If South Carolina’s football team wins two-thirds of its games this year, it will finish 8-4. That’s probably a good bit of perspective coming off of the Gamecocks 23-13 loss to Kentucky.
South Carolina is 2-1 on the season, which taken as a standalone fact is not bad. The reason there is so much angst among Gamecocks fans is that the loss is right in the rearview mirror. And that the loss came against Kentucky, which has now beaten the Gamecocks four straight years.
Neither the loss, to a team that the season likely will show is not that good, nor the manner of the loss, sloppy, was acceptable.