For 60 minutes inside Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday afternoon, South Carolina put on a show.
A horror show.
The Gamecocks fell 23-22 to The Citadel out of the FCS, dropped to 3-8 on the season and made it abundantly clear to the college football world that the man who will permanently take over for former head coach Steve Spurrier—who retired in October—has a nearly impossible task.
Interim head coach Shawn Elliott was straightforward on what went wrong for the Gamecocks, according to David Cloninger of the State:
Shawn Elliott: "They out-coached us, they out-classed us.