South Carolina Gamecocks Offense: Preview 2025 X CFN, Fiu | CFN Facebook | Bluesky Fiu, CFN2025 South Carolina Preview South Carolina Defense BreakdownSeason Prediction, Win Total, Keys to SeasonIs South Carolina ready to be a true player?
The best era of South Carolina football was 2011 to 2013 under Steve Spurrier. Those were the only three 11-win seasons the program has known, and the Gamecocks are on the verge of possibly being back there again under Shane Beamer.But they have to be nearly perfect. Everyone in the SEC has the same complaint about the schedule, and everyone has that one landmine non-conference game to worry about – it’s Clemson for the Gamecocks – but that’s the cost of doing business in this league.You need the talent. South Carolina is close.
You need the schedule. Ehhhhh, more on that later. And you have to catch the right breaks to make noise in an even nastier SEC, and last year’s South Carolina team showed just how close it was. Had it not fumbled away one of the two close losses to Alabama and LSU, it would’ve been in the College Football Playoff.
It had Ole Miss in its own ballpark, and lost 27-3. And when there was a chance to build momentum going into 2025, and with a shot at just the fifth ten-win season in school history, Beamer and South Carolina fell for Bret Bielema’s master class troll job in a Citrus Bowl loss to Illinois. In a great 9-4 season – one of the best in the 117 years of Gamecock football – there were too many turnovers, too many plays allowed behind the line, and …
Again, that’s the difference. The Gamecocks needed to pounce when they didn’t have to deal with Georgia, Texas, or Tennessee, and had Ole Miss, Texas A&M, and Missouri at home, and they just missed.This year’s team doesn’t play the Bulldogs, Longhorns, or Vols, either. Beamer has a superstar quarterback in LaNorris Sellers, the staff won the transfer portal, and now it’s time to get fired up for more. It needs to make its own breaks this season. It has the talent, the schedule isn’t totally brutal – at least for the SEC – and it has to become the CFP-level team others have to worry about.
So no, 2024 wasn’t quite what it should’ve been, but it proved that it’s all there for South Carolina for the taking to finally become …
Big time.South Carolina Defense Breakdown 2025 South Carolina Preview Season Prediction, Win Total, Keys to Season
