South Carolina featured in early betting odds to win CFP national title next season
It didn’t take long for the focus to already shift towards next season.
Not long after Ohio State defeated Notre Dame in Monday’s College Football Playoff national championship game, the betting odds for who will win it all in 2026 came out. South Carolina has a 60-1 chance to win the national title next season, per Circa Sports.
Here’s a look at the full list of the early favorites.
- Ohio State 5-1
- Georgia 6-1
- Oregon 6.5-1
- Texas 7-1
- Penn State 9-1
- Alabama 12-1
- Notre Dame 17-1
- Clemson 20-1
- LSU, Ole Miss, Tennessee 25-1
- Texas A&M 30-1
- Michigan 40-1
- Auburn, Miami 50-1
- South Carolina, Southern California 60-1
- Florida 80-1
- Nebraska, Oklahoma 100-1
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The Gamecocks are tied with Southern California for 13th-best odds going into the 2025 season. This comes after a year in which they went 9-4 (5-3 SEC) in head coach Shane Beamer’s fourth season in Columbia. If the odds are in their favor, it would be their first national championship in program history.
It’s a huge improvement compared to where things stood going into this past season, with South Carolina nowhere close to being on the CFP radar. The Gamecocks, who were coming off a 5-7 season in 2023, had +30000 odds to this year’s national championship.
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As it turned out, the team was a lot better than many expected and finished No. 15 in the final CFP rankings before the 12-team playoff began in December. They’d go on to lose to No. 21 Illinois in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl on New Year’s Eve.
Now heading into next season, expectations will surely be much higher for South Carolina. The Gamecocks will open their season where the 2024 season ended at the national championship in Atlanta to face Virginia Tech in the Aflac Kickoff Game. That game is set to be played on Sunday, Aug. 31 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
