ESPN’s SP+ projects the final score of Mississippi State at South Carolina

The 2026 SEC season will begin in earnest this weekend, as after Alabama and Kentucky got the conference schedule started off last weekend, 5 games between league foes populate Saturday’s slate. And in Columbia, South Carolina, a pair of darkhorse teams led by dynamic quarterbacks will hope to start their SEC seasons off on the right foot. Mississippi State and South Carolina, both of which own 2-0 records through the early portion of the campaign, will meet at Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday afternoon, and the stakes are (almost) just as high as any other matchup. Both Shane Beamer and Jeff...