The trend-watchers are on Tennessee’s side. The Vols have covered in six of the eight most recent visits to Columbia, and the Gamecocks have not covered in their five latest games. But Tennessee guard Jordan Bowden (illness) will sit for the second straight game. The Volunteers scratched out just 56 points without him in their last outing, and their only straight-up victory in the last four came against SEC bottom-feeding Missouri. South Carolina’s ravenous defense will gobble them up.