Georgia is sitting pretty after their dominant win over Missouri on Saturday. They are the only team with one loss in the SEC, and with only one game left for them in conference place they are essentially guaranteed to make the SEC Championship game.
Heading into this past weekend though the Bulldogs' SEC finale against South Carolina looked challenging. The Gamecocks were 6-3 and just jumped to No. 17 in the College Football Playoff rankings after winning four games in a row, but they don't look like much of a threat anymore.
South Carolina snaps their win streak in embarrassing fashion
South Carolina traveled to Arkansas this past weekend. Arkansas is one of the worst teams in the SEC this season, so the expectation was for South Carolina to win, see their win streak extend to five games and be ranked in the top 15 when Georgia comes to town next week. Instead they got blown out 34-6 and fell to 6-4 and will probably be unranked now.
The biggest reason why South Carolina lost this game was because their star quarterback LaNorris Sellers was out with an ankle injury he picked up last week. He is the engine that makes their team run, and without him it was clear they would take a step back. They still however were expected to beat Arkansas, but they didn't even come close.
This gives an idea of just how bad this South Carolina team is. Sellers is a superstar, one of the best quarterbacks in the SEC and country, but the rest of their team apparently isn't even that good. So even if he is healthy and able to play against Georgia next week it seems like all UGA needs to do is stop him and they'll win with ease.
South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers may not be 100 percent healthy
It was a bit surprising that Sellers didn't play against Arkansas. He was on the Gamecocks' injury report all week, but on Friday's edition he was marked probable to play. In fact, South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer said on Monday that he was going to play against Arkansas, but that didn't happen.
So who knows how healthy he actually is, but there's a chance Sellers won't be able to play against Georgia next week as well. If he doesn't play then there's close to a zero percent change Georgia loses this game, but it feels like they still don't stand much of a chance even if he is able to play.
South Carolina clearly doesn't have that great of an overall team. Great teams are able to keep winning even without their best player, but South Carolina showed that they are one of the worst teams in the SEC when Sellers isn't able to play. Sellers being able to play or not might be irrelevant though because it's clear that he won't be 100 percent healthy if he does play and he clearly won't get much help from the rest of his team either.
Kickoff between Georgia and South Carolina is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 21 at 7:30 pm EST.
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