Put aside that it was Vanderbilt. Put aside that the Commodores had their issues the past two seasons. Put aside the fact there’s still plenty the Gamecocks have to clean up.
This looked like on Saturday, just maybe, the offense South Carolina football fans have been waiting for.
The numbers from USC’s 37-14 win are pretty good: 534 yards, 7 per play, nearly 80 snaps, even after the rain made things more run-heavy and sloppy for the final quarter and a half. But there was something beyond that, something apparent in the first drive of the second half.