re: Are the Cocks writing check their arse can cash? (South Carolina will upset Georgia)

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South Carolina is overrated this year and will be lucky to finish 3rd in east

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Lol, who you got finishing ahead of us if we'd be lucky to finish 3rd

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DawgsLife

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Thank you for being rational about this game. I don't think any Gamecock fan is saying we're gonna stomp y'all or its any kind of definite W this year. It's hardly that. Georgia fans should know more that most that since basically 2000, it's always a pretty tight game between us, as even last year was tighter than most for y'all when we were at your house against best team y'all have had. We've had success against y'all at home and your fans who just think you're gonna walk in and run us out Williams Brice are kidding themselves.

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Lol, who you got finishing ahead of us if we'd be lucky to finish 3rd

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You're not good. You beat La Tech by 1, lost to KY, hardly beat Vandy last season. Last year was SC's time to "surprise." MIZ, TN, and FL have just as good as chance as finishing second.

How did we do against Arkansad?

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Does florida even have anyone that can throw a forward pass?

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That has been a problem for years and we still have beat USCe with out much issues. 2 years ago we didn’t have a QB and still had no issue with USCe. Congrats on beating us last year when our coach was fired and the team was a mess .

If you read the thread I said I predict you to beat uga but go 7-5. All the contrarians on this board had a hard time grasping that concept

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You're not good. You beat La Tech by 1, lost to KY, hardly beat Vandy last season. Last year was SC's time to "surprise." MIZ, TN, and FL have just as good as chance as finishing second.

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The OC for the last 2 years produced an offense that was almost the best game for every defense SC played. Not kidding. Look at the stats. Roper’s offense couldn’t move the ball on some of the worst defenses in the country and for two years straight the offense was ranked 100+ in the country. Roper was fired after 2017 Clem game.

SC had a new OC for the bowl game and played the #3 defense in the country. The offense that couldn’t produce during the season blew up Michigan’s defense and UM allowed the third most points it had all year, only PSU and OSU got more.

Maybe the bowl game means nothing since it was McClendon’s first time calling plays and it could have been a fluke. Or, maybe he’s gonna be good. But, some don’t realize Dan Werner was added to the staff in the off-season to help run the offense. Werner was co-OC at Ole Miss when they were putting up 500 yards a game a couple of years ago.

The offense will be better this year - that is a given.

Add to the better offense the fact Muschamp will simply not ever have a bad defense. It won’t likely be a “great” defense this year. It takes talent to have a great defense and Muschamp is building that, but talent or not Muschamp will have a defense that plays well enough to give the team a chance to win.

If SC ends up with an offense that is simply ranked in the top 50 in the country and the defense is “about as good” as last year, the Cocks go 9-3 to 11-1.....that is just the way the schedule sets up if the offense and defense scenarios play out as described. If the offense is a top 50 offense, SC beats UG at home. That’s not a shocker - worse SC teams have beaten UG as heavy favorites. But, even with a win against UG the team could still end up 9-3 due to losses at Clem, UF and either UK or Ole Miss.

what the f u c k is a frick?

And it's also, 3-0, 4-1, 11-5, 14-7. Anyone can arbitrarily pick years to make it look close but in reality it's 50-18-2. Even Vanderbilt has beaten us 20 times in roughly the same amount of games. Face it, we look at your game each year the same way we look at Kentucky, Vanderbilt, and Miss State. You're just closer so you think that makes us rivals. Hell, Clemson is a bigger rivalry than USCjr.

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For God Sakes nobody said we were going to blast GA. A former player predicted an upset and some GA fans got really irritated. Like I said before it’s quite possible that we could beat GA. We could also get blown out. I simply don’t see the latter happening. UGA just lost two backs that combined for 26 rushing TD’s. I’m sure you have other backs that can score. I don’t know if their tandem is going to be of that caliber. That is why I’m not betting on UGA winning by 3 scores. Can they win? Of course. Will it be by 3 scores? It could be. I just don’t see it....

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Second game of the year...both teams will still be working out the kinks. We won't blast SCAR, either. It's a hostile environment to play in, especially for UGA the last few times we've been there. Both teams are playing Podunk U for their openers...not really a test for either team, and neither coach will open up the playbook for a lesser opponent.

I don't see a 3-score UGA win, either. Kirby isn't gonna embarrass Muschamp like that by running up the score. If he had wanted to do that, he could have last year. UGA fumbled away one scoring opportunity, and kneeled on the ball at the end when they could have scored again. Final could have been 38-10, instead of 24-10.

I am picking UGA, but somewhere in the neighborhood of a 28-17 win or a 31-21 game. I just don't buy a 21-point win in that road environment. But that's just me.