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South Carolina a small underdog to Oklahoma in early betting lines
South Carolina is a small betting underdog to Oklahoma for next weekend’s road matchup with the Sooners, according to early lines released Sunday morning.
Draft Kings has the Sooners as an early 3-point favorite while FanDuel set the line at Oklahoma -3.5. Bally Sports and Bet Rivers both set it at 5.5 points. All of those lines are according to Vegas Insider, which has the early consensus line at Oklahoma -3 as of late Sunday morning.
The over/under on the game is 41.5 points, which isn’t surprising given the strength of both teams’ defenses and the inconsistency of their offenses.
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The Gamecocks (3-3, 1-3 SEC) are coming off a heartbreaking 27-25 defeat at Alabama, a game they entered as three-touchdown underdogs.
South Carolina has wins over Old Dominion, Kentucky, and Akron this season, along with losses to LSU, Ole Miss, and the Crimson Tide.
Oklahoma (4-2, 1-2 SEC), in its first season in the new-look SEC, is coming off a 34-3 beatdown at the hands of rival Texas in the Red River Rivalry game.
The Sooners have wins over Temple, Houston, Tulane, and Auburn with losses to Tennessee and the Longhorns.
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While the game will be the first ever matchup between South Carolina and Oklahoma, it will be a bit of a homecoming for Beamer who served as the Sooners’ tight ends coach before landing the job in Columbia.
“Being with Lincoln Riley (at Oklahoma) and that recruiting team (it was) just a new way of doing things, new way of seeing things,” Beamer said at SEC Media Days this year. “(I saw it at a program) not like Georgia, because that’s where I was coming from. And then being in a state, this isn’t a knock on South Carolina football, it’s facts, the population of the state of South Carolina isn’t what the state of Texas is. And it isn’t what the state of Georgia is.
“So therefore there’s fewer Power Five players coming out of the state of South Carolina each and every year then, you know, Texas and Georgia and California, a lot of states can say that. So being able to be creative on recruiting outside your state, like we had to do with Oklahoma was beneficial for me coming back to South Carolina also.”
The Gamecocks and Sooners are scheduled for a 12:45 p.m. ET kickoff on SEC Network.
New details have emerged in an officer-involved shooting that left one dead and a deputy injured in Anderson County on Monday.
A deputy with the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) initiated a traffic stop outside of Townville, SC, on I-85 Northbound near Mile Marker 11 for a traffic violation, according to a release from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED).
The deputy requested back-up and spoke to 32-year-old Austin Derrell Robertson, of Pennsylvania, in his patrol vehicle. Once the other deputy arrived, Robertson got out of the vehicle and “a physical altercation involving him and the two deputies” occured, according to SLED.
SC deputy critically injured after shooting during traffic stop, suspect killed
While deputies attempted to tase Robertson, officials said he grabbed a firearm from his vehicle and shot one of the deputies.
Both deputies then shot back at Roberston, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
SLED said the deputy was airlifted to the hospital and remains there for treatment at this time.
The incident remains under investigation by SLED, as requested by the ACSO.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – Former South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer has been nominated for a position in foreign diplomacy.
The White House on Tuesday listed Bauer as a nominee to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Belize, a Central American country bordering Guatemala.
It’s unclear when a confirmation hearing will take place. WIS has reached out to the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee for more information.
Bauer was South Carolina’s lieutenant governor from 2003-2011, serving under then-Gov. Mark Sanford. Before that, he served terms in the South Carolina House of Representatives and the South Carolina Senate.
More recently, Bauer entered the race for U.S. Senate in July 2025, looking to unseat Sen. Lindsey Graham in the Republican primary. He ended his campaign the following month.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Six Republican candidates vying to become South Carolina’s next governor met in downtown Charleston for a wide-ranging debate that put abortion, infrastructure and the future of data centers at the center of the race.
The forum was held at the Sottile Theatre, where Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, state Sen. Josh Kimbrell, U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, Lowcountry businessman Rom Reddy and Attorney General Alan Wilson took the stage.
Questions included whether they would support a state hate crime law, how they would address concerns about growth and infrastructure, how to navigate collaboration, abortion and the future of data centers in the state.
One issue that drew near-unanimous opposition was state Senate Bill 1095, a proposed total abortion ban that passed out of committee earlier in the day. All of the candidates opposed the bill, but they differed on what they would do if it reached the governor’s desk.
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Norman said he would sign it.
“You know, this is an emotional issue, but I will tell you if this bill came to my desk as governor. If it passed the House and the Senate, I would sign it,” Norman said.
All of the other candidates on stage said they would veto the bill if it came across their desk as governor, with Reddy arguing the question should be decided by voters.
“The Supreme Court did not say the loudest voice in the ruling class prevails. It said it’s up to the people in the state, so let’s put it to a referendum,” Reddy said.
On infrastructure, candidates discussed reforming the South Carolina Department of Transportation and allowing private-sector involvement to help pay for improvements.
Wilson outlined ideas that included leasing interstate easements and expanding private express lanes.
“We privatized that grass between the interstates. We turn it into private express lanes that can be told we leased the easements on the sides of interstates to telecommunication companies and energy companies, and charge them for natural gas line and fiber optic fiber optic cables,” Wilson said.
Evette also pointed to public-private partnerships and the possibility of fast-pass lanes.
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“We want to make sure that we’re innovative public private partnerships coming in and creating fast pass lanes to allow people that are in a hurry to be able to utilize that,” Evette said.
The final question focused on data centers, with candidates agreeing corporations should “pay their way.”
“They should pay for their water. They should pay for their infrastructure, any roads around it, and we should look at what Governor Ron DeSantis has done in Florida with the large data centers that are coming to Florida. That should be the model in South Carolina and everywhere,” Mace said.
Kimbrell said the state should set limits to protect natural resources and guard against higher power costs for residents.
“Put parameters around data centers to ensure that the water consumption does not impact places like the ACE Basin,” Kimbrell said. “Ensuring that the Public Service Commission makes absolutely sure nobody’s power rate goes up and we try to get behind the meter energy grids in place so they can be self-sufficient.”
Two more debates are planned ahead of the primaries on June 9.
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