Here’s what we know. South Carolina’s football team has five wins. Getting to six involves beating an FCS team. Seven involves taking care of business against a skidding Vanderbilt team.
So the Gamecocks should be able to avoid the likes of Shreveport or Birmingham come bowl season.
But the rest is still unclear.
Eight different bowl projections have five different potential locations against five different opponents. The highest-profile bowl was the Outback, both against Michigan State (picked by ESPN’s David Hale and CollegeFootballNews)
The quirkiest might have been ESPN’s Kyle Bonagura placing USC in the Texas Bowl against Texas.