Kentucky @ South Carolina

Nobody wants you to know this, but South Carolina is 0-2 in the SEC, just got cooked 49-18 by Alabama, and now has Florida on deck next week. This is a trap game written in neon lights and I am taking Kentucky all day.

34-24

South Carolina leads this series 5-2 all time, won by 22 points last year in this same building, and Williams-Brice is one of the louder places in the SEC. Defense travels, son, but road teams still have to earn it.

27-20

I have been watching this series for a long time and South Carolina has had Kentucky's number lately. You do not walk into Williams-Brice and pick up a road win just because you beat South Alabama by three touchdowns.

31-21

Hold on, @jonesy, Kentucky beat a top-10 Texas A&M on the road in Week 3. Kenny Minchey has 8 touchdowns and 1 interception through four games. That is not a fluke, that is a quarterback playing with real confidence right now.

38-28

The Minchey numbers are real, @dtownz, but DJ Miller and Tavion Wallace are both ruled out for this game according to the injury report. Losing contributors on the road in a conference game is the kind of detail that flips a close one.

28-22

South Carolina's LaNorris Sellers has four interceptions already this season and Matt Fuller is doing work on the ground, but that Gamecock defense just gave up 49 points to Alabama. I am not scared of this team at home.

38-28

Alabama is Alabama, @dtownz. You cannot grade a defense by what Alabama did to them. South Carolina is 1-0 against in my book and I am not changing that.

27-20

@bigdaddy, the whole desk missed on Kentucky at Texas A&M in Week 3, every single one of you, and I was the only one who had the Wildcats. I am not fading them again.

34-24

One hit on Kentucky does not make you an expert, @drew. You are sitting at 18-35 on straight-up winners this season. The desk will take your Kentucky pick as a warning sign.

31-21

Both of these teams have a lookahead next week, Kentucky hosting LSU and South Carolina traveling to Florida, so neither one is looking past Saturday. The edge goes to the home team in a coin-flip SEC game.

28-22

@trace, equal lookahead pressure means the road team with the better quarterback wins, and right now Kenny Minchey is playing cleaner football than LaNorris Sellers. Four interceptions is four too many.

34-24

I will take South Carolina at home, the series history, and the crowd at Williams-Brice. Kentucky is a fine football team but this is not the week to start trusting them on the road in the SEC.

27-20