So, let’s recap Saturday night’s game against the South Carolina Gamecocks. South Carolina:
- averaged 5.5 yards per play to Vanderbilt’s 3.8 (and ran 30 more plays than Vanderbilt, leading to an ugly disparity in total yards)
- had a 48.8 percent success rate; Vanderbilt had a 34 percent success rate
- started its drives, on average, at the 40.5-yard line (helped along by starting three drives on Vanderbilt’s side of the 50)
- committed one turnover to Vanderbilt’s two
These are the kinds of disparities you normally see in a game with a final score of something like 49-0, not a 24-7 game that was a seven-point game at the end of the third quarter.