Opponent Preview: Will Muschamp’s high octane offense???

The Basics

Location: Columbia, South Carolina

2017 record: 9-4

Head Coach: Will Muschamp (15-11, third season)

And now, the hard part.

There was a time when the South Carolina job was a nice assignment for a gentleman coasting into retirement. You’d leave a high profile pressure cooker like, I don’t know, Notre Dame or the Washington Redskins. You’d come to Columbia, and draw a decent paycheck while playing some golf and winning 7 or 8 games a year. And the home crowd was generally pretty pleased with it. And then you retired and played more golf.

But not now. First Lou Holtz came to town and won a few games, which was a new experience for Gamecock fans who lived through the Brad Wood era. Then…