COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Well at least I didn't completely buy into this team as a Top 5 bunch (wait, what was that? Oops).

I truly didn't see this coming.

A tough loss at the end, maybe. But the worst loss ever to South Carolina? No.

Final score 35-7. It felt like 105-7.

There is no other way to put it, Georgia laid a huge egg in chicken country.

"The bottom line is we got whipped," Mark Richt told the Georgia Bulldogs Radio Network. "We got whipped as a team. Coaches, players, everybody."

It was a TOTAL whoopin'. 

Georgia has seen these before from Steve Spurrier coached teams (cue the flashback scenes to Jacksonville). But Georgia always had the edge over the Ole' Ball Coach with this group.

Not anymore.

Lets put it this way. It's a bad night when the only highlight being a garbage touchdown to prevent being the first UGA team to get shutout since 1995.

And it all started up front, where it usually does.

The offensive line that helped turn "Gurshall" into a statewide phenomenon, had no shot against this USC D.

Todd Gurley had 39 yards on 13 carries, Keith Marshall had two less yards with one fewer carry.

"Their defense pretty much stoned us the entire evening," said Richt. "Up front we didn't provide a whole lot of space for our backs or time for our quarterbacks."

South Carolina was bigger, faster, stronger and better.

It is clear. Steve Spurrier has leap frogged the Dawgs again.

Even though it looked like Georgia  had jump passed Florida, the Evil Genius has hopped over everyone on this side of the conference. Maybe everyone this side of Nick Saban.

The Gamecocks have won 12 games in a row against SEC East opponents, 10 in a row against the conference, and three in a row against UGA. That's never happened.

This might be a program changing win for the Gamecocks. They are a serious title contender now.

And the Dawgs lose another big game.

They are 3-12 since 2008 against teams in the top 20 and 3-8 against the top 10 since 2007. The Game of the Season is turning into the Loss of the Season.

Yes, it is still possibly for history to repeat itself. Georgia can back its way back into the SEC Championship game like they did last year since South Carolina still has to play two top 10 teams in Florida and LSU in the next two weeks.

But you'd feel a little sheepish about it after tonight.

"Historically South Carolina hasn't won more than six games in conference play. They would have to change the course of history, but they have the team that can do that," said Richt.

If so, Richt's group would have to beat Florida (who took care of LSU today) to do that. And that looks a long way away.

Unfortunately for Georgia fans, it looks like history is repeating itself again.

This team has teased them again.