South Carolina-Kentucky opens as a pick’em, but line starts shifting wildly

South Carolina’s opponent Saturday, Kentucky, is coming off a big win and just broke into the rankings for the first time since 2017. Despite that, the game opened as a pick’em with no favorite.

And then a funny thing happened.

In the minutes after the game was considered dead even, the line started to move. According to VegasInsider, South Carolina moved to being a two-point favorite within 10 minutes of it coming out.

That meany money coming in on the Gamecocks’ side of things, but then things changed.

Within minutes, the consensus line fell back below two, and by 7 p.m., it was back to a pick’em. By Monday morning, the Wildcats were favored by the VegasInsider consensus, though USC was favored in some places.

USC was favored by 2 1/2 against Vanderbilt and covered with a 37-14 win. USC is 2-1 against the spread this year.

Kickoff on Saturday is 7:30 p.m. at Kroger Field and will be broadcast on SEC Network.

This story was originally published September 23, 2018 at 4:21 PM.