The South Carolina football team has plenty of mantras to put the best behind it.
Each week, they say, is its own season. They flush the bad, and often the good, because each game is its own challenge. The players can neither rest on laurels, or dwell on failures.
So it stands the Week 2 loss to Georgia looms larger to those outside the program than inside. But the loss in a much-hyped game at Williams-Brice Stadium offers the Gamecocks different lessons as they look toward another showdown with a ranked foe.
“The biggest thing is it’s a four-quarter game,” quarterback Jake Bentley said.