They were the greatest five years in South Carolina football history. The 2009-2013 seasons encapsulated three-consecutive 11-win seasons, the longest streak of home victories in program history and the careers of Marcus Lattimore, Connor Shaw and Jadeveon Clowney, to name a few.
Auburn at Alabama The 2014 edition of the Iron Bowl was supposed to be a play-in game for the SEC championship. Alabama is still up at No. 1 in the country, but Auburn kind of blew it for all of us by losing back-to-back games against Texas A&M and Georgia.
2009: The Beginning Prior to this meeting, the 2000s had not been kind to the Gamecocks. South Carolina had lost seven of nine games in the century heading into the 2009 meeting.
In Clay Travis’ November 16th column on Fox’s Outkick The Coverage, he wrote about the injuries of Todd Gurley and Marcus Lattimore, and how it was “immoral” that the NFL’s age restrictions preventing them from going pro early.
Even with a 14-point lead, there is a reason South Carolina fans found themselves clutching to the nearest possible object in the second half against South Alabama.
South Carolina achieved bowl eligibility in sloppy fashion Saturday with a 37-12 victory over South Alabama in a contest that featured ten turnovers.
College football is very different from the NFL in a number of categories, but the most significant is probably player turnover. Every four years, give or take, athletes exhaust their eligibility and/or take off for the professional ranks, putting an end to their relatively short time in college football.
With some help from its special teams, the South Carolina defense played its most complete game of the season last week against Florida.
South Carolina has the second-most passing yards in the SEC and its quarterback leads the conference in individual yards through the air. That's all well and good, but all the Gamecocks have to show for it is a .500 record and the opportunity to qualify for a bowl game Saturday against South Alabama.
When the Gamecocks welcome South Alabama into the confines of Williams-Brice Stadium Saturday afternoon, they will do so with $900,000 in hand.
South Alabama sports editor Alyssa Newton talks this week's matchup.
It's 2014, and everything that can go wrong typically does for South Carolina.
After Steve Spurrier announced his resignation as football coach of the Florida Gators in 2002, he offered a voice of reassurance to those who watched him lead a program into prominence.
Between mid-September and mid-October, if the Florida Gators weren't the laughing stock of the SEC, nobody was.
It’s hard to put it any other way besides that it's been a strange season for the South Carolina offense.
It’s only the second week of November, but South Carolina fans find themselves in a conundrum that’s been avoided the past few seasons. After finishing three-consecutive seasons in the top-10, the Gamecocks will have to defeat either Florida or Clemson on the road just to be bowl eligible. However, as always, the SEC as a whole is still very much alive in the postseason discussion.
Coming out of high school in 2005, Michael Washington received scholarship offers from South Carolina, Clemson and North Carolina State.
