Five South Carolina football predictions for the Texas A&M game
As South Carolina football matches up against Texas A&M on Saturday night, GamecockCentral.com staffers take a stab at how the game against the Bulldogs may play out inside Williams-Brice Stadium.
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CHRIS CLARK: One of Gamecock football’s offensive trends this season is that there have been too many turnovers.
In its two conference losses to Arkansas and Georgia, South Carolina was minus three in each of those contests.
A&M has likewise has had some struggles in this department. Jimbo Fisher’s team was able to stay in the Alabama game due to winning the turnover margin 4-1. In losses to Appalachian State and Mississippi State, the team was minus two and minus three, respectively.
For the Gamecocks, even a comfortable win over Kentucky produced an even turnover margin.
Here’s to thinking that South Carolina finally gets on the right side of this statistic and wins the turnover margin on Saturday night.
WES MITCHELL: MarShawn Lloyd and Devon Achane will both go over 100 yards rushing. Lloyd has become the focal point of the South Carolina offense, rushing for over 100 yards in two of the last three games while having a productive night in the third game of that trio as well.
Achane, a speedy back who can turn the corner, has rushed for 100 or more yards in two games this season and went for over 150 last season against the Gamecocks.
With two teams that have struggled at times to stop the run, it could be a chance for both backs to rack up the yardage.
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KENDALL SMITH: In order to finally shake the losing streak against Texas A&M, all three phases of South Carolina’s game will need to be top-notch this Saturday, including special teams.
With what we’ve already seen from Pete Lembo and his crew this season, I expect that to continue this weekend.
I think South Carolina will have at least one game-changing play on special teams this weekend against the Aggies, as they’ll need to pull out all the stops to earn the win.
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COLLYN TAYLOR: I told myself I would never pick South Carolina to beat Texas A&M until it actually happens, but this year makes it tough.
This game should absolutely be close, but I’ll predict the Gamecocks will get the same, if not more, sacks against the Aggies as the team did against Kentucky.
Texas A&M isn’t protecting the quarterback well and the Aggies will either start a banged-up Haynes King or a true freshman Conner Weigman. The pass rush had the most productive day of the year against Kentucky and think it will have another good day Saturday.
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MIKE UVA: The Juice will be loose on Saturday.
Juice Wells scores two TDs and will once again lead South Carolina in receiving yards.
