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Deja Vu: South Carolina is Replicating Kentucky’s pre-2022 Problems
It’s feeling like deja vu all over again in the SEC East. Ahead of the final year of divisions, South Carolina is repeating the mistakes Kentucky made ahead of a disastrous 2022 season. Unless the Gamecocks are able to quickly overcome their inefficiencies ahead of the opener against North Carolina, history will repeat itself this fall.
The similarities are striking, impossible to ignore. It all starts with a new offensive coordinator.
New NFL Play-Callers with Resume Blemishes
Although the timing was certainly much worse in Lexington, Kentucky and South Carolina each had to find new play-callers after surprising offensive coordinator departures. Mark Stoops and Shane Beamer turned to an NFL journeyman to find a solution to their problems.
Prior to his time in Lexington, Rich Scangarello worked for five different NFL teams in seven seasons. Dowell Loggains also worked for five different NFL teams during an 8-year span. Scangarello’s one season as an NFL offensive coordinator did not go well. Loggains produced similar disastrous results, although he could at least blame Adam Gase for poor play-calls.
The one slight different between Dowell and Rich are the last two seasons the former spent at Arkansas. As the Razorbacks’ tight ends coach, he got to experience life in the SEC while working for a rising star in the business, Kendall Briles.
Nevertheless, the addition of Dowell Loggains was not celebrated by South Carolina fans. After ending the season with huge wins over Tennessee and Clemson, Shane Beamer opened Loggains’ introductory press conference by attacking a reporter.
Defenders of Dowell will point to the recommendations given by his former NFL quarterback pupils, like Jay Cutler. An opponent should point out that Mark Stoops could have hired him last year, but few thought of Loggains as a serious candidate in Lexington.
South Carolina Shuffles the Deck on the Offensive Line
The depth at offensive tackle was in dire straits a year ago in Lexington. It forced Kentucky to slide All-SEC guard Kenneth Horsey to left tackle and play a redshirt freshman in his former position. UK brought in an Auburn transfer to play the opposite guard position, but the results were still disastrous. Kentucky gave up more sacks than any other Power Five program and finished dead last in yards per carry.
South Carolina moved its left guard to left tackle out of desperation. Jaylen Nichols suffered a knee injury in the spring game that may sideline him for the entire season. Now their offensive line’s best player might be a transfer from Yale, Nick Gargiulo. Mercer and Western Illinois transfers may also have to take serious snaps this fall for the Gamecocks.
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Notable Absences in the Running Game
The South Carolina offensive line will be asked to open holes for a player that started his career as a wide receiver. MarShawn Lloyd transferred to USC. Shane Beamer tried to replace him with players from the portal but swung and missed time and time again. Targets opted for Kentucky and LSU instead. Now Dakereon Joyner, a wide receiver that also spent time at Wildcat QB, is expected to be the primary ball-carrier
Kentucky was put in a similar pinch for the first four games of the 2022 season when Chris Rodriguez was suspended. Fortunately for the Cats, he returned in time to tally 904 yards on the ground, ranking 8th in the SEC.
Lightning Rod QBs with NFL Aspirations
Will Levis and Spencer Rattler do not necessarily play with a similar style, with one exception. Last year Levis threw 10 picks, Rattler had 12. The one thing they do share in common — EVERYBODY has an opinion of the quarterbacks. College football fans either hate them or are prepared to die on a hill for them. They also each have spent time in the first round of NFL mock drafts. Rattler hopes Loggains’ pro-style system will get him back in the first round conversation. Levis almost did it in spite of his former QB coach.
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Freshmen Enter with Lofty Expectations
Despite the turnover at offensive coordinator, Kentucky brought in its highest-ranked recruiting class in school history last fall. The results were immediate. Top 100 signee Barion Brown set two UK freshman wide receiver records and Dane Key broke another. On the other side of the line of scrimmage, Deone Walker was a second team All-SEC selection by the AP.
Shane Beamer doesn’t have the highest-ranked class in school history, but he does have one of the most anticipated prospects to ever wear garnet, black and white. Nyck Harbor is a 6-foot-5 athlete that doubles as a 100-meter sprinter. He’s a freak in every sense of the word. Beamer recently told Andy Staples that Harbor is up to 243 pounds and is playing receiver for the Gamecocks. South Carolina fans are dreaming of disruptive plays unlike anything the SEC has ever seen before.
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The Rub: It’s Boom or Bust for South Carolina
A blind man can see the similarities between 2022 Kentucky and 2023 South Carolina. The former held it together for a while, peaking at No. 7 in the AP Poll. It all fell apart when the quarterback failed to be a superhero in the season’s biggest moment.
South Carolina does not have the same benefit Kentucky had a year ago: the schedule. Florida was the only Power Five opponent Kentucky played in September and those Gators finished 6-7. South Carolina opens the season against North Carolina and Heisman Trophy candidate Drake Maye. Two weeks later they travel to Georgia, followed by a home game against Mississippi State and a road trip to Tennessee. South Carolina needs Spencer Rattler and Dowell Loggains executing to perfection right away, and even that might not be enough for the Gamecocks to avoid disaster in 2023.
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How to watch South Carolina vs Iowa State women’s basketball: Time, channel, live streams
The 4th-ranked South Carolina Gamecocks women’s basketball team next ships off to the Sunshine State for a matchup with No. 15 Iowa State at the Fort Myers Tip-off. The game is scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. ET with TV coverage on FOX and streaming on-demand.
- How to watch: Live streams of the South Carolina vs. Iowa State game are available with offers from FuboTV (free trial), SlingTV (low intro rate) and DirecTV Stream (free trial).
- For a limited time, FuboTV is offering $30 off the first month after the free trial period. With the $30 offer, plans start at $49.99.
#4 South Carolina Gamecocks (5-1) vs. #15 Iowa State Cyclones (5-1)
NCAA women’s basketball matchup at a glance
When: Thursday, Nov. 28 at 1:30 p.m. ET
Where: Suncoast Credit Union Arena, Fort Myers, Fla.
TV channel: FOX
Live streams: FuboTV (free trial) | SlingTV (low intro rate) | DirecTV Stream (free trial)
Both South Carolina and Iowa State lost their first games of the 2024-’25 season within the past eight days, with the Gamecocks falling on the road to No. 5 UCLA (77-62) on Sunday and the Cyclones to Northern Iowa (87-75) last Wednesday in Cedar Falls. South Carolina is now 5-1 in its defense of the 2024 NCAA women’s championship with a top-10 win over NC State highlighting the team’s early-season résumé. The Gamecocks will be Iowa State’s first ranked opponent after falling to No. 2 seed Stanford in overtime (87-81) in the second round of last season’s NCAA Tournament
South Carolina Gamecocks vs. Iowa State Cyclones: Know your live streaming options
- FuboTV (free trial) – excellent viewer experience with huge library of live sports content; free trial lengths vary; monthly rate after free trial starts at $59.99 after current $20 discount offer.
- SlingTV (low intro rate) – discounted first month is best if you’ve run out of free trials or you’re in the market for 1+ month of TV
- DirecTV Stream (free trial) – not the same level of viewer experience as FuboTV, but the standard 7-day free trial is still the longest in streaming.
South Carolina and Iowa State are set for a 1:30 p.m. ET start on FOX. Live streams are available from FuboTV (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial) and SlingTV (low intro rate).
The 2024 South Carolina high school football season is in high gear and SBLive Sports is the place to follow of the live scoring updates and finals.
Follow the action get the most to date scores by tracking the SBLive South Carolina High School Football Scoreboard. We will have in-game score updates and all of the final scores from every corner of the state. You can also search for full schedules and complete scores from all of your very favorite teams.
Here’s a guide to following all of the South Carolina high school football this week.
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ESPN's College Football Playoff Predictor has updated again. Here's where South Carolina stands
ESPN.com’s College Football Playoff predictor isn’t perfect because it applies analytics to a situation that ultimately will be decided by a committee of humans. But it does provide a nice guide and discussion piece about which teams have the best chance to make this year’s College Football Playoff.
Because of that human element, the predictor has been updating twice each week, once on Sunday to account for Saturday’s games and again after the latest CFP rankings are released.
[More for subscribers: What latest rankings mean for South Carolina’s College Football Playoff chances]
While the Gamecocks won their game on Saturday and got a lot of help from the teams around them last week, the logjam of SEC teams ahead of them in Tuesday’s rankings is still limiting their upside at this time.
With the committee putting South Carolina behind fellow three-loss SEC teams Alabama and Ole Miss, the predictor currently gives South Carolina a 20 percent chance of making the 12-team field, which is three percentage points lower than its chances in Sunday’s update.
The Gamecocks do, of course, have one more huge opportunity to pad their resume when they travel to Clemson this weekend to renew the annual rivalry in what may be the biggest game in the matchup’s history.
Beat the Tigers, who are currently No. 12 in the CFP Top 25, and South Carolina’s chances of making the playoff jump to 46 percent, according to the predictor.
While that’s just under a coin flip, it’s also 12 percentage points lower than it was in Sunday’s update.
South Carolina is still very much in the hunt but is going to need to win and play very well against Clemson and get more help around it.
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As a reminder, the CFP committee’s top 12 teams won’t correlate exactly with the 12-team field.
The CFP will consist of the top five highest-ranked conference champions and the next seven highest-ranked at-large schools. The top four conference champions will receive the top four seeds and a first-round bye. The fifth conference champion will be seeded by its CFP ranking. If that ranking is outside of the top 12 it will be seeded 12th as the final team in the field.
The teams seeded 5 through 12 will fight it out in the first round with the winners advancing to the quarterfinal round to face the top four seeds.
The Gamecocks and Tigers are set for a noon showdown Saturday in Clemson.
ESPN Analytics uses FPI to simulate the entire college football season 200,000 times. A committee model is applied to mimic College Football Playoff selections and seeding in order to generate a 12-team bracket for each simulation. The most likely CFP teams are provided for user selections. After user inputs, a likely bracket is generated and randomly simulated using FPI.
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