Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Kajagoogoo and Wall of Voodoo were among the most memorable one-hit musical acts of the MTV era.
The 2019 South Carolina Gamecocks are on their way to becoming one of the more notable one-hit wonders in Southeastern Conference football history.
On Oct. 12, South Carolina became the first unranked team ever to knock off a top-five Georgia squad inside Sanford Stadium, pulling out a 20-17 upset in double overtime that evened the Gamecocks at 3-3 at the midway mark of the regular season. But they have won just one time since, and their 20-15 home loss to Appalachian State last weekend left them 4-6 with games remaining at Texas A&M and at home against rival Clemson.
“We’re frustrated,” Gamecocks senior center Donell Stanley said Saturday in a news conference. “We’ve just got to find the answers. We don’t point fingers. We have to accept what’s happened and move on.”
South Carolina, as former coach Steve Spurrier often pointed out, is not a program that has hung many banners. The 1969 Gamecocks claimed their only Atlantic Coast Conference championship before leaving that league two years later, and the 2010 Gamecocks won their lone SEC East crown before getting humbled by Auburn 56-17 in Atlanta.