why not go off the rails and make an attention getter selection and publicity thing for the playoffs?
Here’s what I believe.
Sellers is awesome. This South Carolina defense is awesome. This South Carolina team is awesome, and if the selection committee decides to reward a team that won 6 in a row — something that hadn’t happened since 2013 — with 4 vs. teams in the AP Top 25, it’d be a terrifying squad to face.
I also know that Shane Beamer got his wish by Syracuse taking down Miami. It remains to be seen how much benefit of the doubt the selection committee will give the Canes after they blew a 21-0 lead and fell to an unranked team for the second time. But there’s no denying that it’s a better result for the Gamecocks, who won’t have to worry about Clemson getting in as an at-large team.
Playoff or not, though, that’s still a remarkable way to close the regular season. Sellers’ brilliance was the difference in South Carolina winning 9 regular-season games for the first time in the Playoff era. Beamer not only did that, but he also became the first coach to win in consecutive trips to Death Valley since … Spurrier. That matters. So, too, is the fact that Sellers and Dylan Stewart will return as 2 of the most popular players in the sport.
That’ll matter regardless of what the selection committee decides. What’s clear is that anyone who watches South Carolina can see a team that’s even better than what that 9-3 record suggests.
South Carolina?!?
I don’t know what awaits South Carolina’s Playoff path after beating Clemson … all I know is that the LaNorris Sellers-led Gamecocks have been a revelation.Here’s what I believe.
Sellers is awesome. This South Carolina defense is awesome. This South Carolina team is awesome, and if the selection committee decides to reward a team that won 6 in a row — something that hadn’t happened since 2013 — with 4 vs. teams in the AP Top 25, it’d be a terrifying squad to face.
I also know that Shane Beamer got his wish by Syracuse taking down Miami. It remains to be seen how much benefit of the doubt the selection committee will give the Canes after they blew a 21-0 lead and fell to an unranked team for the second time. But there’s no denying that it’s a better result for the Gamecocks, who won’t have to worry about Clemson getting in as an at-large team.
Playoff or not, though, that’s still a remarkable way to close the regular season. Sellers’ brilliance was the difference in South Carolina winning 9 regular-season games for the first time in the Playoff era. Beamer not only did that, but he also became the first coach to win in consecutive trips to Death Valley since … Spurrier. That matters. So, too, is the fact that Sellers and Dylan Stewart will return as 2 of the most popular players in the sport.
That’ll matter regardless of what the selection committee decides. What’s clear is that anyone who watches South Carolina can see a team that’s even better than what that 9-3 record suggests.
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