Matt Rivers has a comp pick on South Carolina plus the points. They are getting 9.5 at SportsBook playing at Tennessee.

It was a great victory when Tennessee upset Kansas at home and the story was even better as a bunch of walk-ons helped a ton in the end thanks to the suspensions but the Volunteers really have not done all that much since.

Bruce Pearl’s team is talented with Chism, Hopson, Maze, Prince and others and can put up points but things have just not been that great of late. UT has now dropped four in a row to the number and none of those games have even been close. Something is just not right with the Vols right now.

Tennessee started the downward slide in that 78-63 loss at Georgia as the 6 point chalk. That was mind scratching but any team can lay an egg and at that time that’s all it appeared to be. But then they lost at home 85-76 to Vanderbilt as a touchdown or so favorite. Two games ago the Vols needed pretty much a buzzer beater to nip Florida by a point as the touchdown plus chalk. Then in that last game Pearl’s squad did very little in the win but non-cover against a pretty terrible LSU squad.

One of these games we will see the explosive UT team show up and South Carolina has been an injured team this season but with Devan Downey dominating there is no reason that the Gamecocks will not stay in range here in Knoxville. Darin Horn continues to impress me as a coach as he continues to get the most out of his team this season without both Archie and Holmes for the majority of it.

SC probably won’t rise to the occasion like they did against former number one Kentucky that night last week in Columbia but to get around double digits is just too much.

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