Saturday is why South Carolina’s Will Muschamp finally made a complete commitment to a tempo-based offense in his seventh season as a head coach in the Southeastern Conference.
The No. 24 Gamecocks head coach surveyed the conference and national landscape and looked at what stood between him and the team’s stated annual goals of Beat the East and Win the State. Specifically, the defensive lines at Georgia and Clemson and South Carolina’s inability to run the football against those lines.
In the four games against the Gamecocks most bitter rivals during Muschamp’s tenure, South Carolina has been outrushed 1,002 yards to 265 yards.