South Carolina played, arguably, its best game of the season this past Saturday. SP+, ESPN’s analytics model created by Bill Connelly, saw South Carolina move up 16 spots from last week. This means that Connelly’s SP+ believes South Carolina is the 35th-best team in college football moving forward. Get USC Gamecocks app notificationsSouth Carolina is on its first open week of the season, so the Gamecocks will not play this Saturday. Following the bye, South Carolina travels to Baton Rouge for a date with No.