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Starting tonight, South Carolina begins a new era as a program under new head coach Will Muschamp. Not only will the Gamecocks introduce a new head coach, but they’ll also introduce a new cast of characters on both sides of the ball.
The arrival of head coach Will Muschamp signaled a change in momentum for the Gamecocks.
While Gamecock football season's opening stretch of away games means you'll have to wait a few more weeks to get crazy with 80,000 of your closest friends at Williams-Brice Stadium, there's no reason you can't still take in the team's 2016 debut alongside your Carolina brethren.
Author's Note: The winnability rating is not meant to represent the actual probability of South Carolina winning each game. It's intended to measure how possible it is for the team to win. For example, a rating of 10 wouldn't mean that there's no way the team could lose; however, it would mean that the Gamecocks are heavily favored, and that there's no reason to believe they can't win.
Lower your expectations.
When you are taught offensive philosophy by all-time great coaches like David Cutcliffe and Mark Richt, you might know a thing or two about giving defenses headaches.
The inexperience of South Carolina's wide receiving corp cannot be overstated. Of the seven wide out options listed on South Carolina's depth chart prior to the Vanderbilt game, only three saw game action last year and they compiled 17 combined receptions.
True freshman and double-sport athlete Brandon McIlwain. Former walk-on Perry Orth. Reclassified former 2017 commit and coach’s son Jake Bentley. These are the options for head coach Will Muschamp at quarterback heading into Thursday’s game against Vanderbilt. Nobody really knows who will be out on the field to start the game, but each candidate has his own selling point for seeing playing time.
There’s a lot that needs to be improved for the 2016 football season after all of the struggles from last season. One thing that really needs to be worked on is within the defense — specifically, their pass rush. South Carolina’s defense was one of the weakest in the SEC in 2015 and contributed to most of their problems. New head coach Will Muschamp was most recently the head coach at Florida and the defensive coordinator at Auburn and is noted for turning around struggling defenses.
Wide receiver Christian Owens is transferring out of the Gamecock football program.
Will Muschamp's South Carolina team doesn't have a lot of experience heading into the season, but that isn't true of the specialists. With the likes of Elliot Fry, Sean Kelly and Rashad Fenton returning, South Carolina features an extremely reliable special teams unit that could make up for other shortcomings that the team may have.
South Carolina senior defensive back Rico McWilliams will leave the program, after returning to practice last week. He had taken a leave of absence for a week of practice to tend to family matters in his hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which experienced historic flooding.
Bluffton native Shameik Blackshear came with high expectations when he signed with South Carolina, joining the 2015 class as a four-star recruit. However, his first season in Columbia didn't go as planned.
SEC football games are won at the line of scrimmage. A SEC team can have all the skill position talent in the world, but it will not win many football games if their offensive line cannot stop the behemoths that fill the front sevens of every defense in the conference.
The Gamecock football team will have a new look this season. Literally. The team will debut new jersey, helmet and pant options, but those changes are superficial. The real changes can be seen in the coaching staff, the defensive and offensive schemes and especially the players on the offensive side of the ball.
Senior placekicker Elliott Fry and senior offensive tackle Mason Zandi were elected to represent South Carolina in the preseason All-SEC team by the league's coaches. Fry was named to the second team at his position and Zandi earned a spot on the third team.
Last year's college football season is in the past, and the start to a new season is almost upon us, yet one thing still remains the same: The SEC is the strongest conference in college football. Though, as with every argument, of course there are its naysayers.
The glory days of SEC college football were beautiful for fans of the conference's 12 (and eventually 14) schools, because the conference was undoubtedly superior to all other leagues in the nation. However, those days are no more. The SEC is no longer the best conference in college football.
Coach Will Muschamp did little to alleviate the widespread anxiety felt in Gamecock Country when he announced that he had no immediate plans to announce a starting quarterback.
We've heard this before. Last summer, Tennessee was a trendy SEC Championship pick and plenty of sportswriters considered them a threat to make the College Football Playoff. For those who have forgotten what happened last fall, let me remind you.