If you haven’t been paying attention — and, really, who could blame you for that? — the South Carolina-Tennessee series has been amazingly close for years now.
The Gamecocks have won the past three series meetings by a combined 12 points, the Vols won the three before that by a combined eight points and the matchup has not been decided by more than two touchdowns since 2009.
Whatever the reason for that, I don’t think it’s this:
“This matchup is always close and always a nail-biter, because they’re a good team, we’re a good team and good teams always fight it out until the very end,” Tennessee senior outside linebacker Darrell Taylor said.
Yeah, I’m not going with that, Darrell. Sorry.
And how about this factoid?
Will Muschamp has never lost to Tennessee as a head coach, going 4-0 at Florida prior to winning the past three with the Gamecocks.
Between that and the Vanderbilt streak, these have definitely been the glory years for Vol football. Today’s meeting has all the makings of a classic.
