Writers like myself can prepare for games by reading as much literature, crunching as much as data and picking apart every minor detail —- at the end of the day no matter what we do we can still be wrong.
I didn't say that out of pure pessimism, there was a good reason to think Arkansas had the upper hand against South Carolina. What the Razorbacks did on offense matched up favorably against what South Carolina did on defense and nothing the Gamecock offense had done over the past three weeks made me think they could keep up a team averaging 36 points per game coming into Saturday's game.