South Carolina football won’t be headed to the SEC championship game on Dec. 1. The Gamecocks can’t even finish second in the East division, which they were predicted to do in the preseason.
But USC will still be fighting for some conference pride when it plays Florida this Saturday.
At 4-3 in league play, Carolina and coach Will Muschamp are looking to match last season’s 5-3 mark in the SEC, which would mark one of the few times since the program joined the conference in 1992 that teams have posted back-to-back winning records.
The exact number of times it’s been done depends on how you count — it occurred once in 2000-2001, and then again each year from 2010 through 2013, so two or three times.