South Carolina is favored to win for the first time this season as it prepares to face Kentucky at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Williams-Brice Stadium.
The Gamecocks are 6.5-point favorites against the Wildcats, who have beaten South Carolina three years in a row. We talked this week to ESPN.com’s David Purdum, who covers sports gaming, about what this line means about the perception of the Gamecocks.
Is the line an indication that Kentucky is really bad or that South Carolina is starting to change some minds?
A little bit of both. There is a lot of respect for South Carolina right now.