COLUMBIA — It wasn’t just the success, it was what it could be going forward.

South Carolina’s running game finally broke loose against Kentucky , collecting 178 yards on the ground (impressive under any lens, but especially so considering the previous week’s total.) Shane Beamer pointed out, and correctly, that not enough was being made of how the Gamecocks salted the game — by running the ball 16 straight times, gaining 68 yards and cutting all but 23 seconds off a clock that started at 9:51.

“A couple of those plays we wouldn’t even have a receiver on the field,” Beamer gushed. “We had four tight ends out there just playing old-school, smash-mouth football.”

It worked. It worked well. Throw in that LaNorris Sellers flashed back to the Houdini escape artist of which he has become

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