GameDay? In Columbia? Really?
That was my response when I was called while vacationing in Pigeon Forge and told to come home. ESPN made the decision to bring the College GameDay crew to the LSU-South Carolina game, and I needed to leave the alpine coasters and Dolly Parton cinnamon bread behind. There was work to be done.
I packed my bags in the small cabin I had rented and pondered what I had been told. South Carolina? A team that was a 3-yard drive and a 5-yard drive away from losing to Old Dominion? The same South Carolina team that was indeed riding high after beating a Kentucky team that forgot what the forward pass is for?