Their corners are 5’8", and 5’9". I’m not even sure it’s going to be a high scoring game. Spurrier will probably just ride the backs until it stops working. That will kill a lot of clock. Will they actually stop our backs? They may come back after that bad loss last week and get fired up for this one, but I’m dubious.

Thanks for dropping by to discuss the game. I found your statement about these types of games being what your players signed for to be interesting. When Spurrier said something to that effect about either Southern Miss., or Furman, as to why Carolina shouldn’t overlook them, their fans said our game with them was the least important. All they cared about was their conference games. Maybe you all will give Carolina a better game if your players feel the same way you do. It should be fun either way. Football is football.

Thanks for swinging by. Why doesn’t SB Nation have a Troy blog? Seems like they have enough of a following. Very strange. But anyway, nice to have someone to provide a voice for the opposition.

To clarify, I wasn’t trying to use some sort of transitive logic to outright dismiss any chance of an upset. As you say, we are a team of highs and lows, and no South Carolina fan is foolish enough to speak/write in absolutes. My point was that numbers don’t lie. Troy stands to give up a lot of yards, as they have done all year, mostly to teams without our weapons. Troy does boast a high powered pass offense, and there-in lies the potential for them to rack up some points. And, as you said, USC has some intangible disadvantages: the letdown factor and the play-down-to-the-opposition factor. Carolina fans have seen both of these phenomena this year…to UK and Vandy respectively.

In summation, I agree wholeheartedly with your last statement: SC probably wins, Troy could win. But I maintain I never wrote anything that suggested otherwise!

(PS: Don’t dwell on the the whole MTSU>ULM>Troy tidbit. It was one of those little puff-piece factoids that sports columnists and the like will tack on the end of an article to give it some spice, but really amounts to little. Just pretend I never wrote it!)

But this game worries me. Troy isn’t a team to be taken lightly, and I fear that we’ll do just that because we’ll see them as a cupcake sandwiched in between two of the biggest games of the year.