re: Who wins the SC v. UGA game and why?

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2010--Lots of zone read w/ Lattimore that gashed us

2011--Came out w/ plenty of zone read w/ Lattimore and gashed us, but the D played well enough to win the game. Murray and special teams killed us.

2012--Grantham was geared up to stop Lattimore and Spurrier beautifully used him as a decoy to gash our D (who overpursued all game long)with PA passes and QB runs. We paid dearly for focusing so heavily on Lattimore.

2013:

No Lattimore, so I see us playing this game much more straight up and less with our eyes in the backfield.

Benefit? Shaw hurts us less with his legs and the PA doesn't burn our safeties.

Drawback? The SC OL greatly outweighs our DL this year, so our unproven DL will have to win some 1 on 1 battles for this strategy to be effective.

Counter? Spurrier brings in Thompson for much more action than against UNC (obviously)

Benefit? Our young DBs are apt to get exposed, see Clemson.

Drawback? Our young DBs actually before better against Clemson than I anticipated as Langley and Matthews performed well on the road against the pass. Connor Norman killed us, but he immediately goes to 3rd on the depth chart this week as we get two safeties back, including the much hyped JHC. SC has nobody even close to Sammy Watkins level.

Counter: Your TEs are much more effective than the TEs Clemson trotted out there, so our young DBs can't merely worry about who is split wide.

It'll be a chess match all game long between Grantham and Spurrier. I actually hope Spurrier abandons the run somewhat, especially early.

On the other side of the ball, the important matchup is no secret. If our OL plays as physical as it did against Bama and UF last year, then our offense will score its fair share. If we play like we did @ Clemson and @ SC last year, then we're going to need a ridiculously strong performance on D.

I honestly don't know what to expect from the OL. It's the same OL that has been quite physical and the same one that has struggled. Same guys. Out of the 5 games above (including the current 2013 SC game), this is the only one in which we will play at home. Bama and UF were neutral, while Clemson and SC were on the road.

That gives me some hope. The last BIG game of the last 3 years that we had at Sanford was against Carolina in 2011 and we dropped 42.

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Florida @ Miami then South Carolina @ Georgia are all I've got on Saturday's agenda. I'm looking forward to two great games.