Column: College Football Playoff process needs revisiting
By Dalton Abel | Jan. 14, 2015Well, the team that wasn’t supposed to get in won the whole thing.
Well, the team that wasn’t supposed to get in won the whole thing.
When wide receiver Shaq Roland arrived on campus in 2012, the expectations were clear: maintain the standard of winning set by players who’ve come before.
South Carolina’s recruiting class is bleeding. A 7-6 season had recruits worried, but a comment by head coach Steve Spurrier saying that he planned to be around for “two or three more [years]” sent recruits into a state of panic.
Looking for a victory looking to salvage an already shaky start to its conference schedule, South Carolina traveled to Oxford, Mississippi.
When you’re No. 1 you’re always under the gun. No team understands that sentiment more than the South Carolina women’s basketball team right now.
Honoring fallen United States soldiers represents a small fraction of University of South Carolina students’ plans for winter break. Junior Will Starke and sophomore Ben Dietrich would have to be included in that figure, however, as the two members of South Carolina’s men’s golf team participated in the Patriot All-America Invitational to close out the 2014 calendar year. Starke and Dietrich finished up the tournament shooting a 77 (+7) and a 78 (+8), respectively, but participating in an event that recognizes fallen U.S.
As the final horn sounded and several Gamecock players ran around with their arms in the air, it was easy to tell how big the team’s 64-60 upset victory over No. 9 Iowa State at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn meant to the South Carolina men’s basketball program.
For the third time this season, the South Carolina men’s basketball team (8-3) will play a Big 12 opponent when facing No. 9/9 (AP/USA Today Coaches’ Poll) Iowa State (10-1) Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
South Carolina won its fourth consecutive bowl game Saturday for the first time in program history with a 24-21 victory over Miami in the Duck Commander Independence Bowl.
For the South Carolina men’s basketball team, opportunity once again came knocking at the doors of Colonial Life Arena in the form of a meeting with a formidable Big 12 opponent.
When the South Carolina men's basketball team hosts Oklahoma State Saturday, meeting will be a unique sort of unpredictable.
The South Carolina women’s basketball team will look to continue its unblemished campaign Thursday night when it hosts Charlotte (1-5) at 8 p.m.
Last Sunday evening the South Carolina volleyball team gathered to watch the NCAA Selection Show, just like many other programs across the country did.
Welcome to December, the month most commonly known for the Festivus holiday. A celebration that includes, among other things, the airing of grievances.
Early on this season, the South Carolina men's basketball team has turned in some very promising performances and some equally concerning ones.
Monday was just another night at the office for the South Carolina women’s basketball team as it rolled to a 90-26 victory over North Carolina Central.
Despite a 6-6 record this season, a coaching vacancy at his alma mater and 69 years of age, Steve Spurrier announced Monday that he will be returning as South Carolina's head football coach in 2015.