Raise your hand if you expected South Carolina might be the first SEC team to reach 2-0 in conference play.
The Gamecocks are the only SEC team to play a conference game in each of the first two weeks this season, so that possibility always existed. But South Carolina won just one SEC game in 2015, and Will Muschamp faced long odds to surpass that win total in his first two games as South Carolina’s new coach.
If Muschamp’s team wins at Mississippi State on Saturday, however, that’s exactly what he will have accomplished. And for a guy working to remold a program in his own image, that’s exactly what he needed.