So Much For Our Happy Ending

Congrats to the Gamecocks, and yes, the Ole Ball Coach.

The offense lost the game. Andre' Woodson lost his Heisman glow and will now need to orchestrate an upset over the best team in all the land to recapture it. Big-game Rich Brooks has returned. Kudos, though, to the Big Blue defense that kept SoCaro from establishing a monster ground attack.

Winning on the road at night in the SEC is the most difficult thing to do in college football, and the task is compounded when the home team feels disrespected. Yes, people had forgotten about South Carolina in the wake of LSU's field goal trickeration. Well, they now control the SEC East, not Florida, and not Kentucky. The Gators come to Columbia too, where Spurrier got them in 2005, which means an SEC Championship Game berth is quite likely for the man who hath never lost to UK.

5-1 is still a very good start, but the team has to avoid a tailspin. Prevailing in on their next two home games is perhaps a must if they want to avoid, after reaching such lofty status, a 5-3 mark and a return to the Music City Bowl.

Hopefully the Bayou Bengals destroy Florida and thus come in to Commonwealth fat and happy, also remembering the 49-0 thrashing they gave Woodson and Co. last year at the Rouge.