South Carolina makes its case for the College Football Playoff
As the moments tick down until tonight’s latest College Football Playoff rankings reveal, South Carolina football took to social media Tuesday afternoon to make what could be its final case for inclusion in this year’s playoff.
While tonight’s rankings will not be the final one — those come out Sunday at noon — this is essentially South Carolina’s last real opportunity to move into the field of 12 since it’s idol this week.
That’s not lost on the Gamecocks who posted the following article on Twitter/X Tuesday which was then shared by pretty much every staffer in the program. The breakdown comes on the heels of a video that the media team posted earlier this week.
This week’s rankings will be revealed on ESPN at 7 p.m.
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Gamecock football makes its case via Twitter/X
· South Carolina is the only team in the Top 16 of the major Dec. 1 polls (Coaches/AP/FWAA) who is undefeated in the last seven weeks and has played (and won) four Top 30 teams (using Sagarin ratings).
· South Carolina has the longest current win streak in the SEC and fourth-longest winning streak among Power 4 teams (Oregon 13; Notre Dame 10; SMU-9).
· South Carolina has played more games (7) against AP/AFCA Top 25 teams than any other team in the Southeastern Conference.
· South Carolina is one of only three teams (also Notre Dame and Texas) with four wins vs. opponents ranked in the AP Top 25 at the time of the game.
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· Using the Nov. 23 CFP Rankings, South Carolina and Georgia have played more teams in the CFP Top 25 (5) than any other team.
· South Carolina is ranked 15th in the ESPN FPI Schedule Strength Rankings (Alabama 16, Ole Miss 31, Miami 55, Indiana 65).
· South Carolina has won four true road games – three by at least three touchdowns. Only Texas and South Carolina have won four road games in the SEC.
· South Carolina is one of four teams to win four games against Sagarin Top 30 and one of six teams to play seven Sagarin Top 30 teams.
· South Carolina has had fourth quarter leads in 11 of its 12 games this season.
· In one of its three losses, South Carolina was without starting QB LaNorris Sellers in the second half against LSU due to injury.
Through it all… FIREPROOF
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