South Carolina’s football team has only been ranked for one week since early in the 2014 season.
The Gamecocks will open the 2018 season just short of the top-25 in at least one major poll.
Will Muschamp’s squad came in one spot outside the preseason USA Today coaches poll. USC was briefly ranked before the 2017 Clemson game, but fell from No. 24 in the College Football Playoff rankings.
USC was ranked for all but one week from 2010-2013. Then a 3-2 start in 2014 dropped them from the preseason top 10 to a long absence from the rankings.