Texas A&M 59 – Missouri 29

1. Aggies quarterback Johnny Manziel completes his Heisman resume – throws for 372 yards and rushes for 67 – five touchdowns in all. Sets SEC record for total offense in a season.

2. Texas A&M converts first 12 third-downs, didn’t punt until the fourth quarter.

3. Missouri quarterback James Franklin doesn’t play.  Four separate injuries this year – ends the season with less than half the total-yards of a year ago.

4. Mizzou ends the year 5-7.  Gary Pinkel on the program:“And it won’t change because what we do works. We just have to do it better.”

 Ole Miss 41 – Mississippi State 24

5. 527 total yards of offense for the Rebels, beat Dan Mullen for the first time.

6. 2010 video clip of Mullen – “We’ll never lose to this team again” – appears on Vaught-Hemingway Stadium jumbotron late in the game.

7. Mike Herndon: “For the first time since Mullen arrived in Starkville, Ole Miss beat him in the motivational game.”

8. Hugh Freeze: “We didn’t play out of hatred for anyone. It was more of playing out of love for one another and this university.”

South Carolina 27 – Clemson 17

9. Backup South Carolina quarterback Dylan Thompson throws for 310 yards and three touchdowns.

10. Jadeveon Clowney sets single-season sack record at South Carolina.

11. Four in a row for the Gamecocks over the Tigers for the first time since the 1950′s.

12. Steve Spurrier gets career victory 65 at USC – most ever for a South Carolina coach: “That’s sort of neat that it came against our in-state rival.”

Vanderbilt 55 – Wake Forest 21

13. Eight wins for Vanderbilt for the first time since 1982 – six in a row for the first time since 1955.

14. Jordan Rogers and Jordan Matthews hook up 10 times for 144 yards in the first half.

15. 180 yards for Zac Stacy – only running back in Vanderbilt history to surpass 3,000 yards in his career.

Steve Spurrier isn’t worried about tiebreaker scenarios.  After destroying Georgia at home his Gamecocks have gone on a two-game slide losing at LSU (close) and at Florida (not so close).  Now his South Carolina team will need to win out while Florida loses out if it’s going to reach Atlanta.

The Ol’ Ball Coach said yesterday that he’s not worried about such issues.  According to The Charleston Post & Courier, Spurrier said, “I’m pulling for Florida (against Georgia this weekend), but I think it’ll be a close game.  I’ve got my own problems around here trying to make a first down.”

Only then was Spurrier informed that Carolina actually needed Georgia to win Saturday’s game with the Gators in Jacksonville.

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South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw missed last Saturday’s blowout win over East Carolina with badly bruised throwing shoulder.  Depending on how that shoulder holds up today in practice, Shaw will either start or sit versus UAB in two days.

Steve Spurrier said yesterday that he will have to “see if he can throw full-go Thursday before we’ll know if Connor is able to play.”

“If he can throw it down the field without any pain, he’ll start Saturday night.  If he can’t throw anything but screen passes, I think we’ve got to let (Dylan Thompson) play.”

Spurrier has been quick to say that the starting job will go back to Shaw when he’s fit.  But after Thompson’s passing performance last Saturday — 27-of-31 for 330 yards and three touchdowns — it’s a good bet Shaw fears being Wally Pipp’d in Columbia.  (Look it up.)

Meanwhile, receiver Damiere Byrd told The Charleston Post & Courier that Shaw “is looking good” and is “getting better.”

“Nah, that’s what they do,” Joker Phillips said when asked if he were angry about South Carolina’s last-second touchdown in Kentucky’s 54-3 loss on Saturday.  “That’s their offense.  Why should our problem become their problem?”

Here’s a quick breakdown of the Gamecocks’ final controversial series from Mark Story of The Lexington Herald-Leader:

“South Carolina was leading Kentucky 47-3 Saturday in Williams-Brice Stadium when the Gamecocks took over the ball at their own 24 with 3:38 left in the game.

On the ensuing drive, South Carolina completed three passes in what became a 10-play drive.  With a chance to let the game clock run out without scoring, the Gamecocks instead rushed to the line of scrimmage to run one more play.

It became a Dylan Thompson 8-yard touchdown run with eight seconds left in what became a 54-3 victory.”

Poor sportsmanship?  Not according to UK linebacker Danny Trevathan.  “I know (Steve Spurrier) had the lead, but that’s his style of coaching.  We needed to stop them.”

Indeed, Spurrier has never been one to call of the dogs.  The case could be made that as a good general schooled in the Sun-Tzu’s “The Art of War,” the Ol’ Ball Coach is simply inflicting as much damage as possible on his enemy.  Rather than taking a shortsighted view of Saturday’s game, he might have realized that beating down UK (and Phillips) could lead to further unrest in the Wildcat program and hurt them in recruiting.  Since Carolina is traditionally lumped in with the Cats and Vanderbilt in the bottom half of the East, a blowout win might also further send the message that USC has arrived for good in that division’s upper echelon.

Sure, that could be the case.

But dollars-to-doughnuts I’ll betcha Spurrier — who often acts like an overgrown kid — just likes to run it up on people… and long-term prospects played little role in his go-for-the-jugular mentality on Saturday.