South Carolina opens as two-TD favorite over Vanderbilt
South Carolina football opened as around a two-touchdown favorite, depending on where you look, over Vanderbilt when initial lines came out Sunday for next Saturday’s matchup with the Commodores.
The Gamecocks opened as 13-point favorites, according to CircaSports, and exactly 14-point favorites, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.
Circa set the over/under at 55.5, while Fanduel had it at 57.5.
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The series has been dominated by South Carolina, as the Gamecocks own a 28-4 all-time lead in a series that dates back to 1961.
Carolina has won 14-straight games in the series, including a 38-27 win in Nashville last November. Vanderbilt’s last win in the series came in 2008.
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The Gamecocks are currently 3-6 overall and 1-5 in SEC play after a 38-28 win over Jacksonville State this past Saturday. South Carolina has also suffered losses to Texas A&M, Missouri, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina with wins over Mississippi State and Furman.
Vanderbilt is 2-8 on the season including an 0-6 mark in league play. The Commodores lost to Auburn this weekend.
Vanderbilt has wins this season over Hawai’i and Alabama A&M with additional losses to Wake Forest, UNLV, Kentucky, Missouri, Florida, Georgia, and Ole Miss.
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Spencer Rattler-Xavier Legette connection reaches new heights in Saturday’s win
By Jack Veltri
Spencer Rattler and Xavier Legette couldn’t help but laugh. Rattler was asked why he couldn’t get the ball to his best receiver one more time to set a school record for most receiving yards in a single game.
“That one, the PI, I should have let it go. It slipped out of my hand, it was a duck. That would have been another touchdown and another 60 yards for him. We’ll make up for it these last three,” Rattler said.
In the end, Legette came up 16 yards short of breaking the record. But it really didn’t matter that much. It was a return to normalcy for the fifth-year receiver, who only had four catches for 40 yards in his last two games.
“He’ll be the first to tell you that he was not at his best last week the way he played,” head coach Shane Beamer said. “He came back this week and looked like the Xavier that we’ve been used to all season. And he showed it with the way he made plays.”
