The Gamecocks may call their pre-game show Space Odyssey 2001, but this game felt like a negative of 2016. A struggling unit had a much better showing yet made just a couple too many critical errors to get this team a victory. Meanwhile, the other side of the ball could not be quite effective enough to overcome the mistakes of the struggling unit. The deep dive might give us a little hope, especially since South Carolina is a better team than anyone else we have left on the schedule except maybe Kentucky.
The offensive line had made Kyle Shurmur’s life hell in Oxford, but they kept the Gamecocks from getting too much penetration.