Since we’ve now made it six weeks through the tragically brief college football season, I wanted to pull back a bit and note six things I’ve appreciated about the Gamecocks’ 2017 campaign so far. I’m going to try to avoid some of the more obvious ones — we all know Hayden Hurst is good at catching footballs, and that T.J. Brunson is a tackling machine — and highlight some of the more underrated aspects of this team instead.
The Smiths.
When star receiver Deebo Samuel went down with his possible season-ending leg injury in an ugly loss to Kentucky, it looked a lot like a season-ender for the Gamecocks’ hopes, too.