COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Steve Spurrier hopes he’s finally got the pieces of South Carolina’s championship puzzle in place.
The defending SEC Eastern Division champs were supposed to have little trouble on their way back to the league title game. But the 18th-ranked Gamecocks (4-1, 2-1 SEC) have struggled the first month of the season, especially on offense where their lack of production was glaringly obvious in a 16-13 loss last week to an Auburn defense that came in as the worst in the SEC.
Spurrier has decided to swap out senior quarterback Stephen Garcia for little-used sophomore Connor Shaw when South Carolina takes on Kentucky (2-3, 0-2) on Saturday at Williams-Brice Stadium.
