COLUMBIA — The greatest misconception in college football is that it’s a long season, something you hear echoed over and over again throughout the fall. In fact, the exact opposite is true: college football is actually an incredibly short season, for most teams comprising just 12 game days (13 if they’re lucky), and it all goes by in a blur. We’re already one-quarter of the way through it, and it feels like it’s only begun.
South Carolina will be one-third of the way through its 2016 campaign early Sunday morning when it boards its charter flight back from Kentucky, where the Gamecocks play Saturday at 7:30 p.