If the Outback Bowl is Bryan McClendon’s one-game audition for South Carolina’s offensive coordinator job, that’s a tough ask.
We don’t know if Gamecocks head coach Will Muschamp truly views the Jan. 1 game against Michigan as a job application from McClendon. All we know is that Muschamp has said that McClendon will call plays for the game and has a chance to be promoted to the offensive coordinator job full-time in January. If it walks like an audition and quacks like an audition… Well, never mind.
All we know for sure is that in his ninth season as a collegiate assistant coach, McClendon will be calling the plays for the first time.