Some are beginning to consider the South Carolina Gamecocks a legitimate contender to challenge Florida for the SEC East in 2010.Their schedule isn’t an easy one; it’s an SEC schedule. While there are a few games that should be nice changes of pace, with the exception of Furman on September 18, and Vanderbilt on October 23, the Gamecocks play bowl teams from 2009.
The Gamecocks will again open up on a Thursday night, against Southern Miss, which should be a pretty good way to gauge the Gamecocks in their first, and while it isn’t close to a cupcake game, they’d better use it to prepare. Following that Thursday game, rival Georgia comes calling on Saturday.
The Gamecocks should win both games. Georgia is hungry and stinging from last season’s “disappointment.” However the Gamecocks went into Athens last year and played with Georgia all night, losing on the final drive on an incomplete pass inside the Dawgs’ 10-yard line. This year the Gamecocks should be playing better.
The Furman game comes a week after the Georgia game, and barring some type of major letdown in that game, it should be an easy win for the Gamecocks. With that being said, South Carolina’s season opens with three straight home games, and three wins in those games would go a long way, though only one of them is an SEC game.
After their three-game home opener concludes, the Gamecocks hit the road—and the meat of the schedule. A game at Auburn, a team that some consider to be strong competition for Alabama in the West. Not to mention the fact that Auburn was the other team in the running for five-star running back Marcus Lattimore.
Immediately following that is an off-week. The rest of the schedule is when it gets really tough.
Alabama comes to Columbia this year, and while I can’t confirm it, there have been rumblings that the Crimson Tide will face off against the Gamecocks on a Thursday night prime time game. Many have said that there is a full moon over Columbia on Thursday nights. So, we all we see.
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