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| College Football Gets Underway As South Carolina Hosts Sothern Miss |
The Gamecock faithful are more or less happy with ‘The Ol’ Ball Coach’ at the helm, but in many ways he’s hit something of a ‘glass ceiling’ in the development of the program. South Carolina is off of back to back 7-6 seasons and while they’ve been much more competitive against the upper echelon teams of the SEC the Gamecocks are at a point where they need to start beating some of these teams. They’ll get their first crack at a top conference foe a week from Saturday when they host Georgia. That makes this game against a Conference USA opponent a classic ‘lookahead spot’ right off the bat. The Southern Miss Golden Eagles are also off of three straight 7-6 seasons but don’t have the same scheduling concerns—they’ve got an easy home game against 1-AA/FCS Prairie View on deck. If the Gamecocks’ schedule shaped up differently this might be a spot for a big season opening performance at Williams-Brice Stadium, but the game against Georgia looms large and completely changes the handicap. This situation is something of a déjà vu to the 2005 opening game against Central Florida in Spurrier’s first year in Columbia, where the Gamecocks played a very ‘vanilla’ offense and were never able to get a margin. They ended up winning by 11 but not covering as -20’ home favorites. The names have changed, but the situation is still the same and we don’t expect South Carolina to show too much of their offensive designs. Southern Miss may not have the same level of talent as South Carolina, but they’re an opportunistic team that is particularly good at taking advantage of opposing team’s mistakes (+21 turnover margin in the last two years). We look for the Gamecocks to keep much of their offense ‘under wraps’ and be content with getting a victory of any type here rather than open things up and give Georgia coach Mark Richt more to work with in formulating a gameplan. South Carolina has the toughest schedule in college football this year, so a quality win against Georgia could be huge as the season wears on. With a hard road ahead, this sure doesn’t look to be a situation where the Gamecocks will be looking to drop a margin on a decent, well coached opponent. South Carolina wins, but the Golden Eagles keep it close in a low scoring game that stays UNDER the posted total of 47. 
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College football is back this Thursday night as the University of South Carolina gets things started off by welcoming Southern Miss to Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia. At first glance, this is a situation where we’d like to play on the Gamecocks but as we’ll discuss momentarily a few extraneous factors have us looking the other way. Hopes are high at South Carolina, as they return 54 lettermen including 8 starters on offense and 7 on defense. Most significantly, quarterback Steven Garcia is back under center for the Gamecocks. Garcia has overcome a rough start to his career at South Carolina to develop into arguably the best quarterback of Steve Spurrier’s tenure.
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