With the regular season over and bowl matchups set, college football enters its hectic Transfer Portal Szn, in which a slew of players opt to take their talents and remaining eligibility elsewhere, often while also sitting out the postseason and sometimes shocking their current team and fans.
The South Carolina Gamecocks have benefited quite a bit from the transfer portal during coach Shane Beamer’s tenure — look no further than one Spencer Rattler — but the portal works both ways, and USC will continue to lose its share of talent as well.
By far the biggest surprise to this point is tight end/running back/heck-put-him-anywhere star Jaheim Bell announcing his intent to leave Columbia.