Friday, August 30, 2013

NCAA College Football 2013 - Rapid Reaction - North Carolina at No. 6 South Carolina

The No. 6 Gamecocks lived up to their billing in the first half with both quarterbacks, Connor Shaw and Dylan Thompson, recording TDs on their first throws - that's gotta be some sort of record. Turnovers have not helped North Carolina's cause one bit, either.

20-7 score line at the half (and a hundred yard differential in total yards gained) pretty well indicates that it's basically been one-way traffic so far for Spurrier's team. I can see SCAR really putting a beating on the Tar Heels in the second. 

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Surprisingly, it wasn't theJadeveon Clowney Show that everyone assumed it would be. The menacing South Carolina DE didn't record a sack, and seemed to be on and off the field with some regularity in the second half. Of course, the Twittersphere unloaded on the Heisman hopeful - unfairly, for mine - but it's early days, and the hot night in Columbia, SC was never going to be particularly conducive to big men doing big things. The fact that North Carolina probably had months' worth of a game plan to combat his presence wouldn't have helped, either. Here's an idea: wait until October, and I'm pretty sure that, by then, Clowney will be up and about as we all expect him to be. Calling him out after the first game of the season is as silly as it is childish.

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