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South Carolina football was back on the practice field Friday, this time in pads.
The Gamecocks held their eighth practice of fall camp, the second one they with pads. The first scrimmage of fall camp will be tomorrow at Williams-Brice Stadium, a date that marks three weeks away from the season-opener against North Carolina in Charlotte.
Here are some some observations from the five periods of open practice.
Right off the bat, two major abscenes on the offensive side of the ball grabbed the headlines. Expected starters Antwane Wells Jr. and Trey Knox were both not present at practice. Knox has been dealing with a knee injury, and while both were involved in each of the first two open practices, Wells did not participate in any of the 11-on-11 reps.
Freshman wide receiver Kelton Henderson, who was working off to the side during the last open practice on Monday, was also not accounted for during the five open periods.
On the positive front, linebacker Stone Blanton was back and appeared to be going through full practice after being off to the side in each of the first two open practices. Freshman wide receiver CJ Adams had his blue limited contact jersey off and appeared to be at full strength.
Defensive backs Peyton Williams and B.J. Gibson both were off to the side in the last practice and were full go. Defensive end Tyreek Johnson was still wearing a blue jersey, and there were a couple new injuries on the defensive side as defensive end Terrell Dawkins and linebacker Pup Howard were both off to the side during positional group drills.
JuJu McDowell also had a brace on his right leg, although he was still going through the full stretch period and positional drills with the rest of the running backs.
There is still a big question about who will round out the depth in the running back room, and an individual period where running backs coach Montario Hardesty was throwing passes to alll of the running backs provided a little bit of a glimpse into who is working with the room.
McDowell, Dakereon Joyner, Mario Anderson Jr., Bradley Dunn, T.J. Twitty and Djay Braswell were all in the group, and are expected to make up most of the gameday depth chart. Nathan Harris-Waynick, Kamron Sandlin and Chase McCracken rounded out the group of nine backs.
During a special teams period the Gamecocks spent a couple minutes working on kick returns, and four players split the duties. Last year’s kickoff return ace Xavier Legette was of course back there, along with McDowell and Joyner as the returning players. One interesting note is that true freshman wide receiver Elijah Caldwell also took a turn returning kicks. Caldwell, a Rock Hill, S.C. native, was the last member of South Carolia’s 2023 recruiting class to sign.
South Carolinna’s returning safety had one of the highlights of practice, stepping in front of a pass and grabbing it off a deflection during a wide receiver vs. safety period.
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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.
#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
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).
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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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