Live updates: Shane Beamer media availability (July 26)

For the first time since SEC Media Days last week, Shane Beamer will meet with the South Carolina media.

Beamer will address the local media fully really for the first time since spring practice ended and is now a week out from the start of preseason camp. 

The Gamecocks’ head coach held his annual media golf outing Wednesday afternoon and will have a press conference Wednesday around 2 p.m. He’ll update the status of the team, preview camp and much more.

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South Carolina is coming off an 8-4 regular season that ended with a loss in the Gator Bowl to Notre Dame. The Gamecocks, after an inconsistent first 10 weeks of the season, ended the year with a bang with wins over Tennessee and Clemson. 

The Gamecocks get quarterback Spencer Rattler back for another season, the first time there’s been an incumbent quarterback since Jake Bentley heading into the 2019 season. 

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Preseason camp starts next week and will run for a month leading up to the season opener against North Carolina in Charlotte. That game is scheduled for Sept. 1 at 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC. 

That game will get the red carpet with ESPN’s College GameDay in attendance in the first game of year three under Beamer.

South Carolina release on College GameDay coming

ESPN’s College GameDay Built by The Home Depot will kick off the 2023 college football season on Saturday, Sept. 2, in Charlotte, N.C., before the South Carolina Gamecocks face the North Carolina Tar Heels in the Duke’s Mayo Classic. The three-hour show (9 a.m. ET) will be live from Romare Bearden Park in uptown Charlotte to kick off GameDay’s 37th season and 30th year of road shows, which have become synonymous with college football Saturdays over the past three decades.

One of the premier matchups of Week 1, the ‘Battle of the Carolinas’ neutral site game between SEC and ACC rivals will be played at Bank of America Stadium in primetime on ABC (7:30 p.m.). The game location is also significant with the ACC offices now headquartered in Charlotte.

This will be College GameDay’s 440th road show all-time – and the first-ever visit to a South Carolina-North Carolina game. The Gamecock’s last GameDay appearance was 2014, while the Tar Heels appeared in 2010. This is the third trip to uptown Charlotte for College GameDay in recent years. The show also originated from Romare Bearden Park before the 2017 ACC Championship Game and the 2021 Duke’s Mayo Classic when Georgia faced Clemson in a Week 1 top-five showdown.

Rece Davis hosts the three-hour College GameDay joined by analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and Pat McAfee with college football insider Pete Thamel and reporters Jen Lada and Jess Sims.

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Before this first road show of the season, College GameDay will host a two-hour preview show (10 a.m. – noon) in Week 0 from ESPN’s Bristol, Conn., studios on Saturday, August 26.

In 2022, College GameDay delivered its most-viewed college football regular season, averaging 2.1 million viewers. In all, college football’s most-watched pregame show delivered a 10% increase over the prior year and nine episodes of at least two million viewers.

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ESPN’s Expanded Digital Coverage

ESPN’s social and digital pre-pregame show, Countdown to GameDay, will also return for the 2023 season ahead of Week 1’s GameDay in Charlotte with hosts Christine Williamson, Harry Douglas and Harry Lyles Jr. The show is available across Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and the ESPN App at 8:30 a.m. ET weekly.

Additional details and information regarding College GameDay’s Week 1 show, including special guests, will be announced in the coming weeks.

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