South Carolina travels to No. 7 Alabama for an intriguing SEC matchup Saturday afternoon at Bryant-Denny Stadium. This is just the 17th meeting between the two teams all time and the first since 2019. Alabama holds a 13-3 advantage in the series and hasn’t lost to the Gamecocks since 2010.
But if recent results have taught us anything, it’s that winning streaks don’t matter much in what’s turning out to be a chaotic season. Alabama is reeling following a 40-35 loss to Vanderbilt in Week 6, its first slip-up against the Commodores since 1984 and just the fourth time in program history that the Crimson Tide lost to an unranked opponent as the No. 1 team in the nation.
As a result, Alabama fell from that top spot to No. 7 in the latest AP Poll Top 25, which is the largest drop by a No. 1 team since 2010 when Ohio State plummeted all the way to No. 11 after a road loss against Wisconsin. The lesson: don’t take anything for granted.
On the other side, SEC play hasn’t been kind to South Carolina thus far. The Gamecocks generated significant buzz early in the year with a 31-6 trouncing of Kentucky, but then they lost a heartbreaker to LSU and are coming off a 27-3 trouncing at the hands of Ole Miss. Those three points are the fewest that South Carolina has scored under coach Shane Beamer since Nov. 27, 2021, when the Gamecocks were shut out against Clemson.
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Author : Will Backus
Publish date : 2024-10-11 21:00:54
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