South Carolina fell to 1-3 and 0-2 in Southeastern Conference play on Saturday evening. Head coach Will Muschamp help his regularly scheduled Sunday evening teleconference to discuss his team's 34-14 road loss to Missouri.

After issuing an opening statement and announcing that freshman running back Kevin Harris would be out for the remainder of the season and backup center Hank Manos would likely be out until after the bye week, Muschamp addressed questions on quarterback Ryan Hilinski's elbow, the lack of offense the Gamecocks had against the Tigers and next Saturday night's home contest against Kentucky.

Harris scheduled to have surgery, Manos dealing with ankle injury

Below are his opening comments, followed by a transcription of the Q&A session he held.

"Well obviously just the inability in the first half offensively to get anything going. We couldn’t run it and couldn’t stay on the field on third down. Field position was a factor in that with four drives inside our 10-yard line. It was not good circumstances for Ryan, his first start on the road in the Southeastern Conference. We did nothing offensively in the first half. The defense played 54 snaps and it was at 17-7 game at the half.

We come out and hit the screen to Bryan. It was well executed by our players, a couple nice blocks down the field by Shi and Chavis. Bryan does a great job of getting the ball in the end zone. We cut it to three and then really it was disappointing that we don’t answer defensively. We get two critical third down plays, in position to make plays and don’t make them. They hit tempo on a run for about 12 and hit a screen for the touchdown. The offense comes back and answers again. We’re going to make it a three or seven point game when the ball is intercepted and returned the other way to make it a 31-14 game.

It’s hard to win on the road when you defense isn’t on the field and you give up 14 points. We came out defensively and had a great goal line stand in the first quarter. Late in the game we held them to a field goal. Our guys competed and played hard, just didn’t play as well or consistent as we need to play. That’s the bottom line."