WEEKEND OPEN MIC [08.08.08]

by cocknfire on Aug 8, 2008 11:31 PM EDT in Football Comment 1 comment

Don't know if today was really a lucky day to get married (even if you are Chinese), but the Gamecocks should feel lucky to start the season 7-2, as our community exercise leading up to the season suggests. A bowl game is certain, though losses to Georgia and LSU mean any unreasonable SEC title dreams have now been crushed.

About 53 percent of our voters in last weekend's poll saw the Gamecocks winning two of three against Kentucky, LSU and Tennessee. Wins against Tennessee and Kentucky got 46 percent of the vote. Wins against Kentucky and LSU accounted for 6 percent, and 1 percent of you -- essentially, one voter -- thought LSU and Tennessee would fall to the Gamecocks, but the Wildcats would prevail. (Okay...)

Now, the denouement. South Carolina will decide to which bowl it will go based on its results against rebuilding Arkansas, at the Fighting Tim Tebows (Florida) and at Clemson. Note that two of those teams are expected to be conference champion contenders.

So, the same drill as always: Votes are good. Comments are better.

Poll

How will the Gamecocks do against Arkansas, Florida and Clemson?

3-0 (Win them all)

4 votes

2-1 (Beat Arkansas and Florida, lose to Clemson)

0 votes

2-1 (Beat Arkansas and Clemson, lose to Florida)

15 votes

2-1 (Beat Florida and Clemson, lose to Arkansas)

0 votes

1-2 (Beat Arkansas, lose to Florida and Clemson)

16 votes

1-2 (Beat Florida, lose to Arkansas and Clemson)

0 votes

1-2 (Beat Clemson, lose to Arkansas and Florida)

2 votes

0-3 (Lose them all)

2 votes

39 votes | Poll has closed

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And I'll start us off

More detail on this, of course, will come in the team-by-team previews.

Arkansas is down. Not for long - Petrino can coach, even if he is soulless - but for this year, at least. Florida is too tough, not least because of TTIIMM TTEEBBOOWW, though South Carolina might be able to ring up about 600 passing yards against that secondary. Oh, I’m sorry. Florida doesn’t have a secondary this year.

And I’ll call later, as I always do, for a win against Clemson. But that’s because it’s my tradition. When it comes to actually projecting the season, I don’t think DaviSpiller and Cullen Harper can be defeated.

by cocknfire on Aug 8, 2008 11:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs