SEC vs. ACC: Gamecocks Win

For the second straight year, South Carolina handed N.C. State an opening-game loss, this time a 7-3 defeat in Raleigh, N.C.

It's hard to put a game like this in perspective, especially when it's the first of the college football regular season.

Considering that neither team is expected to make much noise in the Top 25, it may be largely consequential. But it is an early check mark for the the SEC against the ACC after a 2008 season in which the latter dominated in its bowl games.