-7.5 @ Arkansas
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Yeah, I dunno. I think 7.5 on the road in the SEC is pretty solid, unless you're UGA.
I can't see anything Arkansas does particularly well. A&M was troubling b/c they did have a solid D.
I'm not predicting an easy outing. The SEC is a grind.
In my opinion Mississippi State without their starting quarterback is the worst team in the conference.
The dropoff without Taylor has been remarkable. They had climbed to #16 and will be fortunate to make a bowl game. I think they're on their 3rd string QB, journeyman QB AJ Swann (who I am surprised is still playing football).
They beat Candy in Nashville.
I'm, honestly, quite nervous about this game. Seen this movie a few too many times.
We've had 2 blowouts and 2 gut check games in our winning streak.
Arkansas is the worst team we'll play in the SEC this year (considering MSU still had Taylor when we played them). But who can ever forget losing to UK after we beat #1 Bama?
You have to show up every single week in this league.
This one is in the bag. I hope Beamer is practicing for the UGA game this week.
Well I'm fine with the trend continuing.
Blowout Arkansas
Gut check win over UGa.
Blowout that school upstate.
Lol.
I know you have been a fan longer than this comment implies.
Correction: It shouldn't be close...... but then you're disregarding everything there is to know about Gamecock football.
I've even seen youtubers saying to sit LaNorris this week and start Cutter Woods. - And I lowkey envy people like that. - Totally oblivious to history, facts, reason, logic. Just putting their balls on the table and letting it ride..... with such arrogance. You'd think people would have learned by now, but no.
Navy
Vandy beat Bama
It's still the SEC and the second you disrespect an opponent like that in the SEC, it's a recipe for disaster. Plus.... literally everything is on the line @ Arkansas. Six years of Beamer trying his best to build this program, playoff hopes on the line (although far fetched tbh), on and on it hinges on this game.... win and everything is fine for another week. Lose and it's same old same old, six years of work down the drain, and recruits tuning out, etc....
My point? - Gamecocks haven't faired well in these "all on the line" moments. At all. Ever.
Good astute observations on the Gamecocks. How about Auburn beating Georgia a couple of weeks ago in Athens.
This is a classic trap game. We had an emotional win over TAMU. We have #1 Georgia coming to Williams Bryce the following week. The team is banged up after 3 straight SEC battles since our week off.
Arkansas sees us as the best chance they have for a victory this season. Their players don't follow our season and don't respect us. They will come into the game with their hair on fire and expect to win. They lost by only 3 to Auburn last week who beat Georgia.
Don't take this game for granted particularly if you are a player.
And we beat Tenn who beat Alabama. So we should have a good chance if we played Bama, right?
We beat UT who beat Bama who beat UK who beat us who lost to MSU who beat Mizzou who beat UF who beat Texas who lost to OU who beat UF.....
Exactly. So the transitive property doesnt work in football. Especially when one of the wins is actually just a close loss.
Yes, Arkansas is HORRIBLE, the SEC should be ashamed of them being in the conference. They do nothing well.
It shouldn't be, IF our players treat it like they are playing UF/UT/OU/A&M. If they go in thinking "it's just Arkansas" it may turn out much different than we hope.
So ARK is a "terrible team" even though they barely lost to Auburn and Tennessee and are likely very hungry for an upset win.
Got it.
This is how the BOTs set the table for a "you can't win either way" situation for Beamer and the team.
Lurker isn't the only one doing this and they do it all the time.
ARK could probably beat over half of the P4 teams in the country.
They just happen to play in the best league.
It seriously is truly exhausting reading this board, but gamecock sites seem to be at a premium so c’est la vie.
Arkansas is a football team that has put
In just as much work as any other team in the country and will be wanting to win very badly; if they are clicking in this game and we aren’t they will do so. They don’t give a dimm about our playoff talk, Gameday, clock management, etc. We are the marked and we better bring it.
There are other Gamecock sites if this is board upsets you so much.
Arkansas wanting to win won't matter. They arent good. Their sole SEC win was Vandy.
Its okay to admit there's an SEC team that isn't even bowl worthy. We dont have to pretend we're all national title contenders.
So true. On any given weekend any college team can catch "lighting in a bottle". It happens every weekend. If Carolina plays to it's potential, they will take care of business.
Choose whatever word you like, you complain a lot about a board that you not only dont have to visit, but have other options as well.
I always thought people who posted here enjoyed it, till I saw how much it upset you.
I think we're saying the same thing, just with different words.
Comeon Lurker.
Not even close. ARK is awful implies there's no way we can lose unless we find a way to be more awful.
Theres a bit of that. Theres also a bit of looking to get offended.
"If we play our game, we win" is acceptable but not "they suck, we win".
The truth is, Arkansas doesn't matter. They dont win unless we screw up. They arent nearly as good as this team.
But some people need drama.
Oh Lurker.
"Trash" "Safe Bet" "Awful" -- These are your words going into a super impt game against an opponent in their stadium who has played very well at times this season but didn't get the "W."
So who is the drama queen in this scenerio?
And you and your brethren will be ready to rain down with 50,000 "fire Beamer" threads if things go south.
You're just lucky this site doesn't block VPN registries or your havoc would go largely unnoticed.
You do understand the point I was making, right? That is - on any given day, a team in the SEC, regardless of power ranking, won/loss record or other ranking, can beat another team. And one primary reason is that it is extremely difficult to maintain a high level of focus during a long season of playing very good teams and that teams tend to slip up due to a subconscious loss of focus.
And yes, we might beat Alabama once if we played them 5 times. That's why people place bets on underdogs and sometimes win big.
My God ain’t that the truth.
I have to say though, watching each week’s game thread is must see tv. Best thing out there; it’s like a sitcom sometimes.
I understand, I just disagree. Nothing Arky does will matter. They can play their best game, and we would still win, so long as we play a good game.
It is solely up to us if we win or not.
If you're saying that we can screw this up and lose, sure, I agree. Its up to us to simply take care of business.
Game threads used to be entertaining, but in recent years I've enjoyed watching the games more than running to my phone to post about it.
Too much drama.
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