South Carolina football coach Will Muschamp isn’t one to delve into questions such as, was his third season disappointing?
But he is a man who often sums things up succinctly. As he fielded questions about the Gamecocks’ trip to the Belk Bowl, he pointed out something simple: South Carolina is a 7-5 football team, and that’s not what he’d prefer.
This season opened with high expectations. Maybe too high. Plenty of folks saw nine, maybe 10 wins on the schedule, one littered with rebuild jobs.
And yet there were some voices, Las Vegas and several statistical projections, which argued, no, 7 ½ wins was a better baseline.