{"id":6903,"date":"2010-09-02T08:14:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T13:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=6903"},"modified":"2010-09-02T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T15:05:35","slug":"espn-college-football-preview-southern-miss-at-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/espn-college-football-preview-southern-miss-at-south-carolina-6903\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN College Football Preview: Southern Miss at South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southern Mississippi at South Carolina
\nThursday, 9\/2\/10, 7:30 PM EST, TV: ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 South Carolina -13.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 South Carolina -14
\nOpening Total 45
\nCurrent Total 45
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 South Carolina -625, So Miss +500<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Could this be the year Spurrier and the Gamecocks put it all together?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Southern Mississippi opens its 94th season of football when travelling to face South Carolina on national television.\u00a0 The Golden Eagles are 62-30 in season openers and have won their last three such games.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the team is opening on the road for the first time in four seasons, when they began the 2006 campaign with a 34-7 loss at Florida.\u00a0 Head coach Larry Fedora is 2-0 in season openers.\u00a0 Thursday night will mark the 16th time the Golden Eagles have opened a season against the Southeastern Conference, as they are 3-12 in those contests and all 15 previous games have been played away from Hattiesburg.\u00a0 This game will also mark the 36th-straight games against an SEC opponent on the road dating back to the 1989 season.\u00a0 Turnover will certainly be key in this contest due to Southern Miss forcing at least one in 24 of 26 games during the Fedora era and have had two or more in 18 contests.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles have a few things going for them, especially a 2-0 ATS record as an underdog of 10.5 to 21 points over the last three years.\u00a0 The squad is also 32-20 ATS in September since the start of the 1992 season.\u00a0 From a total perspective, players need to be aware that the team is 4-8 O\/U on the road over the last three campaigns.<\/p>\n

South Carolina is 76-36-4 all-time in season openers and the team has won 10 consecutive opening games and 13 out of the last 14.\u00a0 Head coach Steve Spurrier is 19-1 all-time in season openers as a collegiate front man, with his only defeat coming on a 27-21 loss to his current team on September 2, 1989, while at Duke.\u00a0 The Gamecocks are 6-2 on Thursday night games over the last five seasons, including 4-0 in season openers.\u00a0 South Carolina has won six straight non-conference home games dating back to the 2008 opener.\u00a0 The team is actually 26-3 in home non-conference games since 2000.\u00a0 Spurrier\u2019s unit is primed for a big season due to the luxury of returning 17 starters from a squad that finished 7-6 overall, 3-5 in SEC play.\u00a0 That number includes eight on offense, seven on defense and two on special teams.\u00a0 The Gamecocks own a 18-13-0 all-time record against current members of Conference USA.<\/p>\n

The Gamecocks have produced a 3-1 ATS record as a favorite of 10.5 to 21 points and the total is 8-4 O\/U in this situation in the last 12 tries.\u00a0 Spurrier\u2019s unit is just 12-11 ATS over the last two seasons and the total is 10-14 O\/U over that span.\u00a0 In the last seven matchups with Conference USA opponents, South Carolina has produced a 4-3 ATS record.<\/p>\n

Bettors will find that the visitors are 2-6 ATS in their last eight games versus the SEC, while the under is 8-3 in the last 11 such meetings.\u00a0 The Gamecocks have rattled off four straight ATS winners in September and the under is 7-3-1 in their last 11 games during the opening month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Southern Mississippi at South Carolina Thursday, 9\/2\/10, 7:30 PM EST, TV: ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 South Carolina -13.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 South Carolina -14 Opening Total 45 Current Total 45 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 South Carolina -625, So Miss +500 Southern Mississippi opens its 94th season of football when travelling to face South Carolina on national television.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[2558,1492,2783,2782,739,382,1246,2781],"class_list":["post-6903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-conference-usa","tag-espn","tag-gamecocks","tag-golden-eagles","tag-sec","tag-south-carolina","tag-southern-mississippi","tag-steve-spurrier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6903"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6911,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions\/6911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}