If South Carolina's 2018 football season can go from potentially good to potentially great, USC will have to pull an upset in one of the two biggest games on the slate.
And according early betting lines from book at the South Point Hotel in Las Vegas, the Gamecocks will be a double-digit underdog in both.
A list of "games of the year" has South Carolina as an 11-pound 'dog against the Bulldogs in Columbia and Clemson as a 19-point favorite when the Palmetto Bowl is played in the Upstate. USC was recently installed as a 30-plus point favorite in its opener.