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Multiple metrics agree: Gamecocks have played one of hardest schedules in the country

Looking at South Carolina’s football schedule, there’s the two big ones, but it doesn’t look all that hard.

Georiga is awesome. Kentucky has been awesome. But there’s a Sun Belt team and Vanderbilt. The jury is still out on Missouri.

But it turns out, that makes one of the toughest schedules in the country.

USC’s slate ranks among the seven most difficult in the land by three major numeric systems.

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The Sagarin ratings: fifth nationally

Bill Connolly’s S&P+: Seventh

Sports Reference’s simple rating system: Second

It’s worth looking at exactly what makes it so challenging.