Palmetto Pride: USC Gamecocks football finishes #4 in the nation! (Clemson: 2013, home)
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Be proud fellow SC residents. Your South Carolina Gamecocks football team finished ranked as the 4th best team in America, behind National Championship game participants Florida State and Auburn, and behind Big10/Rose Bowl champion Michigan State. Its been a long time since a state team finished that high in the poll. For the 25th largest state in America, that's pretty dang good
Despite finishing only 2nd in their division, they finished higher than the PAC 10 Champion Stanford who went to the Rose Bowl, the Big 12 champion Baylor, a team that crushed Alabama in Olkhahoma in a BCS bowl, and the SEC East team that won a better bowl game and their division over SC. Both Ohio State and Clemson had better losses. SC had the easist schedule this year of all the SEC teams, as well.
No Spurrier/SEC bias, there.
Go home Francis. You are drunk. Not to mention after getting banned you magically show up right around the time middle/high schools get out for the day. Interesting.
the cotton bowl is not a better bowl game than the capital one bowl. the capital one bowl has a higher payout and a higher priority in the bowl selection process than the Cotton Bowl
Missiourin won their division and they would have beat SC with their starting QB.
The UCF one is dubious b/c who did UCF play? The Baylor win was nice but they had an easy road to get into that game.
The final BCS standings don't have SC ranked no. 4, if they did final BCS standings. No account for SC's soft SEC schedule as well. SC played the worse two teams in the SEC west, while missouri played at Ole Miss and had Texas AM at home. Missouri still won the east division despite that.
Missouri probably is a little overranked too but they should be ranked above SC.
USC played the first half with Dylan Thompson at QB. They lost two fumbles (an excuse you know well) and missed a field goal in the first half. Sounds pretty even-Steven to me as far as handicaps were concerned; plus it was at Missouri.
South Carolina beat 3 teams in the final top 10: Missouri, Clemson, UCF.
Dabo Swinney and Clemson haven't beaten that many top 10 teams in his entire time at Clemson.
LSU, UGA, Ohio State, just this year.
FSU two years ago, Virginia Tech (twice) two years ago. Auburn two years ago also was highly ranked. No. 8 Miami on the road 4 years ago.
UCF isn't top 10 team this year. Their offense maybe, not their defense which is like a Duke defense.
Both Clemson and Missouri beat UGA who SC lost to.
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