Details Were South Carolina's Biggest Plus — And Cause for Concern in Saturday's win over Georgia State. Alan__Cole has more:
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All of it added up to be more than enough to wash away a choppy offensive showing in a 35-14 season-opening win over Georgia State at Williams-Brice Stadium.said, putting it lightly. “But when you put it all together; fake field goal, flipping the field position on a punt — I mean,had a 79-yard punt tonight. He punted seven times, which we don’t need to be punting seven times in a game, but to have seven punts or a 49-yard average with a long of 79, that’s big time.
It was not a disastrous performance, but large portions of it were out of sync. South Carolina punted on four of its first six possessions, including two three-and-outs. It only ran the ball for 78 total yards against a defense that allowed 141.5 per game on average last season. Rattler was consistently on the run behind a fragile offensive line.“We didn’t finish enough drives tonight,” Rattler said. “Too many mistakes; we didn’t dominate the perimeter like our goal was.