.Breaking South Carolina’s dish possibilitiesPhoto: (Photo through Joseph Cress) Along With the University Football Playoff chase very likely over, what comes next for the Gamecocks? A championship game someplace, and an opportunity to accomplish a 10-win season for only the 5th time in plan past. Yet where could the Gamecocks find yourself, and also who are some practical challengers?
The ProcedureThe Cheez-It Citrus Dish in Orlando possesses the very first selection of non-playoff SEC teams, presently Ole Miss by the positions. If Ole Miss somehow snuck into the playoff or even plunged below South Carolina in between now and Sunday, it would open the door for the Gamecocks to visit Orlando. There is actually likewise a possibility the Citrus Dish commitee could possibly spurn the rankings and also choose South Carolina regardless.From certainly there, the dish pecking order after the Citrus Dish is actually darkened and also boundless.
The supposed “pool of six” bowl game comply with the Citrus Dish, however it comes down to bowl committees and also invitations instead of an established order where one bowl can decide on a staff, adhered to by the upcoming and so on. Those six championship game are actually the ReliaQuest Dish (in the past known as the Rural Bowl) in Tampa Florida, the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Nashville’s Transperfect Popular music City Bowl, the SRS Distributors Las Vegas Dish, the Tax Act Texas Bowl (Houston) and also the Autozone Liberty Bowl in Memphis. Citrus Bowl Area: Orlando, FloridaDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenThis is actually the most convenient one to malfunction of the group. It has actually regularly been actually the best SEC and Big 10 teams outside the New Years 6 bowls (what is now the playoff). With 4 Major Ten groups anticipated to enter the playoff, Illinois is the event’s simply various other ranked group.
If the Gamecocks are actually slotted for Orlando it would most likely be against the Illini, implying a match-up versus previous vast recievers train Justin Stepp. South Carolina has actually played in this particular bowl game two times, beating Nebraska to end the 2011 season and also Wisconsin complying with 2013. ReliaQuest BowlLocation: Tampa, FloridaDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenProbably the minimum good location for Gamecock followers even if of the regularity they have existed. South Carolina has played in what was formely called the Outback Bowl five opportunities, all considering that 2000. This is actually more than every other SEC group.
The Gamecocks are actually 4-1 in Tampa fl, but this bowl will border on virtually being actually regimen for sizable parts of the fanbase. As for an achievable enemy, the Big Ten possesses a different construct to the SEC, where it does have a well established purchase. This bowl game is to begin with in line to select a Significant Ten staff after the Citrus Dish.
Solely based on succeed totals Iowa would be actually upcoming with its 8-4 report. But Michigan, Minnesota and also Rutgers are all close responsible for with 7 victories. Michigan especially may be desirable for a dish board along with its own huge graduates system and revived supporter electricity following a competition get Ohio State.
Gator BowlLocation: Jacksonville, FloridaDate: January 2ndAffiliations: SEC vs. ACCMaybe the Gamecocks definitely would not head to the exact same championship game on pair of straight trips, yet South Carolina followers had a tough turnover in 2022 and Jacksonville is just 4 hrs from Columbia. If South Carolina returned to Jacksonville, Syracuse, Fight It Out and also Louisville would be the frontrunners as possible rivals from the ACC.
The ACC does not have a correct hierarchy, indicating enthusiast interest and also options to offer tv adds would certainly factor in. This was actually a large component of exactly how the Gator Bowl wound up utilizing Notre Dame’s pseudo-ACC status to land the Dealing with Irish after their 8-4 time in 2022. Songs City BowlLocation: Nashville, TennesseeDate: December 30thAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenThis is a very comparable scenario to the ReliaQuest Bowl, where it normally features an SEC staff as well as a Big Ten crew both somewhere in the 7-9 gain assortment. It is upcoming in the Significant Ten chain of command, indicating the bowl committee will have the rest of the association outside the Citrus and also ReliaQuest dish attendees to choose from. It seems like the area for whoever does certainly not reach Tampa fl in between Iowa as well as Michigan, but once again Minnesota as well as Rutgers prowl.
South Carolina has never played in the Music City Bowl, however its own long past of having sizable contingents of supporters journey to Nashville for Vanderbilt games will certainly create it an eye-popping candidate. Sin City BowlLocation: Las Vegas, NevadaDate: December 27thAffiliations: SEC vs. Pac-12 ** Participants of the Pac-12 just before 2024 are still taken into consideration eligible for this dish invitation.This is actually where it begins to drift into the stable of being actually actually possible, however not likely.
Anything outside of the three Florida bowls or Nashville believes that a longshot. The Pac-12 is dead, yet alive in this particular feeling. Groups that played in the game in 2013 are still eligible for this championship game due to agreements agreed on before conference re-alignment.
Colorado for example is dish eligible, and for that reason eligible to play in any sort of game with a Big 12 or even Pac-12 tie. Arizona Condition has its views set on the playoff if it gains the Big 12 headline activity, however this can be a fallback choice for the Sunlight Devils if they shed this weekend. Washington and Southern Cal, both 6-6 in their brand new Big 10 homes, will additionally be qualified below.
It is actually difficult to nail down precisely just how this bowl committee will decide on crews, needing an SEC one that would certainly bring in a cross-country trip in huge varieties and needing to collaborate with other associations on the previous Pac-12 teams. Still, it is at least possible for South Carolina. Texas BowlLocation: Houston, TexasDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big 12This is probably the least very likely place for the Gamecocks, but is actually still technically possible. Texas A&M, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri as well as LSU are actually all dish eligible and also in significantly closer distance to Houston than the Gamecocks, developing a considerably bigger chance at offering tickets. South Carolina has never played in this championship game, as well as location is a major factor.
If it did somhow property listed below, some of the 3 Texas schools along with an 8-4 report– Baylor, TCU and Texas Tech– would certainly be the likliest rivals. Liberty BowlLocation: Memphis, TennesseeDate: December 27thAffiliations: SEC vs. Big 12Again, this feels close to impossible.
The Liberty Bowl is actually actually in the “pool of 6” but has almost always wound up with a team in close proximity to Memphis after other bowls were actually filled up. Arkansas, Mississippi State and also Missouri have been the final 3 SEC crews to play below, as well as none of those teams gained nine activities, either.Kansas Condition or even among the Texas universities will create the best sense to load the Significant 12 side of this game.