In the months leading up to the 2015 college football season, Steve Spurrier insisted South Carolina’s 7-6 record last year was an aberration and that the Gamecocks would better resemble the three preceding teams that produced 11-win seasons.
Spurrier, of course, never saw that through, abruptly resigning after a 2-4 start.
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SaturdayNoon: Florida Atlantic at Florida, SEC NetworkNoon: The Citadel at S. Carolina, SEC Network Alt.3:30: LSU at Ole Miss, CBS4: Charleston Sou. at Alabama, SEC Network4: Idaho at Auburn, SEC Network Alt.7: Mississippi State at Arkansas, ESPN7: Ga. Southern at Georgia, ESPNU7:15: Tennessee at Missouri, ESPN27:30: Texas A&M at Vanderbilt, SEC Network7:30: Charlotte at Kentucky, SEC Network Alt.
The Gamecocks have gone on to lose three of four games under interim coach Shawn Elliott and are now 3-7, assuring the program of its first losing season since Lou Holtz had consecutive 5-7 records in 2002 and 2003. Was the outspoken Spurrier taking a break from reality this summer?
“We lost some pretty good players a year ago, and we weren’t very good defensively,” Elliott said in a news conference following Saturday’s 24-14 loss to Florida. “We brought in a couple of defensive players, but to sit there in August and say we’re going to make a run at the SEC championship – realistically, I don’t think we had the horses to make that kind of run.