The South Carolina football season isn’t quite finished, but several Gamecocks have already had record breaking seasons.  In our post game field reports we have highlighted some of the USC records, but we haven’t spent much time looking at SEC records.  Here are where various Gamecocks stand in the SEC single season record books. Rushing […]

If you missed our season ending report cards, here are the grades with links to the full write ups. Position Grade Wide Receiver B + link Running Back A – link Quarterback B link Offensive Line C link Defensive Line A – link Linebacker B + link Defensive Back C link Special Teams B – […]

The last report card from this Gamecocks Blog looks at us, the fans.  To begin, let’s look at the attendance.  Keep in mind Williams-Brice seats 80,250 officially and can hold as many as 85,000. Game Attendance +/- Southern Miss 70,438 -9,812 Georgia 80,974 + 724 Furman 73,681 -5,569 Alabama 82,993 +2,743 Tennessee 79,336 – 914 […]

Our next to last report card looks at USC Gamecocks Special Teams play this season. Discussion:  Special teams is the omnibus term given to anything that isn’t offense or defense.  Unlike offense or defense where there is either success or there isn’t, there can be varying degrees of success across all of the special teams.  South […]

We next turn our attention to the South Carolina defensive backs for this Gamecocks Report Card. Here is a snapshot – Player Tackles Sacks PBU INT Stephon Gilmore 71 3 2 2 D.J. Swearinger 62 – 5 1 Devonte Holloman 61 – 5 1 Akeem Aguste 51 1 2 – Chris Culliver 34 1 2 […]

Today’s Gamecocks Position Report Card focuses on the linebacking corps. Discussion:  Quick, name the two linebackers who started the SEC Championship game and their jersey numbers.  If you said Josh Dickerson (41) and Tony Straughter (44), you’d be right.  If those names and numbers weren’t on the tip of your tongue, then you’d be in […]

Resuming our post season report cards for the University of South Carolina Football team, today we look at the defensive line. Player Tackles TFL Sacks Hurries Ladi Ajiboye 41 5 2 5 Devin Taylor 39 12 7.5 11 Cliff Matthews 38 6.5 4.5 6 Travian Robertson 37 10 4 2 Melvin Ingram 26 10 8 […]

Today’s report card takes a look at the USC Gamecocks offensive line.  Previously, we’ve looked at the wide receivers, running backs and quarterbacks.Here are the starting linemen for each game: Game LT LG C RG RT Southern Miss Nunn Chisolm Johnson Watkins Eckerson Georgia Nunn Chisolm Johnson Watkins Eckerson Furman King Watkins Johnson Campbell Nunn […]

This third installment of the report cards looks at the quarterback position.  First, the numbers: Name Comp Att Yards TD INT Rating Stephen Garcia 205 315 2,816 20 11 154.1 Connor Shaw 23 33 223 1 2 124.3 Discussion:  The beginning of Stephen Garcia’s career at South Carolina was marked by minor troubles and some […]

Today we continue our position by position report cards by looking at the running backs.  First, the numbers: Name Rushes Yards TDs Long Marcus Lattimore 248 1198 17 58 Brian Maddox 62 338 2 38 Kenny Miles 30 82 0 11 Discussion:  Raise your hand if predicted what the running backs were going to do […]

Before we get to full fledged bowl previews and predictions, we’re going to look at the team’s season position by position.  First, today, is the wide receiver report card the South Carolina Gamecocks football team in 2010. Name Rec Yards TDs Long Alshon Jeffrey 79 1387 9 72 Tori Gurley 42 416 4 25 Ace […]

The final regular season Coaches’ Poll was released on Sunday, and South Carolina was ranked #20.  Unlike the other ballots of the season, the Coaches’ individual votes are made public.  Let’s look at how they ranked the Gamecocks (click to read more): #14 Larry Porter, Memphis #15 Robb Akey, Idaho Mark Richt, Georgia #16 Jim […]

There weren’t many games over the weekend, so there weren’t many changes to the poll.  Auburn is still my number one.  In alphabetical order here is this week’s ballot: Arkansas They didn’t play this week; they’re still in. Auburn This is still the best team in the nation. LSU They didn’t play this week; they’re still […]

South Carolina traveled to Atlanta to play Auburn for the SEC Championship and lost 56-17. Breaking it down…1st Quarter…The Gamecocks kicked off to Auburn and were unable to stop Cam Newton.  The Tigers scored quickly on a 4 play, 77 yard drive.  Just like recent games, South Carolina was down 7-0, and just like the […]

Here’s my Mumme Poll ballot for this week.  After watching the Auburn and Oregon games, I stil feel comfortable with Auburn at number one.  I put the top 10 in alphabetical order and listed a few of the also-rans and why they aren’t in the Top 10. Arkansas The Razorbacks picked up an impressive victory […]