except when you say USC “lost” to UK, rather than giving credit to UK for beating us with a beautifully coached, beautifully executed second half . Sure Ace fumbled away 3 pts. … but it was because he got hit. Stephon muffed a punt or two … one a knuckleball and the other a beautiful floater. Great special teams coverage. Garcia threw a ball into traffic … twice. Good coverage - and Steven’s gotten lazy with his fakes and not eyeing down his intended.

With that exception your points are 100% pitch perfect. Where the H*** is Kenny Miles. How do we forget he’s dressed out? Marcus is a special talent, but a sure recipe for disaster is to become a one-tricl pony; and we’re better than that anyway. On D, UK has figured out our zone schemes - that means everyone else now has too.

As for clock management, somewhere from Lousiana I can hear chortling about whose a genius after all … meh.

Now here is one point you didnt cover. Spurrier publicly made this game an absolute must-win for the program. The first half was brilliant. By the second half, however, it was clear the Marcus-less Gamecocks and Garcia were punchless. Had we scored an answering TD, we’d have cooked them (following my own IRON LAW OF FOOTBALL that anyone can come back from down 21; but ts highly unlikely to come back from down 24; nary impossible to overcome 28 or 31; and 35 is a virtual impossibility).

Stephon hadn’t played great but why not throw the Wildcat at ’em? I seem to recall it worked pretty well before No. 21 suited up. Or does dovetail back with where in the world is No. 31?

Once we take care f Vandy, then Arkansas-Carolina is going to be huge.

I’m pumped. We’ve been absolutely dominant at home the last two years (only a strange deflection/pick off Moe Brown’s shoulder pads keeping us from perfection).

Dare I say … we must protect this house!

It is near impossible to win a game when you are minus 4 in the turnover differential. Not surprisingly, that was our stat in both of our losses.

I think, key word here is think, we should be able to beat Vandy on the road but, who knows which team will show up in the 2nd half. I really think we would have had a better chance with the run game if we woulda had Miles in there instead of Maddox but, oh well. We can’t write Tennessee off either now since it appears that we are reverting back to the old Carolina. I hope not but, somethings don’t appear to be changing. We have to get the kinks out of our secondary if we are going to face Arkansas and their ridiculous passing offense or they will pick us apart. Hopefully we’ll bounce back and not have anymore relapses. GO COCKS!

When Latti isnt in the game, they dont line Dimarco up at TE, Maddox up at FB, and put miles at RB… to me that would make alot more sense. I mean then you have a FB that can run it or block for the RB, and a RB that has proven he can average half a first down per carry, even with a much worse o-line than we currently have. So my question, is that Spurrier says he wants to get his athletes and playmakers on the field… why arent you then lining up those 3 guys like that when Latti isnt in the game????