South Carolina vs. Oklahoma Predictions: SEC Football Week 8

Brian Edwards and Chris Lee preview a potentially-more-interesting-than-you-thought game between Oklahoma and South Carolina. The Sooners are favored by 5 1/2 according to FanDuel in a game shown at 11:45 Central on the SEC Network. Topics include: The Sooners don’t force turnovers, while the Gamecocks have turned a few into defensive scores (and kept other teams off the scoreboard by forcing them at critical times). However, Oklahoma has 23 sacks and the Gamecocks have allowed 20, which could be a recipe for that script to flip for the Sooners' defense. Oklahoma’s defense, laden with NFL-level talent, has been stingy in every way imaginable on defense, giving up 9.8 points per game (and seven of those coming via a punt return touchdown last week), 211 yards per game and just 3.7 per play. However, Oklahoma has struggled to run the football and the offense was markedly less effective with John Mateer playing for the first time after hand surgery. The Gamecocks do have talent on defense with Dylan Stewart and allow 5.2 yards per play. LaNorris Sellers and the Gamecocks averaged just 2.2 yards per pass play (adjusted for sacks) last week vs. LSU. However, Carolina had its best rushing performance (248 sack-adjusted yards) against the Tigers last week. Shane Beamer’s South Carolina teams have been known to flip the script and play their best ball in the season’s second halves. How do we sort out all this out and make our picks? GAMETIME SIDEKICKS Use promo code SE16 for 20% off! http://www.gametimesidekicks.com/ HOF Get a 7-Day Free Trial + 50% Off your first month with code SE16. Just download the HOF app on iOS or Android, enter code SE16 and you're all set. https://hofbets.com/?ref=mtcyy2y ROKFORM Use promo code SEC25 for 25% off! The world's strongest magnetic phone case! https://www.rokform.com/ HOVI DRY GOODS Use promo code BADBEAT for 15% off this week! https://hovidrygoods.com/ JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP Join the "It Just Means More" tier for bonus videos and live streams! Join Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv1w_TRbiB0yHCEb7r2IrBg/join FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/16Southeastern ADVERTISE WITH SOUTHEASTERN 16 Reach out to [email protected] to find out how your product or service can be seen by over 200,000 unique viewers each month! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.