South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier isn’t holding out much hope that Kentucky will pull the upset over Georgia this weekend.

A Georgia win over the Wildcats will give the Bulldogs the SEC East title for the first time since 2005 and will keep the Gamecocks from competing for back-to-back SEC championships.

With that said, Spurrier was very complimentary of the Bulldogs Wednesday and was especially proud of his team’s season, considering some of the turmoil his offense has been through.

“I’m proud of our guys,“ Spurrier said. “For our guys to go 6-2 in the conference and to beat all of the Eastern Division teams and to beat Florida, Georgia and Tennessee again this year, like we did last year, was, to me, pretty doggone good for our guys.

“If we don’t win the East, we don’t win it.”

Spurrier attributed Georgia’s current six-game conference winning streak for its East title run. The question was then brought up if he thought Georgia benefited from a softer schedule than most other teams in the SEC, but Spurrier said Georgia and South Carolina had almost identical conference schedules, except for one game.

“We actually had the same schedule except we had Arkansas and they had Ole Miss,“ he said. “Obviously, Arkansas has had a little bit better year than Ole Miss. That’s what you call ‘rub of the green.’

“We both had a good draw right there, but they had a little bit better draw getting Ole Miss.”