CLEMSON, S.C. — South Carolina coach Shane Beamer has no doubt about what his surging football team, its regular season complete, should be doing next: chasing a national championship.
“It’s hard for me to say we’re not one of the 12 best teams in the country,” a giddy Beamer said Saturday after watching the Gamecocks pull off another late miracle, courtesy of quarterback LaNorris Sellers, to defeat Clemson 17-14.
Sellers scored his second touchdown, this one a 20-yard run with 1:08 to play, for South Carolina’s sixth straight victory, with four of them against ranked opponents.
Are you paying attention, College Football Playoff selectors?
“If the committee’s job is to pick the 12 best teams, you tell me,” said Beamer, whose Gamecocks were 15th in the most recent rankings from the CFP selection committee and went 5-3 in Southeastern Conference play this season, with two of those three losses by a combined five points to Alabama and LSU.