Kentucky beats South Carolina for third straight time, 17-10

He graduated high school a semester early and enrolled at SC in January. The Wildcats have 10 turnovers on the season and at least three in every game they’ve played. “We really lacked execution starting the game offensively”, first-year coach Will Muschamp said.

“The kids battled hard and fought”. “It’s frustrating. We try to teach, try to coach, try to educate, and sometimes all that don’t work. Our group this year, we don’t have as many guys like that”.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky is feeling good about itself heading into its matchup with SC after the Wildcats stumbled out of the gate to start the season.

“The first thing I said to them on Monday was if you think you’ve arrived we’re in bad trouble”, Gran said. Three of those wins have come against the Gamecocks.

The South Carolina Gamecocks travel to Lexington to take on the Kentucky Wildcats in a SEC east matchup.

Of course, Kentucky did rank near the bottom of 10 national defensive categories doing into the game with SC and had blown a 25-point lead to Southern Mississippi and allowed New Mexico State to score 42 points and gain 500 yards.

It’s unlikely one of those changes will be at quarterback despite freshman Brandon McIlwain’s struggles in his first SEC start.

Kentucky will need to get their offense going if they want to beat the Gamecocks on Saturday. “That’s our problem. Until we get it changed, we’re going to have the same results that we have in that stadium, which is bull crap”. So we are going to do what we have to do. That’s the only way I can explain it. SC has scored a total of 47 points in its three games this season. But South Carolina didn’t score again.

McIlwain scored first on a nine-yard TD scamper only 17 seconds into the contest, moments after redshirt freshman A.J. Turner returned the opening kickoff 80 yards to set up the score.

Will Muschamp’s downfall at Florida was, as is well documented, due to the inability to find any kind of offensive stability.

Star of the game: SC senior defensive end Darius English had the best game of his career.

English’s three sacks are the most in a game by a USC player since Jadeveon Clowney had 4.5 against Clemson in 2012.

SC tends to play low scoring games while the Mildcats get caught up in some high scoring games. Safety Chaz Elder, out the past two weeks with a rib injury, could also be back depending on how he handles contact in practice.

If Kentucky plays well after the Alabama game, it could end its six-year bowl drought. Johnson threw for 310 yards and three touchdowns against the Aggies.

Only to keep coming up empty, miss pass blocks, fail to run the ball with any kind of consistency. Even with a mediocre offense, SC not only will cover the spread, but will win this game comfortably. The Gamecocks finished with 268. McCaskill assisted that goal, which was her second assist of the game. He was listed as the starter at one of the Gamecocks three wide receiver spots on the depth chart. He has four catches for 66 yards. Kemp, who rushed for 555 yards in 2015, has been limited thus far by injury.

Third down woes: The Gamecocks were 3-for-13 on third downs.

So in control of the ground game were the Wildcats that they didn’t even attempt a pass for the final twenty minutes of the game. “He needs to worry about being the quarterback at South Carolina”, Muschamp said.

A Kentucky fan referendum on head coach Mark Stoops showed Saturday night in the swaths of empty seats at Commonwealth Stadium.