Vanderbilt football is fresh off bowl eligibility with a win over Auburn last week. Now, the Commodores will return home in front of a sold-out crowd against South Carolina at FirstBank Stadium (3:15 p.

The Gamecocks (5-3, 3-3 SEC) rank third in the country with 3.88 sacks per game and eighth with 7.88 tackles for loss per game. Those pass-rush numbers are unparalleled among teams on the Commodores ' schedule. The next-best team in both metrics that Vanderbilt has already played, Texas, has 2.5 sacks and 6.88 tackles for loss per game.