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Let's continue the Spring Series here on Thunder and Lightning with a game Mississippi State has probably got circled on the calendar.

I think it's a very, very important one.

Joining us now now he covers the game

Cox for the state over in Columbia South Carolina but more importantly than that he is

my handsome young son Ben Portnoy glad to have you back on the podcast. This team last year, there was nothing in its first

ten games that would have suggested what was going to happen in the final two games, where they

had probably the best two wins in recent South Carolina history when they beat Tennessee

I mean beat isn't even the right word they crushed Tennessee and then took out Clemson there in the regular season finale

but then sort of went back sort of reverted back in the bowl game and didn't play their best was this South

Carolina team the 10-game South Carolina team or the two-game South Carolina team

I'll start with South Carolina team or the two game South Carolina team.

I'll start with just the simple answer of yes.

Like, I mean, I think that the South Carolina team is so confusing, right?

Because what you said is true. I think you look at the Tennessee game in the context around it right

South Carolina at the time they're sitting at six and four they've just frankly had their teeth kicked in by a really pretty mediocre Florida team and a game that was really, really ugly.

I mean, just a lot of sloppiness, nothing that inspired too much confidence and I remember leaving Gainesville and everyone we were kind of talking and discussion was all right well

South Carolina is gonna go six and six and maybe they'll go play in Birmingham or Tampa or

something like that you lose the last games to Tennessee and Clemson and frankly like at that time

I was still pretty high on Tennessee.

I had Tennessee at number one in the country, you know, but ahead if they're lost to Georgia and all of that.

So you look at that.

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