Now that the regular season is over and we’re stuck impatiently awaiting the Outback Bowl, it’s a good time to reflect on and also laugh at various preseason predictions for the 2017 South Carolina Gamecocks. SEC Network analysts Booger McFarland and Greg McElroy are the easiest targets with their doomsday 4-8 projections, but I thought it’d be interesting to take stock of where other pundits and outlets planted their flags.
First, in the interest of fairness and transparency, I’ll start with the fine folks at GABA. Here’s our preseason prediction post, but if you’re too lazy to click, most of us landed around the 6- or 7-win mark, with only a couple (Kaci and Katie, congratulations!