University of South Carolina wide receiver Alshon Jeffery has been named a second-team All-American by the Associated Press.
Wait … second team?
Are they serious? The 6-foot-4, 233-pound sophomore from St. Matthews, S.C. was easily the best wide receiver in the toughest conference in all of college football this year … and that makes him a second-team [...]
Second Team?
Gamecocks Lay An Egg
University of South Carolina head football coach Steve Spurrier said all week that his Gamecock team had saved its best game for last …
He must have been talking about USC’s postseason bowl appearance … because No. 19 South Carolina laid a king-sized egg in the biggest football game in the 117-year history of the program.
Heisman [...]
We Were (Sort Of) Wrong
Over the last two years, this website has been merciless in its criticism of University of South Carolina head football coach Steve Spurrier.
Why?
Because we hate mediocrity – which is pretty much all that Spurrier had produced during his first five seasons in Columbia, S.C. Also, we have a bad habit of calling it like we [...]
Carolina-Clemson Notes
The bragging rights belong to the Gamecocks … for the second year in a row.
Head coach Steve Spurrier’s University of South Carolina football team took advantage of several critical Clemson miscues en route to a 29-7 victory over their arch-rivals in Death Valley on Saturday. To read our recap of the game, click here. For [...]
Tamed!
The University of South Carolina’s breakthrough season under sixth-year football coach Steve Spurrier continued on Saturday as the Gamecocks earned an opportunistic 29-7 victory over arch-rival Clemson in Death Valley. After last year’s 34-17 win in Columbia, S.C. the Gamecocks have now beaten the Tigers in consecutive seasons for the first time in forty [...]
Kitties Could Win?
The SEC Eastern Division Champion South Carolina Gamecocks have been installed as three-point favorites for this weekend’s rivalry game against the Clemson Tigers …
That makes sense … South Carolina (8-3, 5-3 SEC) is the No. 18 team in America and has proven itself against some of the nation’s elite programs (including an epic upset over [...]
USC-Troy Notes
Forget looking ahead to arch-rival Clemson or a rematch against Auburn in the SEC Championship game … or for that matter, forget looking behind to last week’s SEC East-clinching win over Florida.
The University of South Carolina football team was resolutely-focused on dispensing with Troy Trojans on Saturday – a singular intentness that resulted in a [...]
USC-Troy Quotes
The University of South Carolina football team eviscerated the Troy Trojans 69-24 on Saturday at Williams-Brice Stadium – a record-setting day for the 17th-ranked Gamecocks.
True freshman running back Marcus Lattimore set the school’s single-season touchdown mark while sophomore wide receiver Alshon Jeffery broke the school’s single-season receiving yardage record. Together, Lattimore and Jeffery also became [...]
Jeffery On WR List, Etc.
In a thoroughly unsurprising announcement, University of South Carolina wide receiver Alshon Jeffery was named one of ten national semi-finalists for the 2010 Biletnikoff Award on Monday.
Presented by the Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation, the award – named after former Oakland Raiders’ standout Fred Biletnikoff – is given annually to the nation’s best wide receiver.
Last year [...]
Swamp Drained
Chalk up another signature win for University of South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier – whose Gamecock football team humbled No. 22 Florida in Gainesville to capture the school’s first-ever SEC Eastern Division title.
Not content with upsetting top-ranked Alabama earlier this season, Spurrier’s Gamecocks knocked off the Gators in convincing fashion on Saturday – becoming the first [...]
WTF, Cocks?
With so much focus on the University of South Carolina’s bid for its first-ever SEC East football championship, it was easy to ignore this week’s game against Arkansas. And that’s exactly what head coach Steve Spurrier’s Gamecocks decided to do – turning what should have been a highly-anticipated Top 20 match-up into a Razorback rout.
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USC-UT Quotes
Marcus Lattimore runs like Secretariat?
That’s what University of Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley had to say about South Carolina’s freshman running back after he galloped for a career-high 184 yards on Saturday against Dooley’s Volunteers. Lattimore now has 722 yards and 11 rushing touchdowns on the season. He’s also caught 14 passes for 240 yards [...]
