Yeah, we’ve beaten the losing streak to South Carolina — 13 games — to death. To put that in perspective, since the last time Vanderbilt beat South Carolina, Vanderbilt has beaten Tennessee five times. And if you had told me in 2008 that in the next thirteen years we’d beat Tennessee five times and South Carolina none, I’d have thought you were crazy. After all, I was 21 years old when Vanderbilt beat Tennessee for the first time in my life.
And yet, no matter how promising Vanderbilt’s prospects look against South Carolina, I have to remind myself of all that — 13 losses in a row — before I get too sanguine about Vanderbilt’s chances to beat them.