Winning the state. That’s the target for Will Muschamp.
Muschamp hasn’t coached a game in the South Carolina-Clemson rivalry, but he knows what it means.
The first-year South Carolina coach said the state’s Gamecocks Clubs have given him a crash course in the intensity of the rivalry.
Not that Muschamp can tell the world what those fans said about Clemson, whom the Gamecocks play at 7:30 p.m. ET Saturday in their regular-season finale.
“I can’t say any of that publicly,” Muschamp told reporters. “I’ll get in trouble.”
What he could discuss, though, was the pressure from all sides to win a rivalry in which the Tigers have grabbed the upper hand – back-to-back wins in 2014 and 2015 after South Carolina had won the previous five in a row.