BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU quarterback Joe Burrow set the SEC’s single-season passing record Saturday night against Texas A&M, eclipsing the mark set by Kentucky’s Tim Couch in 1998.
Burrow, playing in his final home game for the second-ranked Tigers, broke Couch’s record of 4,275 yards on an 11-yard completion to running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire in the third quarter. He entered the game with 4,014 pass yards.
Burrrow, considered the front runner for the Heisman Trophy, also tied the SEC single-season passing touchdown record of 44 set by Missouri’s Drew Lock in 2017. Burrow entered Saturday’s game needing three touchdown passes to match lock. He threw two touchdowns in the first half against Texas A&M and threw the record-tying touchdown on LSU’s second possession of the third quarter.
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Joe Burrow passes to Ja’Marr Chase for a 18-yard touchdown, which gives Burrow 44 total TD passes on the season, tying a SEC record.
Burrow finished the game with 352 pass yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions, and enters the SEC championship game with 4,366 pass yards and 44 touchdowns.
Last week against Arkansas, Burrow became the first player in SEC history to record 4,000 pass yards and 40 touchdowns in a season. He broke LSU’s single-season passing record of 3,347 on Nov. 16 against Ole Miss.