Today there are 90 days until kickoff.
90 is the number of yards in the longest punt in Gamecocks history. One has to assume there was some strong win and / or a very long roll to accomplish such a feat, but we can’t be sure because the game happened in 1924 and there aren’t many surviving details. What we are sure of was the man who kicked it: Bill Jeffords of Orangeburg. #10 Jeffords was also a halfback and helped lead the ’24 Cocks to a 7-3 record. The game in which he punted his way into the record books was against North Carolina in Chapel Hill. USC won that game 10-7 to end a long losing streak against the Tar Heels.
