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South Carolina looks to beat up South Carolina State on Thursday

Spencer Rattler

Spencer Rattler

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South Carolina State at South Carolina (-37.5): O/U 55.5

This game was supposed to take place on Saturday, but due to the Hurricane down South, they moved this to Thursday, which will only benefit the home favorite.

South Carolina State is on the end of a four-game road trip and have a short week to prepare for South Carolina that was not expected. The Gamecocks are at an advantage and historically, they have trashed FCS opponents.

South Carolina has played four FCS opponents since 2017 and out-scored them 198-29. All four teams scored 10 or fewer points against the Gamecocks.

2021: Beat Eastern Illinois 46-0
2019: Beat Charleston Southern 72-10
2018: Beat Chattanooga 49-9
2017: Beat Wofford 31-10

Kendrell Flowers should still be out for SC State. Flowers had 153 rushing yards and two touchdowns versus Bethune-Cookman but missed the previous game. Without Flowers, the Bulldogs rushed for 12 yards on 22 attempts for a 0.54 yards per carry against North Carolina AT&T.

The Bulldogs quarterback, Corey Fields did air it out versus AT&T with 316 passing yards and four touchdowns, but against UCF this season, Fields was limited to 42 passing yards on 5-of-15 passing for one score and one interception in a 56-10 loss.

Looking over South Carolina State’s history versus FBS opponents, the Bulldogs have lost the past seven dating back to 2016 by an average game score of 49.8 to 7.5 points. SC State has been outscored 349-53 in that span.

2022: Lost 56-10 at UCF
2021: Lost 49-3 at Clemson
2019: Lost 56-16 at South Florida
2018: Lost 38-0 at UCF
2016: Lost 38-0 at UCF
2016: Lost 53-24 at Lousiana Tech
2016: Lost 59-0 at Clemson

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I expect South Carolina to run away this game. The Gamecocks scored on their first eight drives against Charlotte before throwing an interception, fumbling, then scoring again for nine scores on 11 total drives. They won 56-20.

Spencer Rattler has three running backs behind him that scored a combined nine touchdowns this season, so I expect the Gamecocks to ground and pound the Bulldogs.

Take South Carolina -37.5 for 1 unit and out to -39.5 for a 0.5 unit.

I will also look at SC State’s Team Total Under when that’s released.

Pick: South Carolina -37.5 (1u)

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