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Just be honest with your self. SC just doesn't have the players this year. They are maybe a top 35 team at best this year. And their stadium is just OK. It can get loud but none of hoopla even makes sense together.. euro trance music, spinning towels, and a rooster crowing? I have been to 60+ stadiums and its just not that impressive.Comment -
The only reason this line is under 7 is because of recent trends that don't mean anything to this years game.Comment -
same people that lost their ass on cowboys vs 49ers going to take a bath betting gamecocksComment -
south carolina ranked top 10 every year then stevie the clown chokes. its the lions and stafford syndrome all over again, i can understand this completely.Comment -
What are you talking about?? They FINISHED the last 3 seasons in the top 10 final rankings
They simply weren't good enough to navigate an undefeated SEC schedule...Doesn't mean they choked
But in that span they have won 11 games for 3 straight years and have beaten their rivals Clemson 5 years running
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those end of the season rankings mean dikk they dont have the talent LSU and bama have, they lose to one or both of them every year, then back in to a bowl game where they still outclass a lot of teams and wind up looking like they did something. spurrier is never going to win a title there or challenge for one he had his small window he doesnt even have the talent enough to run the fun and gun offense.Comment -
I did find this...that said I can't think of any games where the top 10 team was a dog to the unranked team....
We’re a few days away until the start of the college football season, which is finally upon us. The start of football season invites comparisons with the college basketball season, which will soon follow in November. For two months, in November and December and on into the first days of January, college football and basketball share space on a bettor’s card. A lot of people might wonder how similar the two sports are in terms of how they’re bet on and how betting systems try to break them down. There is a system called the 2010 Stat Attack For College Football, and it provided some data on this issue which can be helpful in separating these two sports from each other as objects of betting attention and interest. One should not make the mistake of thinking that just because these are both college sports, they’re basically the same and are subject to the same patterns as a matter of course. In college basketball, a lot of unranked favored teams exist when playing ranked opponents, but in college football, that’s not so. Unranked college football teams are just not wise choices in most cases. Those kinds of teams are 30-40-4 against ranked football teams over the past five years since 2010, which means that we’re talking about 2006 through 2010. In addition to that statistic, it needs to be said that the spread record isn’t a short-term fluke or aberration that exists outside the range of longer trends and directions. Over the past 10 years of the Stat Attack survey from 2001 through 2010, unranked teams are merely 56-80-4 against the spread when favored to beat a ranked team. The spans of time keep going further and further back into the past, and they continue to hold up the smaller trends. Research of the past 20 years, going back to 1991, shows that unranked favorites are 88-148 against ranked opponents, and that set of numbers excludes ties. Why is all this the case? There are a few things that need to be mentioned. The first point is that in college football, there are just under 130 teams in the top level of competition, the Football Bowl Subdivision. In major college basketball, there are roughly 350 schools playing at the top Division I level. There are so many more chances to get wins, especially at home, as an unranked team against a ranked opponent. Teams can lie in wait and spring an ambush, taking advantage of a favorable situation on a given day or night. The other natural point to raise here is that since college basketball seasons have at least 30 games, there are so many more games in which Vegas or a sportsbook can identify a game or a cluster of games and say, hey, that unranked team (generally playing at home) is in really good position to beat that ranked opponent. In college football, the strength and depth and power of an excellent (ranked) team is more often too overwhelming for the not as skilled unranked team. The two sports really do operate on different levels.
Top 10 Teams as Underdogs
Over the past 10 seasons, teams in the AP Top 10 were 11-6 as underdogs and an impressive 9-8 straight up when playing a non-ranked team.
Over the past 20 years, top 10 underdogs are 20-11-1 and 18-14 straight up, so these situations don't happen often, but they are worth jumping on when they do occur.Comment -
Dane do not let Gurley and Pruitt blind you here bud, theres no shame that we wanted to sleep with both of them immediately after that dismantling. However going on the road (SEC duly noted as weak hf) and having to lay a touchdown is a bit disturbing. God speed but its probably gonna be cocks or a watch Gurley with popcorn game for me.Comment -
Georgia Forty Eight
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They beat Bama last time they met and haven't lost to them in years
Have beaten Georgia 3 of the last 4 seasons...Clemson 5 straight years....Florida they have owned for a while now, etc etc
Don't see how the window closed already either, Right now they are 5 overall in the nation for 2015 recruiting
Perennial top 10 team but not quite elite.......Spurrier has done a hell of a job all things considered
Not enough talent to run the fun and gun?? They're consistently in the top 10-20 range for recruiting and have been for a while now
Gunna keep calling out misinformation.......Comment -
A lot of homers in this thread
Georgia has much better personnel
Spurrier one of the top five most overrated coaches of all timeComment -
This line is an overreaction. I disagree with those who think it's a particularly tough venue, but USC should cover here.Comment -
misinformation? spin it however you want it. they have not and will not contend most likely ever cause they cant get the talent.
i dont see them running fun and gun, they arent getting the elite talent alabama and lsu get. end of story. big difference in top 20 recruiting than top 5, very big.Comment -
Once Tennessee fell from grace it opened a window for another team to be one of the top 3 in the East and with Spurrier, that was Carolina. They've had some good recruiting classes under him and talent has been there esp on defense. When he leaves and if Butch can get Tennessee going again it will be interesting to see if SC can maintain their success. In the old scheduling format, they were matched up with Arkansas. Now they're matched with A&M which appears to be a significantly tougher opponent...at least lately.Comment -
yes he is overrated as a coach 42-6 last 4 years what a fuching idiotComment -
My book is offering SC at +6. Thinking of taking the bait.Comment -
Let me tell you something you dumb S.O.B. You said that a lower ranked team was never favored over a higher ramked team. You made up the 6 vs 24 scenario. I just gave you a 5 vs 10 scenario. Now keep your dumb arse mouth shut unless you want people staring at you while shopping in the hamburger section of their local market. You are easily one of the biggest arses in here, and a liar to boot.Comment -
Misinformation like they lose to Bama or LSU every year......You straight up pulled that out of your ass because SC beat Bama the last time they played which was a few years ago
Backing in to a bowl game....again simply not true as their last game every season is against Clemson and they have a 5 game winning streak
Fun and Gun is dead, if you were paying attention they haven't tried to run that offense since Spurrier's first few seasons when they were much worse than they have been lately without it.....They run a zone read spread offense now
And check the recruiting rankings right now for 2015......They are currently sitting in the top 5 Nd they have had a few top 10 classes recently
Sorry but 3 straight 11 win seasons means you're doing something right.....They haven't been the best of the best but hey, not many have been eitherComment -
Hey fat boy I didn't make the #6 vs #24. If you can read the poll, like everyone does, you will see that Georgia is #6 and South Carolina is #24. Now if you read the thread title and the first post by OP this thread is about the Georgia and South Carolina.
Now can you fukking put the two together? Are you smarter than a 5th grader?Comment -
80% chance of rain tomorrowComment -
Georgia EASY. This South Carolina team is not very good and lost everything they had good going for them last year. Mike Davis can't do it alone, especially against possibly the best linebacker core in the nation along with a top 5 defensive coordinator. Add in the rain....no chance edge to the best rushing team and Georgia as multiple backs that can absolutley just pound the ball. Nick Chubb is the future and wouldn't be surprised to see him have a better career than Gurley. Georgia brought LOT'S of pressure against Clemson and they were able to escape a few times with their mobile QB's but Thompson will be suck dead in the wind with Floyd coming off the edge. I can see this game getting ugly in the 4thComment -
Also no one in the thread fails to mention how bad the cocks struggled with ECU. Gave up 150 rushing yards to the pirates? Just think what Gurley and co are going to do.Comment -
prolly gonna be in athens for this game
yes i know its a fukkin away gameComment -
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Not even a top 15 toughest place to play. Not even in the top half of their own conference.
