against Alabama at home in 2014.

Mississippi State: 2007

The Bulldogs gained just 10 yards rushing against LSU in 2007. Small wonder the Tigers rolled to a 45-0 victory in the season opener for both teams in Starkville. Mississippi State rebounded to go 8-5 and win a bowl for the first time in seven seasons.

Missouri: 2014

A 34-0 loss to Georgia on Oct. 11 was one of two blips, both at home, in an otherwise great season (the other was a loss to Indiana). The rout against the Dawgs was Mizzou’s only SEC loss on its way to a second consecutive East Division championship as the Tigers finished 11-3.

Ole Miss: 1998

Would you believe this is in the middle of another season under a coach on the way out? Tommy Tuberville was leading the Rebels when Auburn blanked Ole Miss 17-0 in the second game of the season. Ole Miss has been shut out three times on the road since then, including later in the 1998 season.

South Carolina: 2006

Georgia didn’t really do anything spectacular against South Carolina in Week 2 of 2006. Just three field goals, a safety and a lone touchdown was plenty to topple coach Steve Spurrier’s Gamecocks 16-0 at Williams-Brice Stadium.

Tennessee: 2017

We don’t have to reach too far back in the memory bank for this one. Georgia ran over the Vols 41-0 last season, Tennessee’s second-worst loss in series history. Again, a team was shut out at home during a coach’s farewell tour, this time Butch Jones.

Texas A&M: 1971

If you had the Aggies in the “Which SEC team has gone longest” pool, congratulations. They were in the Southwest Conference then. Who did it might surprise you: Cincinnati, in a 17-0 nonconference win at Kyle Field. A&M has been shut out 12 times since, but all were either on the road or in bowl games. Since the Aggies joined the SEC, Alabama is the only team to shut them out, but that 59-0 drilling in 2014 came on the road, at Bryant-Denny.

Vanderbilt: 2017

Last season the Commodores were riding high after a 3-0 start, including a win over No. 18 Kansas State. Then top-ranked Alabama rode into Nashville. It did not go well for Vandy, which took a 59-0 pasting and was outgained by a mind-boggling 677-78 margin. Ouch.