4. South Carolina at Ole Miss
LINE: South Carolina -12
ATS PICK: South Carolina
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All of a sudden, the South Carolina defense has gone bye-bye.
It got rocked for 52 points against LSU, and followed it up with a listless 48-3 loss to Texas A&M, and now it gets an Ole Miss team that’s ripping though just about everything in its path …
Yardage-wise.
The Rebels are second in the SEC in total offense behind Alabama, averaging a whopping 541 yards per game. However, it’s averaging 38 points per game. That’s fantastic, of course, but it’s a problem when your defense is dead last in the SEC by ten miles, or more like a gigantic 55 yards per game more than LSU.
Ole Miss might be a whole lot of fun, but it’s not actually winning anything big. It blew out Vanderbilt, but who doesn’t? Okay, Mississippi State doesn’t, but that’s the only Ole Miss win so far by more than one point, and that 42-41 victory over South Carolina was the only other win.
South Carolina could absolutely lose this game.
No, don’t assume the team quit – LSU had a great game at home and Texas A&M might be College Football Playoff good – and now it’s getting 12 points.
It’s a good chance worth taking.