Georgia beat South Carolina, 28-14, on Sunday in Columbia in a rescheduled game, with Georgia rushing for 326 yards.
Georgia beat South Carolina on a Sunday, and Will Muschamp bled from the face
It was an unusual day for college football, but the game was fine.
The meeting was initially scheduled for Saturday, but it moved a day back as Hurricane Matthew threatened parts of the Southeast. Football on a Sunday, right? It’s wild what people can come up with these days.
During the second half, South Carolina coach Will Muschamp began to bleed from the face.
He then patched the blood with a bandage, which seemed like a shrewd move.
That’s the look of a man who’s just been angry, or at least been through some stuff. Muschamp is no stranger to getting angry. And things didn’t go excellently for his team, even though the game stayed competitive a while.
(The cause of the facial bleeding was not immediately clear. It was, hopefully, nothing serious at all.)
The circumstances were a bit unusual, but people still turned out for the game with enthusiasm. The crowd at Williams-Brice Stadium sounded loud, and South Carolina at least hung in with a vastly more talented opponent.
The Gamecocks’ offense, as is custom, didn’t do much all day, but the unit did mount a 12-play, 90-yard touchdown drive in the third quarter that cut a 14-0 Dawgs’ lead to 14-7.
After another Georgia score, a Gamecock touchdown with 1:40 left made it 21-14, but the home team wasn’t able to get any closer than that. Georgia scooped up South Carolina’s ensuing onside kick and ran it in for a game-sealing touchdown.
South Carolina linebacker T.J. Holloman was flagged for targeting earlier in the day, but officials overturned that call after a video review, sparing him an ejection. From the angles the SEC Network offered up, it looked like the right decision.
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