Where Will Gamecocks Go Bowling?
BACK TO OUTBACK? OR GATOR? The University of South Carolina football team will likely play eitheYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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It will be Northwestern, Michigan or Nebraska in the Outback. If Wisconsin does not go to the Rose Bowl, the Capital One and Outback will have to take a team with four losses or fewer ahead of a six loss Wisconsin team. Unless the Big Ten sends two teams to the BCS, which seems extremely unlikely at this point.
I’ll go if it’s in Jacksonville, but not Tampa.
It’s a DANG shame so many undeserving teams eat up legitmate BCS bowl spots (see Clemson, VT, 2011) and the REAL conferences and deserving teams (like the Gameoccks) get bumped down.
Other than the SEC teams, I doubt there is any team in the Top 10 that could beat SC.
The system SUCKS and punishes the BEST, like SC, and lets small-time teams like Clemson get much better bowls than they deserve…
It’s like Football Obama-Socialism.
The saving grace is that Teams like Clemson Get Embarrassed if they play a legitimate Top 20 team (see Clemson 2011)….
Man we NEED a playoff..and more than just 4 teams.
ditto
I guess USC could always move to a conference where they’d be little more than middle of the pack.
Do you really think Notre Dame, Oregon, or Kansas State would roll over for South Carolina?
Brad…Middle-of-the-Pack in the SEC is a National Championship contender if there was a decent system in place…
Of course if it were more accurate, Clemson would not even sniff the Top 25 w/ that little-boy schedule you play….
How do you Idiots get excited enough to even go to the games at that God-forsaken h#!! hole, knowing that SC is going to EXPOSE you every November…????
BigTurd, you’ve obviously mistaken me for a Clemsuck fan. And for the record, South Carolina is nowhere near a national championship contender, they aren’t even an SEC championship contender.
BigTurd, I’m sure Clemsuck fans get ready the same as Coot fans do as they prepare to head down to the industrial park for a game.
BigTurd, I also like penises all over my face.
We’ve been Bowl eligible EVERY year under the HBC’s tenure. We’ve been to a bowl game every year in HBC’s tenure with the exception of 2007 though we were eligible at 6-6.
I’d like to go back to the Outback and I’m guessing so does the HBC – we didn’t give it our best effort last time down there. The first two trips were a blast and I’m ready to hit Tampa again and demolish some weak ass Big Ten pretender.
How many new bowls popped up over the past 15 years, it used to be a big deal to go to a bowl, now if you get 6 wins you’re bowl eligible.
If you won 6 on an 11-game schedule before the switch away from Div I/IAA to FBS/FCS, it was a winning schedule and you were bowl eligible, as long as those six were against DI schools. then before teh 12-game sched, for a couple of years, you could in a two-year cycle count one DIAA win as part of your six.
USC has been bowl eligible since Lou Holtz’s last year. We were 6-5. But the Clemson brawl, which the kitties started, put both teams out.
The post states incorrectly: “Spurrier has guided the Gamecocks to bowl eligibility in seven of his eight seasons…” I’m merely pointing out that that statement is incorrect; we’ve been bowl eligible every year in the HBC’s tenure.
We were also Bowl eligible twice during Spanky’s tenure and (inexplicably and thanks to Queen Dixon) turned the offers down.
Who is Brad Warthen and why does he suck?
Carrefour, you ain’t from around here, are you?
https://www.fitsnews.com/tag/brad-warthen/
brad the best part of you ran down your moms leg
@ ohnonotagain. Also remember the fact that USC was already bowl eligable before the brawl and were the 1st of the two to say becasue of thier actions they would not accept a bowl invite if given. Clemsux and, coach at the time Bowden, needed the win to become bowl eligable and they (Bowden and fans)then cried they should still go to the bowl anyway and they didnt think it was fair that the clemson president also followed USC’s lead and Self-imposed a bowl ban that year. The NCAA never actually said neither team could go. USC decided itself it wouldnt go, and as to not look stupid clemsux agreed only after that. If it were up to them they would have gladly gone back to that crappy boise bluegrass bowl and acted like they deserved to be there.
sorry, once again posting while on hold on the phone at work. poor spelling
Carrefour, Brad really, really wants you to think he is not a Clemson fan, but he is. Besides that, he knows absolutely nothing about college football. The real Brad Warthen knows more.
@Carrefour, He is a pissed off, mid-western malcontent (though he will never tell us what mid-western team he pulls for, that would be a chink in his armor) who walked uphill both ways to school and channels his frustrations of living here by posting on blogs (ie bradwarthen.com), instead of focusing on and resolving the cause of his unhappiness. Joining a bowling league or something might help, but he may have let his bitterness go too far down the root.
That said, he is right about the USC thing. Sadly, they aren’t a SEC contender after being beaten by Florida and LSU (though they have a pie schedule next year and he won’t let anyone forget it when they get SEC east).
As far as the industrial park comment, it is true, but he says it because he enjoys seeing the glass half-empty. Unfortunately he doesn’t realize that he says these things because of latent narcissism. If he let go of some of the anger he could be the pithy/funny guy at the end of the bar instead of pithy/self-righteous guy who offers only rebuke. For him, constructive criticism is for the weak.
whatever bowl it is FITS stay the hell home